To ask what strange foods you have eaten?

[hellokittymania]

In the Philippines I have eaten ice cream with chili, pork intestines and fried fat intestines and a few other things . Bicol Express was good but I still don't know what was in it. I draw the line though at trying goats eyes Ballut. I don't like eggs anyway unless they are made of chocolate

I have also had dog and sneak in Vietnam and fill worms and crickets in Thailand.

Except for the ice cream and the Bicol express, I don't think I would want to try the other things again

Cormorant. It was delicious. One of the nicest meats I've ever had.

All sorts of things.
Fried grubs in Thailand - like pork scratchings,yum.
Camel, ostrich, gazelle, bison, zebra -all fine.
Horse and donkey - donkey is nicer.
Alligator and crocodile - both swamp flavoured chicken, but crocodile was better
Warthog - delicious
African land snail - compost flavoured cartlidge
Roman snails - garlicky and delicious
Gannet - most repulsive thing I have ever put in my mouth
Brain, feet, entrails, organs etc all fine

There's a shop in Newcastle that sells all manner of century eggs.

Have not been tempted to try one!

Fogot the time that, as a child, I scoffed a load of doggy chocolate drops!

Horse, Ox heart, sauerkraut, raw beef (carpaccio). Narrowly missed eating baby donkey in Paris v

fermented herring

horse

Deep fried Tarantula in Cambodia - so deep fried it didn't really taste of anything much and was very crunchy

Rat in Vietnam - had been BBQ'd with some sort of sauce, was ok but very, very greasy

Alpaca burger in Peru - ok, quite tasty

Emu in Australia - absolutely delicious, like a boiled ham

Termite in Mexico - tasted of carrot

Chicken feet are delicious once you get past the fact that you're eating a foot. It also takes a while to get used to biting off one toe at a time and then spitting out all the little bones.

What distinguishes a good chicken foot from a not so good one is the texture rather than the taste. Ideally it will be very gooey, kinda like the fatty part of meat. Apparently eating them is v good for your skin cause of all the collagen.

Similar is pork knuckle which i think is pigs feet. Again very gooey texture.

The most horrible thing I've ever eaten is sea urchin sashimi. I came very close to vomiting at the table. Just an incredibly strong taste.

I've tried jellyfish and century egg and found the jellyfish bland and crunchy and century egg was mostly just salty.

My partner once was at a dinner party where they ate lobster sashimi...its feelers were still moving!!! (not envy) I was very pleased I'd declined to attend...

Chicken feet - yummy..been having it since childhood.

cows penis , balls , tongue, feet, tail & intestines - makes great soup.

Same for the goat as with the cow.

Pigs tail..ears and other bits.

Kangaroo... Deer & Rabbit.

Aha, my people...

Shark's semen - yummy.
Fermented oysters - good in blue cheese sort of way
Raw chicken - better than cooked.
A prawn so fresh it was moving when I bit it - made me feel sick
Crickets, locusts - meh
Scorpions - double meh
Water bugs - all wings, needed massive gulps of water to get down
Century eggs - double yum
Salted eggs - yum
Live sashimi - yum
Sea urchin - yum
Pig's head
Feet of pigs, cows, sheep and chickens
Tripe
Cocks' testicles stew - yum
Pigs' noses (plate of)
Jellyfish
Sea cucumber
Fermented soy beans
Mountain potato - the most disgusting thing, like eating spit.
Salmon roe, cod's roe, herring roe, caviar, flying fish roe
Seagull eggs
Lambs' brains
Camel
Alligator
Ostrich
Emu
Kangaroo
Python carpaccio
Squirrel ragu (yum)
Nettles
Black pudding, haggis
Snails
Frogs' legs
Sugar cane (blurgh)
Durian - yum yum
Fugu (and lived)
Octopus
Fermented shark in Iceland. (nope)

More if I think of it...

Live sashimi = something sashimi, not live.

Camel milk and butter - I shall stick to cows

Nothing too outrageous:

Pigs feet (did not enjoy)
Donkey (did enjoy)
Reindeer (one of my favourites)
Moose (ditto)
Bear (Not bad)
A very tasty game bird of some kind - I had money to waste I'd eat them more often
Fish brains (little fish that we fry and eat whole, brains and bones and all - very nice)
I make fish head soup from time to time, currently have 6 or 7 heads in the freezer waiting to be made into soups
Kangaroo (alright but not great)
Ostrich (ditto)
Squid (did not like, its a texture thing)
I think there were a few other things that I can't remember now (probably blocked out the memory!)

We convinced my brother's vegetarian girlfriend to have a bite of a reindeer burger once - she liked it. And she's his wife now so I guess we didn't put her off the family too much

Horse. And before I get flamed, I was slightly pissed and ordered it in France thinking it was beef. Urgh.

Dog is more cruel to eat than other animals because of the way they are treated prior to being killed in the most horrific fashion, in order to tenderise the meat. I wouldn't put details here, but there is plenty of evidence on line. And I lived in south east Asia and have plenty of first hand evidence. It's the most brutal and disgusting treatment.

Spiders in Cambodia. I think it was tarantula. Surprisingly tasty.

Shark
Swordfish
Octopus
Haggis
Caviar or fish roe
Ostrich
Venison
Alligator
Gorgonzola cheese or a very blue Stilton
Pigs trotters...all the go when I was little
Ate kidney when I was little..I would not do it now
Ox tongue
dragon fruit...that was interesting
Okra
Yam
Flax seeds biscuits made by dh
Gram flour pizza
White pudding
Black pudding
Soused herring
We make our own sauerkraut and pepperkraut, my name for fermented peppers
Kombucha tea
Kefir

But I won't eat any shellfish
Insects
Or parts like brains, tripe etc

Oh yeah and I've eaten horse, they used to sell horse mince in the supermarket where I live and its fairly common in meetwurst. Quite nice really.

Plankton. Fucking disgusting

Are you a blue whale, Sandunes?

Plankton. Fucking disgusting
Are you a blue whale

Nearly choked on my noodles!

All the pearl clutching about eating dog and cat baffles me. Why dont people feel the same about cows/lambs/chicken. They can be pets to. I have both a dog and cat as pets, i can still realise they are food in other countries. Its really very silly.

As for this "mans best friend" crap. No my best friends called Annie and shes a beauty therapist with 3 kids. She doesn't shit outside (that i know of) and smells slightly better than my collie.

Cow lung suya- more tender than the usual beef variety.
African land snail - tastes like dirt
Goat's head soup - deeply disturbing but tastes fine
Cat (but I only found out afterwards) - not very nice

Dog meat is nicknamed J5 in SE Nigeria. I knew that so refused to try it.

Oh and dog meat in Nigeria is usually roadkill (hence J5), although people will occasionally do for their compound dogs if they get too numerous. It's not farmed. Ditto cat. Particular eaten in what was once Biafra - along with just about everything else. I guess starvation does away with a lot of taboos.

Smile sadly not. I'd quite like to be a whale swimming deep in the ocean. But I'd starve because I wouldn't eat plankton ever, ever again.