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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For me it's ostrich. I've eaten a lot of elk and bison, but they're so easy to get in my area, I don't seem exotic (my mom's freezer is always full of bison hot dogs). I've eaten a lot of ostrich too. I had a roommate for several years who loved it and would cook with it all the time (mostly chilli, but he'd also make meatballs and other stuff with it).

My exwife and I once watched some people get served live shrimp at a fancy sushi restaurant. They were squirming around, trying to escape. They (the people) couldn't figure out what they were supposed to do with them. They asked the chef to demonstrate how to eat them, but he either misunderstood or was just like "lol, white people" and took them back, chopped their heads off, shucked their shells and returned them to the people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I once made tacos out of beaver meat. Pretty good stuff. It was like a very tender steak

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Goat. Ate it in Greece. Roasted with fine herbs. It was delicious.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I live in Vietnam. So, many things we eat would be unusual from the standpoint of someone on a North American or European diet. Mouse, alligator (called 'ugly fish'), frog, duck embryo, organ meats, and various insects are just 'normal food'. They're all quite good.

I suppose weasel comes to mind? That's something I've had that's not common locally. It's boiled with ginger until it just tastes like... mostly bones with ginger and very little meat. Not impressed.

A lot of people turn away from duck embryo, but it actually tastes pretty normal.

We used to eat a fair amount of dog here, especially in the North, but the new generation considers this fairly old-fashioned. I've had what's called "fake dog dish", which is the same dish made with pork. It's good. I've never bothered with actual dog meat as I'm concerned it might not be fresh -- it's expensive and not common anymore. So I'm worried someone might try to sell me meat that's spoiled to recover losses or something.

In neighboring Cambodia, you can get large roasted spiders. They look like black crabs, and people seem to eat them that way. It didn't look that good so I passed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No rednecks in here bringing up eating squirrel? For shame.

It's not exotic in the traditional sense, it's a pretty universal animal, but it's not commonly eaten so I'll share. It's pretty gamey and lean but the flavor is still pretty good. I think it's rather tasty pan fried and served with biscuits and gravy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Valloch.

But not on purpose.

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