The picky eater test......
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Lol... mine too btw. My comment asking you to stop is because I threw up a little when I read the part about raw chicken, but the Mexican bug soufflé pushed me over the top.
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Wow...you just triggered a memory from a blast from the past
Eating crickets in Mexico (Chapulines)....yes quite tasty especially when drinking a few cerveza's
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Yep! It was some sort of cricket salsa thing. Not really that bad, but very different. And just the knowing it was, insects, well, yeah, just gotta power through it!
Whenever I travel on business to other countries, colleagues of mine always want to take me out to the places with the most exotic dishes. Heck, when I ask them, most of them don't even eat that schieze!
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2 points for me. Liver and Cottage cheese. I have a nasty frown on my face just thinking about it.
I have a lot of friends from the Philippines and have seen thier spreads of food at gatherings. I can tell you I did not eat much! Great people, but I'll pass on the balut! Chichiron (spelling) all day with vinegar and chilli.
While at SEAR (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) school in the Marines, I ate a fat **** grasshopper (take the big legs off first) and the raw eyeball of a rabbit (high in electrolytes) i sucked the eyeball out of the head and had to bite through the vein/cord that attaches the eyeball to the brain. It tasted like a salty olive. We ate many cactus berries and chewed on white willow bark. The willow is like a natural aspirin. Near the end of training when we cooked up all the rabbits into a stew, I ended up with the liver. Needless to say I traded the liver for a potatoe. If it had been earlier in the training cycle i probably would have eaten the liver. God I hate liver!!!! -
mhardy6647 wrote: »you guys that don't like snails -- have you had 'em?
They are most nommy, but it's mostly the garlic, truth be told
When I was in Israel once, long ago, I was taken to an "Oriental restaurant". Turns out, this is Israeli-speak for Arab food. It was a fantastic meal -- but the best thing were skewered, grilled cubes of meat (for lack of a better word) that were (at least) as rich and flavorful as filet mignon, but far more tender. My host wouldn't tell me what it was until after I tried it. Any one care to guess? (It's nothing too disgusting, but a little off the beaten path, at least for a good ol' boy from Brooklyn Park, MD)
I ate some weird things in Japan, most of which were actually pretty good. One thing that wasn't good was raw octopus. The issue wasn't taste -- it was like eating a hunk of rubber; virtually un-chewable. I also had smoked octopus, which was amazing.
Doc, I got a guess: Was it what mom calls dad?
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mhardy6647 wrote: »you guys that don't like snails -- have you had 'em?
They are most nommy, but it's mostly the garlic, truth be told
When I was in Israel once, long ago, I was taken to an "Oriental restaurant". Turns out, this is Israeli-speak for Arab food. It was a fantastic meal -- but the best thing were skewered, grilled cubes of meat (for lack of a better word) that were (at least) as rich and flavorful as filet mignon, but far more tender. My host wouldn't tell me what it was until after I tried it. Any one care to guess? (It's nothing too disgusting, but a little off the beaten path, at least for a good ol' boy from Brooklyn Park, MD)
I ate some weird things in Japan, most of which were actually pretty good. One thing that wasn't good was raw octopus. The issue wasn't taste -- it was like eating a hunk of rubber; virtually un-chewable. I also had smoked octopus, which was amazing.
My guess would be goat.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »you guys that don't like snails -- have you had 'em?
They are most nommy, but it's mostly the garlic, truth be told
This... 1000%!
I never thought I'd like, *gag* snails. UNTIL I tried them at a nice restaurant. They are to die for! When prepared right, the flavor and texture just melts in your mouth. And, a good dish will come with some French bread to soak up the garlic butter sauce.
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Oh, and there are a couple on the list I can do without, but honestly, I'll eat anything on that list. I quite enjoy several of the things a lot of people despise. LOVE me some raw oysters among most other things on the list.
We have one rule in our (predominantly Italian) family... don't dismiss it UNTIL you've tried it. Tripe included! -
Yams should be on that list, yams are disgusting and anyone that likes them should be shunned.
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Surprised frogs’ legs didn’t make the list.
It’s actually even better than escargot! 😋 👍👍Alea jacta est! -
have had guinea pigs roasted when in Peru...doggie many times in Mexico and Hi,snakes, lizards, insects, damn time to start a whats the nastiest thing you have eaten.....and in my world balut still holds that title
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mhardy6647 wrote: »you guys that don't like snails -- have you had 'em?
They are most nommy, but it's mostly the garlic, truth be told
When I was in Israel once, long ago, I was taken to an "Oriental restaurant". Turns out, this is Israeli-speak for Arab food. It was a fantastic meal -- but the best thing were skewered, grilled cubes of meat (for lack of a better word) that were (at least) as rich and flavorful as filet mignon, but far more tender. My host wouldn't tell me what it was until after I tried it. Any one care to guess? (It's nothing too disgusting, but a little off the beaten path, at least for a good ol' boy from Brooklyn Park, MD)
I ate some weird things in Japan, most of which were actually pretty good. One thing that wasn't good was raw octopus. The issue wasn't taste -- it was like eating a hunk of rubber; virtually un-chewable. I also had smoked octopus, which was amazing.
Hadn't looked at this thread for a few days, so delayed reaction, but this post got me thinking of the business trips I made to Japan in the 90's. Agree on the (cooked or smoked) octopussy - exquisite. The only place in Europe I found that cooked it that well was Greece - squid also.
As far as Japan goes, the most odd culinary experience I had was when the boss (and his right and left hand men) of the subsidiary of the company of the outfit I was working for at the time took myself and a colleague out for dinner. We had a couple of courses of soup like dishes ( which were delicious), and then the main course was served : a very, very big fish of unknown (to me) type. As the high status visitors from the mother company (status rules in Japan), we got the honor of the best part of the big fishy - the eyes. Removing them with chopsticks was a chore, but when we finally ate them, well, it was like chewing through gristle to get to jelly. Both of us managed not to wretch.
