What's the weirdest thing you've eaten?

[orchidsarefun]

Originally Posted by greengarden

Funny how what seems unusual in one country is totally normal in another hey! Not much chance of me eating reindeer or mountain lion over here but I love a kangaroo steak or roast and it is cheaper for me to buy that than chicken so I have it often, sometimes a couple of times a week. A local butcher also sells crocodile, emu, goat, water buffalo and possum amongst others. So far I've only had crocodile and goat.

yep - goat is a "normal" ingredient of curry here ( cheaper than lamb ) and I see that it is also common in halal butchers. I am sure that one day we are going to see goatburgers............or billyburgers !

[isurus79]

The weirdest thing I ever ate was bat (I think it was a flying fox) in Palau. The server brought this large bowl to the table and peeled a pastry dough layer back that was covering the bowl. Inside was a whole bat staring back at me. There isn't much meat, even on the giant bats and the server pulled it out and carefully pulled the meat off. It was disgusting and tasted a lot like liver. Yuck.

Most meats seem to taste like something else, but the most unusual tasting thing I've eaten was bear in Alaska. My wife is from there and here mom got the meat from a friend who had shot the bear. It tasted like no other meat I've ever tried and I can only say that it tasted like bear!

I've also eaten ostrich (delicious!), elk, tons of shark when I lived in Hawaii (fillets were sold at Safeway and are a lot like swordfish, but for 1/4 the price), alligator, goat, etc.

I'll never understand people that don't get out of their meat and potatoes comfort zone! There's just so many flavors to experience!

[ronaldhanko]

A lot of this I don't even consider weird and those who have them available wouldn't either, but perhaps some would - some of it in fact is delicious and I wish I could find it here. I'll try anything and haven't met too many things that are completely inedible.
Meats: armadillo, alligator, elk, bear, bison, venison, antelope, goat, horse, ostrich.
Seafoods: sea cucumber, dulse, razor clams, eel, snails.
Fruits: salmonberries, thimbleberries, salal berries, mahonia berries, indian plum (all native), durian, rambutan, jackfruit, dragon fruit, jambu.
Plants: miner's lettuce, cattail roots, bigleaf maple flowers (all native), nasturtiums, dandelions.

[cbuchman]

Oh yes, let's not forget Cui Cui (guinea pug) which is the national dish of Peru! It's actually very tasty, but a lot of work for not a lot of meat.

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by AnonYMouse

Probably here as well (Bay Area, CA). I suspect the the clear crunchy stuff on the seaweed salad is jellyfish.

Seaweed salad has no jellyfish in it usually. the clear(er) part is also part of seaweed itself.

Jelly fish are a lot tougher to chew on and texture is a bit different.
It is widely available here in NYC as well.

Jellyfish are usually dried and stored before being used on a dish.

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Originally Posted by cbuchman

Oh yes, let's not forget Cui Cui (guinea pug) which is the national dish of Peru! It's actually very tasty, but a lot of work for not a lot of meat.

Like eating a quail or sparrow. too much work for little meat.

[Katsols]

Originally Posted by cbuchman

Oh yes, let's not forget Cui Cui (guinea pug) which is the national dish of Peru! It's actually very tasty, but a lot of work for not a lot of meat.

Cui is actually one of the traditional dishes of my country ecuador. The dish is popular in the andes, mountain region, Very delicious.

[Ordphien]

I've had cui and it really is tasty.

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[Diesel]

Shark meat when I was in Asian once, taste good but weird.

[greengarden]

Is it unusual over there to eat shark? Fish and chips over here is made using flake in a lot of places which is usually gummy shark.

[butterfly_muse]

I had flake in Melbourne when I was there. It was yummy! The larger sharks, as far as I know (like great white) are illegal? At least here in the United States. I remember having shark when I was a child but then they stopped selling them because of depleting populations.