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Here are a few more from Britain:
Spotted dick.
Toad in the hole.
Yorkshire pudding.
Lancashire hot pot.
None of the above are wild animals,but if you make it accross the pond they are worth trying....
 
Killed and eaten myself.

Weirdest was beaver. There's a lot of meat on one of them suckers. Smoked it. Hard to keep lit. :neener: Anyway, we smoked it and had a ziplock bag of beavermeat in the fridge until we finally threw out the last of it. Got old after a while, tired of eating it. Didn't taste all that great, either.

Grew up giggin' frogs, guess I don't consider that to be weird. Good eating.
 
I will try most things once...

snails... not bad, but no real flavor, just tastes like whatever you put on em.
Snake, various kinds.
Monkfish cheeks... as well as the rest of the monkfish. not great.
Paddlefish... big filets, tasty in a beer batter
crickets...
Rocky Mountain oysters.
lots of squid... yummy
Octopus, raw
earthworms
fried scorpions.. actually, not bad.

Tried some Asian dishes which I had NO FREAKING idea what was in them and too scared to ask. Some would make your eyeballs bug out from the taste, trying to get as far away as they could, I guess. I swear, I think some had eyeballs....no heads.... just the eyeballs.

And honestly, If I was starving and hungry enough, I would kill and eat the last spotted owl in existence.
 
One man's "odd" is another man's ....

Gustav--My guess from your name is that you consider lutefisk to be a normal thing to eat (so do I BTW) but
I even once survived trying out a Haggis
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you seem to think haggis is wierd. Just don't say that to a Scot:)--especially around January 25--Rabbie Burns' Birthday--which is celebrrraated by Scots the worrrld overrr with haggis and the Heaven-taught Plowboy's poetry.

Oh, and Twig--You're right, lutefisk starts out as codfish. And come to think of it, I HAVE killed a few cod, although never personally dried them and soaked them in lye. BTW, baked with butter, pepper, and rosemary, cod is delicious!
 
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From the Vietnam festivities, as Special Forces:

Roast monkey, not bad...
Boiled freshwater snails with a dip made from the 5" long, 2" wide cockroach-looking beetles, pulverized...really vile-tasting, so tried one without the dip...went back to the dip (had to eat lots so as not to insult the hosts)
Water buffalo, very good...
Snake...OK, but bony...
Rats...developed a taste for paddy rats, but avoid the city rats...the're covered with mange...
Any number of grubs and insects, both raw and cooked...not bad, but best if you pull off the legs and wings first...
Dog...young dogs are not bad at all...the older ones get rather strong and gamey...older dogs are OK roasted with a lot of garlic slices inserted in slits before cooking.
Kimchi..."Korean sauerkraut"...Napa cabbage fermented for several days with clopped Jalapino peppers and salt...developed a real liking for the stuff and used to make my own when I returned to California until I could buy it in the stores.
Miruchi (?)...sun dried small whole fish...anchovies? You can buy them in oriental food stores. A family favorite, sprinkled with soy sauce and a bit of sugar and allowed to soften a bit in the refrigerator...eat 'em like popcorn. My kids (daughters and son) used to love to gross out the neighborhood kids by eating them...

There's lots more, but I guess that's enough for one session!
 
Balutes (fermented duck eggs), PI,
Meng dai (Rice bugs) w/ bamboo grubs Thailand,
Dog, nuoc mam (fish sauce) Vietnam..great w/ dried squid and Ba Mui Ba 33 beer.....:D
Haggis

Ron
 
I've eaten rabbit, squirrel, and frog legs, but...

When I was a young boy, I thought that I didn't need to take any food with me when and friend and I went camping out on the farm. I thought we could just hunt something down and cook it because we had shot a duck while camping weeks earlier. We didn't eat the duck, but it made us think we could provide our own food. Well, I had a BB gun and I shot a sparrow and cooked the breast over the fire on the end of a coat-hanger. My friend wouldn't eat it, but I ate the tiny morsel of meat it had, then we went and picked some corn from the field and cooked it and ate it. My family still kids me about eating a sparrow.
 
Haggis is tasty

My wife is from Shetland (part of Scotland) and I too raised my nose @ Haggis, but when in Rome . . . some fine tasty food. It's just finely ground organ meats with barley, outs, and some spices. I love it and wish I could find it in the midwest somewhere that wasn't canned. I now smuggle frozen ones home in our luggage when we come back from visiting her folks.

