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what has everyone been curious about trying (but afraid to)?. I tried frogs legs at a french restaurant once.
I do like oysters (cooked) like Oysters Rockefeller, but am afraid to try the raw ones. What else has everyone else tried? sushi I have the average non-daring kind-lol.
I love the show BIzzare Foods , I allways tell my husband what a cool job, ya get to travel and try different things. I think I would pretty much try anything, as long as its not alive when eating it. I have eaten small grubs before, they were toasted, not bad. MY husband recantly went to Japan and I think he was a bit relived that I could not go this time(on account I would havetried to get him to eat all sorts of weird stuff)
I was pretty grossed out with the idea of eating crickets and grubs, but once I actually tried it, it was really very nice.
I would never eat anything alive but I am otherwise fairly open to new stuff. I have never been that keen on offal and things like tripe,heart and lungs are not exactly my favourite things in the world but Haggis for example is actually very nice as the offals are "disguised" into the dish.
I think we all have certain food prejudices but I try to be fairly open. I used to hate oysters as a child and now love them... I could happily exist on Sushi, Ceviche and Steak Tartare so you could say I have a thing for raw foods ! Of normal everyday foods I hate cooked spinach ( raw is fine), lamb and celery. I will eat all of those but just really don't like them at all !
I am very persnickety about what food I eat and I never would try octopus until I caught one myself and a neighbor told me to just eat the cheek and sell the tentacles to the fish market ! I lived at Salmon Beach in Tacoma Wa. It's a funky little village on pilings over the water at the base of a cliff. (Google Salmon Beach Tacoma, very interesting). Anyway the tentacles are very rubbery but the cheek is very good and tender. The cheeks never make it to the fish mongers, too darn tasty for the octopus hunters to sell.
I work with a very international group of coworkers. We had a conversation about foods were grew up with and could be considered unusual shall we say. The standard bizarre foods like balut and durrian came up, but it wasn't until then that I thought about the foods I grew up with as being unusual. I grew up on frog legs, quail, squirrel, rabbit, venison, all kinds of greens, catfish, oysters, eel, squid.....etc, etc, etc....
I always viewed these foods as common and never knew I was into exotic eating as a child.
I still have not intentionally ventured into the insect world or the asian fermented foods to any extent, so roasted grasshoppers and balut have not been attempted, but perhaps some day under the right circumstances.
I ate a bunch of sushi and hated it. Spent the whole night throwing up. Id like to try snake or something, they used to have a party here where they cooked snakes at it too.
I ate a bunch of sushi and hated it. Spent the whole night throwing up. Id like to try snake or something, they used to have a party here where they cooked snakes at it too.
Must have been bad fish. I have eaten Sushi and Steak Tartare all my life and have yet to be sick once ! Shame though about your experience as you are unlikely to ever want trying it again !
Becoming a Sushi chef ( Master) takes seven years and real Sushi is out of this world....
Snake is OK , quite delicate flavour but not one of my favourite.
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Of normal everyday foods I hate cooked spinach ( raw is fine), lamb and celery. I will eat all of those but just really don't like them at all !
