Strangest/most exotic thing you've eaten.

[candj]

Asset, gold leaf is delicious, especially on chocolate!

[Brendan]

Does it actually taste of anything? I thought it was just decorative.

[candj]

hmm, there's a thought... I suppose that everything I've ever eaten it on was chocolate and hence tasted good.

[jaybee82]

I think in some respects Glaswegians have got it right...you can make anything taste good if you either batter it or smother it in chocolate.

Also reminds me...I bought a packet of 'Horse Chips' when in Florida. Tasted a bit funky, though fairly certain they didnt contain chips of real horse.

[Cassius]

Sea Urchin and the quills quivered as I ate it............

[mockney piers]

mmmm, horse pizza in the tyrol. I'm fairly certain it did.

[Brendan]

I?ve eaten mopane worms which I didn?t consider very exotic at the time although very strange. They don?t taste of much really.

I have also had crocodile, warthog, kudu, springbok, buffalo, impala and various other African things with horns. But none of that is particularly surprising as I?m from SA and spend at least 1 month there every year.

One thing I have noticed lately is that they have started using game like kudu and springbok to make carpaccio (as candj mentioned) and it is absolutely brilliant. The stronger flavor of the meat really comes out.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Huguenot said - "As they (drunken prawns) became progressively pissed, you dragged 'em out, peeled their sluggish bodies and popped them into your mouth, washing them down with a slug from the tumbler."

See, alcohol marinaded prawns I can cope with BUT, slug is just wrong.

THE most horrid thing ever was to be found in Cannock bus station in the early hours during the late 70s and early 80s. A small hut run by a bloke called Ashe who sold tinned burgers, heated in boiled water. The only food available late at night as you fell off the bus from the bright lights of Brum or Wolverhampton. They could only be eaten when you were hammered and in the dark.

Thankfully the joys of a kebaberia were introduced to Cannock in the mid-80s - an improvement would you believe.

[giggirl]

Asset Wrote:

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> blimey, not one for the veggies. the most exotic

> thing I can come up with, not eating things that

> once breathed, is gold leaf.

I've had gold leaf vodka. That's got real gold leaf in it. Mmmmm

[Brendan]

Come to think of it a 4 by 1 foot sheep sausage skewered on a vertical rotisserie, gradually shaved off and served exclusively to drunk people in stale flatbread and smothered in a red spicy substance that can only be described as ?chilli sauce? for want of a better word, is all pretty strange if you ask me.

[candj]

but tasty at 3 am no doubt.

[mockney piers]

Ooh, reindeer carpaccio was pretty fantastic in Helsinki, highly recommended. As was slow braised reindeer shank.

And yeah, donner doesn't really bear scrutiny does it.

[Jah Lush]

LSD

[Jimbob]

had puffin in iceland 2 yrs ago, quite tasty and cute to boot,

and an ostrich steak in glastonbury a few years ago, which was pretty good.

[Brendan]

Yeah ostrich is becoming more common in the uk these days. I know they have a few commercial ostrich farms in England.

Its lovely meat, I like it.

I?ve been tempted for a while now to do an ostrich leg roast. Just to see the expression on people?s face when I plonk a platter containing potatoes and 1 giant drumstick on the table.

[Jah Lush]

Yeah Ostrich steak is good. I've had that a few times. They used to do it in The Sun & Doves on Coldharbour Lane.

[Michael Palaeologus]

There was this too Vile

A sausage made of tubes. I wretched as soon as I stuck my knife into it.

[candj]

I have to ask, what is all that hairy stuff in the photograph?

It says it's good with pinot noir, dry white wine or brut champagne.. I suggest copious amounts of all three!

[oldsocks]

Whale Penis-Tokyo

[spark67]

candj Wrote:

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> Asset, gold leaf is delicious, especially on

> chocolate!

I worked with a head chef once who used to wrap a thin piece of parma ham around the base of a piece of asparagus,then over that he would wrap a thin band of gold leaf and serve it as a canape, didn't try it myself, thought it would set my teeth off. ( i can't unwrap the foil on a kitkat without them going all funny )

[candj]

Hi Spark,

The gold leaf actually sort of melts in your mouth and is certainly not like the tin foil variety! I would think that canape you described looked beautiful with its little belt of gold!

Best,

-C

[Marmora Man]

Don't eat red snow - reindeer p*** is red.

[spark67]

Hi candj.

Yes the canapes looked really impressive when you had them fanned out on the serving dishes, i have used gold leaf quite a few times in my own work, friends asked me to make them a four tier chocolate cake for their wedding and i used the gold to bring it out a bit.

I had a crispy chili catfish in chang ria, it was bought out whole to the table and you shredded it like crispy duck, and lets just say it wasn't small. It was in a restaurant called cabbages and condoms, thankfully it wasn't a reference to their signature dish.

[bigbadwolf]

candj Wrote:

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> Hi Spark,

>

> The gold leaf actually sort of melts in your mouth

> and is certainly not like the tin foil variety! I

> would think that canape you described looked

> beautiful with its little belt of gold!

>

> Best,

You should try Goldschlager. The dreadnought I left in the toilet the next morning was all shiny, thought I'd reached the end of a rainbow.

[Marmora Man]

I forgot - Whale Meat in Norway, known as Hvalbeef (? sp ?). Horrid if fresh but better if it is hung for a while.