The most unusual food you have ever eaten?

Nomis21 · 24-12-2016 04:11PM #1

What is the most unusual food you have ever eaten?

I don't mean something you didn't expect like a worm in an orange or something that was served to you in poor condition. I mean here an unusual food on the menu that you have eaten in a restaurant or café in Ireland or overseas.

I was traveling in Java, Indonesia in the 70's and some Indonesian guys I met on my travels invited me to go with them to a restaurant where they eat dogmeat. It was a very cheap restaurant that only sold dogmeat with rice and nothing else was served there. The restaurant was for poor people who could not afford to eat anywhere else.

I tried a few pieces of the meat but it was very chewy, tasteless and hard to digest. I didn't manage to eat much of it as I only did it for the experience and I didn't enjoy it. I have no plans to try it ever again.

Working class heroes · 24-12-2016 04:14PM

Horses heart with boiled nettles. ''Twas alright.....

Atari Jaguar · 24-12-2016 04:14PM

Ah you ate dog meat? I ate pussy once. Still do was quite nice.

super_furry · 24-12-2016 04:17PM

Duck hearts. Surprisingly tasty.

Nomis21 · 24-12-2016 04:18PM

Working class heroes wrote: »

Horses heart with boiled nettles. ''Twas alright.....

That reminded me of when I drove coach tours in France. I used to stop at the service areas on the Autoroute and the passengers used to go in and usually order the cheapest food on the menu which was often "Steak au Cheval".

They had no idea they were eating horsemeat and I wasn't going to tell them

Nomis21 · 24-12-2016 04:20PM

Atari Jaguar wrote: »

Ah you ate dog meat? I ate pussy once. Still do was quite nice.

If there was pussy on offer in that restaurant, I would have stayed a bit longer

nocoverart · 24-12-2016 04:21PM

Probably not unusual, but I tried Pork Scratchings for the first time today and they're absolute rank. Not sure what the Brits were thinking.

osarusan · 24-12-2016 04:24PM

Raw horse, raw whale, cooked whale. All fine after getting over the mental block.

Weirdest thing would be hachinoko (bee larvae) and the absolute worst and most disgusting would be shiokara (salty paste of fermented offal of marine life, especially squid).

MilesMorales1 · 24-12-2016 04:25PM

Zebra sausages.

Your Face · 24-12-2016 04:27PM

Probably something I ate in a foreign country so I can mention all the exotic places I've been.

Working class heroes · 24-12-2016 04:27PM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Zebra sausages.

Tell me they were stripy.

24-12-2016 04:30PM

I ate 'chicken face pie' in a remote part of Cote D'Ivoire. I assumed that the translation was the problem and there would be more chicken than chicken face, but no, it really was as advertised.

hairyslug · 24-12-2016 04:33PM

Horse tongue and beef heart, tongue was chewy and not very tasty, found heart nice, tasted just like beef

dinky earnshaw · 24-12-2016 04:35PM

Had parrot once. Was nice but kept repeating on me.

andekwarhola · 24-12-2016 04:38PM

Your Face wrote: »

Probably something I ate in a foreign country so I can mention all the exotic places I've been.

Somebody will just claim to have scraped some organic sandwich matter from a meteor that originated in Phobos

Day Lewin · 24-12-2016 04:42PM

Musciami. Dried raw dolphin meat, sliced. Tastes like a cross between old, putrid, tough RAW meat, and the smell of an ancient trawler on a hot evening.
I am no fuss-pot with food and would eat virtually anything. But this was without any possibility of quibble, the vilest thing I've ever tried to consume, bar none. Rank, rotten, rubbery are all far too mild words, even in triplicate. Disgusting. Just don't.

Canis Lupus · 24-12-2016 04:45PM

nocoverart wrote: »

Probably not unusual, but I tried Pork Scratchings for the first time today and they're absolute rank. Not sure what the Brits were thinking.

Pork scratchings are the most amazing thing on the planet. It's a heartattack in a bag but man nyom nyom salty fatty tastiness.....

You can't buy them here in Australia so last year I ordered a tonne of them online. Almost made myself sick I gorged so much. Which reminds me... need to buy more.... it's xmas after all.

CINCLANTFLT · 24-12-2016 04:46PM

Your Face wrote: »

Probably something I ate in a foreign country so I can mention all the exotic places I've been.

Come to Cork... we eat all kinds of offal and some kind of moss here!!!

suicide_circus · 24-12-2016 04:55PM

Kangaroo. Not particularly interesting.

Tilikum · 24-12-2016 04:56PM

Camel
Kangaroo
Crocodile

Father Hernandez · 24-12-2016 05:15PM

Crocodile stir fry. Delish

dar100 · 24-12-2016 05:18PM

snail

Fr_Dougal · 24-12-2016 05:29PM

Had a horsemeat baguette in Milan before, it was lovely.

pickarooney · 24-12-2016 05:40PM

Nomis21 wrote: »

That reminded me of when I drove coach tours in France. I used to stop at the service areas on the Autoroute and the passengers used to go in and usually order the cheapest food on the menu which was often "Steak au Cheval".

They had no idea they were eating horsemeat and I wasn't going to tell them

That means minced beef with an egg on top.

Casey78 · 24-12-2016 05:42PM

My Mother in laws Christmas dinner.
She says it's turkey and ham but I'm not so sure turkey and ham could taste that bad....

Corkgirl18 · 24-12-2016 05:55PM

Nomis21 wrote: »

That reminded me of when I drove coach tours in France. I used to stop at the service areas on the Autoroute and the passengers used to go in and usually order the cheapest food on the menu which was often "Steak au Cheval".

They had no idea they were eating horsemeat and I wasn't going to tell them

Did you pick up much french while you were there? Steak au Cheval does not mean Horse meat steak.. :P

ScumLord · 24-12-2016 06:04PM

Pigs ear, I think it was boiled. It was just a giant pig's ear on the plate. The skin had gone sort of gelatinous and you'd scrape it off the cartilage. I almost got sick when I seen a big hair.

Subcomandante Marcos · 24-12-2016 06:14PM

Nomis21 wrote: »

usually order the cheapest food on the menu which was often "Steak au Cheval".

They had no idea they were eating horsemeat and I wasn't going to tell them

It's not horse. It's just a cheap cut of beef with a fried egg on top.

CalamariFritti · 24-12-2016 06:16PM

Can't say I ever ate anything too mad, not by continental standards anyway. Had frogs legs once. Was nice but you could achieve the same if you did chicken in white wine I thought. More tender than chicken I suppose. I do like snails. Lidl have a dozen for 2€ or so. Perry winkles are weird enough. Oh and I ate a bison steak in the US. Dry and tough as ****.

Nomis21 · 24-12-2016 06:53PM

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

Did you pick up much french while you were there? Steak au Cheval does not mean Horse meat steak.. :P

OK "Steak de viande de cheval" then, who cares, it was still horsemeat!

MilesMorales1 · 24-12-2016 07:08PM

Working class heroes wrote: »

Tell me they were stripy.

I don't believe they were.

The most unusual food you have ever eaten?

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