What an accommodating crowd you are! Very refreshing ...
Had a dinner recently and got emails that ran to pages with the lists of no-go areas. Ended up serving the most banal stuff you could imagine to keep within the boundaries. So boring.
I once stayed in a charming family run hotel in France for a few days. They cooked the most wonderful meals and we sung the chef's praises at every opportunity. On our last night the whole family turned out to dine with us and served us the chef's speciality - a whole goose-bumpy, hairy, cow's tongue served in a cidre jus. It's hard to be polite when you're gagging, even harder trying to be polite inFrench when you're gagging.
DH has done the live octopus. That wouldn't phase me either I don't think. I eat all seafood, happy to eat kidneys and sweetbreads. Not so keen on liver. I don't eat fwuffy bunny or duck-duck but will eat baa-lamb and chicken licken with no problems [fickle]. I do eat mushrooms and the onion family (which I probably shouldn't) and tomatoes (see the comment about the onion family). I can't eat fruit ()or (alleluia) brassicas ()
Oh, she'd love it. Right up there with those minnows she ate one time in Korea.
She's also eaten dog, horse, live octopus, plenty of squid, pickled lotus leaves, etc.
She lovestripas, tripe served up on a corn tortilla. As a breakfast. Also tongue and menudo, which is made from tripe. Mexican chorizo is made from brains. She loves that.
I am going to Korea next year (sister moving there with Korean dh) and am soo looking forward to eating straight from tjhe sea seafood including octopus still alive as you eat it.
Actually, you're right, definitely not. (Thank God!) I also think my Italian friends would know not to tell me I was eating foal, even if they were cruel enough to serve it up to me.
I have to say, I've only ever been served suckery tentacles in Italy too. My friend asked me if I liked fish. I said yes. And what I got was rubbery tentacle stuff. I had to plead a sudden migraine and go and lie down. (And I don't even get migraines... it was all I could think of!)
ActuLLY NO I WOULDN'T. oNCE WENT TO DINNER PARTY in Russia (excuse me for sounding like a knob) given by peace Corps American know all. Chicken legs and mash (yuk anyway). Chicken was not cooked so when cut into, blood ran into potato.
She picked up my plate and zapped it in micro wave but i couldn't face it,I really couldnt. I had to retire to balcony in -16 temp for restorative fab and glass of Russian champers.
Oh yes, would sooner die than eat a baked bean but not likely in dinner party.
Olives Tentacles with suckers (i.e. I like calamari and baby octopus, but really struggle if you can see the suckers on the tentacles of squid/octopus) Definitely agree about tripe Would struggle with horse if I knew it was horse, though am sure have eaten it without knowing in the past. (The dd still talk about the horse-meat butchers we saw in Venice, which had foalsalami on show in the window. That would be a cute baby animal too far for me!)
I don't think there's anything I couldn't eat at a dinner party. I really don't like liver, kidney, etc (except for foie gras, or liver pate ... consistency ... hobgoblin ... etc).
Apart from that, I would eat most things offered, even if I don't like them i.e. olives
And actually, I would still eat tripe etc if they were dished up at a dinner party, because that's the way I was brought up. Would prefer to have a dinner party that was't like a bush tucker trial though.
I cannot abide mussels or seafood in a shell (lobster is ok, and prawns). And I can't cope with foie gras knowing how it is produced. Imagine my joy when we got invited to potential new friends' for dinner and were served foie gras followed by moules marnier...I got extremely pissed because the only way I could eat a mouthful of either course was to take a huge gobful of wine and swallow the offending articles down with it ...
And, although I would eat it, any meal that has been prepared without the addition of any salt, and there isn't even any salt on the table to add yourself,is not a meal I would enjoy. There's nothing wrong with a little salt, it brings out the flavour of food.
sometimes(like here) i just want to read the answers not all the banter and i know how mnteteters like to go off at a tangetnt you know,you satra thread about vaginal discharge and within a few posts you find yourself recommending a reasonably priced shed or telling all about the little hotel you stayed at in the cotswolds)
erm... am flagging now but there are many many more nations I can offend with one fell swoop. I cannot have anything spicy, not even paprika, no peppers and I can't "just pick them out" . I woudl also commit hari kari rather than ingest broccoli or cauliflower <boak>
even posh sausages? cock sausage? 
)or (alleluia) brassicas (
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but as sick 
