Are you an adventurous eater?

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pygmalion

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What's the "weirdest" thing you've ever eaten or drunk? Yes. I know that everything's relative and that what's "weird" to me may be the staple food of half the world's population. :oops: :lol: :lol: Still, I'm dying to know.

I'll start. Groundhog stew. (definitely did NOT taste like chicken :lol: :lol: )


(Inspired by cocodrilo's weasel coffee. Now she's adventurous!)
 
I am adventureous... only in terms of food that I "recognise" and it is well cooked! :lol: I have tried sushi about three times (?) and I just can't eat it.

I don't tend to experiment with meats much. Don't know why. On one occassion, unbeknownst to me, a friend swapped a chicken dish with a crocodile one. When we were served, he asked me how it was and I said it was "okay" and then he started to laugh. Once I knew, I couldn't eat anymore. :? My friend enjoyed the dish though. But I just couldn't eat anymore. :oops:
 
Barbequed alligator ribs are quite tasty, btw. But I used to live in Florida, where eating them is quite common... well, kinda common. Nothing adventurous about that, methinks. :wink: :lol: And no, nobody had to trick me. :lol: :lol:
 
Well, there's thousand year old eggs... but I only tried a tiny piece.

Which actually tasted remarkably egg-like, at least in comparison to how it looked...
 
Ooh! How about fuu fuu? Like I said, it's a staple food to a big chunk of the population of West Africa, at least. But to me, it looked and tasted like silly putty, the first (thousand) times I ate it.

It's cooked plantains and cassava, pounded together into a gelatinous blob. The real stuff, by the time you finally pound it to the proper consistency, is cold. (Or you can buy powdered mix that you reconstitute. That can be hot, which is MUCH better, pour moi.) You serve it with soup or stew on top. Ye gods! The first time I ate it, I must've chewed a million years. It was only afterward that "they" told me. You don't chew. You just slurp and swallow. *shudder* Hideous stuff. :lol: :lol:
 
:lol: sorry Pygmalion, but unless it is chicken, fish or beef :nope: I don't eat pork other than in sausage/ham form, beef rarely and lamb occassionally. I would rather eat a bowl full of broccoli! :lol:
 
What!?!? No groundhog? :shock: :lol:

A friend of mine (who married a guy from Central Africa -- not sure which country) always cracks me up when she talks about the first time she had monkey brain soup. Yes. Monkey brain. :shock: :shock: :shock: How's that for adventurous? *shiver* I think she's crazy, myself. There's not that much love in the world. :lol: :lol:
 
:lol: no groundhog, and definitely no monkey brain soup! Others can eat it... I have no problem with that and I will even sit in their presence whilst they do. Just don't try and persuade me to "just try it" :shudders: :lol:
 
I have a "try anything once" attitude when it comes to food.

I've had frogs legs, snails, crocodile soup, kangaroo. I love liver and bacon, used to regularly eat steak and kidney as a kid. I love some of the native flavourings that have been brought out like lemon myrtle, etc.

The only thing I guess I am reluctant to try is brains. It would have to be well hidden I think, like heavily crumbed or something so I can't see what it is! :lol:

I do draw the line though at eating anything that is still alive. When you go out on some tours in the outback they try to get you to eat live witchety grubs (short fat worms). Eewwww gross!
 
Yeah. I'm a try almost anything eater. I keep the almost in my back pocket, just in case anybody mentions grub worms. *shudder* :lol:
 
Brains can be quite tasty, if properly cooked. As well as kidneys, believe it or not. A bunch of stuff I consider sublimely yummy looks weird to my American friends, like pickled raw herring and sour cream on everything.

Personally, if it doesn't wiggle when I stick my fork into it, I'll eat it. Pretty much. Not that I've ever starved or anything, but there were looooong food lines in Russia when I was growing up, so hey, food is food!

Nope, take that back--I wouldn't eat anything that I'd consider a pet, like dog meat or something along those lines. Nevereverever.
 
Brain sandwiches are very popular around here. Neither one of us like them-- to much deep fried batter, not to good for the old cholesterol count. It used to be beef brains, but due to the mad cow scare, they now only serve pork brains. Not for us! Somebody said it tastes like chicken--so we will just eat chicken instead! :wink: :wink:
 
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