So what is the most exotic or unusual food you have ever eaten?

Mine would have to be alligator. It doesn't tase like any other meat I have tasted before and no I would not eat it again.

a kebab from an NYC corner cart vendor.

Define unusual..

the most unusual to my palette to date would be ethiopian food. don't get me wrong, i really like it! but the spices and the textures are very unusual to me.

now i'm hungry for some.

I haven't had the chance to eat much unusual food - probably the most unusual food was this Durian fruit thing. I didn't like it though.

bbq'd raccoon. seriously, a long time ago i was over at my cousin's house for a bbq one summer, and somebody brought a raccoon that they'd shot. it got skinned, cooked, and eaten.

i had a piece of it...tastes like gamey chicken.

maybe sea slugs.. oh and sharon fruit...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

omg!
If ur gonna give me sumthin like that, dont tell me what it is until about a week later

I ate pigeon pie in Morocco.

DanceWme said:

i only found out what it was because i'd gone over to the grill and saw the itty-bitty pieces of meat on there...i'd asked my cousin's then-husband what it was, and he was like "raccoon!" at first i was like "eww, wtf?" then my cousin was like "wanna try it?"

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

brave, cuz i wouldve been like "nah im good.Peace"

Well this isn't a food...but...I ate a bunch roly polies for $10 once.

Oh, not only Durian fruit but! but! - chicken brains.





OK, maybe not, but I was in like first grade and my friend told me that's what it was. So I at least thought I was eating chicken brains, and had the guts to do so at six.

i've also had stuff like:

-- pig feet (not much to eat, it's mostly fat and bone)

-- pig ears (my mom used to buy them and cook them a lot when i was real little. i'd always eat them with ketchup...they tasted like porky rubber)

-- oxtail soup (pretty yummy)

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

wuzzat?

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Porky rubber

Aren't pig ears the things that are sold for dogs?

Protege said:

FruitToAttractBears said:

OK.

FruitToAttractBears said:

it's kinda like a stew or a soup...i'd forgotten exactly how my folks make it, i haven't had any in a real long time. all i remember is whenever my dad or whoever would come home from hy-vee and take out a package of frozen oxtail i'd be like, "ooh, we having oxtail soup?"

FruitToAttractBears said:

yes, but those are usually dried so dogs can chew on them. the stuff sold for human consumption is over in the butcher's section. you take them home, clean them, throw them in a pot with some water and salt, and boil 'em for a while.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

is it literally...tails?!

FruitToAttractBears said:

yep.

REDFEATHERS said:

I tried making a dolphin steak a few years back. I was wandering through the frozen section of the thai grocers downtown, and I found myself staring at a package of dolphin steaks. Who even knew they sold such things? Not I, that's for sure. It was priced outrageously, but I'm a sucker for trying new things. Unfortunately, I thought it was pretty disgusting - rather oily and quite tough, though who knows if I prepared it properly.

damosuzuki said:

Was it actual like bottlenose dolphin or mahi mahi?

now that i think of it, i may have tried boiled cow's tongue before...i remember some of my relatives cooking it often. my uncle lanny (r.i.p.) loved him some cow tongue...i remember living over at my sister's house and one day he'd come home, with some cow tongue. the shit looks nasty as hell when it's cooking, because of the tastebuds popping up while it's being boiled.

uncle lanny was all like "ya'll want some?" me and my sister were like "hell no!" he was like, "alright, then...you dunno what you missin" and ate it all himself. ewwwww.

FruitToAttractBears said:

Not a clue, I'm afraid - the package didn't give much away regarding the contents. It just said in large, bold letters: DOLPHIN.

octopus!

it's pretty good

damosuzuki said:

wept.