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And what was it like?
For me, it was muskrat. Boiled and fed to me by Cree Indians in Northern Saskatchewan.
It tasted like fishy rodent.
Aside from whale ( http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/what-does-whale-taste-like), I've knowingly eaten Camel which was boring and once had what was described as 'bush meat', not sure what it was.
Zebra - Horse
Impala - Venison
Springbok - Very, very gamey venison
Reindeer - horse-venison hybrid
Baby robin
I once ate a live Stickleback for a bet; didn't chew it but felt a bit sick as I think it swam about in my stomach for a while
Cuttlefish. Rubbery.
Mermaid - tasted like salty chicken
live mealworms and crickets probably for me.. nutty and bitter
guinea pig in argentina.... tasted like bbq rabbit
Pigs brains
Jelly fish
Snake
Live shrimp
Ducks feet
Baby bird
All in china
I had camel and horse last night. Camel was chewy but pretty tasty.
One of those black spikey sea urchins that are common on rocks around the med, my sister broke it open and told me it would taste like jelly beans, so I ate it. She lied.
I had sex once with a girl who had been to a convent school. She was quite posh. Does that count?
Alpaca steak. I like to think the same one provided me with a jumper too.
Unicorn. Tasted kind of like beef.
Dog in Indonesia - hardly exotic, very chewy and not a meat id tray again in a while!
Stir-fried butterfly pupae in Korea.
They taste very mothy, and are best washed down with lots of beer.
I had a bacon once
Tarantula - in Cambodia ... I just MTFU and ate it, bit like elastic, took a lot of chewing. Washed down with red bull... Not a great idea. 🙂
Deep fried scorpion. Crunchy.
ti_pin_man, you are the winner for me, purely for the Red Bull chaser
Tried loads of street food in China, most of it was weird. purple goo like semolina/fish egg/porridge hybrid was possibly the weirdest looking, all manner of insects... I felt decidedly shit for a few days after that.
turns out it was probably the dullest thing I ate that trip... purple sweet potato porridge.
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Crocodile - it tasted like chicken.
Sharks fin soup=shite
Reindeer stew=brill
Crocodile, was very nice.
I had crocodile in Nairobi, thought it was like a cross between raw chicken and that goo that sticks CDs to the front of magazines.
Had an Emu steak in Malaysia - tasted very nice. Was like very fine Beef.
Also had Reindeer which was like greasy, rough Beef. I enjoyed the Reindeer more because we cooked it over an open fire inside a Teepee 200km inside the arctic circle - sweet 😀
camel toe
Chrysalis in China, very edible. Donkey. Some sort of sparrow which seemed to be more tiny bones than anything worthwhile.
Frogs legs, horse, stuffed quail. Not all in the same meal though. And a long time ago too; not eaten meat or fish for 15 years I think.
Nothing really exotic, but I had ray once. It was in strings, like fishy chewy spaghetti; two layers separated by a solid array of what looked like finger bones made out of cartlidge. Not that nice really, tasted like fish but texture was off-putting.
Also had elk aka moose. That was delicious, and tasted a lot like the venison rump I had recently from Welsh red deer. Much less gamey than I was expecting.
Not at all exotic for most people but I had a slice of raw salmon fresh from the sea, seasoned with dill and salt. Tasted great but really turned my stomach.
Thousand year old eggs, neither look, feel, smell or taste like the common hen's egg from which they are produced. A reasonable explanation is after the hens egg is mummified, a small Chinese dragon is hatched, that breathes hydrogen sulphide instead of fire. This creature lays the egg that was served to me in Chinese restaurant.
no ortolon yet...
Shark
Rattle Snake
Alligator
fondue in Banff
Longpig
Shark- not really that weird tbh, it's just manky fish
Zebra- basically just horse.
It's not really weird, but yak ribs- just like normal ribs, except bloomin gigantic. All I can say about that is, don't drop one in the sauce, it'll make the sort of mess you can't fix with a napkin.
Lamb but it was like Cannibalism
I've eaten fugu in a sushi restaurant in Hiroshima, and whale in a proper posh place in Tokyo, but I think the weirdest meat would be the tortoise in Cambodia. Was beautiful whilst at the same time a little bit horrifying.
I inadvertently ate a bear rissole at a Swedish / Canadian wedding.
And no that's not a euphemism.
...or a typo.
Horse, on purpose. And some strange starchy cardboard thing with ant and chilli dip in a rainforest.
Longpig
wow, i used to think i'd try anything...
More bacons on a long one.
Ostrich. Like beef but a bit sweeter, very very tasty.
Woodcock - roasted with the head on, which was split open so you could eat the brain. Very tasty but I felt bad afterwards when I found out it's very rare.
Agouty
Paca
Armadillo
Tapir
and Caiman
didn't succeed in finding Iguana on the menu
I thought I was being quite adventurous when I tried crocodile but apparently not.
I've eaten emu.
I'd say the most exotic was chicken, that had been alive ten minutes prior to me eating it in hong kong. Very different texture to food that westerners are used to.
Crocodile here.... it was disgusting; bony, fatty and tasted like pork and chicken mixed.
Also zebra, various deer including kudu amd antelope, ostrich, horse, wildebeest (which caused a stomach stampede).
Allegator chickeny
Ostrich chickeny
Horse makes a lovely steak
Broccoli
Crocodile - sort of fishy chicken. Works very well in Thai.
Just like kangaroo though - it needs to be cooked very fast to avoid rubber-band syndrome
I had a prairie oyster in El Salvador that was made, I subsequently found out, with turtle egg.
Tescobasics ready meal, could have been anything it seems
Croc
Long pig with a nice Chianti?
