Each part of the planet has its own cuisine. I am usually open to trying things out of my plate of comfort. What I consider strange you may not. What foods that you consider exotic have you tried?
Being from North Dakota we don't have an abundance of variety from the meat n potatoes I grew up with. However on my travels I have had opportunity to try some oddities. Alligator and crawfish in Louisiana. Spelt crackers in Ohio. Reindeer, clams, squid and octopus in Alaska. Then my hillbilly kicks in and I have tried on my own jack rabbit, swan and horse.
Crawfish ain't strange son! Crocodile, elephant, bushrat, grubs, caterpillars, termites. All in Africa.
Not that the ingredients are exotic but the lack of cooking turns a lot of people off. I love my tiger meat!
You eat crawfish raw?! Now that is a bad idea! Boiled in the backyard or park, with corn and taters, dump onto newspaper or a trashcan lid, dig in!
WWW bought traps last year, he ate them as a kid, guess he needs to get them out soon as a friend reported catching a FAT fish they thought were full of eggs. No eggs but 2 whole crawdads.
No not crawfish. Tiger meat is spiced up raw ground chuck. However I tried sushi the first time last year.
Monkey on a stick. Was actually pretty good. Other animals that would repulse Americans (and me) also. You gotta remember, things are different in other countries across the world.
I love trying new foods. Some of the strange/not so mainstream: goose hearts, this raw salted squid dish (korean), had some really dry and not so tasty worms in South Africa along with kudu, giraffe, other antelope. Had an endangered grouper in Mozambique (we didnt know until after). Have had muskrat which is really good. Hoping to travel to Asia soon where this list will just blow up!
Thats a perfect example of a food that some would find very strange and others would find a normal part of their diet. Sushi is a big part of dining for folks in BC although I have found some that just wont go out for dinner to dine on raw tuna belly, fish eggs and salmon. Yum! I grew up on the west coast and used to eat oysters raw right out of the shell down on the beach. Ill try almost anything. I had craw fish in vegas. They look alot like the fresh water cray fish we have here in our lakes but Ive never eaten one. I tried catfish once in a restaurant and that was ok but Im sure its like anything its the way its cooked. I tried pike for the first time this year. I went two hours east of here to a pike lake and caught a 68 cm one through the ice. Man was that some good eats. I even have a picture of him! Rabbit, duck, raw fish, escargot, cant think of anything to exotic at the moment but Im sure something will come to me.
Curious on the method of cooking for muskrat? I've wondered how edible they are from a lost in the bush perspective.I know on hunting forums people sometimes make fun of guys that eat rabbit and squirrel. I personally want to know what it tastes like in the event I'm lost in the bush, and it's the only easy pickin's.
I love rabbit, and squirrel is not bad either. The muskrat was served in a gravy similar to biscuits and gravy I would imagine it was slow cooked in a crockpot.
Talking with my old neighbor he said in late 1800's when his grandfather homesteaded he walked 90 miles from the end of the rail line to where he blindly bought land in Dakota Territory. If he couldn't find a settler willing to spare a meal and bed for a days work he camped out and had open fire roasted gopher and ground squirrels as there was a extreme lack of convenience stores back then.
I can see eating those things before not eating. For me, given a choice, I opt only for few animal meats. No organ meat, no goat, rabbit, lamb, geese, veal. We eat a few fish, beef, pork, chicken and turkey. No good reason for this, just the way it is.
I'm limited to Bear, Rattlesnake & Elk, Deer, Buffalo, etc. Pretty "domestic". The weirdest stuff I ever ate was prolly from a friggin McDonalds drive through, I just didn't know it
Ive had quite a few good meals over the years from something (probably goat) cooked on a piece of tin in Iraq to fresh caught octopus on a Greek island. Some of the best meals were had in Thailand though, I would love to go back there one day the food and people were absolutely wonderful!! Once when I was a kid at boyscout camp there was a wild game group that served a variety of different wild game meals throughout the course of the week one of which turned out to be the opossum we had been playing with earlier in the week, if I recall correctly it was pretty good.
