would you eat it?
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Pigspitter
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ok, you know the first person too eat and egg was thinking "hey i'm gonna eat the next thing that comes out of this animal's butt"
peacemaker45
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Rattlesnake, alligator, tree rat, squid, turtle, oysters, mountain oysters, pickled deer heart, more kinds of sushi than I can either remember or pronounce, groundhog, possum (ick), bird's nest soup, and a number of cantonese dishes made with various kinds of seaweed.
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huntinstuff
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Lynx stew.
Hokkmike
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alligator, ostrich, whale, and some kind of intenstines (eccch) in Brazil.
LeonCarr
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Probably the best off the wall thing I have eaten is Bear Paws. Really really good.
Just my .02,
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Just my .02,
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UrbanMayhem
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Im from Scotland and haggis is our national dish and not many people like it as its lamb lungs and pigs liver and sometimes other bit that you dont normally eat, I love it. I ate alligator at the Texas state fair,loved it. Hoping for rattler but nobody was selling. Im going out for some squirrel soon too. Squirrel pate is meant to be nice. Ive eaten fried mealworms too, kinda nutty.
BlazingAngel01
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a scorpion sucker - my 8 grade science teacher gave to me (a make money for the science department thing) - it was bitter
and a lot of fried bugs at survival school
and a lot of fried bugs at survival school
I ate lots of South Alabama armadillo until I found out they can carry leprosy in their noses. They were pretty good grilled with lots of barbecue sauce. For those of you who find beaver a bit too gamey to enjoy, let me share a secret taught me by an old trapper. The beaver ham or hindquarter meat is very good if you cut it into steaks by cutting across the grain. The trick to keeping it mild, you must totally avoid even touching the two castor glands which are found just beneath the skin on either side of the ****. They use these to add a very strong scent to their feces for marking territory, and it just won't wash off!! If you try to "ream" around the **** while skinning, you are very likely to cut into these. If you manage to get some untainted steaks, cook them with tomatoes and peppers like you would for chicken cacciatore.
hopkin
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People who don't know what's in it usually like it more.
To me it's no more disgusting than a hot dog and way better than any mechanically rendered meat product.
We've all eaten bugs - a certain percentage of bug parts is allowed in most pre-prepared foods. Not to mention the spiders that crawl in mouth when you sleep...
I've eaten plenty of maggots in my time, usually by accident. As a kid I enjoyed fishing and would put the bait maggots in my mouth to warm them up and get them wriggling. I'd forget it was a maggot and chew it like gum.
I've tried the waxworms my pet newts eat and they're lovely, a bland sweetness. The mealworms were also not bad but the crunch & wriggle was offputting. I tried dried earthworms on a camping trip and they were okay. all I could taste was earth.
Are songbirds wierd? The farmers near my mum in spain shoot them and I've eaten them whole, bones and all.
ArfinGreebly
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Lye Soak
Funny that people regard that as weird.
The hands-down nastiest thing I ever tasted was an olive, fresh off the tree. There is just nothing in this world more bitter than a fresh-plucked olive.
Our first season raising them (they were part of our orchard), we had to be taught how to cure them to make them edible.
Yup, it's a lye soak (several days), followed by a rinse and brine soak.
Don't know what the chemistry is, but here's what bugs me: olives have been part of man's diet for thousands of years. How the hell do you stumble on the idea that soaking them in lye somehow renders them edible? Seriously, that's stranger than discovering that meat tastes better when you scorch it in fire.
Funny that people regard that as weird.
The hands-down nastiest thing I ever tasted was an olive, fresh off the tree. There is just nothing in this world more bitter than a fresh-plucked olive.
Our first season raising them (they were part of our orchard), we had to be taught how to cure them to make them edible.
Yup, it's a lye soak (several days), followed by a rinse and brine soak.
Don't know what the chemistry is, but here's what bugs me: olives have been part of man's diet for thousands of years. How the hell do you stumble on the idea that soaking them in lye somehow renders them edible? Seriously, that's stranger than discovering that meat tastes better when you scorch it in fire.
DC3-CVN-72
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This brings up a great "sea story." One time in the Phillapines I met this nice bar girl, paid her "bar fine" and she was my escort for the rest of the night. After much "sight seeing" 
the next day she is feeding me this beef & noodles stuff that was realy good, then she starts giggeling at me, so I ask " what's so funny ?" she says " You eat dog !" I hoist the B.S. flag & she leads me to the back door and there is the skin of what looks a german sheppard hanging over bamboo fence with the legs in a littel piel on the ground below it. I think she was waiting for me to puke. I turn to her and said " I don't care what it is, I'm starving, bring me some more would ya please." I think I ate that whole dog.
the next day she is feeding me this beef & noodles stuff that was realy good, then she starts giggeling at me, so I ask " what's so funny ?" she says " You eat dog !" I hoist the B.S. flag & she leads me to the back door and there is the skin of what looks a german sheppard hanging over bamboo fence with the legs in a littel piel on the ground below it. I think she was waiting for me to puke. I turn to her and said " I don't care what it is, I'm starving, bring me some more would ya please." I think I ate that whole dog.- Status
