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vanessa fenner said...
It makes me cringe now but i've eaten sea slugs, I'm very proud of it not many people have, not sure if i could now days, taste buds seem to be slowing down abit.
06-07-2007
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exile7 said...
I once had those beetles that fly around during the summer months (i.e. Christmas beetles).... It was fried with salt. I don't remember what it actually taste like but I do remember the "crunch" sound it made when I bit into it. Would I do it again, probably not.
08-07-2007
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Moonshadow said...
I used to live in Darwin and we had this plant in our backyard that grew these weird orange berry things that my sister and I used to pop open and eat the stuff inside. it was really yummy, but i have no idea what it was.
the grossest thing i have ever eaten was a garlic snail. i tried to swallow it whole and wash it down with champagne, but it got stuck in my throat for the rest of the night.
11-07-2007
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Maz said...
On my food and travel blog (www.marilyn.com.au) I detail some of the extraordinary food I was offered recently in Shanghai. Delectables like casseroled tortoise, salt and pepper king snake, fish lips and more ...
13-07-2007
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lance1949 said...
Hitch-hiking across the Iranian desert in the 70's and stopped at a small oasis overnight. Small place full of Iranian, Turkish, Iraqi, Afghani truckies - this was L-O-N-G before we were all afraid they would kill us in our sleep.
Massive dish of rice and veggies (sort of like Chinese special fried rice) in the middle of about 12 - 15 of us and a few smaller personal dishes of condiments.
One of these small personals was yoghurt but yoghurt like I have never seen before. White curds swimming in yellow (piss coloured) liquid - now I know that this is how it actually happens in real life and real yoghurt is totally unlike the pasturised, homogenised stuff you get in the supermarket but I LOVE supermarket yoghurt for all its artificiality.
Now the real problem was not the white curds floating in piss but rather that I'm sure to this day that it was alive, peering at me through what looked like a vestigial eye and attempting to escape the bowl within which it was imprisoned.
Needless to say it failed to escape as I, after a tentative beginnings, scoffed it down with relish.
Lance
(PS Even the piss water was lovely poured onto my Chinese special fried rice).
22-08-2007
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MikeR said...
A chicken, jelyfish and seaweed salad in a Japanese cafe in Chinatown Sydney
Various African game, antelope, topi, giraffe, crododile, snake, buffalo etc at the Carnivore in Nairobi
Flying Fish roe and Sea Urchin roe both sound exotic, but it's a staple at all the good Japanese restaurants.
21-09-2007
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Matthew Dean said...
Deep fried sparrow in Uganda served from a tray made from a hubcap. Needless to say there was not much meat.
16-10-2007
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Janet Davidson said...
I wouldn't say the food is weird as I love it, but the way you eat it is perhaps weird to some!! You have to use the fingers!!!!
We really wanted to taste Ethiopian food again so by chance a few of us were all in Paris earlier this year and we challenged them to eat with the fingers!!!
To come to a cutlery free restaurant and try the delicious flavours of Ethiopian soda bread (injera) dipped into wat (stew) and aromatic sauces....it's an interesting thing to watch people throwing away decades of culinary habit!!!!! If you ever hear of any Ethiopian restaurants in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast or SE Qld then PLEASE tell me!!!!
14-11-2007
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Amanda Miller said...
At the Darwin night markets you can get an array of all sorts of unusual australiana delicacies. I ate buffalo kebabs, curried crocodile & garlic emu!
14-11-2007
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Ann Forde said...
Boiled sheep head in Iceland - a whole, charred head that is then boiled to buggery, cleaved and eaten. A special delicacy is the gums and eye sockets.
Matured shark in Iceland - buried for months, dug up and eaten raw...... yum.
Bugs in Chiangmai - the fried bee lava was disgusting, locust not so bad.
Injera in a Washington Ethopian restaurant that tasted just like Wettex - like sucking on a sponge (menories from childhood).
Ostrich fillets with chili and chocolate sauce in South Africa - very nice.
17-11-2007
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Anna Vincent said...
On one particularly successful day in Japan I managed live octopus, live abalone and an entire fugu (puffer fish). Weird always relative - cheese must seem very odd to cultures that don't eat dairy - but at the blog www.weirdmeat.com there's a lovely American who's sampling the best weird meat China has to offer him.
For Janet Davidson:
Ethiopian African Restaurant
Shp8/ 173 Beaudesert Rd Moorooka 4105
(07) 3255 9330
23-01-2008
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sassy said...
I've eaten a fish's eyeball in Japan, moose stew in Finland, bear salami in Romania, duck's tongues in China and chocolate covered ants in New Zealand.
19-02-2008
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minmin said...
Lots of strange things in Japan - can't tell you what they were because I had no idea (& no Japanese ) we figured the Japanese all looked very healthy so it must be ok!
03-03-2008
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ayetobee said...
A spider.
It wasn't a dare from when I was a child, but I ate a deep fried 'bird catching' (size of a tarantula) spider in Cambodia. Served three to a stick.
I am scared of them, they were purchased through a window of an old bus by the old woman next to me, with the beetle nut stained teeth. When I jumped out of my seat the whole bus laughed at me when I wouldn't get back on the seat and traveled for a while on the rice sacks in the aisle. They wouldn't let up until I ate one. The old woman kept making 'scary' spider movements with the spider on a stick.
Tastes a little like crab meat, you pop open the rear end and suck out the sack.
I have also eaten an egg form the stomach of a chicken from the stomach of a goat from the stomach of a camel in the Thar desert with Pakistani 'salesmen'. But that's another story.
12-03-2008
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kk77 said...
I'm asian so i haven eaten pretty much anything that used to have parents and seeing that we don't like wastage, we eat the ENTIRE animal. Some deliacies include chicken feet, internal organs (kidney, stomach, tripe, liver, intestines, heart etc) from assorted animals, 1000 year old egg which is an egg thats been soaked in urine of some sort (rumour has it that its horse urine), tongue, pigs ears, pigs trotters, and even our pet chicken that turned into an adult and wasnt cute anymore.
11-06-2008
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