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I'm curious about how adventurous people are when it comes to eating. There are various foods that different cultures find more or less appealing that are incomprehensible to others. So here's a list of foods and I want to know which ones you have eaten.

[Poll #692348]

Date: 2006-03-16 09:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] badasstronaut.livejournal.com
The rabbit was fresh white lab rabbit with delicious onion gravy. Mmm.

The eel I tried for the sake of politeness, but I didn't like it at all.

Date: 2006-03-16 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thidwick.livejournal.com
Probably the most unusual (to Americans, anyway) thing I've ever eaten was smoked grasshoppers. They tasted quite like bacon and had a nice crunch, but there was something disconcerting about the feeling of antennae and legs in my mouth.

Date: 2006-03-16 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thidwick.livejournal.com
I should probably add that, while it likely goes without saying, this happened while I was in Japan.

Date: 2006-03-16 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
Grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, even rice field cock roaches are eaten in many countries.

Date: 2006-03-16 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thidwick.livejournal.com
Oh, I know. But Japan is the only place I've been that's like that. :-)

I was sixteen when I went to Japan, and at that point in my life I think the most exotic thing I'd eaten might have been a cannoli -- my family are very much meat-and-potatoes sort of people, and for us "ethnic" food meant sweet and sour chicken from the local Chinese place. I had never even SEEN Japanese food, much less eaten any of it. Naturally, the first meal I was served was *all* hardcore Japanese food -- in my memory, everything on that table had tentacles, though I'm certain that was not actually the case. :-) On the last morning I spent with my host family, they noted that I hadn't been eating much for breakfast (every day they gave me a hunk of raw tuna and a huge glass of unsweetened ice coffee), so for breakfast that day they made....Tuna Helper. I nearly died. :-)

These days, I *love* Japanese food. I'm not super-adventurous, but there are very few things I won't try at least once.

Date: 2006-03-16 09:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnimmel.livejournal.com
'haven't eaten' doesn't mean 'wouldn't eat', though -- most of the foodstuffs I haven't had I'd probably try if I were somewhere where they were available.

Date: 2006-03-16 09:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
I'm pretty much like that too, though I might have a hard time eating cat.

Date: 2006-03-16 09:40 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rosinarowantree.livejournal.com
You forgot to include guinea pig on your list. Not that I'd bother to eat another one, so Mr Snuffles is quite safe from me.

Date: 2006-03-16 09:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
I may compile a follow up list of things I missed; guinea pig and rat coming right up!

Date: 2006-03-17 12:36 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rosinarowantree.livejournal.com
There's horse too - it's squicky for me, but seems to be standard on the continent And donkey - I've seen donkey sausages for sale in France, actually labelled saucisson d'ane. Poor Eyeore.

Date: 2006-03-16 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com
Rather like eel, if it's unagi and there's not a lot of it -- too rich for me. Alligator I would not bother eating again -- it really does taste like chicken -- in an oily, fishy way.

No animals that I consider pets, nor insects at any stage of life, thanks. Also, no carnivores (pork doesn't exactly count). And no primates or cetacea nor, in fact, any other sea mammal.

Those are will nots. I've actually pretty much limited travel plans to places where I won't be asked to eat those things.

Ask me again after the apocalypse, though.

Date: 2006-03-17 12:16 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ironed_orchid
Alligator is hard to get here, but I have eaten crocodile (and goanna, and kangaroo, wallaby and possum).

Date: 2006-03-17 12:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marnameow.livejournal.com
Most of the ones I haven't ticked I havent yet encountered in an eating way, due to be a strict veggie creature most of my life. The only thing on there that I wouldn't try is a cat. I could never eat a feline creature.

Date: 2006-03-17 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thidwick.livejournal.com
TINY LITTLE KITTEN!!!

i could never, ever eat anything feline, either. (Actually, while I've had rabbit in the past, I won't eat it. I have a rule against eating anything that I find to be cute.)

Date: 2006-03-17 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lisajulie.livejournal.com
Most of the ones I haven't eaten are because I haven't run across them yet. Like others, though, I might have a problem knowingly eating cat.

Date: 2006-03-17 12:34 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] liv
I like to think of myself as reasonably adventurous. But I also keep some approximation of kosher, which rules out rather a lot of stuff which also happens to be weird or unappealing or whatever.

Date: 2006-03-17 04:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pyroclasticgrub.livejournal.com
Why isn't kangaroo on here?

Date: 2006-03-17 08:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
I'll put it on the follow up list. I thought about it but couldn't see why kangaroo was weirder than deer or moose or buffalo.

Date: 2006-03-17 12:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] piratehead.livejournal.com
I ate fried duck tongues once.

Date: 2006-03-17 04:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com
Sorry, I think I missed off rabbit which I have eaten several times!

And maybe you should have put seaweed on the list, too!

Date: 2006-03-17 04:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
And maybe you should have put seaweed on the list, too!

Perhaps so, though I suspect that almost anyone who has eaten raw fish has eaten seaweed too.

Date: 2006-03-18 02:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geneticallydead.livejournal.com
I've eaten ostrich. It was ostrich jerky, actually, provided by a South African friend. I can remember the taste as distinct, not like anything I'd had before. Kind of red meaty but leathery. I didn't like it at all.

Date: 2006-03-18 03:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] violetsaunders.livejournal.com
what do snails and frogs count as? I checked insect - but maybe should have been worm or grub.

Date: 2006-03-18 03:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
Guess I hadn't really considered frogs or snails though I've eaten both.

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