Food for thought or thought of food ?

[alawlor66430]

I don't want to be hogging the snug but that last thread I put up made me think of this one which could be interesting, what sort of exotic and bizarre foods have people tried, my most detached from the norm food has probably been garlic snails, they were really nice, just like the middle of your garlic bread, and that's the best bit :-)

 

[31bb3]

octopus bloody awful like eating rubber nasty

 

[dennisking]

Shark and reindeer, not at the same ime.

 

[Chop_Suey_Stuey]

I was a chef for 5 years, had all sorts of interesting bits sent my way, but probably (surprisingly) best of all was Kangaroo, lovely, beefy, slightly game taste, although needs careful cooking as it can dry out easily. A nice red wine or port and redcurrant reduction goes really well

 

[doyley]

I have had whale, reindeer and salt fish of various types, but the weirdest dish was something called "Kams" which is a very local dish from W.Norway made up from amongst other ingredients,fish liver and golden syrup, It was awful, I had to eat it so as not to offend my hosts, but I shan't ever eat it again. :sick: One of my favourites there is cods tongues, either simply fried in butter or done in white wine sauce.

 

[Scott]

Whilst in Australia we visited the Sydney Tower Reseraunt, on the menu was Kangaroo, Camel and Emu. Delicious!

 

[alawlor66430]

I was checking online to see what kinds of exotic meats you can have delivered and tbh you are spoiled for choice, there has been a few votes kangaroo so I think that might be one I order, and possibly crocodile, there is one company that supplies a BBQ pack for £89 I know that sounds dear but it would be a very special BBQ as it consists of sausages and burgers from about every animal you could think of

 

[Brewbob]

I lived in Thailand for three years. I think the strangest food I ate was Pla La (rotten fish), they make a spicy 15-30 raw chilli salad with green papaya, and fermented soft-shell crabs, add garlic, tomato, lime juice and dried shrimp, then add the pla la which is raw fish they have buried underground in a clay pot for a few weeks/months then dug up and used in this way, when I questioned people they thought cheese was a weird way of treating milk!! Its an acquired taste, but not wholly unpleasant. I've also eaten raw pig intestine, minced up with ground toasted rice, garlic, lime juice, chilli as Laab salad, again not so bad as the other ingredients cure the meat, then theres the bugs, roaches, worms, crickets, giant waterbeetles, scorpions, I've eaten them all. I stopped eating pla la when I found out you can get liver flukes, Laab salad in favour of Nam Tok salad as the meat is cooked, and bugs when I found out they kill them with insecticide. Life in the far-east is right good fun for someone into their food, but it pays to find out how they get it to your plate :) Ho hum I'm still here, very rarely got poorly and still able to anything I like :)

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

Findus Lasagne....

contained horse lips, foreskin, ******** and other unmentionables

 

[dennisking]

Findus Lasagne....

contained horse lips, foreskin, ******** and other unmentionables

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[DirtyCaner]

Ostrich is a good one to look out for, nice, lean and flavoursome.

There used to be an ostrich farm in the lang toon and one of the chippies sold ostrich burgers and haggis. Awesome. Sadly gone now...

Also ate a squirrel with my mate once, a lot like rabbit.

DirtyC

 

[Brewtrog]

I didn't have that great an experience with kangaroo, crocodile was lovely though. The most exotic food I've had was a traditional Tanzanian dinner, had Talapia (beautiful), another fish (awful) some herb paste stuff (horrible) what I think was sweet potato mash (or similar, lovely) and something that resembled porridge without enough water - kind of like a dough (quite nice actually) and some other stuff I can't remember.

 

[Baz Chaz]

Findus Lasagne....

contained horse lips, foreskin, ******** and other unmentionables

 

[graysalchemy]

Porpoise. Sea Urchin and sea quirts (tunicates)

 

[fbsf]

I had some 'Roo burgers when I was over in Oz last year, and they were lovely. Also had ostrich steak, alligator, crocodile and bison.

Were they all easily available (and at a sensible price) I'd be buying them regularly. All were highly edible!