What is the most exotic food you've eaten? (restaurants, tuna, curry)
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once in college I ate fried beetles. Of course I have done the standard but little unusual: Escargot, rattle snake, calamari, frog legs, neck bones (a regular when I was growing up) Oh and at our daughters wedding, her mother in law brought some Jewish food (I can't remember what it was called) but it was cows testicas. It was really good, but if I had known what it was, at the time, I probably would not have eaten them.
Rocky mountain oysters, sea urchin ovaries, rattlesnake, whale meat, grashoppers, live heart from a Yellowtail(like a jack), live anchovies(with a beer!), and probably some other stuff I have fogotten about.
I don't know what it was. That's what made it exotic.
Hog penis in Mexico. Some kind of inch-long larvae in Vietnam. Live Barnacles in Chile. Unripe green almonds, and toasted unripe green wheat and sheep's eyes and Camel steaks (not together) in Jordan. Potato leaves in Togo. Little song-birds in Cyprus. Murres (related to puffins) and Seal flipper and Cod tongues and Cod cheeks in Newfoundland. Saskatoons in Saskatchewan. Cow placenta and Guinea Pig in Ecuador. Piranha in Brazil. Pasties with rutabaga in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Calf brains very popular and traditional in restaurants, for some reason, in Higginsville, Missouri.
Like Jtur88 most of my truly exotic foods would have been the countless "mystery" dishes I was offered mostly meat ( which is why I say I have never knowingly eaten Dog or Whale for example). Most of it was actually pretty good.
What people would consider exotic I suppose Insects and Grubs ( all very nice once I let go of my initial taboo) . Worst by far : Hákarl ( rotten shark's meat in Iceland, a great delicacy or so I am told, I would have to be starving to have this again, one of the only foods in 43 years which threatened to make me vomit... ), Hrútspungar , sour Ram's testicles ( some would say rotten rather than sour). There is a reason Iceland is not known for its delicious food !!
Not a big Fan of Marmot ( Mongolia) the meat which is so tough and chewy it refuses to go down !
Not a big Fan of Seal Blubber and intestines though the raw liver was actually pretty good.
Other exotic foods would be snake, monkey, tree rat, warm cow's blood and most meat you can imagine. Most of it quite nice.
I was offered roasted Tarentula in Brazil in the Jungle and just could not force myself to eat as it still looked whole and I am a terrible arachnophobe. I would have had no problem with it minced though.
I had curry goat (love it), Chicago Dog (hate it), frog legs (gritty; not worth hurting a poor froggie), bonita (of the tuna family but it's so bloody nobody will eat it) and, pickled pigs feet.
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