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[Corporal]

Any (relatively normal) food you've never eaten, and why?

I've never had most seafood: shellfish, lobster, mussels, sardines, etc. Can't stand fresh fish and assume I wouldn't like the canned/preserved stuff. Also no avocado, artichokes, or eggplant--no special reason except the occasion has never arisen and I've not felt the desire to eat them just for the sake of having eaten them. Before Korea, I'd never had tofu, kiwi, persimmon or pomegranates either.

[huck]

Sour cream..

I stay away from foods the remind me of mayonnaise...I dunno why, though.

[Qinella]

Interesting topic. I've never had persimmons or pomegranates, either.

It's hard for me to think of other things I haven't tried (American food, anyway). Rhubarb, rutabaga... eel.

[peony]

ive had orange fish eggs but never tried black/beluga caviar

never ate dog to my knowledge (altho my sister swears ive eaten it once as a kid and she didnt tell me at the time)

never had kangaroo, seal, whale, ostrich, buffalo, bison, deer, squirrel, bat, snake, horse etc.


and ive never eaten raw beef liver

[jlb]

[khyber]

if you've eaten yoghurt, you've eaten sour scream (basically)....IMO.

a friend realized when he was 19 that he had never eaten a pear.
He decided he would never eat a pear so that when someone would say "it tastes kinda like pear" he could say, "i've never eaten a pear".

me personally? nothing i haven't eaten

[huck]

delete

[Lizara]

Brussels sprouts. most kinds of fish. I've never eaten a Big Mac. That's about all I can think of....

[laogaiguk]

[HapKi]

Most meat here-
http://weirdmeat.com/

[red headed stranger]

I haven't tried Balut yet, but I am willing to give it a try . . .

[Zyzyfer]

There's a lot of foods I'm not fond of, but I've eaten most stuff at some point. The only foods that I can think of offhand that I've never eaten are silkworm larvae and sundae. Maybe octopus, too.

[JongnoGuru]

Dog & cat (yeah, it was on offer once) are two things I've never tried.

Caviar I've had and for a time fairly regularly. But after the initial fascination wore off, I saw it as an expensive novelty wasted on my low-bred palette. Too salty most of the time, which I guess is because it wasn't of very high quality.

Avocado and artichoke are not to be missed, and you should avail yourself of the next opportunity to try them, Corporal. Assuming their done right by someone who knows what they're doing. They're entirely inoffensive and hard to "do wrong", but I've seen Koreans do some funky things that would spoil someone's first adventure with those foods.

Qinella never tried a persimmon?!! And we're in Korea?? Damn, I was unloading boxes of the things on innocent passers-by last year, all from one immensely fecund tree near my front gate. (I always thought of "fecund" as a rather nasty-looking word.)

I ate silkworm larvae before, but the taste did nothing for me, I find the smell off-putting, I really didn't like that invertebratey feel of the stuff between my teeth. I don't want to eat it again. Please don't make me. Soondae and nakji are both fine, though with saeng nakji I usually need a half-bottle of soju to help fortify my resolve.

[merlot]

Not too much I haven't eaten at least once. But there is one--"head cheese." It used to groce me the frick out in the supermarket when I was a kid, and it still does.

[schwa]

Tried my first durian this february. Thats an interesting fruit.