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LauriL
May 24, 2013
Read Stiff a few years ago and LOVED it! Bought her latest a few months ago and altho I have a few books to read before hand I know it will be extremely entertaining!!
Sandra A.
April 30, 2013
The most exotic thing that I've eaten is the national dish of Scotland called Haggis. It is made up of a sheep's innards, heart, liver, lungs mixed with some spices and other ingredients and then encased in a sheep stomach. It is not something I would try again. It is a "once is enough kind of food".
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Jennifer A.
April 18, 2013
Oh boy. I don't think I can hold a candle to so many adventurous eaters. I top out at a very stinky fruit that I tasted in Thailand. Cannot remember the name, which is okay I suppose, because I do not plan on every eating it again
walkie74
April 17, 2013
Crap! I forgot about my dad's hog's head cheese! (No, really, it was made from a real hog's head...)
jkoustenis
April 17, 2013
My Greek Grandmother would cook "little things" which I loved. It was spleen stuffed with heart and lung. I am now a vegetarian.
mimiwv
April 17, 2013
Rattlesnake meat...cooked over an open fire of course, in West Virginia. It was fine, but the vertebrae still function in a snake kind of way, which was off-putting.
margaretg
April 17, 2013
A pot of stewed chicken, feet/claws and all. This is before I stopped eating poultry and meat, but even then the smell did not appeal.
Hannah T.
April 17, 2013
I think all of the most exotic things I've eaten are things I ate before I became a vegetarian at age 18: reindeer, beef tongue, blood pancakes with berries, Rocky Mountain oysters, and frog legs. I'll have to try to find some exotic vegetarian food!
Cynthia G.
April 17, 2013
I LOVED Bonk. I can't compete with a lot of what other commenters have eaten, but I'll try just about anything once... I regularly put chicken feet in my stock which is hilarious because as it cooks it looks like mini dinosaurs are trying to escape from the pot. I can't wait to read Gulp.
Aliwaks
April 17, 2013
I am an embarrassingly un-adventurous eater, porchette di testa is as far as I'll go, however, I did eagerly devour this book!!! Spent an entire Saturday calling out to my husband "hey did you know that ...." It's a fabulous book, actually so are all her books, Packing for Mars (learned all about space toilets!!!) & Stiff are my favorites.
Kitchen B.
April 17, 2013
All delicacies in Nigerian cuisine: Deep fried land snails (monster in comparison with the tiny french l'escargots); goats head soup(delicious,tongue, eyeballs et al); Fried maggots called 'edibles' in the south of the country(unbelievably oil) but delicious, especially in combination with kpokpogari - a dried snack made from grated and dried, leftover cassava, when the 'starch' (similar to cornstarch) is extracted. And finally offal/innards peppersoup (peppersoup is Nigeria's gift of the cure-all chicken soup) - intestines, tripe etc are there for the picking. Absolutely delicious too!
Diane M.
April 16, 2013
The most exotic thing I've tried is alligator, although compared to the other foods mentioned here it's tame. Guess I have a lot more culinary experimenting to do!
The O.
April 16, 2013
Bear meat stew, peacock chili, fish eyes straight out of the salmon...I've tried muktuk (of the Alaska Inupiaq, whale blubber variety) several times, and while the taste is pleasant enough, it's the texture (somewhere between chewing a tire and swallowing a slug) that I couldn't get past! I'm assured that when it's fresh and prepared right, it melts in your mouth like butter. My one experience with geoducks was hilarious, as part of a PNW student foraging group. I think I ate it only to spite the thing for making me work so hard to catch it.
Burnt O.
April 16, 2013
Hear Mary Roach on NPR the other day - interesting and hilarious!
Rural China: Crickets on a stick, braised camel, strips of sheep's uterus in a paper cone at a street fair with lots of lime and sriracha (was like eating a wet kitchen cloth texture wise) and a very spicy dish of crispy bamboo worms.
US: Bear liver, Rocky Mountain Oysters (sheep testicles), rattlesnake
Australian Outback: Emu, kangaroo, Morton Bay Bugs (like lobster), and a lot of wild rabbit.
Rural China: Crickets on a stick, braised camel, strips of sheep's uterus in a paper cone at a street fair with lots of lime and sriracha (was like eating a wet kitchen cloth texture wise) and a very spicy dish of crispy bamboo worms.
US: Bear liver, Rocky Mountain Oysters (sheep testicles), rattlesnake
Australian Outback: Emu, kangaroo, Morton Bay Bugs (like lobster), and a lot of wild rabbit.
Heidi V.
April 16, 2013
I work at an independent Culinary School in Portland Oregon, and at the end of the term, the students get to cook a lunch for themselves using just about whatever ingredients they want... the craziest thing I've tried so far is python confit. Whole skinned python submerfed and slow cooked in duck fat. Crazy!
calendargirl
April 16, 2013
Hardly exotic compared to raw char eyeball, but I did eat barbequed woodchuck some years ago. Rather tasty!
Brittani J.
April 16, 2013
Let's see.. the most exotic foods I've eaten. Frog Legs, Black Pudding (however, not really exotic to me since I'm Irish, but it seems to be to others) & Caviar.
tjpieper
April 16, 2013
Geoduck (pronounced gooey duck) A clam that runs away from you when you try to catch it in the mud from the Pacific North West
Hannah O.
April 16, 2013
A black swan that was hunted, roasted, cooked and eaten in the Australian Outback.
Laura M.
April 16, 2013
I had deep fried haggus meatballs when I was in Scotland 4 years ago. So tasty I ordered a second serving!! :0
glutton&wife
April 16, 2013
Opihi, which is a shellfish, plucked right off of a reef in Hawaii and eaten raw.
KaffeeAndKuchen
April 16, 2013
It may not be too exotic but the combination was a bit strange - oatmeal steamed inside of a cod head, drizzled with cod liver oil. Not my preferred breakfast, but it was interesting.
George
April 16, 2013
I love to travel and am a chocolate lover. I've eaten foie gras macaron, donkey souvlaki (Santorini), and many other interesting foods in exotic locations.
hardlikearmour
April 16, 2013
I watched Mary Roach on The Daily Show and she's a riot! The most exotic thing I've eaten is witch's butter -- an orange-colored & gelatinous fungus.
delightfulcrumb
April 16, 2013
Every time I hear or read an interview with Mary Roach, I like her more -- what a fantastically smart and funny lady! The most exotic food I've eaten doesn't quite hold a candle to the examples Mary gave, but I did eat coagulated chicken blood while in Spain. As it typically goes with such things, nowhere near as bad as it sounds. (:
darksideofthespoon
April 16, 2013
I love Mary Roach. Her TED talks are amazing, and introduced me to not only TED, but Bonk and Gulp!
darksideofthespoon
April 16, 2013
Also, the most exotic thing I've eaten is salted deep fried crickets. Amazing!
darksideofthespoon
April 18, 2013
It's silly I never considered this, but I worked a restaurant that used to make it's own Mortadella stuffed into a deboned pigs face (snout, ears eyes and all!), sliced thin on a deli slicer. Yep. That was weird but delicious!
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