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.
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.
Whale can really go both ways, you have to prepare it right, then it’s really good, but if you’re not careful it’s very easy to make it dry and chewy, which it shouldn’t be.
I had some moose that was given to me by my friend who was present at his friends moose hunt. They had to break the animal down at the location and make multiple meat sack trips to the game warden for tagging. The warden said they hadn’t seen someone do it like that for a century.
Fun facts, back in the day people would often move their entire camps to the site of a moose kill rather than trying to transport the body any distance, it was easier to pack up and move everyone than drag a moose through the forest and brush
I believe it. Once big work horses were more available, people stopped tearing down the moose on-location and just dragged it home. In more modern times, they’ll use a 4x4. This particular area was extremely rutted so they couldn’t get anything wheeled back there, and where do you even find a Clydesdale rental service this day and age?
Sawagani - Japanese river crab. They’re tiny; about the size of a US nickel and you eat them fried whole, shell and all. Apparently they aren’t exported any more, but I had them at a sushi restaurant in Austin around 2000. They were delicious, like extra-crunchy crab-flavored popcorn.
Alligator - oddly enough as fritters at a Margaritaville in New Orleans. Like most say, flaky like fish, tastes like chicken.
Horseneat served and packaged like baloney in Sweden, eating with crisp bead and breakfast cheese. Was not a fan.
Moose in Sweden. Like beef, only the “grains” of the meat were really large.
Reindeer in Sweden. Like venison, but I am told “less gamey.” I say I am told, because apparently I cannot taste the “gamey” in meat. That is, I have had gamey venison and non-gamey venison and can’t taste whatever gameyness is.
Hitler apparently only had one human ball, and since he was a vegetarian I doubt he ate many nonhuman balls. I’m very curious as to the source of this joke even though I don’t get it lol.
Adolf Hitler farted uncontrollably, used cocaine to clear his sinuses, ingested some 28 drugs at a time and received injections of bull testicle extracts to bolster his libido.
The startling revelations come from Hiltler’s medical records, now up for auction at Alexander Historical Auctions of Stamford, Conn.
@nieceandtows@BigAngBlack The only one of these I didn’t learn in school was the bull testicles. These “startling revelations” were all common knowledge in the 1960s. People talked about them all the time.
In my youth I was trekking in Thailand and we arrived to our next destination late at night and we were starving. The only option to get food was a street grill which served only two foods: rat-on-a-stick and some kind of a fried jellyfish-on-a-stick.
The rat was actually pretty good. My friend chose the jellyfish and regretted this instantly.
Very, very poorly made in that case, probably. Properly prepared whale is honestly closer to beef than any other fish, and should be juicy and easy to chew.
Horse- When I travelled to Uzbekistan, on airplane one of the meals was delicious meat with rice. I thought that its beef (it looked like it) but later I found out that its horses meat. Feel little sorry later because I enjoyed so much in meat of such a beautiful animal.
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