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STRANGE FOOD

postie

postie

Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
I just watched a guy on the telly, cook and eat a squirrel. this got me to thinking, what is the strangest or most unusual dish that you have eaten?. :shock:

I always wanted to try rabbit, but i didn't know anyone who could cook it.
Then one day I walked into a cafe in Selly Oak and it was on the menu.
I ordered it and eagerly awaited it appearance. :)
When it arrived it was cheese on toast. :cry:
It said Welsh Rabbit on the menu board, but, yes, you've guessed it, it was Welsh Rarebit. :oops:
 
here we go gathering...

Hiya Postie,
I was just wondering if the cooked squirrel carried a warning that it might contain nuts? :D
 
Warning....these nuts may contain nuts?!

I am led to believe that even packets of nuts display a warning that the product contains nuts!

Personally.....I adore Goat.
 
Rabbit stew

Hi again Postie
you just got me thinking about the first time I ate rabbit.
I was in Jimmy worrals house and his mom made rabbit stew.
I had a plate and I thought it was great. When I got home I asked our mum why we never had rabbit and she said most people wouldn't eat it anymore because of the mixupyourtoeses disease. I told her about Mrs. worrall's rabbit stew and how much I enjoyed it and she said she would buy me a half rabbit and cook it but that nobody else in the family would eat it.
So she gave me some dosh and I went up to the big greengrocery and poultry shop on the corner of whitmore road and coventry road - can't remember the name off hand - and bought half a rabbit - all skinned and ready fotr the pot. as far as I can remember it cost half a crown.
Well, our mum cooked it for me and sure enough everybody else in the family refused to have anything to do with it so I finished up eating on me own with the rest of the family watching.
Things haven't changed much!! :(
 
If there's one thing that get's my...

Hi sue
I've eaten curried goat once at an asian wedding and I enjoyed it but i've never eaten it unspiced.
Don't know of anywhere around here where you could buy it.
 
Curried Goat - Yummy!

Jerry.....you can buy goat at most Asian and Halal butchers, it reminds me very much of Lamb. Warning though - dont let the butcher chop it too much....if the bones splinter they are a devil to remove from fillings.
My friend, recently bought me back some spices from Jamaca..my youngest son asked me what a 'bag of sand' was doing in the kitchen cupboeard :roll:
 
Well I'll goat to the foot of our...

Thanks Sue, I might give that a try.
If you want strange, here's a recipe I read years ago for an arab wedding feast, I don't know if it was a send up or the real thing but it went like this
you take a chicken and stuff it with a fish, then you stuff the chicken inside a goat, then you stuff the whole lot inside a camel and cook until hungry!... those boyos sure know how to party!!
 
:D Here in NZ every year there is a food fair on the West Coast of the South Island where they dish up all sorts of strange things 8) . I have tried Kangaroo Burgers, Opossum Stew, and Ostrich, but draw the line at Huhu Grubs (wood Beetles) and Worm Fritters :( .
 
Ive had Kangaroo Tail Soup, which wasnt unlike Oxtail Soup, from Rackhams food hall which used to sell all manner of weired and wonderful foods.
Has anyone ever eaten Corn Dogs? I'm not sure you would consider them unusual? but they do have an unusual taste..... Theyre sort of hot dog type sausages wrapped in corn bread, so they taste both savoury and sweet?
I quite fancy trying the goat Sue....
 
Goat is acutally kid and tastes v nice.

It is a traitional Italian meat most particular of sicily .

I have a lovely recipe for this .

It tastes very much like lamb only stronger flavour .Im told like mutton , but cant rememebr what mutton tastes like.
 
:D Colin I work with kids but can't say that I ever tasted any... :lol: I have had freshly killed Wild Boar though and that was really nice. I've also had fresh killed Turkey and that tasted a lot different to what you buy in the super market. A friend we have is a Deer hunter and his wife makes Venison pie and that tastes really nice too. 8)
 
Am I the only veggie :?: It all started when I asked my mom why I had never seen a meat tree, and she told me. :o
 
:D Di I couldn't be a 'Veggie' even if I wanted to, I have an allergy to most veggies (not a dislike), it's a family thing my son, daughter and a niece all have it too :( , we swell-up, or get a red rash and have to take antihistermens :cry: . It was a real B..ger explaining it to new teachers a school dinner times. :)
 
Reading your comments reminded me of when I used to work in holiday camps in the south of France. Punters from England would ask me where was the best place to eat and what to order. I'd reccommend a restaurant where I had a deal with the Patron (10 customers = 1 free meal for me) and advise them to go for the viande de cheval. They come back next day telling me what a great meal they'd had and how much they'd enjoyed it, thanks very much and by the way, what is viand de cheval? I didn't always have the heart to tell them :oops:

Personally, I like goat, its sweet, but my favourite has to be venison. Guiness and venison pie is oooooooo so lovely. And while there are pigs on the planet, I could never be a vegetarian. That smell of bacon in the morning, mmmmmm.
 
