Strange Encounters
Boiled snail bar in Marrakech. Photo by EqualizerThroughout my travels, I have encountered many strange food items, some of which I was brave enough to try and others that I preffer to simply weasle-out. I do not undertstand how over time people developed a taste for something that would seem .......NASTY.
Ok so what did I encounter? And NO I will not try to create recipes from those items, because I refuse to imagine it!
Rocky Mountain Oysters - (you gotta google this one buddies) Colorado, tastes like well I dont want to remember.
Dried Sea Horse - Hong Kong, I seriously though it was plastic toys.
Aligator Sausage - New Orleans, it cant be any meatier than this!
Rattle Snake - Colorado, it was actually good! tasted like chicken, or was it thetaste of the mouse it ate before it got grilled?
I am sure some of you had tried something strange. Share your encounters with us.
posted by Equalizer at 6:38 PM
16 Comments:
well .. i only tried frogs and snails
the frogs were delicious, but it was so creepy ,, white meat with blue veins :/
I had just been thinking of what I was going to write...until I read your comment about the mouse and now if you'll excuse me..I think I'm gonna go throw up...
Fried bull's blood in Caracas, Venezuela. Duck Liver Pate' at a posh restaurant in Boston.
I'm not that adventerous when it comes to eating strange food. I can barely eat lamb.
Rocky mountain oysters (huevos de toro) wow they have a great recipe in Central America. Alligator stew is great too. Moronga or morcilla (you will have to look this one up).
Ray: I was going to give frog legs a try, but now I changed my mind :S
Laialy: Do you eat?
misscosmo: Sorry for the gross imagery :p
Stinni: fried bulls blood!? are they that poor over there? and duck liver pate is not strange!! thats the finest of fine foods hehe
Anonymous: Being adventurous eh?
Venezuela, back in the 80s, was a lot like present-day Kuwait. Lots of oil wealth (new money). I ate the bull's blood at an Argentinian restaurant in Caracas, so maybe it's an Argentinian thing. Sadly, Caracas is more like Havana now.
And the duck liver pate - I was about 14 years-old and ended up in the bathroom afterwards. Ducks should be wading through ponds and lakes and not in my tummy. =)
Sorry, I'm being chatty. I'll stop now. =)
i was playing play station.
i was so indulged in the game, so my mouth was wide open.
i remember i was chewing something.
it was a fly.
moral of the story:
never keep your mouth open when your mind is somewhere else.
Fried shredded jellyfish at a Chinese embassy dinner. It was delightful.
Yeech@Rocky mountain oysters aka prarie oysters. As a kid I loved morcilla until my great-grandmother decided to pass down the secret family recipe to me. As I watched her lay out the ingredients I realized I would never eat morcillas again.
baloo6?
The Kuwaiti Delicacy:
asfoor and Miknah (Grasshoppers)
once i was in florida,
and usually in restaurans your served a bread basket with a side of butter
there was 2 types on the table one normal butter and one pink, me and my sister tried the pink stuff and loved it. We almost cleaned the small bowl clean, and decide to ask the waitress whats mixed in the butter. She said in a normal way " oh its alligator meat"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i dont know if thats even 7allal
p.s. the im the girl who ate the pink butter .. another thing i wont normally try..
my father offered me a home-made burgur, so i accepted.. half way through he tells me .. its camel meat .. suddenly i feel queezy
anonymous: well I had a close encounter with alligator meat. It is served in many restaurants in the Big Easy (New Orleans)but never had the guts to try it, so I left it alone. As for camel meat its not that bad, I love it, its a bit fatty though, and I would love to make it into a burger ;)
well aligator meat was fishy and meaty, it was abuttery paste so honestly i liked it thought it was salmon.. !
as for camel burgurs .. the thought i had at the time .. "then if this is camel.. god knows what the hell goes into a big mac !"
p.s keep up the good job its so mice to see someone so passionate about food and life ;)
i said mice ! i meant nice :X
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