weird eatings.

[brewer]

just a little discussion point that came to mind about cooking and eating.
Again I'm a pretty adventurous and open minded person when it comes to food. Probably due to the way I was raised to eat what was on my plate and be happy with it. there is pretty much little or nothing I won't at least try once. from exotic meats to offal and insects nothing really shocks me or grosses me out.
I'm always amused to discuss the fact of eating horse meat with Americans or English, we actually have a regional specialty with horse meat around here so I do eat the stuff from time to time.
If you even check the French they'll pretty much turn any kind of meat into sausage... what's your opinion, where do you draw the line, what would you never consider eating

 

[John Von Wuggz]

If it isn't going to label me a cannibal I'll try it.

 

[_MementoMori_]

If someone somewhere in the world considers it food, I'd try it at least once (barring cannibalism, as above).

 

[Prof. Moriarty]

On the note of cannibalism... humans taste of chicken you know?

 

[YetiDave]

I'd never eat humans, animals considered endangered or tarantulas (the latter only because I keep them as pets). Everything else is fair game, I do like nose to tail eating

 

[Khelben]

Bosintang. I know it's a traditional dish here in Korea, but I just can't bring myself to eat dog. I think I could probably do horse, though, and I love a good haggis.

 

[Luke49783]

just a little discussion point that came to mind about cooking and eating.
Again I'm a pretty adventurous and open minded person when it comes to food. Probably due to the way I was raised to eat what was on my plate and be happy with it. there is pretty much little or nothing I won't at least try once. from exotic meats to offal and insects nothing really shocks me or grosses me out.
I'm always amused to discuss the fact of eating horse meat with Americans or English, we actually have a regional specialty with horse meat around here so I do eat the stuff from time to time.
If you even check the French they'll pretty much turn any kind of meat into sausage... what's your opinion, where do you draw the line, what would you never consider eating

Where are you located? I'd try horse given the opportunity. There isn't much I wouldn't try, dog being one of the few things. The oddest animal that I've eaten is probably porcupine. There was one that kept coming to chew on my friend's deck in the evening a few years ago. We heard it, went out and shot it, then figured we might as well clean it and eat it. We par-boiled it then fried it up. Tasted like roast beef. I'd eat it again.

 

[Eeyore]

Nothing against horse meat. I like "rosbief" and "paardenbiefstuk". I've tried insects, and they weren't bad.

I highly prefer food that was raised / farmed in decent conditions, and in the case of meat / fish, with respect to animal welfare. It's not always easy to see where a product comes from, but I favor biologically farmed products. As long as I can afford them, that is.

I wouldn't want to eat anything that is associated with outright cruelty, either in the way it is raised, or slaughtered.

 

[-dave-]

Balut

 

[Judge Dredd]

Balut

+1. I've only met 1 person in my travels who's overcome the revulsion and had one (in fact I think she said she had several).

 

[_MementoMori_]

Balut

Okay. I take back what I said in my previous post.

 

[brewer]

that last one indeed would'n get by me either. But then again those asians ar really nut jobs when it comes to food. Dog would also be a no no in my book. Btw for who asked I am Belgian Soon to live in Holland but have easy acces to France as well.

 

[kaliandee]

I try to avoid eating anything I've known socially.

So far I've had:
Haggis- offal, oats and spices; why some people think this is adventurous I'll never know
Black pudding- arguably not that adventurous for an Englishman
Tripe soup- I was the one English person at the hotel in the Czech republic willing to try this. Nice, but a little odd as a breakfast dish
BBQ flavoured mealworms- tasty!
Thai green chilli crickets- adds some nice crunch to couscous, a little pricey/hard to get around here
Toasted giants ants- nutty, a bit dry, good with beer
Scorpion- it tasted of the vodka it had been floating in. Not a great texture, probably better battered and deep-fried
Horse- pretty good.

Casu marzu might take some willpower, and I wouldn't touch live frog or octopus.

Before I moved to Canada, I lived near a butcher who was a real foodie. He had cheeses like Stinking Bishop before most people had heard of them, the best deli and selection of spices and specialty food for miles, and all the travel anecdotes you could wish for. He had rattlesnake in stock last time I was there!

-John

 

[Kazeryu]

Balut

+1

Came to post it, found I had been beaten.

 

[TheVez2]

I love watching Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmeran. Every time I watch it, I wish I could try the things he does. When he does Bizarre Foods America, I'm always wishing I could find that type of food locally. I would try nearly anything, at least once. I'm pretty adventurous when it comes to food.

 

[troymclure]

balut, the little cup of fried roaches they sell in korea, blubber, live octopus/squid, pretty much any rotted or fermented protein.

ive had horse several times, house cat once, a wide variety of snakes, many types of insects, including earthworms, grubs, crickets, tarantulas.