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sparkplug

sparkplug

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I would like this thread to stay in this section so I will try and explain how these dishes were prepared or at least what the chef was trying to accomplish.

Things I have tried that are not your normal every day hamburger/pizza type food as are as followed:

Alligator- only the tail meat is good. Any legs fried taste like leather and sucks. Fried and dipped in honey mustard sauce. Rating = Awesome



Frog legs- Fried and eaten without sauce. Rating = OK . It does taste a a lot like chicken but nothing to write home about.



Iguana- Cooked underground with a Jerk sauce. Rating = Tastes like Iguana, not so good.



Crickets- Fried and dipped in a apple chutney sauce. Rating = Awesome. You cannot taste anything insecty but very it has a very soft crunch sorta like french fries.



Grasshoppers- Fried in a tamarind rub. Rating = Awesome. Tastes like french fries with mayonnaise in the middle.



Mill worm- Served in a salad after being grilled. Rating = Taste very strong and the segments of the body are very apparent in your mouth. They suck.



Fox Bat- Fried in a sweet teriyaki sauce. Rating = Awesome. Very tender and not greasy at all. Downside is I was very sick the next day and spent most of my day on the toilet.



Python - Fried in a tempura batter with a honey glaze. Rating = Awesome. Tender and sorta the texture of chicken breast but didn't taste like chicken, more like pork.



Cobra heart/blood/gal badder - Live king cobra with the head cut off and then instantly the blood of the body poured into a bowl and mixed with Chinese wine. Then the body was skinned and opened up and the heart removed while still beating. Rating = Bowl of blood mixed with Chinese wine tasted like Jägermeister because of the weird wine they used. Beating heart was surprisingly not chewy and tasted rather good after a few cocktails. Gallbladder tasted very bad, kinda like a rotten lemon.



Raw turtle eggs - Prepared in a shot glass with salsa. Rating = Awesome! They are mostly served at bars late night and are similar to raw chicken eggs but a much richer consistency and slightly gritty but not in a bad way.




Monkey - Barbecued on an open spit with some kind of sauce that tasted like lemons and cilantro. Rating = If you enjoy eating humans you will love this. Horrible.



Calf brains - simmered in a white wine sauce. Rating = pretty damn good. Taste like scrabbled eggs but richer.



Dog- Pan fried. Rating = I almost tossed up my food. I was lost in Southern Mexico and starving. My brother and I stopped at a house/restaurant and ate a very metallic meat that had a flavor of being spoiled since the week prior. We did not know this was dog at the time. I finished first after about 10 bites and went outside to smoke a cigarette and leave my brother with paying the bill. Well I decided to take a look around back of the restaurant and noticed small cages with dogs in them and a large butcher block with dried blood and flies close by.

These are all I can remember right now but please post up your experiences in the off the menu cuisine.
 
Fried guinea pig in S. America. It was served in a spicy sauce that was tasty. The meat was rather greasy and a bit stringy. It looked like the pic below. Looking at the pic right now it makes me want to hurl, but at the time I was starving in a remote mountain region and that was all that was available. Needles to say, I snarfed it down like nobody's business, holding it's cute little paw like a drum stick. :popcorn:


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nicholas said:
Fried guinea pig in S. America. It was served in a spicy sauce that was tasty. The meat was rather greasy and a bit stringy. It looked like the pic below. Looking at the pic right now it makes me want to hurl, but at the time I was starving in a remote mountain region and that was all that was available. Needles to say, I snarfed it down like nobody's business, holding it's cute little paw like a drum stick. :popcorn:
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I was always told Guinea pig tasted pretty good.:confused:
 
sparkplug said:
I was always told Guinea pig tasted pretty good.:confused:
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It wasn't bad. The sauce was amazing, but the meat seemed greasy, perhaps because it was fried. Like I said, at the time I woofed it down and I would have had a second helping had one been available. It's the visual aspect of it that gets most people. It looks like a giant rat, whiskers and all.
 
the thing with gator tail is that it has to be fresh, that s*** will turn like fish if it's not. But when it is, it's good.

Not too exotic but something most people refuse to eat is barracuda. I would consider it to be among my top three fish to eat, maybe even top two, very light and not fishy at all.
 
fsusteve said:
Not too exotic but something most people refuse to eat is barracuda. I would consider it to be among my top three fish to eat, maybe even top two, very light and not fishy at all.
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I think the reason people pass on the barracuda is because they don't want to get ciguatera.

Probably no worse than eating wahoo or mackerel, though...
 
Sparkplug, where the heck did you eat those things? Vacation? Military? In my younger days, I would have been willing to try anything, but now I seek simple meals.

I've eaten the first three items on your list and they all tasted like chicken!
 
wob said:
I think the reason people pass on the barracuda is because they don't want to get ciguatera.

Probably no worse than eating wahoo or mackerel, though...
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that is the main reason, the phobia is so widespread to the point where I won't even tell people what it is anymore when I make it. It's the same with Escolar, alot of people fear getting sick from it but it is awesome.
 
I can't believe you ate a monkey.

Was it still in the shape of one of those monkeys with a cup begging for change but only with a stick jammed through it , hairless and burned black?
 
I imagine that with all of the chemicals and s***ty food that we put in out bodies, and the lack of exercise that most of us get, the average human (American, at least) would taste like absolute s***.
 
Hmmm. What carnivores do you know that people eat on a regular basis. I wonder if eating meat makes an animal tastes worse than eating vegetables.

That may mean that lolo would taste better than natergator.

What do you say, noah? You've tasted both.
 
'74 UA FJ said:
Hmmm. What carnivores do you know that people eat on a regular basis. I wonder if eating meat makes an animal tastes worse than eating vegetables.

That may mean that lolo would taste better than natergator.

What do you say, noah? You've tasted both.
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Do you count fish as carnivores?

Wood ducks eat bugs - I eat those (ducks, not bugs).

For the most part though, I don't eat other carnivores.



lol at the last line, although you could have subbed sheila for lolo...
 
'74 UA FJ said:
Lol. Lolo is the flavor of the month.

Hmm. Fish tastes good. Fish are different than land animals. What do catfish eat? Grainfed ones taste good...
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Catfish eat anything, usually other fish. They grainfeed farm raised catfish? Weird.

Lobster, skrimps, and crabs are the roaches and vultures of the sea. Those bastards are all tasty as hell.
 
wob said:
Catfish eat anything, usually other fish. They grainfeed farm raised catfish? Weird.

Lobster, skrimps, and crabs are the roaches and vultures of the sea. Those bastards are all tasty as hell.
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speaking of which, I should give this section some Southern flair, and thread up my Beaufort stew, she-crab soup, and skrimps and grits recipes...
 
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