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[VanKen]

[Like a Rolling Stone]

[kinshachi]

I've tried it more than once, but I just can't get used to the taste of natto - i couldn't drown it in enough mustard to make it edible!

I don't know if this counts, but I've had crocodile, wild boar and kangaroo, but in Australia, although I think I've eaten more of it (especially the latter) since I came here, than I ever did back home...

[Sonic]

Jellyfish and blowfish womb. Both pretty good!

[maya.the.bee]

my local izakaya has some pretty strange stuff grilled on a stick. they've got the whole swallow (suzume ?) and...chicken ovaries (tamahimo ?). Ovaries hold a similar gross factor w/ Rocky Mt Oysters, they just seem wrong.

[Quibby84]

alligator is a normal food in louisiana...it is at all the nice seafood resturants...its good, but we eat it fried (just like everthing else at seafood resturants)

[Persia]

I had kangaroo, walrus and (whole) frog. The walrus was a lot like liver, in fact suspiciously so. The frog I gave up on quite quickly as it was very bony. This was at a place near where my sister used to live in Hofu. They cook anything with a face in there.

I've had frogs legs before, though, and they were very nice.

[Gone Asiatic]

While living in Aomori prefecture, I was introduced to Hoya, or "Ocean Pineapple." It has the taste of rotted seaweeds and seawater combined with some other indescribable sea-taste. I could only manage to keep down very small pieces slathered in shoyu and wasabe.

[Big John Stud]

womblingfree wrote:

I tried alligator in Ginza once, quite plain. Had whale at a yakitori shop and probably from Seiyu by accident in one of those sashimi boxes. The weirdest things I ate which I got used to after a while were those baby octopus where the brains pop out when you bite into them. Also those chicken cartillidge bits, I really got into those.

I ate gatortail once while visiting the Everglads in South Florida. It was alright but a little tough or chewy.
The strangest food, I ever ate though guinea pig in Ecaudor. The served in with head and all on a plate. It looked like a rat. I didn't want to eat it, but to Ecaudorians offering someone guinea pig was a very special offer. If I would of refused they probably would of been offended. Besides being very nice people, my job at the time needed their approval for to set up an arrogation system. Luckily I had gotten drunk off of Thrago.
The Incas used consider guinea pig a delicacy to me it was terrible.

I love bushimi, raw horse meat. Horses don't eat meat and have little body fat so their meat is healthy.
But I will never eat dog meat. Since dogs eat meat, their meat is unhealthy.

[strangelove]

blowfish sperm

besides me & the big boss who was hosting the dinner, nobody - foreigner or japanese - knew what it was. i had already had cod sperm in LA out at dinner with a japanese friend. it is served in some gnarly looking organ. not bad, but i can live happily without it.

at the same dinner i and the big boss had a hot sake with dried blowfish fin. smelled funky and i needed a couple moments to determine how i felt about it... pretty good, but i prefer my sake without fish fins.

[strangelove]

has anyone tried angler fish??? i believe it is typically served as a stew (ankonabe?) and is a seasonal dish. i wanted to try this, but didn't get to chance during my trips to tokyo.

[SeasonedVet]

strangelove wrote

[luckyloser700]

Before I came, I promised myself I wouldn't eat horse or whale. It didn't take long before I was a basashi-eating whale bacon-craving disgrace to my own country. I mean, Jeezus! Roy Rogers would've eaten his own nads before chowing down on Trigger.

[Like a Rolling Stone]

[markle]

Actually I think the weirest foods here are vegetable. I mean I think that most people would eat a weird animal body part at some point but the gooey mushrooms and mountain yams still freak me out.