What's The Strangest Animal You've Ever Eaten?

[Placebo]

I had an ostrich burger once, and I ain't gonna lie to ya...it was pretty damn good. :9

[Maple]

1. Snake, buffalo

ants, quail...what do you consider 'strange'?

[Placebo]

4. Not the usual...

cow, pig, or chicken type stuff one might find @ any 'ol grocery store.

[Maple]

9. Then all

of those things.

[lenidog]

12. Good question

kanga, ostrich, emu, wallaby, grasshoppers, several species of snakes, capabraya (sp?), gator, goat, water buffalo, cape buffalo, buffalo, elk, deer, gazelle.

[MuseRider]

29. People eat Capybara?

Really?

[lenidog]

35. Yes they do

In places like Venezuela, Colombia and Northern Brazil. Even if you are a hardcore Catholic (no meat on Fridays) you can eat it all the time because the Catholic Church in South America declared it a fish because it spends a lot of time in the water.

[Placebo]

36. A fish? HA!

Those crazy catholics. :crazy:

[lenidog]

42. Strange isn't it

Even for a lapsed Catholic like me its a rather strange deal. I wish I could have gotten the back story on how and why it got deemed a fish.:wtf:

[MuseRider]

50. They call that cute

mammal a fish? HA, LOL! That is really funny. You know, those are really pretty smart creatures. We had a couple at the zoo here when I worked there and one of them got away and was gone for about a week before we found and caught it. I would not want to eat one but it was probably pretty tasty.

[Danmel]

85. Gator, frog, ostrich, kangaroo

The only one I really liked was Ostrich we had ostrich carpaccio. The gator was tough, the frog bony and the kangaroo? I just felt way too guilty eating Skippy to enjoy it.

link to the Skippy the Bush Kangaroo theme song- ( That's said Booosh and it's the outback, not the idiot in the White House):


http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2003/01/we-are-sitting-bush-kangaroo-shiva.html


Plus it is an anti Bush blog to boot!

[theorist]

2. Alligator.

Thanksgiving 2000.

[Left Is Write]

18. Alligator for me too.

Orlando, 1997.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

28. I love alligator.

Cajun fried 'gator is very yummy!

[CarbonDate]

32. I thought it was kind of bland

Can't even say it tasted like chicken, because it didn't have that much flavor. But maybe it's just where I ate it (Rapid City, SD).

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

3. I had ostrich at a Spanish restaurant in Pittsburgh

It was yummy!

[Spinzonner]

5. I thought sex threads weren't permitted

[WilliamPitt]

14. *snarf*

:toast:

[democracyindanger]

6. Sparrow

Stomach, specifically. Don't ask.

[Placebo]

11. Oh you KNOW I have to now...

I've asked, I've asked! Do tell. :P

[democracyindanger]

22. 'Bout 20 years ago

in Japan, an uncle took us out for a Japanese BBQ. After having eaten a couple platters of various stuff, he told me that the last chewy things I ate (about a half dozen) were sparrow stomachs.

It was like eating gristle, and was really just a vehicle to carry the spicy-sweet yakiniku sauce more than anything...

[Placebo]

25. We're they tasty?

That's all that matters really. :)

[democracyindanger]

31. Yeah

But truth be told, soaking newspaper in sauce woulda been good at that point. ;)

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. Before I became a vegetarian we had ostrich an average of

once every other week. Buffalo burgers too. Gator, snails, frogs. Chocolate covered ants. Tis the season to admit I've eaten reindeer. If you haven't guessed I've lived in a lot of places.

[7th_Sephiroth]

8. shark, eagle (yes eagle), and the most evil of all

Man

[CitySky]

88. yikes

did you know? was it a survival situation? is it even ok to ask?

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. Sea cucumber....

In a soup in China. I didn't know until after I had partaken what it was. Tasted like rubber bands.

:puke:

[WilliamPitt]

13. Alligator, in New Orleans

Tasted like fried rubber bands, but I enjoyed moving up a few slots on the food chain.

[Placebo]

19. You taught that 'gator who's boss!

;)

[clydefrand]

15. Kangaroo, alligator, BUT the strangest of all?

A bite of a witchity grub! Tasted like peanut butter! Yummmmmmmmy!

[fudge stripe cookays]

16. Caribou...

at a hoity toity restaurant in Banff. A little dry. Could have used some more seasoning. Tasted a little like beef roast.