If you've eaten blood sausage, bratwurst, or a White Castle you can eat haggis and enjoy it.

Bar-B-Q coon is good, but greasy. Not in a real smoker or grill, just the crockpot, shred it like pulled pork, and then a bottle of cheap sauce. FrogLegs, Rattlesnake, Deer, Elk, Bear, Caribou, Squirrel, Rabbit, all the usual stuff is fine. Possum is nasty, Beaver wasn't bad but has a strong smell in the oven.
 
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My dad served in the Phillipine Islands right after the Korean War. He told me about baluts and then I also studied them in my Poultry Science class at NCSU. Fertile duck eggs incubated into the four week and then buried underground and fermented for about 2 weeks. You crack the egg and pull out the duck and consume it. Then you tip up the egg and drink the remaining juice! Baluts are sold on street corners like ice cream! My Poultry Science class passed on the opportunity to make them in lab.

I have eaten frog legs, raw oysters, rattlesnake, alligator and sushi. Cavier, now we are talking about something nasty!
 
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" My dad served in the Phillipine Islands right after the Korean War. He told me about baluts and then I also studied them in my Poultry Science class at NCSU. Fertile duck eggs incubated into the four week and then buried underground and fermented for about 2 weeks. You crack the egg and pull out the duck and consume it. Then you tip up the egg and drink the remaining juice! Baluts are sold on street corners like ice cream! My Poultry Science class passed on the opportunity to make them in lab.

I have eaten frog legs, raw oysters, rattlesnake, alligator and sushi. Cavier, now we are talking about something nasty!"

You are correct sir:
My only defense is that much like getting a Butt-Ugly Tatoo , a lonley, bored GI will do a a lot of "bizarre" things when he is less-than-sober (and after a dare) That's my story and I'm sticki'n to it....:D

Ron
 
Caviar, now we are talking about something nasty!"
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My dad would strip the roe from female crappie and bluegill, fry it and eat it; I tried it once and didn't care for fishy tasting eggs although the bacon grease masked a lot of the fishy taste.

I tried lobster sushi once; the more I chewed the bigger it got.:what:
 
Tossup between armadillo and eel. Eel is really eerie if you cook it yourself. Keeps trying to climb out of the frying pan until its done. :what:
 
XavierBreath already covered most of it although I never had the funds to try Fugu. We must have spent some time in some of the same low places, probably at different times. My last WestPac was 1995.
 
My lineage is German and Polish so here's some. Headcheese, cow brains, cow tongue,, heart, liver, liver sausage, blood sausage, Charnina (duck blood soup, nasty), Kishka, and just about everything else that can be made out of a pig or a cow. Other critters: muskrat, possum (nasty), groundhog, raccoon, pigeon, moose, deer (liver, hearts, etc.), bear, antelope, elk, cuttlefish, squid, lutefisk, kimche, octopus, alligator, sturgeon, turtle, frog legs, snails, drum (nasty), and too many others to mention.

Got some sausage one time from a buddy who was from the UP of MI. It was called cudaghi and that was really nasty. I smoked some carp one time that was really gross.

I use nuc maum all the time in Asian dishes and took a swig out of the bottle one time. Don't do that.

Things in the "That is just wrong to eat" category that I have no real desire to eat: nuts (and not the salty little snacks in the cans) of any kind, horse, cat, dog, tripe, armadillo, seal, whale, walrus, grizzly bear, bugs, crow, seagull.
 
Caviar, now we are talking about something nasty!"
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My brother is a commercial fisherman in Alaska. I have seen him lick the roe off of prawns ( the roe grows on the outside of a prawn) and claim to enjoy it. I tried it and I am not a fan of it.
 
Caviar is some tasty stuff. My wife bought a kilo of salmon caviar the other day. I had a big caviar and butter on homemade rye bread sandwich for lunch today. The only thing marring the perfection of the moment was not being able to wash it down with a good beer,
 
Wheeler44 - I am sure your brother is a really nice guy and don't take this wrong, but if I saw someone licking a fish I might find someplace else to be given a choice.:D
 
Rey B, I was west Pac from 1986-1991. I ate some of the aboriginal lizard north of Freemantle too, but I forgot what they called it. i draw the line at pigs feet. I'm not eating hooves or fingernails. Yeech!
 
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