What weird or exotic foods have you eaten?

[PeppyGPhiB]

Caviar
Foie Gras
Pate
Octopus
Beef tartare
All kinds of sushi
Venison
Boar (a restaurant nearby has an awesome preparation!)
Truffle stuff
Squid
Seaweed
Kelp
Ortolan (had it in Paris when I was 12, and I was really upset when I read more about it afterward!)

[33girl]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Ortolan (had it in Paris when I was 12, and I was really upset when I read more about it afterward!)

Wow, that is upsetting. Yuck.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Wow, that is upsetting. Yuck.

I loved the movie Gigi when I was little, and in it they eat ortolan for lunch one day. So when we went to Paris and my aunt pointed it out on the menu, I wanted it. It was traumatizing enough eating it, with bones and all, but when I was older and read how the birds are caught and killed, I was really sad.

[AGDee]

I'm not an adventurous eater but I don't think of squid as exotic. We had it every Christmas Eve (in the form of calamari) but I never knew it was squid until I was a teenager. Then I went years without eating it again...lol. I like it now

[EE-BO]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Foie Gras

Have you ever had a partial lobe of this before? I am very fond of foie gras, but most places you just get a few thin slices or it is crammed into a terrine.

There is one fine restaurant I visit periodically where they serve a big chunk of an entire lobe in one course- and it is incredibly delicious, but I cannot look at it as I am cutting and eating it.

Served in so large a piece (8 ounces or so- enough saturated fat to last you a month), the very light cooking process means what you get is pretty much raw, and all the internal linings and fluids in there are more than I can stand to watch.

But very, very tasty...