Exotic eats thread

[broseph]

At least I remove the bung caps.

[Root]

Man, this got weird.

[Root]

Besides typical game animals, I’ve eaten squirrel. It’s not great.

I’ve also eaten a variety of backyard insects because I’m weird and curious. Most taste like raw egg and raw nuts mixed together. Termites are very mild and inoffensive. Ants are sour (formic acid?). Grasshoppers are better with their heads and accompanying gut contents pulled out.

I culture flightless fruit flies for my dart frogs and there are inevitable escapes. And they’re attracted to beer and wine. So yeah, those too.

Oh, and goat. Reminds me of pork that’s not dry.

WTF, broseph.

Do you cook your backyard insects? How?

Also, do you have termites in your backyard?

[cwd]

I experiment with odd combinations of non-exotic foods sometimes.

Oatmeal with peanut butter, sausage, sourkrout, hot peppers, and diced fruit is pretty good.

[broseph]

Besides typical game animals, I’ve eaten squirrel. It’s not great.

I’ve also eaten a variety of backyard insects because I’m weird and curious. Most taste like raw egg and raw nuts mixed together. Termites are very mild and inoffensive. Ants are sour (formic acid?). Grasshoppers are better with their heads and accompanying gut contents pulled out.

I culture flightless fruit flies for my dart frogs and there are inevitable escapes. And they’re attracted to beer and wine. So yeah, those too.

Oh, and goat. Reminds me of pork that’s not dry.

WTF, broseph.

Do you cook your backyard insects? How?

Also, do you have termites in your backyard?

Lol, It’s not like I’m compulsively eating fistfuls of bugs every time I go outside. Just tried a thing or two.

Never cooked them.

Termites are literally everywhere. I used to be in pest management.

[Root]

It’s not like I’m compulsively eating fistfuls of bugs every time I go outside.

I'm going to choose to believe that this is a lie.

[slowmotion]

Back when I was younger we used to have whale meat for dinner, but that is not PC anymore.

Elk sausages and reindeer meat is common here, both can taste good with suitable accessories. I don't know if that is considered exotic or not?

[augeleven]

It's happening y'all.

How did the haggis turn out?

[omaniphil]

It's happening y'all.

How did the haggis turn out?

Pretty good. I spiced the hell out of it though with italian herbs and nutmeg/cinnamon, so the liver taste didn't come through quite as strong as it could have. Everybody liked it more than they thought they would - which was a low bar to pass I grant you.

[broseph]

Back when I was younger we used to have whale meat for dinner, but that is not PC anymore.

That's pretty cool (if whales weren't intelligent or endangered or whatever). Something about eating the biggest animal ever sounds very satisfying.

[Root]

Something about eating the biggest animal ever sounds very satisfying.

But enough about @mikeylikey's mom

[simonrest]

Back when I was younger we used to have whale meat for dinner, but that is not PC anymore.

Elk sausages and reindeer meat is common here, both can taste good with suitable accessories. I don't know if that is considered exotic or not?

a friend had whale when travelling in Norway, about 10 years ago. He didn't like it.
In Fiji it's not uncommon to eat dolphin (if you can catch one). I couldn't bring myself to eat it
I've often wondered if dolphin is to whale like lamb is to mutton

[slowmotion]

Back when I was younger we used to have whale meat for dinner, but that is not PC anymore.

Elk sausages and reindeer meat is common here, both can taste good with suitable accessories. I don't know if that is considered exotic or not?

a friend had whale when travelling in Norway, about 10 years ago. He didn't like it.
In Fiji it's not uncommon to eat dolphin (if you can catch one). I couldn't bring myself to eat it
I've often wondered if dolphin is to whale like lamb is to mutton

Yeah it depends on how it is prepared and on the accessories.

[fishwife]

Lol, It’s not like I’m compulsively eating fistfuls of bugs every time I go outside. Just tried a thing or two.

Never cooked them.

You probably want to cook orthoptera like grasshoppers in future. They can carry various species of horsehair worms which can parasitize humans. It's not super common, but it probably says something that grasshopper-eating cultures always cook them. I used to eat them in Korea and always wanted to catch and eat them (roasted) when I was a kid, but my parents ere worried about pesticides and other contaminants and wouldn't allow it.

[fishwife]

What even qualifies as "exotic", though? There's food that's difficult for me personally, due to disgust issues or me just hating the taste/smell, which is different. But I'm kind of used to things I consider perfectly normal being considered "exotic", which undermines the whole concept for me. I mean, is anything really more biologically exotic than mac & cheese from a box? I remember the first time I tasted processed American cheese. It was horrifying.

[cwd]

Natto horrified me when I tried it.

For those not in-the-know -- Japanese natto is boiled & fermented soybeans, using a blue-cheese-like mold.

The smell is strongly reminiscent of a soiled diaper from an infant that is fed soy formula (as my kids were). On a hot sweaty day.

[broseph]

Lol, It’s not like I’m compulsively eating fistfuls of bugs every time I go outside. Just tried a thing or two.

Never cooked them.

You probably want to cook orthoptera like grasshoppers in future. They can carry various species of horsehair worms which can parasitize humans. It's not super common, but it probably says something that grasshopper-eating cultures always cook them. I used to eat them in Korea and always wanted to catch and eat them (roasted) when I was a kid, but my parents ere worried about pesticides and other contaminants and wouldn't allow it.

Kill Joy.

The tiny bit of google research I just performed says horse hair worms don’t USUALLY parasitize humans. Plus, Old Friends Theory.

[mouse]

One time I had a street taco made with iguana meat...

Wife is convinced it wasn't really iguana. They had a cooked frickin iguana on the cart though.

Tasted like bland chicken. Had a bunch of little bones in it like canned salmon. Wouldn't bother with it again.