Gross stuff to eat...

[wendy]

I saw something on travel channel, maybe it was Anthony Bourdan, I like watching him and he goes to cool places to eat...anyway they were in some Asian country, maybe thailand, ok it was somewhere they eat dogs, and i learned that they only eat the stupid dogs, the smart ones are still family pets.

[sandalscout]

My dogs better watch out than....

[Nico]

I´ve had ostrich before, it was ok and once even cooked some bobcat meat, it tasted good but it was really hard to chew, also I´ve had shark like twice..
Id like to try gator and roo as im not afraid of eating almost anything

[Squirrel Girl]

and once even cooked some bobcat meat, it tasted good but it was really hard to chew

I once had bison. It was well prepared, and quite tasty, but very tough. Chew, chew, chew. I needed an industrial strength toothpick afterward.

[Eve]

Bison shouldn't be that tough. It probably wasn't well prepared after all.

[Grandpa Caver]

My grocery occansionaly has bison steaks and I stock up every chance I get. Very lean and very tasty. Have'nt had a tough one yet.

A resturant here in town serves Elk burgers. They have a good flavor but are really dry. The Elk are raised locally and the farm has an on site market so I will be trying thier steak cuts soon.

I've had grasshopper, deep fried & chocolat covered. Tasted like most any deep fried, chocolat covered snack. Very crunchy.

[wendy]

I hear that reindeer is really good. I'll trade some gator tail for some reindeer if anyone is interested.

[Wayne Harrison]

I went to a Christmas party one time where they served some meat and after everyone had eaten some the host said, "You all just ate Rudolph. That was reindeer!"

[cob]

A resturant here in town serves Elk burgers. They have a good flavor but are really dry.

The best meat I have ever had was elk, a shank of meat slow roasted on a spit high in the Big Horns, and I have eaten just about everything that walks crawls, swims, or flies on the NAmer continent.

tom

[hunter]

Had guinea pig in Peru once, tasty but I wish they would remove the paws. Nothing like two furry feet sticking out of the peanut sauce to ruin your appetite.
The one regional delicacy I refused to try was Balut in the Philippines - duck eggs with a mostly developed embryo inside. If you are that curious, scroll down a page or so for the photo which is kind of graphic.

http://deependdining.blogspot.com/2005/09/balut-egg-of-darkness-pinoy-pinay.html

[Phil Winkler]

Growing up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland it was routine to eat muskrat, groundhog and even (sorry Barbara) squirrel. You usually parboiled each of them before frying. You also had to eat carefully to avoid the buckshot invariably left in the meat.

[graveleye]

one of my favorite foods is boiled peanuts and it wasnt until I ventured out into the rest of the country that I realized that other folks find them revolting. But me, I looooooves me a buncha boiled peanuts.

other things I like that some folks dont:

pork rinds

pickled okra (and pretty much pickled anything)

My grandaddy used to BOIL possum with onions and collards and it would stink up the house so bad we would have to go out on the porch. Trust me, when he brought home a possum, he assuredly dined alone.


One thing I do not like that lots do is those Cadbury creamed eggs, the big chocolate ones with the goo in the middle. I get sick thinking about eating one.

[wendy]

Growing up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland it was routine to eat muskrat, groundhog and even (sorry Barbara) squirrel. You usually parboiled each of them before frying. You also had to eat carefully to avoid the buckshot invariably left in the meat.

I have not eaten squirrel, but I have cleaned them before. I spent some time up in Shooting Creek, NC (just over the GA border) and the mountain family I stayed with..the dad woul dbring hom e squirrels he sot, it was like taking little jackets off them, and then we would soak the pieces in salt water to draw the blood out of the meat.

Another thing I had at this families house was homeny (sp?) its just boiled white corn. The same corn that they grind up to make grits. I don't eat grits but I did like the homeny.

[Nico]

its hominy and they do pozole with that here in Mexico.. usually pozole is added to menudo but I hate that pozole thing, I do love a good menudo without pozole tho!

[Squirrel Girl]

Growing up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland it was routine to eat muskrat, groundhog and even (sorry Barbara) squirrel. You usually parboiled each of them before frying. You also had to eat carefully to avoid the buckshot invariably left in the meat.

If you wanna eat muskrats, groundhogs, and squirrels, why Phil, you just go right ahead and do it Phil. I won't stop you. Nope. YOU can eat em. I imagine there are PLENTY of 'em out there as not too many *other* people will be eating them, now WILL THEY????????