FSC

[Maple]

26. Caribou is delicious!

Stew steak or pate. Good stuff!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. Kangaroo.

I was a kid at an exotic food restaurant and my parents ordered it for me. Then they told me after I ate it what it was. It was pretty good, actually.

[undergroundpanther]

20. A freshwater skate

A Japanese dish
it tasted good, kinda like cucumber.
BUT the texture was awful like chicken joint gristle.
The other weird things are Goat meat,Snake,Squirrel,bear,squid,octopus and muskrat.
I like eating weird food.If I don't like it I spit it out.No big deal.

[Mabeline]

21. Frog legs, shark,

Do raccoon and squirrel and rabbit don't count?

[Placebo]

23. I think they count!

Ya can't quite pick up squirrel at the local supermarket can ya? ;)

[Mabeline]

40. LOL! ..No, I guess not...

didn't like them much though, my dad and my DH love them stewed in gravy. Now rabbit, I love fried rabbit.

[TufNeck]

24. Dog

it wasn't bad

[Kire]

27. Cuy (AKA, Guinea Pig)

actually, not me personally, but my professor wrote a book about the nutritional and cultural value of the cuy as food product

It really sounds tasty.

[Inland]

47. I ordered a guinea pig in a restaurant, they waved us off.

I don't know whether they were out or just thought we really wouldn't like it, but we were willing, that is, drunk.

[OnionPatch]

30. Raccoon and goat

The raccoon was cooked in tin foil in a little cranny in the outside of a blast furnace. This old guy shared it with me when I worked there. He ate all kinds of strange things.

The goat was butchered and roasted for us by Egyptians in the Fayum. It was very tasty, much like roasted pork.

[RevolutionaryActs]

33. Years ago my dad traveled to South America and ate Capibara,

he said it tasted like chicken. :)

[LDS Jock]

34. I ate a worm when I was a kid

a crunchy black and yellow one. I barely remember it. But my family reminds me of it all the time. I have no idea why I did it or what it tasted like. I was Fear Factor before it was cool.

[NNadir]

37. Probably a cow. I haven't eaten an animal in like thirty years, so I'm

not sure what it might have been.

[crispini]

38. Fried cricket.

They taste like popcorn, you just have to spit the legs out.

Oh yeah, and those big giant roaches (palmetto bugs)... they make a sauce out of them in Thailand.

Yes, I was in the Peace Corps, can you tell? :silly:

[gollygee]

39. woodchuck

I was working with this guy who was complaining about the woodchucks in his lawn, and this other guy we worked with said he shouldn't kill it - just trap it and bring it in and he'd kill it and cook it up in the crock pot. I thought it sounded nasty, but he cooked it up and it smelled . . .so . .. GOOD. I tasted some and it was AMAZING. Fabulous. I will never look at a woodchuck the same way.

[China_cat]

87. You just have to get them when they're young.

The old ones are very tough, very stringy and very gamey.

[kodi]

41. one of those irish possums, an o'possum.

greasy, greasy, greasy.

[jmowreader]

43. I had camel in Egypt

And no, not the infamous "roast camel" recipe--they had a camel hindquarter that they'd cut up and grilled.

On edit: it tasted like camel--a bit gamey but otherwise not bad.

[mia]

44. Armadillo - roasted over a campfire in the deep woods of Central Florida

for Thanksgiving dinner!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

45. Ostrich stirfry in a Chinese restaurant, raw horse meat in a Japanese inn

The horse meat was thin sliced like braccioli. You were supposed to pick it up with your chopsticks and dredge it in soy sauce. Mostly it tasted like soy sauce.

[Redleg]

46. Red Snapper (if you get my drift)

LOL

[da_chimperor]

48. Sea cucumber . . . I had it in china, it's like eating a large rubber band

Tastes okay, but it's a pain in the ass to chew.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

49. Bison. Very lean meat, and it's kosher, btw, for those of you who keep

kosher (my parents do).

[CO Liberal]

51. I've Eaten at White Castle. Does That Count?

:-)

[Red State Rebel]

52. Food doesn't get much stranger than White Castles! n/m

[demgurl]

53. For my husband it would have to be reindeer.

We took a trip to Alaska and on the flight up he had reindeer sausage with breakfast. He liked it so much he had reindeer stew when we got there. I could not eat one of Santa's four legged helpers.

For me, it would be horse. I was about 12 and my mom served it unbeknown to me. Not bad but a little tough.

