Exotic Foods

knewlove · Exotic Foods

What's the most interesting/rare food you have eaten?

I ate frog legs while visiting San Francisco, USA. They tasted like chicken. Really!! I bought a t-shirt from the restaurant too that pictured frogs coming out of the cook's kitchen on crutches and wheelchairs! lol

Also, a popular delicacy in southern Alberta Canada are "Prairie Oysters." I ate several before someone let me in on what they were...(they tasted like mini meatballs to me!)...But they were in fact bull testicles

After that I just couldn't eat anymore lol

chibi_steph18

I've eaten frog's legs, but they aren't really exotic to me..people eat them lots here..but when I was in Australia I ate kangaroo tail, it was pretty exotic to me. I thought it tasted really good, but kinda dry.

dintrox

probably the most exotic a Native American delicacy moose nose soup... to prepare "take the moose nose, burn the hair off it then cut it up into little chunks and boil the snot out of it" Other things octopus, squid, chocolate covered ants...

chibi_steph18

Moose nose...ewwwww

Serenity

lmao @ the T shirt, did you actually ever wear it?

Moose nose? boiled out the snot? ewwwwwww gross...what did it taste like?

Balls too *bawk*

What did the Roos tail taste like Steph? I've eaten Oxtail soup from a tin lol, not quite the same though.

I've tried squid and octopus, and thought it was disgusting. Chocolate covered ants too when I was younger, didnt taste the ants just the choc.

I've never eaten frogs legs, or snails, though I did try Whelks when I was small as my nan loved them, I think I gagged it straight out, it was like eating a lump of slimy rubber ewww, and Winkles too. Has anyone tried snails?

Skippy X

octopus

chibi_steph18

I've never tried snail.. The kangaroo tail tasted ordinary to me. Regular old meat. Not like chicken, more like pork, I suppose. The aboriginals made it for us. They cooked it in an actual fire pit, like in the ground..it was really neat.

daxxxx

i've tried octopus, mussels, frogs legs and i love calamari(squid). Year before last year at a market in Belfast i had a kangaroo burger...i covered it in tomato sauce just in case so that was all i tasted lol. They had loads of weird and wonderful things to try. It moves around the country so if ya check the link it maybe near you soon ...if it is is a good experience.
The only thing i really hate is raw oysters(cooked is fine) i have a easy gag reflex so as soon as the wee bugger goes in me gob i start to hurl lol.

http://www.thecontinentalmarket.com/

Majortom

I have tried Snails Debs , tbh all you could taste was the Garlic they are cooked in lol they were ok if a bit rubbery lol

And i love whelks , cockles and mussles lol though never tried Oysters yet ,and is it true they make you randy ? lol

Can't see there being much meat on a Frogs leg lol

Dreama

they'd have to be seriously muscley frogs to get a decent meal wouldn't they? lol

i love whelks, cockles and mussles aswell. most disgusting (although yummy) thing i've ever eaten is chitelins, which is sheeps bladder, lathered in salt and vinegar, my dad used to eat tons of them and i loved them aswell, but yukko i couldn't now lol

MJH

Serenity

I remember nan eating those too yeuuck, yet she would eat a chinese takeaway called that muck lol......mind you she did get me loving Samphire

a seaweed collected locally, usually boiled and soaked in vinegar to eat. Though I prefered it raw, the lovely juicy saltiness of it...oooooh I have a hankering lol!

Thumper

I was then going to mention Samphire, thats about the most exoctic thing Ive eaten lol

redhead

yuk yuk yuk to all the above , when my younger sis was training to be a chef she had to cook mum/dad a meal she served them frog legs dad knew what it was but sis told mum it was chicken , mum said it was really nice chicken best she tasted haha then sis told her it was really frog legs mum chased her round the house !!!!!!

Serenity

lmao....bet your mum was 'hopping' mad? no groans! lol

Dreama

daxxxx

We have Dulse back in Northern Ireland which is a dried red seaweed....my family loves it but i hate salty stuff so i avoid it most times now.