great_badir
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From: A breaking rope bridge in the middle of the jungle
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As I consider horse, haggis, kangaroo and frog legs (yes, they DO taste like chicken, albeit about 100 time more succulent) to all be nommers, I don't think of any of them as being weird. I've also had the "usual" ostrich, crocodile (though not had alligator), reindeer etc etc. I've also had snails, but to me it's just like eating bits of tasteless rubber, but easier to chew.
I suppose the weirdest thing I've actually eaten is sheep brains in black butter sauce - me and my sister are the first non-Welsh generation in our family, so to us it was a bit weird when our grandparents had that for Sunday tea, but it was quite a regular event and quite normal for Welsh people in their 70s and 80s to be eating that as late as the 1980s. Actually, sheep brain is rather tasteless. The other weird-weird thing I've had is chocolate covered ants in Gibraltar - obviously being so close to North Africa, there's a lot of African influence on some of the food in Gibraltar, especially when it comes to snacks (I bought these in an otherwise very British looking newsagent and they were just in with all the other "normal" bagged sweets and chocolates and were similarly packaged). However, they weren't really the "best" - the ants, I thought, were actually quite tasteless (bit of a theme here, although I understand they are quite bitter if eaten without anything else) and merely provided a crunch to a chocolate which tasted like cheap cooking choc, so a bit bleurgh.
I suppose I'd have to go for frog legs, then.
The problem I have is that pretty much every animal I look at = food, with the exception of cats and dogs. I'd be lying if I said I'm not curious and wouldn't try cat or dog (not that I would ever find myself in a position to try them - I doubt the wife would ever agree to a holiday anywhere in Asia!), but even if I liked them, I wouldn't make a habit of eating other carnivorous mammals. That's how nasty-nasty diseases start.
Also, I understand, those of us who have eaten any pre-packaged salami type cured meats (particularly mortadella) as far back as the mid 90s that were NOT from Italian or Spanish delis have almost certainly consumed donkey without realising it...
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