Re: Exotic eats thread
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 9:20 am
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WTF, broseph.broseph wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 9:01 am 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.
Lol, It’s not like I’m compulsively eating fistfuls of bugs every time I go outside. Just tried a thing or two.Root wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:55 pmWTF, broseph.broseph wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 9:01 am 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.
Do you cook your backyard insects? How?
Also, do you have termites in your backyard?
I'm going to choose to believe that this is a lie.broseph wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2018 6:34 pm It’s not like I’m compulsively eating fistfuls of bugs every time I go outside.
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.
That's pretty cool (if whales weren't intelligent or endangered or whatever). Something about eating the biggest animal ever sounds very satisfying.slowmotion wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:48 am Back when I was younger we used to have whale meat for dinner, but that is not PC anymore.
a friend had whale when travelling in Norway, about 10 years ago. He didn't like it.slowmotion wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:48 am 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?
Yeah it depends on how it is prepared and on the accessories.simonrest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:33 pma friend had whale when travelling in Norway, about 10 years ago. He didn't like it.slowmotion wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:48 am 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?
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
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.fishwife wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:40 pmYou 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.