Odd Foods

[GOLTZBORG]

Alligator, rattle snake, frog legs, turtle, blood soup...all good foods.

[Hornopolis]

I had calf brains once, in Morocco.

[Central Slavia]

I would have imagined that horse would taste like cow. They're different animals, yes, but they seem like they're kinda similar in some ways I guess.

One of my friends had some when he was in Japan recently. He posted a picture on facebook of the plate (it was raw horse meat) and one of my friends (who eats meat) freaked out. Meanwhile I (who am vegetarian) just asked if it tasted at all like cow. I didn't get an answer because he was busy dealing with the freak out though. I don't get the special protection for some animals that doesn't exist for others (at least others that aren't endangered) among many people who choose to eat animals.

westerners have a taboo on horse, cat, and dog. and thats all it is a taboo like some cultures not liking it when you take their picture or look them in the eye.

Not really... Dogs are eaten by gypsies all the times and there are places in slovakia where people make dog sausages.
Horses the same.

[Serrland]

westerners have a taboo on horse, cat, and dog. and thats all it is a taboo like some cultures not liking it when you take their picture or look them in the eye.

Not really... Dogs are eaten by gypsies all the times and there are places in slovakia where people make dog sausages.
Horses the same.

But don't gypsies also eat both live human babies and souls?

[Central Slavia]

Not really... Dogs are eaten by gypsies all the times and there are places in slovakia where people make dog sausages.
Horses the same.

But don't gypsies also eat both live human babies and souls?

Not really.
Otherwise they'd have considerably less babies

[Caninope]

Crocodile or American Bison.

[Forlon]

Crocodile or American Bison.

Ohhh I love American Bison (we call it buffalo, yes, I know they aren't buffalo) burgers, chili...pretty much anything you can use cow for you can use buffalo for.

[Brauzillia]

i tried boiled octopus, and it was great

[Tatania Watts]

I like to eat endangered species.

The only drawback is the price, but for the money you can eat something your neighbour can't eat.

[Onekawa-Nukanor]

I like lambs tails, is that where

[Futurephilosostan]

Weirdest food for me was: fried insects (caterpillars, ants, grasshoppers) once, brought from China; cooked snails (self-made); oysters; bull's testicles.

Unusual food would be shark and kangaroo.

In modern cuisine I wouldn't call octopus or calmar that odd, as it is present in many restaurants, and Asian dishes.

[Innsmothe]

I liked candied insects in mexico.

And dog...something in Vietnam

[The Archregimancy]

westerners have a taboo on horse, cat, and dog. and thats all it is a taboo like some cultures not liking it when you take their picture or look them in the eye.

Not really... Dogs are eaten by gypsies all the times and there are places in slovakia where people make dog sausages.
Horses the same.

There are also specialist horse butchers (boucheries chevalines) in France, and when I was a wee lad living in southern Belgium, I distinctly remember steak tartare made from viande chevaline. I believe that northern Italians and many Scandinavians eat horse meat as well.

It's not westerners that have a taboo on horse - it's English-speaking westerners that have the problem.

[Wikkiwallana]

I actually like natto.

Then you are either crazy or have no tongue.

Kimchi is also good, even though I think lots of people find it a little iffy.

I liked Kimchi the first time I tried it, but the only place I can find it around here are buffets and a lot of the time it tastes old and rancid, not pickled or fermented but rancid.

I like seaweed in many forms (though there was one I was offered in Japan that was very gooey and I didn't enjoy it), I've had celeriac (which isn't actually that weird, just an unusual ingredient), chrysanthemum leaves (also not that weird but unusual in lots of Western foods, I treat it like spinach when cooking), I've eaten octopus balls, used miso to make a sauce, I had haggis once (and actually remember it being palatable). Oh, and ume is delicious (though perhaps a little strong for anyone who doesn't like sour things). Also, deep fried pickles are great. Oh, and red bean and green tea ice cream: also great. And there are these yogurt drinks they sell at schawarma places that are quite interesting too.

I like most of the seaweeds I've had too, as well as miso soup, and I would love to try takoyaki. My only experience with ume is umeboshi in some sushi rolls, but it was good. And well made deep fried pickles are wonderful, especially with some ranch dressing for dipping.

Nowadays I'll generally try any random veggie dishes and there might be things that I think are kinda normal to eat that most people do not consider normal at all (my parents raised my sisters and I with visits to diverse restaurants and ethnic cooking experiments). When I ate meat I'd try pretty much any meat dish as well. I think most of my experimental foods lately have been beers (e.g. I had a delicious sweet potato stout around New Years). Or cheeses (I grabbed a Guinness-infused cheddar a while back).

I'm glad to hear you are willing to try new things whenever you get the chance.

I forgot: recently I bought some preserved tofu (also known as fermented tofu or "tofu cheese"). I haven't used it in anything yet because I haven't figured out what to do with it exactly. I thought it would make a good snack item, but it's much too pungent for this so I think I have to figure out some good stir fry combination.

Is that like the "stinky tofu" I've seen on Bizarre Foods?

[Wikkiwallana]

Yesterday I went to try a fusion restaurant that I hadn't been to before, and I had lotus root chips and daikon sprouts. I would have also gotten to try oba leaf, but they were out. It was a pretty fun trip, and good food.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Well, everyone here eats live octopus. Personally I think it's disgusting.

I love octopus! Maybe not live, but in every other form I love it ! Pulpo is classic where I live.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Not really... Dogs are eaten by gypsies all the times and there are places in slovakia where people make dog sausages.
Horses the same.

There are also specialist horse butchers (boucheries chevalines) in France, and when I was a wee lad living in southern Belgium, I distinctly remember steak tartare made from viande chevaline. I believe that northern Italians and many Scandinavians eat horse meat as well.

It's not westerners that have a taboo on horse - it's English-speaking westerners that have the problem.

I once tried horse meat and it was delicious...

[Zeppy]

I once tried horse meat and it was delicious...

^this.

[Serrland]

Come to think of it, pork rinds are kind of odd. I've never really thought of them as such, because I've been eating them since I was just a tot, but I could see how someone could find them strange.

[Daistallia 2104]

I liked Kimchi the first time I tried it, but the only place I can find it around here are buffets and a lot of the time it tastes old and rancid, not pickled or fermented but rancid.

I make my own. There're tons of recipes out there and it's pretty easy.

[Ahtreil]

The weirdest food i have eaten where fried octopus/squid rings...Was pretty good...

[Rolamec]

The strangest food I've ever eaten was probably dog, but I didn't realize it at the time. On a mission trip to the godless Canadians (jk- it was a mission trip to the One Nation group or whatever in Canada), we had chicken and rice cooked for use by the natives. Of course no boats had come in with chicken in the last two weeks we were there, some dogs went "missing," and there were no chickens on the island or any sign of them (hen houses, feathers, etc.). But we just ate our food, since it was warm and wasn't moving, preached the Gospel and went on our way.

[Bisgea]

Being from the Philippines, I have eaten some foods that others might find odd or strange such as grilled pork intestines (isaw), grilled blood (dugo), and fried octupus/squid/whatever rings (kalamares).

[Innsmothe]

Surströmming.

It's actually very nice.

[Charlotte Ryberg]

At first: Bacon with Maple Syrup seasoning, but it turned out to be the best ever IMO.