To ask you what your most unusual/unexpected overseas food experiences are

[Bunnyfuller]

I mean as in you order something, and the interpretation of it is so vastly different to expectations...

Sometimes this might be from fucking picky kids unrealistic ordering or just from a local idea that this is what people from your country eat.

My two favourites - a portion of fries on a side plate with a useful portion of cold tinned peas. And a full roast dinner. Pre cooked and straight out of the fridge (not reheated at all). The latter was put on for an official dinner, spectacular. Luckily there was lots of booze and some divine doughnut-y things I completely gorged myself on had a couple of for pudding.

In Egypt in the late 1980's. Next door to our Cairo backpackers hostel was a wonderful looking cafe with a variety of milk shake type machines and all sorts of iced fruit and milk concoctions being served. Looked forward to dumping our bags and sampling a cold milkshake to be told by a seasoned hosteller in the backpackers hotel -" Oh you mean next door ? Oh yes that's diphtheria milkshake that is . Ten ill in last week alone". Needless to say we didn't go in there all week

I mean as in you order something, and the interpretation of it is so vastly different to expectations...

I went to Moldova once. There were three choices of breakfast in our hotel (which weirdly you had to order in advance, at reception, where they would give you a ticket to hand to the waiting staff) one of which included a bowl of cornflakes. Inexplicably, these were served with boiling hot milk.

Also in Moldova we ordered a plate of something billed as 'beer snacks' which turned out to be pig's ears.

We also once ordered 'garlic bread' in Estonia to go with soup. When it arrived, it was a bowl of little, curly, crunchy chip-sized sticks of black rye bread, deep-fried in garlic oil and drizzled with sour cream. It was actually really nice, but just so completely not what we were expecting it to be that we were genuinely confused when it arrived.

the andouillette trap

I'm genuinely quite partial to andouillettes ... Having said that I will eat almost anything, including tripe.