[yellowdogintexas]

54. squid, conch,octopus, squirrel, snails

conch is really chewy, but if you go to the Keys you have to eat it once, just to say you have

Haven't eaten squirrel in years but used to eat every year during squirrel season, stewed w/dumplings or macaroni

[pres2032]

55. Ostrich, Buffalo

both burgers

[stranger_with_candy]

56. Horse

i wasn't aware of it til after the fact...

[Placebo]

57. Sure you weren't...

;)

[stranger_with_candy]

58. i wasn't!!

i have to admit it wasn't that bad, it was grilled and in some sort of sausage form. though i felt kinda gross when i found out what it was!!

[Placebo]

59. Your dinner has arrived...

:evilgrin:

[stranger_with_candy]

61. that's pretty much the picture i had in my head

when i found out ;)

[Lone Pawn]

60. Jellyfish.

I think jellyfish are freaky.

But if you want my first answer to that question,
'Woman.' Because the double-entendre is too delicious to resist.

[Placebo]

62. Are you saying that "women" are "STRANGE"???

:grr: ¡¡¡FREEPER!!! :grr:

:P

[Lone Pawn]

63. But of course.

As a male, anything I cannot intuitively understand by banging around it (no pun intended) for half an hour is intrinsically strange, and likely fueled by magical forces from another world.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to Freepistan and report on my latest observations from behind enemy lines.

;)

[Placebo]

64. HaHaHaHa!

You said bang. :silly:

[njdemocrat106]

65. Deer and squid

A.K.A. venison and calamari. Not too exotic though, IMO.

[FM Arouet666]

66. Dog and Silk Worm Cocoons

In Beijing China this last summer. The night market was full of odd foods, silk worm, dog, snake and a host of little animal organs skewered on a stick. That is the last time I get drunk in another country and try some of the local fare, I had Mao's revenge for a week. :puke: The dog was ok, but it did taste like chicken. I had the urge to sniff butts and piss on fire hydrants for days. :evilgrin:

[Goathead]

67. Raw giant clam

It was damn good, ate it there right on the beach after finding it on the reef in Samoa.

[City of Mills]

68. Yard Monkey

Much rarer than your common monkey.

[sniffa]

69. canadien goose

it was deLicious.. aLthough an hour Later i couLdn't stop taLking about those montreaL canadiens, eh?

[XNASA]

70. A chicken who was convinced she was Michael Jackson.

Is that strange enough?

Seriously,....bison, ostrich, alligator...the usual.

[edbermac]

71. Do people count?

I was a rugby player in Uruguay many years ago and our plane crashed in the Andes mountains. We had no food so we had to eat...uh, well it's a long story...

:silly:

[Placebo]

73. Oooooh, so THAT was you!

:silly:

[edbermac]

75. Seriously, Alive is one of my favorite books....

They made a movie out of it several years ago, Ethan Hawke was in it. Except for the plane crash scene it was not all that good. The book was way better...

[rbnyc]

72. Her name was Priscilla, and she was a real...

...whacko!

[Hand]

74. Sea urchin

AKA Uni; it's supposedly a great Japanese delicacy. It tasted rather like salty snot.

:puke:

[Joe Power]

76. Chupacabra

It tasted like chicken, of course.

[matcom]

77. my ex wife

DAMN was she cookoo!

[matcom]

78. kick

[Cuban_Liberal]

79. Rattlesnake.

Wasn't bad.

:)

[plcdude]

80. tree kangaroo

in Papua New Guinea

[Dzimbowicz]

81. Monkey

[Placebo]

82. Monkey???

:wow:

[Dzimbowicz]

86. and it wasn't all that bad...

I bought it from a sidewalk BBQ while in SE Asia. With the marinade used on it, it was quite tasty.

[Boswells_Johnson]

83. Wild boar

It wasn't too bad, but I wouldn't have it again.

[giant_robot]

84. Rattlesnake, raccoon,

black bear, and cuttlefish. I'm sure there are others.

[Danmel]

89. Gator, Ostrich, Frog and Kangaroo

The only one I really liked was Ostrich - we had ostrich carpaccio. The gator was tough, the frog bony and the kangaroo? I just felt way too guilty eating Skippy to enjoy it.

link to the Skippy the Bush Kangaroo theme song- ( That's said Booosh and it's the outback, not the idiot in the White House):


http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2003/01/we-are-sitting-bush-k...


Plus it is an anti Bush blog to boot!