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Unusual things you've eaten?

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  • #32
    Space Dog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 708 ✭✭✭Space Dog


    Seamai wrote: »
    Out of curiosity, where are you from?

    Germany


  • #33
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Seamai wrote: »
    Out of curiosity, where are you from?

    Leitrim.


  • #34
    newirishman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 296 ✭✭newirishman


    Guinea Pig
    Some small, black-skinned birds native to Philippines, cooked under a brick.


  • #35
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    corner of hells wrote: »
    Leitrim.

    Didn't know white asparagus was so popular in Leitrim.


  • #36
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    isohon wrote: »
    I am therefore very much into eating snake and tarantula as soon as I can.

    I'm an arachnaphobe and have this weird irrational fear of accidentally eating a spider. I actually feel nauseous typing that. I'm afraid of you.


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  • #37
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Space Dog wrote: »
    Germany

    It was the white asparagus that piqued my interest more so than more exotic items, I think I had it once or twice but not here. Does it have the wonderful side effect of it's green cousin?


  • #38
    Space Dog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 708 ✭✭✭Space Dog


    Seamai wrote: »
    It was the white asparagus that piqued my interest more so than more exotic items, I think I had it once or twice but not here. Does it have the wonderful side effect of it's green cousin?

    Oh yes, absolutely! I love it with hollandaise sauce...


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,208 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Fugu (Japan)
    Sea Snake (Japan),
    Snake soup (HK),
    Snake (called dragon meat) (China)
    Shark fin soup (China),
    Spicy Frog soup (China),
    Barbecue Dog (Inner Mongolia),
    Scorpions, Locusts and Grasshoppers (China & Thailand),
    Century Eggs (China),
    Stinky Tofu (China),
    Chicken feet (China)
    Tripe (China) [Think it's uncommon in Ireland]
    Kangaroo (Oz)
    Crocodile (Oz)
    Duck tongue (China)

    I could go on... Street food after getting drunk can be a very interesting experience in Asia.


  • #40
    bogmanfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭bogmanfan


    Alligator
    Reindeer
    Puffin
    Whale
    Ox testicles
    Calf testicles
    Duck brain
    Pigs heart
    Haggis
    Octopus
    Kangaroo
    Ostrich
    Shark
    Steak tartare


  • #41
    archer22
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    Whats this?...a thread on how to start another virus pandemic :eek:


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  • #42
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Fugu (Japan)
    Sea Snake (Japan),
    Snake soup (HK),
    Snake (called dragon meat) (China)
    Shark fin soup (China),
    Spicy Frog soup (China),
    Barbecue Dog (Inner Mongolia),
    Scorpions, Locusts and Grasshoppers (China & Thailand),
    Century Eggs (China),
    Stinky Tofu (China),
    Chicken feet (China)
    Tripe (China) [Think it's uncommon in Ireland]
    Kangaroo (Oz)
    Crocodile (Oz)
    Duck tongue (China)"

    It was common in the UK and still is. My father loved it. Even the sight of it.... yukk.. Your list is ...simply offal....


  • #43
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    archer22 wrote: »
    Whats this?...a thread on how to start another virus pandemic :eek:

    lol.. Reading with a healthy dose of disbelief!


  • #44
    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,676 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    Tarantula.

    0/10 - would not recommend.


  • #45
    isohon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭isohon


    Blitzkrieger wrote: »
    Tarantula.

    0/10 - would not recommend.

    Oh that is disappointing to hear. What was wrong with it? Would you generally be an adventerous eater?


  • #46
    KevRossi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Chimpanzee (didn't know what it was at the time)

    Baby chicks - deep fried and marinated in lemon juice. You just pick them up and eat them off the bone.


  • #47
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Raw sea cucumber.

    Never again.


  • #48
    Redneck Reject71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject71


    Squirrel brains

    Cow Tongue

    And Gila Monster once, but took a lot of Tequila to knock the stink off that lizard,heh.


  • #49
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,687 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    You wouldn't have heard of them.


  • #50
    Immortal Starlight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,334 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    My most adventurous was the not very adventurous quail


  • #51
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    isohon wrote: »
    Oh that is disappointing to hear. What was wrong with it? Would you generally be an adventerous eater?

    I do like spicy foods but this was for youtube. We'd (3 of us) eaten a ghost pepper a few weeks prior and I found that to be not that bad so I went into the Reaper a bit too cocky. Lol.

    Ghost pepper Scoville rating - 1041427 SHU
    Carolina Reaper - 1569300 SHU

    According to Google.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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  • #52
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,860 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Dog soup
    Live octopus
    Silkworms

    All korean delicacies


  • #53
    newirishman
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    Redneck Reject71 wrote: »
    Squirrel brains

    Cow Tongue

    And Gila Monster once, but took a lot of Tequila to knock the stink off that lizard,heh.

    Cow tongue is unusual? Growing up in the Continent is very different so.


  • #54
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,084 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    I had Dog last time I was in China.

    Have to say it was really disappointing meat.


  • #55
    Speedsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,366 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    newirishman wrote: »
    Cow tongue is unusual? Growing up in the Continent is very different so.

    Cow tongue definitely not unusual in Ireland, my mother would often prepare it.... Tongue sandwiches were a staple of picnics in my childhood. I recall a butcher off Smithfield square with tongues and oxtails hanging in the window.

    Unusual? Possibly whichitty grub (probably not how it's spelt!)


  • #56
    davedonie
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    Cow tongue, just from local butcher.
    Birds nest soup in KL
    Pigeon burger in KL

    Birds nest soup is fab but pigeon is vile and I wouldn't of eaten it if they told me it was pigeon.


  • #57
    garbanzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭garbanzo


    Dried African worms. Awful.

    Russian lard. 100% fat. A delicacy apparently.....me balix ,

    I wholeheartedly do not recommend either.


  • #58
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    I had sea urchin soup in Vietnam. It was actually pretty tasty. Supposed to be an aphrodisiac too.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #59
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,208 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    _Brian wrote: »
    I had Dog last time I was in China.

    Have to say it was really disappointing meat.

    Agreed. Not very enjoyable. Wrong texture to the meat regardless of the spices thrown on it.


  • #60
    Redneck Reject71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject71


    Speedsie wrote: »
    Cow tongue definitely not unusual in Ireland, my mother would often prepare it.... Tongue sandwiches were a staple of picnics in my childhood. I recall a butcher off Smithfield square with tongues and oxtails hanging in the window.

    Unusual? Possibly whichitty grub (probably not how it's spelt!)

    It is considered unusual and a delicatessen where I grew up in Mexico.


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  • #61
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Ccarrageen moss pudding.

    It looks like a panna cotta, not so much with the taste


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