Wierd Meats and Eats

[Ax01]

so i went to our State Fair this past Saturday. animals, farm veggies and giant pumpkins, games, amusement rides, food, etc. etc. fun stuff.

beside deep-fried everything and elephant ears, these fairs will sometimes have wierd or unsual food. so at the fair, one vendor had alligator and i tried it.

here it is!



and i didn't like it. or at least this version of it. the batter was thick and hard and i couldn't taste any alligator meat really. :/

but later in the day, i stumbled upong this at another booth.



alligator jerky. and it was tasty! tasted kinda like salmon actually.

anyway i just wanted to know what folks here on the forum have eaten. anything wierd, unusual or non-traditional? was it good, meh or awful? please share.

[Asherah]

Not to mitigate the trying of the alligator, but where I'm from its pretty standard. Of course, I come from a place known for its Coon Supper, so.... Anyway, its not unusual to see it served. Its quite delicious too I might add! (You must have gotten someone who didn't know what they were doing) We actually made gator tacos the other night. Talk about tasty!

Weird things I have eaten... Hmmm, Depends on your level of weird. Raw beef, raw fish, Bacon stuffed deer heart, Turtle, Rattlesnake, eel, squid, whole octopus, Clover, Chocolate gravy, Bone marrow, if it is edible I try it.
Bugs are probably the most unusual single item I have eaten. I really want to try scorpions and spiders. Crickets are ok, I care not for the wings, however.

I did try fried Oreo's and ice cream at our fair last week. It was salty sweet fried heaven with a side of weird.

[Ax01]

^ chocolate gravy?

the wierdest thing i've eaten was probably balut. it's boiled fertilize duck egg. this thing...





i didn't like it much. i picked at the chick ate the yolk mainly. and i drank the the liquid which was alright.

here's a video of people eating it.

[Asherah]

Yeah it's a southern thing lol

I've seen that on tv, one of the few things I don't think I could manage to make myself try!

[Tsanford]

I saw the duck fetus on fear factor, and I personally wouldn't eat it.

But I have had plenty of other unusual meats. Growing up, I was a member of a hunting/gun club. Every year we had a "game" potluck where everyone had to bring a food item they hunted.

So with the dinner I've had snapping turtle, deer, moose, elk, buffalo, bear, squirrel, possum, pigeon, duck, phesant, quail, frog, alligator.

While overseas in japan i had raw jellyfish, and horse. While in Indonesia doing jungle warfare training we caught, skinned and cooked python.

Sushi is also a favorite of mine.

Other foods I can think of would be snails, raw beef, cow heart & brain, sheep's stomach boiled in vinigar, bone marrow, chocolate covered ants and crickets, cricket lollipops, worm in the teqiilla.

As for the fair food... Fried butter is as weird as I've seen and it made me sick... Very very rich. Fried Twinkies, snickers, ice cream, oreos, etc..

[jclaiborne]

Raw beef, eel, octopus, squid, alligator, blowfish, snails, springbok, horse, zebra, blood sausage, pigeon, duck, quail, deer, bison, frog, crawfish, cow tongue, cow "head meat".

[Asherah]

oooh almost forgot my favorite snack as a kid! My grandmother would fry fish tails and fins off of small fish like brim. They are crunchy fishy chips of deliciousness!
I still cook them from time to time when we catch enough fish.

[FluppleWott]

I'm not an adventurous eater. The most exotic thing I've tasted was a strawberry cricket lollipop. Or like, that one time I was outside and ants got on my chocolate tootsie roll.

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[frostysBP]

Cajun fried squirrel

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[8_Ball]

I thought it was big that I tried rabbit at a Portuguese restaurant a few weeks ago. It was really good actually. The weirdest thing I've tried is chocolate covered crickets and kangaroo jerky. I guess I need to be more adventurous