Whale, not entirely by choice, business trip to Japan where I had impressed by my willingness to try anything put in front of me. Felt guilty upon discovering what it was.
Camel toe, tasted a bit like mackerel
Prawns.. cooked in half a tinny of cider on an open fire at the beach.
Freshest food was a whole Mackerel.. taken off the hook still flapping, knighted with the whacker stick, gutted in 30 secs then tossed onto a beach bbq.... tasted like mackrel too.
Felt the guiltiest eating skate wings as they are quite often de-winged whilst still alive..
Also eaten various UK caught shark, cockles, muscles and razor fish,
Eaten the usual crocodile, ostrich etc but the weirdest thing generally was a "beef" by product.
Years ago I was working on a farm with some Thais when calving season kicked in. All the afterbirth was collected in buckets and kept till the end of the day when it was chopped up and served fresh and uncooked with a spicy dipping sauce and rice.
Felt like scrambled egg, tasted like raw bloody afterbirth with some spice. Not great if I'm honest.
Alligator for me - and it did indeed taste a bit like chicken.
BBQ ET! A bit like jerky or biltong...
[quote=bigG said]Camel toe, [s]tasted [/s] smelt a bit like mackerel
Prawns.. cooked in half a tinny of cider on an open fire at the beach.
We were cooking on a fire on a beach the west coast of Ireland. It was dark and moonless and we had a little gas lantern. Weird little hoppy sand fleas were attracted to the lantern and were gathering from across the beach until we had a small swarm of them pinging off the lantern. So we switched the lantern off for some peace hoping they'd disperse, but instead they just headed to the next brightest light source which was the fire, jumping as a swarm in then popping back out in a cloud of pink prawny popcorn. Good knows how many landed in the pan, but our pasta was shade more crunchy and fishy than normal.
Woodlice. I was about 3 - Tasted like woodlice.
Ginge.
squid (it was like eating a tyre 🙁
Warthog stew, one of the best meals I've had.
Squirrel, not so nutty as you'd think.
Roadkill hare & roe deer.
Squirrel
Wax worms
meal worms
crickets
locusts
witchety grubs
And all in the UK
Whole baked possum in New Zealand, complete with tail and head.
Tasted awful
Deep fried sheeps brain, in Sydney. Tasted ok, but texture was awful.
Raw octopus - not the best,tbh.
Just washed & slightly pickled in lemon juice.
Love shellfish usually, but not this.
Sheeps brains. Don't really taste of much.
Used to serve them at This 'n' That in Manchester on a Sunday morning.
They stopped after the BSE scandal.
Sweetbreads - Lamb's pancreas & thymus, plus lots of other bits even Mr Chinnery would struggle to name.
Very nice indeed.
I'll post up a picture of the tarantula tomorrow ... And maybe my face after eating a leg! Let me upload the pics.
Crocodile was a it disappointing just like chicken.
Wild boar was beautiful.
Kangaroo steak was fantastic lean meat.
Oysters has to be the weirdest for me though, like licking cold snot off a tortoise, awful but every time I go to France I get taken to a fish restaurant, I think they are challenging me.
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Woodcock are not rare. Just hard to see a lot of the time. Cook them the same way myself, tastie. Did they mash the innards on toast and serve it with the bird?
Bison - yummy
Lemon ants - lemony
Squirrel - rabbity
Water buffalo sausages - dull
Crocodile - fishy chicken
Reindeer stew - tasty
Been in China a lot, so heres a few
Deep fried locust: Crunchy nothingness
Drunken Prawn : i.e. live prawn in alcoholic liquor. Trick = get pissed yourself, and then pick the one that’s moving least, i.e. most pissed also.
Ox penis: Not nice at all
Sinew: looks like noodles, taste and texture like rubber bands
Elephant Nose Clam: Raw …nasty
Sea Cucumber: General consistency and flavour of snot
Live Snake: Executed at the table…gory and unpleasant
Live turtle: Ditto
Soft shelled turtle: served whole, then shell ripped off and dip into the innards…<gag>
Pig bowels: like soggy hula hoops.. and nasty
Assorted testicles at various times: General view being it improves your libido…...flawed thinking IMHO
Since I live in China for some time, the same as Berm Bandit, +
Cat - Nice, like Chicken
Rat - Chewy, nice with Chilli though
All sorts of bugs - Gross
All sorts of Larvae - Gross, except the bee larvae, quite honey tasting
Live Octopus - gross
Tuna Head - nice
Snake - way too boney
Snail Antlers - err nothing, just bone
😯 😳
Got to say that a lot of Chinese cuisine (if you can call it that) turns my stomach and seems particularly brutal.
Their love of exotic animals is what really gets me...and shark fin. The hunting process is disgustingly brutal and wasteful. Most sharks caught have their fins cut off whilst still alive and are then thrown back into the seato drown. Caught in alarming numbers too.
Anyway, back on topic I've eaten horse in France which was ok, also ate mountain goat which was horrible. Very tough and chewy. Buffalo was ok, but not to my liking really. Other than that I'm quite dull but I get a bit funny about eating endangered species or things that are killed on none humaine ways.
Sea slug - I didn't really want the seconds that were put on my plate by the lovely Chinese host!
Wild Boar stew -one of the best things I've eaten.
Alpaca - beefy
Guinea pig - chickeny
Smoked whale - leathery
Emu - chewy beefy
moose - usually chocolatey (sometimes strawberry)
Yak - tasted like beef
Llama - tasted like chewy beef
Turkey testicles and organ soup were both pretty disgusting.
Glass for a bet,doesnt really taste of anything until you swallow then a coppery taste,soon passes after several beers though.