What is the weirdest/most exotic creature you have ever eaten?

And what was it like?

For me, it was muskrat. Boiled and fed to me by Cree Indians in Northern Saskatchewan.

It tasted like fishy rodent.

Aside from whale (http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-does-whale-taste-like), I’ve knowingly eaten Camel which was boring and once had what was described as ‘bush meat’, not sure what it was.

Zebra – Horse
Impala – Venison
Springbok – Very, very gamey venison
Reindeer – horse-venison hybrid

Baby robin

I once ate a live Stickleback for a bet; didn’t chew it but felt a bit sick as I think it swam about in my stomach for a while

Cuttlefish. Rubbery.

Mermaid – tasted like salty chicken

live mealworms and crickets probably for me.. nutty and bitter

guinea pig in argentina…. tasted like bbq rabbit

Pigs brains
Jelly fish
Snake
Live shrimp
Ducks feet
Baby bird

All in china

I had camel and horse last night. Camel was chewy but pretty tasty.

One of those black spikey sea urchins that are common on rocks around the med, my sister broke it open and told me it would taste like jelly beans, so I ate it. She lied.

I had sex once with a girl who had been to a convent school. She was quite posh. Does that count?

Alpaca steak. I like to think the same one provided me with a jumper too.

Unicorn. Tasted kind of like beef.

Dog in Indonesia – hardly exotic, very chewy and not a meat id tray again in a while!

Stir-fried butterfly pupae in Korea.

They taste very mothy, and are best washed down with lots of beer.

I had a bacon once

Tarantula – in Cambodia … I just MTFU and ate it, bit like elastic, took a lot of chewing. Washed down with red bull… Not a great idea. 🙂

Deep fried scorpion. Crunchy.

ti_pin_man, you are the winner for me, purely for the Red Bull chaser

Tried loads of street food in China, most of it was weird. purple goo like semolina/fish egg/porridge hybrid was possibly the weirdest looking, all manner of insects… I felt decidedly shit for a few days after that.

turns out it was probably the dullest thing I ate that trip… purple sweet potato porridge.

Crocodile – it tasted like chicken.

Sharks fin soup=shite
Reindeer stew=brill

Crocodile, was very nice.

I had crocodile in Nairobi, thought it was like a cross between raw chicken and that goo that sticks CDs to the front of magazines.

Had an Emu steak in Malaysia – tasted very nice. Was like very fine Beef.

Also had Reindeer which was like greasy, rough Beef. I enjoyed the Reindeer more because we cooked it over an open fire inside a Teepee 200km inside the arctic circle – sweet 😀

camel toe

Chrysalis in China, very edible. Donkey. Some sort of sparrow which seemed to be more tiny bones than anything worthwhile.

Frogs legs, horse, stuffed quail. Not all in the same meal though. And a long time ago too; not eaten meat or fish for 15 years I think.

Nothing really exotic, but I had ray once. It was in strings, like fishy chewy spaghetti; two layers separated by a solid array of what looked like finger bones made out of cartlidge. Not that nice really, tasted like fish but texture was off-putting.

Also had elk aka moose. That was delicious, and tasted a lot like the venison rump I had recently from Welsh red deer. Much less gamey than I was expecting.

Not at all exotic for most people but I had a slice of raw salmon fresh from the sea, seasoned with dill and salt. Tasted great but really turned my stomach.

Thousand year old eggs, neither look, feel, smell or taste like the common hen’s egg from which they are produced. A reasonable explanation is after the hens egg is mummified, a small Chinese dragon is hatched, that breathes hydrogen sulphide instead of fire. This creature lays the egg that was served to me in Chinese restaurant.

no ortolon yet…

Shark
Rattle Snake
Alligator

fondue in Banff

Longpig
Shark- not really that weird tbh, it’s just manky fish
Zebra- basically just horse.

It’s not really weird, but yak ribs- just like normal ribs, except bloomin gigantic. All I can say about that is, don’t drop one in the sauce, it’ll make the sort of mess you can’t fix with a napkin.

Lamb but it was like Cannibalism

I’ve eaten fugu in a sushi restaurant in Hiroshima, and whale in a proper posh place in Tokyo, but I think the weirdest meat would be the tortoise in Cambodia. Was beautiful whilst at the same time a little bit horrifying.

I inadvertently ate a bear rissole at a Swedish / Canadian wedding.

And no that’s not a euphemism.

…or a typo.

Horse, on purpose. And some strange starchy cardboard thing with ant and chilli dip in a rainforest.

Longpig

wow, i used to think i’d try anything…

More bacons on a long one.