What weird or exotic foods have you eaten?

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by icelandelf

Haggis (love it)
Venison on pizza
Rotten Shark also known as hákarl
Svið (singed sheep's head or face)
Súrir hrútspungar (pickled ram's testicles)
Hvalspik (whale's blubber)
Starry Ray (like a stingray but fermented)

FTW - but you have an Icelandic advantage.

[Elephant Walk]

I don't eat anything weird other than what you people would consider weird...

squirrel
deer

squirrel is the best in a gumbo with duck meat and okra.

[OneTimeSBX]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I've seen some really gross stuff, like cow tongue, pig ears, pig snout...ect ect. How can people eat this? Pig snout??? Yuck!

What exotic or not your "everyday" normal foods have you eaten before?

do you live in the south? because that list you've got is totally southern, not exotic lol!

go to any soul food restaurant in the deep south and thats everyday vittles my friend! (oh, and vittles is a southern things too lol!)

[AOII_LB93]

Escargot - been eating them since I was 5 - they're great!
Foie gras
Kangaroo- I didn't order it, just tasted...it was good.
Sea Urchin - gross, the ssushi chef told me it was Japanese peanut butter and I was like 7 so I believed him. So not like peanut butter.
Steak and kidney pie - the kidney was not my fave.
Pate - used to hate it, now I like it a lot.
Caviar - meh...not that great.
Probably lots of other stuff, but I tend to draw the line at internal organs.

[epchick]

Cow Stomach--in Menudo
Intestine--Tripe...or "tripas"
Pigs feet --another common occurance in Menudo. It gives it 'flavor' hoof and all
Tounge--DELICIOUS!! It's really popular here, so restaurants sell out of it quickly. When I can get a burrito or sandwich w/ lengua I feel like i'm in heaven!
Octopus--delicious with onions. I always like it when the suction cups stick to your tounge. lol.
Brain (i think it was cow)---my grandma used to make it. The thought of it still grosses me out. I never could stomach it.
Ox tail--not as bad as I though it was gonna be.
blood (cow's blood)--again, another thing my grandma used to cook (when she was alive). It's really good when fried with onions, tomato, garlic and a few other things. It has a special name, but i can't remember it at the moment.

[FlaGirl07]

i feel like i'm reading a forum version of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmeran. Ew.

[Buttonz]

Originally Posted by AOII_LB93

Kangaroo- I didn't order it, just tasted...it was good.

Same, I couldn't bring myself to order it. Most of us who didn't try it yet at that point tried it from one of the guys our last night in Sydney.

[Dionysus]

Does sheep milk count? I've eaten a few pesto dishes that had it as an ingredient.

[AznSAE]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

I don't eat anything weird other than what you people would consider weird...

squirrel
deer

squirrel is the best in a gumbo with duck meat and okra.

the alpha gams are gonna hate you, lol

durian fruit (smells like shitz, but taste good)
grilled cow tongue
rabbit
chicken feet
frog, turtle
blood (cow and duck)
pig ears
intestine
pigeons
eel sushi is my favorite (must be that sweet brown sauce)

[Senusret I]

Just looked up durian fruit..... EW it looks gross too!

[pbear19]

I'm tickled by the fact that the lists seem to be all animal foods (obvious exception Durian). There are a lot of really weird fruits and vegetables out there, but I guess they don't seem as exotic.

I haven't tried too much, probably the most 'exotic' would be
-tomatillos
-plantains
-jicama
-about every kind of leafy green and mushroom you can think of
-quinoa & bulger (neither of which are exotic, but not too many people eat them nonetheless)

On the animal end, I've had various kinds of
-sheep cheese
-every type of sushi under the sun (it feels like, although I'm sure there's something I haven't tried)
-escargot (which I don't think are exotic because I've had them too often)
-shrimp that are so tiny they don't get peeled and you eat them whole, eyes and all
-the grossest was a tapa in Spain that was some kind of pig item with the skin still on, with the hair still on the skin. That was hard to eat!

[SOPi_Jawbreaker]

I just thought of some more:

goat milk
durian (only took one bite, didn't like it)
fried tiny shrimp and fish that you eat whole
fried sweet shrimp head
sting ray
octopus
squid
turtle soup


I don't know if these are really exotic:
lychee
longan
bamboo
cactus fruit
guava
pomelo
loquat
bitter melon
lotus root
sugar cane



When I was younger, I wasn't as adventurous an eater. When I was about 11-12, my cousin got married and had her reception at a Chinese restaurant. They served pigeon and I refused to eat it. My mom tried to trick me, saying it was a really small chicken. I could totally tell she was lying to me.

Around that same age, my parents took me and my brother to a restaurant that served frog legs. I refused to eat them.

[pbear19]

^^Aren't the little shrimp you eat whole creepy?

I forgot one that's not so much exotic as amusing. There is (or perhaps was) a restaurant in North Little Rock called Gators. They have a menu item called Gator Balls. Which IIRC are really just little fried and breaded meatballs made from aligator meat - but the name is funny enough I had to try them one visit just to say I've eaten Gator Balls.

[catiebug]

I personally trend to avoid items from the organ food group.

When we lived in Chile, we ate a lot of ceviche.

[christiangirl]

I had eel on my birthday a couple weeks ago. I think I said it tasted like fish and worm. I didn't hate it, but I can do without it. And I actually like fried tripe.