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On another thread about eating crows it made me think about some of the things I have tried.

I am adventurous with my food and over the years have tried a few things, so what are some of the things, not from the super market, that you have had a go at?

Here are some I have tried....

Crocodile
Gazelle
Snake
Kudu
Frog legs
Moorhen
Coot
Squirrel
Hedge Hog
Swan
Starling
Sparrow
Blackbird
Hard boiled Starling eggs
Fried Swans egg

There are a few more but that will do for now.

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On another thread about eating crows it made me think about some of the things I have tried.

 

I am adventurous with my food and over the years have tried a few things, so what are some of the things, not from the super market, that you have had a go at?

 

Here are some I have tried....

 

Crocodile

Gazelle

Snake

Kudu

Frog legs

Moorhen

Coot

Squirrel

Hedge Hog

Swan

Starling

Sparrow

Blackbird

Hard boiled Starling eggs

Fried Swans egg

 

There are a few more but that will do for now.

 

 

you seem to have eaten loads of things that are worth eating and quite a few that arn't, i have had Emu which tasted a lot like a muscular turkey

 

Quinoa risotto.

 

dont suppose you have a recipe ;)

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you seem to have eaten loads of things that are worth eating and quite a few that arn't, i have had Emu which tasted a lot like a muscular turkey

 

 

 

dont suppose you have a recipe ;)

Google it!

I once strimmed through a dog **** that went down the back of my throat,keen-wah!

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An impressive list of cullinary delights there islandgun, i have tried gulls eggs and coot jay and rook as a kid, we did have a try at squirel after reading about eating squirels in an ancient mutch thumbed copy of american rifleman magazine. But dispite our best efforts to folow the resipie we bottled out at the last moment and the Spaniel we had with us got the full benefit of our labours. :lol:

Again as kids we used to listen in awe at my mates dads tales of eating rats when he was in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, his permenent state of ill health brought about by his ordeal put us off the idea of trying rat for ourselves.

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Medium rare fur burger.

 

Regularly used to eat tripe and cows udder as a child, not anymore. Eaten tinned dog food not bad tasting.

 

In Spain I once had a dish called sepia blanco, squid or cuttlefish flung on a hot plate with a bit of garlic and butter for seconds and plopped on a plate eeew had a membrane that even after chewing a mouthful when you swallowed some it was still attached to what was still in your mouth, my gag reflex went haywire and my mates ran.

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Eat the same oyster four times at the oyster fair in Woburn. I think those next to me decided they maybe did not want to order any.

In Berlin for a few days and last night went to an indoor street food market lots of unknown stuff but all delicious.

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Weird BBQ'd insects on sticks in a market whilst in the far East... (amongst other things)

 

Lamb Testicles in Greece - cooked on coals, one of those 'you need to try this' from clients of mine.

 

Albeit the worst thing I've eaten which I wouldn't wish upon anyone else was Peruvian Cerviche in the London restaurant 'Lima' as it's basically just raw white fish in a mix of lime juice and other bits which after eating this cold raw fish you traditionally have to drink the contents of the bowl... yuck.

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Very mild compared to old'un, but the best fish and chips I've ever had was in Aden; the fish being barracuda steak.

Not really, at the end of the day its all just protein, some of the things I have tried were back in the late 50s early 60s (my air rifle/410 years).

when I was a young lad we would go camping and set-up the tent in any grass field we took a liking to, we got moved on a few times by the land owners but most were very friendly and let us stay, it was my early hunter gatherer years and we would try to survive on what we could shoot or catch once the jam sandwiches and pop had been consumed, the Swans egg was fried and me and my mates would dip bread into the yolk, lovely.

The Starlings, Blackbirds and Sparrows were de-breasted and fried with a bit of bacon and put on a slice of bread that had been dipped in the fat.

I guess the worst was the boiled Moorhen, it was like chewing a tennis ball.

It was all good fun trying to survive on what we could shoot or catch, young boys trying to be men in more innocent times.

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On another thread about eating crows it made me think about some of the things I have tried.

 

I am adventurous with my food and over the years have tried a few things, so what are some of the things, not from the super market, that you have had a go at?

 

Here are some I have tried....

 

Crocodile

Gazelle

Snake

Kudu

Frog legs

Moorhen

Coot

Squirrel

Hedge Hog

Swan

Starling

Sparrow

Blackbird

Hard boiled Starling eggs

Fried Swans egg

 

There are a few more but that will do for now.

 

 

All of the above mostly when I was younger especially the birds and their eggs plus

Seagulls eggs --Disgusting

Alligator

Springbok

Kangaroo

Guinea pig

Cat

Bison

Whale

Horse

Carp

Chicken feet and gizzards

Sheep and bulls testicles

Various eyeballs

And a few other bits and pieces probably

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