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Raccoon - Every year, there is a raccoon feed in SE Wisconsin and I went there once. It was actually pretty good. It tasted very rich and tasted like a mix of lobster and beef. You cannot eat much of it.
Most of the meats listed here are still considered land mammals so not really exotic. Just not the usual farmed creatures. If you want to consider an exotic it has to be something like a reptilian or ocean sea creature to be truly exotic. If you were to replace chicken with squirrel or rabbit meat. If made into familiar dishes like chicken nuggets. Majority of people people have no clue. Organ meats are mostly being processed into pet foods but lately people are buying them for carnivore diet plans.
You do not get to define the category even if you are a self proclaimed food snob.
For the record the most out of the ordinary proteins I have eaten are octopus, kangaroo, ostrich, sparrow, rattlesnake and alligator.
I also ate three or four fruits in Cuba I had never even heard of before going there - one was like a giant grape.
Oh, and beaver.
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Acknowledging that exotic is subjective, I'm touching on things that are exotic relative to where I was raised:
-Black bear
-Ostrich
-Kangaroo (lived in Sydney for a few months)
-Dolphin (this was from Chinatown, so who knows what it really was, but that's what they sold it as)
-Eel
-Rabbit
-Duck
-Frog
-Alligator
-Bison
-Octopus
-Cat (when in China . . .)
-Pheasant
-Goat (I know goat is more popular in some areas vs other areas, but where I'm from getting people to knowingly eat goat is still piece of work )
- Escargot (love)
- Deer (no - has after taste no matter how many people prepare it and tell me it doesn't)
- Alligator (nope)
- Goat (meh)
- Snake (yuk)
Yeah, some may not be considered exotic but to me, they are not the normally eaten food where I live and in my family.
I’m from south Louisiana. Things I’ve eaten include alligator, frog legs, and nutria. Uncle was trapping and caught some nutria. He invited us over for dinner. Didn’t tell us it was nutria until we were nearly finished with our meal. It was pretty good.
Beef tongue Mom tried to pass off as a beef roast. Nope, we knew better.
Pickled pig’s feet
Fried brains (pig) , crunchy on the outside and mushy inside. I actually like that and made it for my DH as a newlywed. He politely told me it would be okay if I didn’t fix that again.
I never had the pleasure of eating Mountain Oysters as Dad called them, which were pig testicles.
They also fixed tripe and I wouldn’t eat it.
For me it was usually weird textures more than flavor that turned me off, the brains were the anomaly.
I’ve not had any of the above since and wouldn’t again.
Skate in Singapore 15 years ago along with goat curry.
Wow...someone has had sea cucumber too....that is pretty out there unless you eat sushi. Mine was actually fried.
I had sea cucumber decades ago with my first husband. It was served whole on a platter with sauce and I thought it looked and tasted like a quivering Knox unflavored gelatin.
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