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    what's the most exotic food that has passed your lips?

    Menu items sampled thus far:

    porcupine
    crocodile
    squirrel
    zebra
    kangaroo
    snake
    horse
    ostrich

    items strictly rejected:

    monitor lizard
    bears paw
    sea cucumber
    monkey
    chicken feet
    insects

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    Quote Originally Posted by draco888
    what's the most exotic food that has passed your lips?
    Everything served by my Khmer GFs amazing sister in Phnom Penh especially the tiny thumbnail size crabs in lime and pepper sauce (one direction only)

    Some indeterminate sort of curry stuff at central market Phnom Penh (both directions)

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    I've got to say balut look pretty vile as well, are you a fan Davis?
    Last edited by draco888; 06-10-2012 at 12:02 AM.

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    I was in a forest in England and saw one of these Alice In Wonderland mushrooms called Fly Agaric
    they are as big as your hand
    Now this fella is highly hallucinogenic but comes with a risk of poisoning and death
    anyway i had a nibble and it was real strong tasting [ nothing like chicken ]
    but not enough to disappear down a rabbit hole or drop dead .


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    Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post
    I was in a forest in England and saw one of these Alice In Wonderland mushrooms called Fly Agaric
    they are as big as your hand
    Now this fella is highly hallucinogenic but comes with a risk of poisoning and death
    anyway i had a nibble and it was real strong tasting [ nothing like chicken ]
    but not enough to disappear down a rabbit hole or drop dead .

    you have to know how to prepare these things properly if you want to go on a trip. you don't just nibble on them unless you feel like dying.

    For me the most exotic food is probably the live fire ant eggs which are a delicacy up in Issan. Pretty good actually. You feel them wriggle and if they are just out of the egg you get a nice acid kick from their developing nastiness.
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    Quote Originally Posted by draco888
    Menu items sampled thus far:

    porcupine
    How was that?

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    Just you wait until withnall gets involved with this thread. I mean. The things he's done with workaday livestock just don't bear thinking about.

    Unless you also have a penchant for tearing the live flesh off of an unsuspecting herd of charging wilderbeast.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Satonic View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by draco888
    Menu items sampled thus far:

    porcupine
    How was that?
    fatty, could still see where the quills attached to skin. in summary really quite disgusting actually.

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    Quote Originally Posted by draco888
    monitor lizard
    Tis but a delicacy.

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    i also couldn't quite get round to ordering bat....

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post
    I was in a forest in England and saw one of these Alice In Wonderland mushrooms called Fly Agaric

    We have the same here in DK. Some claim that the vikings used them before battle, to " lose the fear" and go beserk ( prob. Not correct spelled )

    I guess they are somewhat strong ? We like to belive we dominatede the north of europe at that time

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    Dry roasted termites are good with beer...so are dry roasted grasshoppers.

    Mot Daeng are great in an omelette.

    Had shredded jellyfish as revenge for being stung by one.

    Sea cucumber... took a lot to keep that down...hard to describe the feeling when eating...but pleasant does not come to mind.

    Rat or rice mouse was not bad but I shied away from eating dog...

    Most exotic to date has to be buffalo placenta....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    Dry roasted termites are good with beer...so are dry roasted grasshoppers.

    Mot Daeng are great in an omelette.

    Had shredded jellyfish as revenge for being stung by one.

    Sea cucumber... took a lot to keep that down...hard to describe the feeling when eating...but pleasant does not come to mind.

    Rat or rice mouse was not bad but I shied away from eating dog...

    Most exotic to date has to be buffalo placenta....
    Buffalo placenta??? I think you have just won top honours, cannot see anyone beating that.......

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    Human placenta.

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    Quote Originally Posted by draco888 View Post
    I've got to say balut look pretty vile as well, are you a fan Davis?
    I ate one once, many years ago, just so I could say I'd done it - but it was much less developed than that, plus I tried not to look at it. I also tried durian once, for the same reason - it was vile.

    Woodchuck (gopher) - US. Monkey, monitor lizard (Cambodia).

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    kangaroo, croc, camel, all often, dog, rat (once).
    Weirdest was a live pan fried fish.
    They take it out of the tank, gut, scale and fry it in about 20 seconds and it's still flopping on the plate as you eat it.
    Same same drunken lobster.

    refused;
    insects live and dead.
    offal of all sorts
    pretty much anything that lives on the sea floor.
    Whiskey steeped in tiger bones.

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    Chicken feet, fried insects, and ant eggs all seem normal to me now. Of all the other things I've eaten, balut, bear, ostrich, zebra, crocodile, wildebeest, and a house cat, the worst of the worst was raw sea urchin. Never have I had anything so awful in my mouth put there intentionally. The house cat was pretty foul also.

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    Like davis i tried the balut just to cross it of the list, never again.

    Foods that i will never try

    Donkey penis popular in china






    Uterus of pig









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    I think Draco hit it, but I've eaten snake a number of times. Rattlesnake in the US (rattlesnake round-ups are big), and a number of different types in Vietnam, Cambodia and once here in the PI.

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    Rocky Mountain Oysters, fresh off the branding grill...

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    Quote Originally Posted by BaitongBoy View Post
    Rocky Mountain Oysters, fresh off the branding grill...
    That would be bull testicles, yes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
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    Rocky Mountain Oysters, fresh off the branding grill...
    That would be bull testicles, yes?
    Back in the high tech work days, had some work visitors I was hosting from Edinburgh so I took them to a rather rustic inn back in the mountains of Idaho called the Snake Pit. The beer flowed, the food flowed, and my good friends ordered a third helping of Rocky Mountain Oysters. One of them said they were so good and asked what were they. I thought all along they knew what they were eating. They got kinda silent for a while after I told them, but they finished the third order with no problem! Heck, look what's in haggis.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thailazer View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
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    Rocky Mountain Oysters, fresh off the branding grill...
    That would be bull testicles, yes?
    Back in the high tech work days, had some work visitors I was hosting from Edinburgh so I took them to a rather rustic inn back in the mountains of Idaho called the Snake Pit. The beer flowed, the food flowed, and my good friends ordered a third helping of Rocky Mountain Oysters. One of them said they were so good and asked what were they. I thought all along they knew what they were eating. They got kinda silent for a while after I told them, but they finished the third order with no problem! Heck, look what's in haggis.
    True. Surprised nobody mentioned haggis. I would still have to put durian very high on my list for foul smell, taste and texture.

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    Fruit bat in weird green sauce
    Reindeer


    Anyone who eats hot dogs or bologna already ate pig testicles and uterus in disguise.

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    I've eaten field rats, but I would draw the line at bats - horrible creatures. Can't imagine there would be much meat on them anyway.

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