Dunno Rod, but the restaurant in question was called 'Cafe de Shergar'
 
At a banquet in Beijing, I was given Chickens claws.. what the ******* do you do with a chickens claw? I don't know, but the look on my face always gave the other diners a good laugh. I was also served Chickens head as well. It caused hysterical laughter when I asked through the interpreter "What happened to the 'good bit' between the head and the claws". YUK!
 
We were served sea horses in Beirut, they were in a mezze, the meal of a thousand dishes, most of them veg or salads.
Your allergy must have caused problems at school Pom. I remeber they stood over us as we took food from the those huge metal trays. I used to hide the meat in my stockng tops, and run across the playground as soon as we finished to flush it away.
 
What's strange about horsemeat?

Nipper refers to viande de cheval as if it is strange. I do not understand why, as it is commonly eaten in European countries, and regarded in France, Belgium and Germany as a delicacy. It's always seemed very nice to me - the last I had was in Lille last October.
A few years ago when were in the thick of the BSE panic, the Germans (who had been holding out that their beef could never be defective) suddenly panicked, and had to admit that they'd got it too. Suddenly a supermarket I know in Berlin was stocked full of horsemeat cuts - heaven knows where they got so much stock from at such short notice.
Peter
 
Snake

:lol: Nice postings Folks,, I feel hungry just reading them,, Mmmh

Nipper & Frantic,, Good chuckles thrown in too :lol:

Reminds me when I went "Walkabout" I eat Snake with a little Aborigine Guy,

Was this the origin of "Snake & Pygmy Pie" :?: :wink:
 
Stange Not at all

I remember Horse Meat being sold in Brum just after the War,don't know if we had any but?
Anyone remember Shark being sold? :?
 
invitation

If you lot want to eat something REALLY strange, I'll invite yer round and my misses can cook something for yer! I think she listens to classical music when she cooks 'cause the fried eggs have always got a frilly tu tu round the edge like a ballet dancer.
 
Keeping the ball rolling - back to goat's meat

There's nothing very strange really about goat's meat, any more than goat's milk or sheep's milk - yum indeed! I'm no expert, but I doubt if any English farmed goat will taste as good as animals bred over centuries in warmer countries and probably slaughtered, hung and butchered rather differentlyaccording to local tradition.
I bought a sizeable steak of goat's meat in Croydon a few years ago, on a friend's advice, sliced it (about half inch thick) and then marinaded it in ginger, garlic, onion, real lemon juice and olive oil overnight. Next day I browned the meat slices in a very hot pan, returned the marinade, put in other veg - sliced carrot, swede or whatever, with herbs and spices of course - turned down the heat and braised it for an hour or more. It was quite nice, but Not sufficiently to want to try it again to get a real understanding of what to do with it.
Peter
 
Goat meat

Goat is the BEST meat for curry. Not the quick stir fry kind but a proper 'cook in the pot' curry.
 
Can't come at horse or kangaroo (skippy). Have tried ostrich which is okay. Mutton Birds here in Tasmania are very popular. They are a very oily bird. Don't think my digestion would cope these days.
I like frogs legs and don't mind escargot. I only recently tried smoked eel and like it very much. My daughter nearly fainted on a trip to China a few years ago when snake with snake's blood was on the banquet table. She was there about 2 months and mainly ate McDonalds which was right outside the university she was attending. :lol:
Goat is nice but I don't buy it. Rabbit I have cooked many times. Used to buy fillets in Melbourne that I casseroled (yes Italian style). It is good lean meat. Turkey chops are a fairly new things here and are a bit like a lamb bbq chop. Sea scallops and oysters are my favourites. Some specialised restaurants have witchity grubs. I have tried crocodile when I was in Far North Queensland on holiday. I'm glad it didn't try me :)
 
Stranger than fiction..

All I can say is if you really like strange food, go round to my Mother in laws..I bet you 20 pounds you'd never guess what it started out as.. 8)
 
What is it about Ma- in-laws' cooking!! My late M I L, God Bless Her, used to put the sprouts on a day before we arrive for lunch. :D
 
We usually manage to have ostrich steak off our local farmers market a couple of times a month. But what will always stick in my mind as a 'weird' dinner was my Nan's 'Pigs tails and pearl barley'.

I can remember helping her to shave the pigs tails with an old safety razor, and putting the tip of the tail in a matchbox and convincing my sister it was the end of my Grandads finger :twisted: .

It was a suprisingly yummy meal though, even if half my siblings were too squeamish to eat it.
 
Hi Kate, when I was in China I too used to eat McDonalds (which is actually WORSE than the local food) so I stuck to KFC which we renamed to KFW
Kentuckey Fried WHATEVER!!
 
I stopped eating Chinese Fran when we were living in Berlin and they were in court for cooking the local cats and dogs, totally barbaric........
 
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