Shadsie
Sage of Tales
I hope there's a not already a thread like this. To be honest, I was too lazy to click through pages.
So, I'm a fan of certain culinary-weirdness shows on the Travel Channel (American basic cable), but this thread was inspired by my dinner tonight. My fiance' and I frequent a very nice Chinese-and-other buffet. We used to go there weekly, but we aren't going so much anymore. Anyway, this place is inexpensive and offers quite a variety of dishes to load one's plate up with. I was joking tonight about how much of the animal kingdom I was eating through. I was all "Mammal, bird, fish, crustacean...cephlapod." They didn't have amphibian tonight (sometimes the place has frog legs, tonight they didn't). I had some pepper beef, roast duck, crab legs, shrimp, and some imiation crab (made of fish) and very small octopi as part of a seafood medly dish.... and that was just what I had for tonights' dinner...
I then decided to figure out just what the weirdest thing I've ever eaten is... It might be the teeny little octopi... it might be frog legs... it might even be the common bluegill/sunfish I sometimes catch while fishing becuase not all fishermen consider those to be edible. (I do. They're good, they're just really bony).
I think the weirdest thing I may have eaten might have been self-caught wild crawdads/crayfish. I only had them once, several years ago, when I was camping at a lake with my family in Arizona (one of the cool-climate mountainous regions of the state). They're an invasive speices there - the Game and Fish department encourages killing them because they're destructive to native wildlife. They are edible - you boil them and eat them, but I haven't had them since because I just wasn't impressed. The ones I ate were kind of muddy-tasting.
So, anybody eat anything weird?
So, I'm a fan of certain culinary-weirdness shows on the Travel Channel (American basic cable), but this thread was inspired by my dinner tonight. My fiance' and I frequent a very nice Chinese-and-other buffet. We used to go there weekly, but we aren't going so much anymore. Anyway, this place is inexpensive and offers quite a variety of dishes to load one's plate up with. I was joking tonight about how much of the animal kingdom I was eating through. I was all "Mammal, bird, fish, crustacean...cephlapod." They didn't have amphibian tonight (sometimes the place has frog legs, tonight they didn't). I had some pepper beef, roast duck, crab legs, shrimp, and some imiation crab (made of fish) and very small octopi as part of a seafood medly dish.... and that was just what I had for tonights' dinner...
I then decided to figure out just what the weirdest thing I've ever eaten is... It might be the teeny little octopi... it might be frog legs... it might even be the common bluegill/sunfish I sometimes catch while fishing becuase not all fishermen consider those to be edible. (I do. They're good, they're just really bony).
I think the weirdest thing I may have eaten might have been self-caught wild crawdads/crayfish. I only had them once, several years ago, when I was camping at a lake with my family in Arizona (one of the cool-climate mountainous regions of the state). They're an invasive speices there - the Game and Fish department encourages killing them because they're destructive to native wildlife. They are edible - you boil them and eat them, but I haven't had them since because I just wasn't impressed. The ones I ate were kind of muddy-tasting.
So, anybody eat anything weird?