2006-09-16 22:51:04 · 32 answers · asked by http://hogshead.pokerknave.com/ 6 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
This is a serious answer - not a joke.
I have eaten many things that people would consider strange because that happens when you travel - including crickets, curried meal worms, etc.. Most of them have been great, yet unusual. These are not only the two strangest things I have eaten, but one of them was surprisingly one of the best things I have eaten my in life! The other was possibly the worst- I would take a curried meal worm shake (which nobody really makes!) over the second one any day of the week!
Absolutely fresh, still warm raw lamb liver - sliced extremely thin, in very small quantities on a pita with thinly sliced onions, salt, roasted cumin, pepper, lemon juice, and yogourt. It was delicious - exotic, flavourful, wonderful combination of textures, - and this is for breakfast! Talk about an energy high! I felt like I could walk for miles - which is what many people in the middle east do. A real testiment to a hearty breakfast that is head and shoulders above mini-wheats or oatmeal for fibre, flavour, and energy! I'm not sure I would go to my local butcher and do the same thing, though - there is no "shelf life" on a trek, and it is truly fresh.
The other one?
Absolutely fresh lamb testicles, (yes, the same lamb!) boiled and sliced, served on pita with yogourt and tomatoes. Although I appreciated the effort that the host went through, it tasted to me like iron dipped in lanolin.
I like to be adventerous when I travel, but that was, to me, the most awful thing I have tasted! Emotion had nothing to do with it - my palate was offended!
2006-09-18 12:25:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turtle
2006-09-17 03:12:11 · answer #2 · answered by Steve B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The closest I've come to eating anything "strange" is calamari, deer meat, and rabbit meat. The last two I was tricked into eating!
2006-09-16 23:12:55 · answer #3 · answered by Evil Wordmonger, LTD LOL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Donkey.
I'm usually pretty adventurous with food, but I only managed a few bites of this before I gave up. It kinda of tastes like really really strong beef, but with a kind of fishy thing going on too...Yucky!!!
2006-09-16 23:50:45 · answer #4 · answered by Maddy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Monkey and cat were popular in some parts of West Africa, but they just tasted like Chicken to me.
2006-09-16 22:55:00 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had gator, snake, dog, eel, cow's tongue and lizard. The lizard was the toughest to take in that the flavor had a very strong taste.
2006-09-17 05:28:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turtle when i was a child I live in hawaii and back then it was legal to hunt for turtle, I remember seeing the elders cooking up turtle on an open fire, I have since then not eaten turtle...
2006-09-16 22:57:57 · answer #7 · answered by look at me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heart. It tastes just like steak. Only the texture is smooth and there is nothing to really chew and its all wrong and......thanks for reminding me, ick.
2006-09-17 02:08:01 · answer #8 · answered by tjnstlouismo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crocodile - it tastes a bit llike fish
2006-09-17 07:31:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Baby squid and eel.
The eel was good. All white meat.
2006-09-16 23:31:03 · answer #10 · answered by shortfrog 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