Craziest foods you've ever tried
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Ooooh I love cockles and muscles β¦ which is weird because as stated before I hate the texture of prawns π
On the subject of animals β¦ I love offal - stuffed lambs heart was a Friday night dish for many years β¦ liver/ bacon and onions over chips. Love home made steak and kidney pie
I remember back when Oxtail or shin was the cheapest of the cheap cuts. Thanks to celebrity chefs that isn't the case and can't remember the last time I had them
I did marinade my own pork ribs and cook them in the slow cooker, then finished them off in the air fryer a couple of months ago β¦ succulent, smoky and hot π
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@JessieJ I really do agree with trying everything before deciding, that goes beyond food too!
As for eggs, I wonder if it was something a bit more primitive, something we'd consider silly today? There's a parable in the bible about a couple with a hen that lays a single solid gold egg per day, and greed led the couple to cut the hen open hoping for all the eggs at once⦠sounds stupid but maybe someone saw what eggs become and thought there was a tasty chicken inside the egg?
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At least you're still here to type that, I'd call that a win π
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As a kid, we had stuffed pig hearts every week, I still have them now, when I can find them. I think offal is just about the tastiest meat. I draw the line at brain, which has been mentioned. Closest I got was a friend ordered them when in France, I'm still not sure that he understood what he'd ordered & who was I to tell him, but he seemed to enjoy them.
I agree with you on the cheap cuts of meat & TV chefs, lamb shanks used to be cheap, nowβ¦ π΅
Well done on the ribs, fall off the bone goodness when done in the slow cooker, yummy!
@66Mustang, yes, maybe or from when we still lived in caves & anything was food.
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"yes, maybe or from when we still lived in caves & anything was food."
I read an article a while ago. It was centred around the whisky industry and mostly men being in it, despite women being more likely to be classed as a "supertaster" which is a label given to someone with more taste buds than normal causing them to have a very sensitive sense of taste
It's theorised it comes from the times you were describing, where anything was food: women tended to be the ones to give food to their children, and would taste-test first before feeding to their children
If you apply Darwin's rules it's clear why there would be a higher evolutionary benefit for women who were supertasters, because their children would have a higher chance of survival, rather than just themselves as was the typical case with male supertasters
It's not proven but makes sense to me
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That is interesting & does make sense, @66Mustang. A lot of females will have died though, being the first to taste test. π
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Sure enough 66mustang, whilst we men were risking our lives out foraging, hunting and warring with each other, women were supposedly purely focused on putting their feet up at home and evolving senses of style and good taste! Always makes me laugh.
Anyhoo, in no particular order:
Wagyu (4 types of Japanese cattle), veal, venison, buffalo, bison, mouflon (Mediterranean wild sheep, look and taste more like goats), mangalitza (or mangalica, a Hungarian type of hairy pig/boar), pigeon, foie gras, duck, ostrich, emu, kangaroo, springbok, wild boar, rabbit, squirrel, horse, camel, reindeer, zebra, goat, elk, antelope, nilgai (Asian antelope), biltong, hogget and mutton (1 and 2+ year old lambs respectively), snail, crocodile, alligator, turtle, various snakes, oysters, sea cucumber, geoduck, clams, muscles, lion fish, jelly fish, tamilock, Japanese and UK cuttlefish, sea urchin, and let's not forget frog's legs!
Do black pudding, grouse, pheasant and partridge even qualify?
Can you tell I've just spent more than an hour reflecting on my meaty adventures? Thanks, I enjoyed that. There may have been others. π€
In case anyone is curious each had their own particular pros, the trick was mostly working out how to cook them well. I'll likely most of them again.
As others have written, I guess I'd only have foie gras again if I was in France and given it, that's also why I've tried it. I found horse, zebra and camel a bit too tough, but that's also why I very rarely eat beef. Some people like it that way.
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I think that's exactly the point of the evolution theory. Maybe those who had to taste a fatal amount died and "supertasters" survived as they could detect toxicity without having to take a large bite?
Also add in the fact that the parent who died was likely "taking one" for their child, although maybe less evolutionary benefit to the child as I imagine if a mother died in those times no one else would look after the child
A common mistake people make with evolution is assuming there is some kind of planning or consciousness behind it
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My wife puts jam on cream crackers. Really wish I'd known how twisted she is before we got married β¦
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My own cooking
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Octopus, was very chewwy. Or maybe was undercooked
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I once went to a barbeque where I was served Shark, Ostrich, Alligator and Kangaroo meatβ¦.
The Kangaroo and Ostrich were extremely tender but the Shark and Alligator were gristley !
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Not a crazy food but people can't believe I find the fat on a pork chop the best part.
It's okay β¦ I'm on statins βΊοΈ
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I'm with you on this one, i buy the pork shoulder steaks for the fat!
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We can harden our arteries together π¨βπ³
That's my tea tonight now. Pork shoulder steak, chips and a nice free range egg, the yolks are so orange it's almost day-glo. Loads of salt
Damn I'm so going to die young β¦ ish π
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