Serious said:

I'm curious about shark and crock.

Funny story. My best friend and a girlfriend were in San Francisco. She insisted that she wanted shark fin soup. They went and got some. She was really dissapointed because it kind of looked like egg foo yung. My best friend said "Damn Carmen. What did you expect. The shark fin swimming around in the bowl!!" hahahahahahahha!!!!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I've never eaten shark fin soup but I've eaten eaten shark and bake at Maracas Bay, Trinidad
Here you can see what it is:
http://recipes.caribseek....bake.shtml

We were in New York City with my teenage daughter, and eating at Shun Lee Palace. She odered shark fin soup. It had to be $40.00 for the bowl. It was an hors d'ouvre. We limit traveling with her. (She had it before, somewhere cheaper)
That's also the place where, if you order a whole duck, they'll carve it up near your table, and de-bone the whole thing. I love NY! Carnegie deli with the perfect pickles at every table.....Green Street Cafe, (closed)....

The French appetizer term is probably mispelled, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

ostrich is nice, emu, crocodile, kangaroo, horse, deer, goat, wallaby

um

Everyone in Finland eats this in Easter:



And no it's not , it's a malt porridge made of water, malt and rye flour.. It's delishious with cream and sugar..

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Salma Hayek ate crickets on the Ellen Show not too long ago not something I would try

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I've heard that their quite tasty.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

ew i seen that show! i watched him in the phillipines eating similar things. whos the other guy who has a show like that?..grey haied tall dude. i like that one as well.

MsLegs said:

we eat shark all the time here, it's pretty bland, the flesh is rough I think. Croc is a bit rubbery, they tenderise it with kiwifruit at some restaurants.

ZombieKitten said:

i thought crocidle is supposed to taste like chicken?

Christopher said:

It was extremely tough meat and it didn't remind me of chicken.

Serious said:

I had it in a salad once, and also in a pie minced. Wasn't really memorable except the toughness, more like a tough fish than chicken maybe?

ZombieKitten said:

I had it at a crocodile farm in South Africa, it was a skewer of crocodile and ostrich. I had eaten ostrich before and knew it was tasty, I guess I should have just sticked with that one. The crocodile was so tough, I could hardly bite it and I don't really remember the taste of it. Anyway, it was quite bizarre to eat crocodile at the restaurant of a crocodile farm after having joined that tour there where the guide was telling us how important it is to protect the crocodiles.

MsLegs said:

not everyone has abandoned it

i can't help it, i love cottage cheese with pineapple chunks and freshly ground pepper!

Anxiety said:

I love it with salsa! Great to eat when reading the morning paper. I'm going to have some now....

BLOOD sausage, in Switzerland.....can't get it where I live, although I did see it in Wisconsin when I fished. The community had a fair German population, so the local butcher made it.

Has anyone had chocolate mole'? yum.

Anxiety said:

I love it plain.

xplnyrslf said:

oh hell yes.

i wish i knew more things to do with mole. we have a couple of decent mexican restaurants in my neighborhood that have mole enchiladas and they're yummalicious.

I´ve eaten some ostrich, tripe soup, grasshoppers, brain salad and other stuff that some people may or may not find strange.
There´s a book called "Strange Food" which has some of the most interesting edible stuff in it.
I usually eat totally normal stuff though...lots of veggies, fruits, some cheese and plenty of yoghurt, a little bit of fish, almost zero poultry and meat, and lots of free range eggs....and protein shakes. If I could, I would switch back to being vegetarian again.

Anxiety said:

I stand corrected.

Anxiety said:

I feel you on that anything with chocolate is worth working with.

Anxiety said:

I'm making a batch of chocolate mole tonight. I went to the grocery store and bought all the ingredients.....Mexican feast for supper!

I saw the one where he eats the rotted meat in Morroco.

Anxiety said:

Pepper on cottage cheese???

I love that show too! I've had shark b4, but that's about the "strangest" thing I've eaten I guess.

Love the show. I never seem to get hungry when I watch. The strangest thing i have ever eaten is dick.

veronikka said:

oh yes. it's wonderful...not only is it great with the cottage cheese but it's really yummy with the pineapple chunks too.

nothing too strange.. alligator and buffalo. I draw the line at insects and strange eggs.

Anxiety said:

Well Anx, I can't front. I used to dig cottage cheese with pineapple chunks back in the day.
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