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Disregard
China10252 Posts
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sob3k
United States7572 Posts
On May 15 2011 09:01 Disregard wrote: Has anyone tried Hákarl? 5 posts up: On May 15 2011 08:16 sheaRZerg wrote: Hakarl - Fermented Shark's meat that smells like ammonia (while in iceland) From my understanding it was something that was eaten in Medival times, and which people still eat every once in a while for some sort of historical reason. Its also supposed to be consumed with liquour as a follower...which I unfortunately did not have at the time. edit: just realized it was discussed earlier but I didnt catch it the first time. | ||
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Vore210
Ireland256 Posts
On May 15 2011 08:22 JPoPP wrote: raw Tuna eye's in Japan kinda nasty not gunna do it again but I was offered them by the family i was staying with and I wanted to be polite. Methinks you fell victim to "lets see what we can make the stupid foreigner eat". There's a story that that was how stuff like Vindaloo came about; "It is thought that the original Vindaloo was the revenge of put-upon servants in an officers' mess during the high days of the Raj, when Brits in India first started to develop a taste for curried food. Making it as hot as they possibly could - to a level that no educated Indian would have dreamt of eating -is thought to have been passive revenge for indignities inflicted by the British. Especially when it was realised that in a Mess full of macho Englishmen, face would have been lost by admitting the curry was too hot to eat... " | ||
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4329 Posts
On May 15 2011 09:01 Disregard wrote: Has anyone tried Hákarl? I remember Gordon Ramsay ate that on his trip to Iceland in the F-Word TV series. Also he ate other strange things like a live puffin heart , the Italian maggot cheese amongst other things. | ||
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TALegion
United States1187 Posts
On May 15 2011 05:48 FlyingSheeps wrote: Rocky Mountain oysters I was at a restaurant with some chick, and she ordered and ate those, not knowing what they were. She got through almost all of the plate when all of the sudden she yells, "Wait... THERE ARE NOT OCEANS IN THE ROCKIES!!!" One of the highlights of my life. | ||
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101toss
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FliedLice
Germany7494 Posts
On May 15 2011 09:13 TALegion wrote: I was at a restaurant with some chick, and she ordered and ate those, not knowing what they were. She got through almost all of the plate when all of the sudden she yells, "Wait... THERE ARE NOT OCEANS IN THE ROCKIES!!!" One of the highlights of my life. you can't seriously be serious about that :D rofl | ||
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sqwert
United States781 Posts
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krndandaman
Mozambique16569 Posts
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
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Vore210
Ireland256 Posts
On May 15 2011 09:26 krndandaman wrote: i just don't get the point of eating these weird things. there are so many non weird things i can eat that taste infinitely times better... and its cheaper... Weird is relative, and the rest is untrue in many (probably most) cases. The type of food we eat right normally is more...consumer friendly in terms of looks/smell but definitely not in taste or cost. | ||
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KillerPlague
United States1386 Posts
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krndandaman
Mozambique16569 Posts
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Ryrmidon
Canada371 Posts
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TalonKarrde
Canada104 Posts
On April 16 2011 13:13 StarStruck wrote: There are places I hear in Vietnam and Cambodia where they put birds in there instead. In the Yukon, it's a human toe as the worm wood.  If you accidentally swallow the toe you have to replace it with your own. -.- I live in Whitehorse Yukon and have done the sour toe cocktail it wasn`t so bad and you get fined for swallowing you do not replace it. I met the man who started it old dude who always came to the bar I worked at cool guy. Weird things I considered of eaten Black bear Ham (tastes like ham all bear after taste) Lynx (God aweful chicken) Elk Emu Ostrich Kangaroo Natto (Japanese fermented soybeans) Shark | ||
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campinjimmy
United States14 Posts
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summerloud
Austria1201 Posts
frog legs are delicious, ive also eaten crocodile, ostrich, kudu, kangaroo, cactii (not peyote , and all kinds of lesser eaten parts.ill generally try everything thats available and seems interesting, except for things i dont eat on ethical grounds (shark soup, monkey, whale, etc.) one thing i didnt particularly like was the sheep intestine curry an indian friend cooked for me at his home, a girl i was with at the time really struggled but still finished it all out of politeness edit: kinda funny that people qualify liver or blood as weird food. people are so picky nowadays | ||
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garlicface
Canada4196 Posts
I can understand octopus to a greater extent, but squid? Fried calamari is such a pub/bar food. Even though it's usually frozen crap, it's on so many North American and European menus. | ||
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OopsOopsBaby
Singapore3425 Posts
On May 15 2011 09:05 Vore210 wrote: Methinks you fell victim to "lets see what we can make the stupid foreigner eat". There's a story that that was how stuff like Vindaloo came about; "It is thought that the original Vindaloo was the revenge of put-upon servants in an officers' mess during the high days of the Raj, when Brits in India first started to develop a taste for curried food. Making it as hot as they possibly could - to a level that no educated Indian would have dreamt of eating -is thought to have been passive revenge for indignities inflicted by the British. Especially when it was realised that in a Mess full of macho Englishmen, face would have been lost by admitting the curry was too hot to eat... " tuna eye is a common delicacy in japan. its know to be highly nutritious. | ||
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Valashu
Netherlands561 Posts
water goes in, food comes out. YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT! | ||
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