exotic foods

[Hitokiri]

has anyone had a exotic foods (different the hamburgers and hotdogs ). Like maybe Takoyaki or monkey brians or something like that...

I'm not big in eating new foods however in Sociology Class today we had Cultural Food Day and I tried some caviar......I gagged...my friend almost threw up

[Link Antilles]

Yeah, Caviar isn't too good. I had Sushi during some international day thing at school. It's pretty good stuff! O’yeah, Calamari is delicious, as long as it’s cooked right.

[Staci]

*grins broadly* Being that I was born and raised for nineteen years in Alaska, US, I have partaken in some "unordinary" foods... Nothing truly exotic, though. I have eaten crab (not too many people in the Lower 48' states can say that), moose burgers, and duck.

Not too exotic but not common either! (Just like me! Heehee.)

PS - I LOVE sushi, especially with crab or shimp! Yum!

[Needle Noggin]

Is Calimari cosidered exotic?I also like miso soup.

[Staci]

Is Calimari cosidered exotic?I also like miso soup.

Yes, since you are from the United States, calimari would be "exotic" in your diet. It isn't an every day food. Besides, squid is not sold in every grocer's freezer, hehe.

[blueraven]

Can't really say that I have. I don't care much for what others call "exotic" - I'm very picky with what I eat. Don't care for much meat and stay away from anything that at some point in time lived in water...bad experiances when I was little and wanted to be a Marien Biologist yeah... Wait, would you consider pepperoin and peanut butter sandwiches exotic? What about pepperoin and banana and cabage? But I have had "dried" Calamari, whatever you'd like to call it. Tasted almost like dried peaches.

[Link Antilles]

Is Calimari cosidered exotic?

I dunno, I rarely see it on the menu around were I live and my friend's are disgusted by it.

[CDLviking]

I like sushi, but I hate the seaweed that it comes wrapped in.

[cbwing0]

Of the things on this list already, I have had:
Crab (not that uncommon around here, since we are near the Chesapeake Bay).
Calamari (yuck)
Duck (Hunan Duck, to be exact)

And some that aren't already on the list:
Gazpacho
Tamales

My friends and I also have a lot of fun with mixing various things and paying people to eat them. The worst one ever had sauerkraut, ketchup, peanut butter, blueberry pie (crust and all), hot sauce, mustard, sour cream, pickles, olives, and probably some other stuff that I am forgetting. One guy tried to eat a spoonful, and threw up. How's that for exotic?

[Htom Sirveaux]

My mom once made this African dish called pondo. It's spinach and peanut butter mixed up and cooked together. It's absolutely the most awful, wretched, unholy stuff I've ever tasted. Mom was the only one who liked it. So much so that she made it again a couple months later. She ate her pondo and the rest of us just got Burger King.

[cbwing0]

My mom once made this African dish called pondo. It's spinach and peanut butter mixed up and cooked together.

Peanut butter is surprisingly disgusting when mixed with other things, cosidering how good it is by itself (or with crackers).

[Emanku]

I'm mostly a "I know what I like to eat, and I'm not eating anything else" type guy but I went to this one sushi place. The main chef was the nicest guy ever! I ended up liking almost everything I ate there, surprisingly. (I even enjoyed a raw octopus tentacle the head chef gave me for free)

[Mave]

Sushi (What?! No waaayy..), crab, calamari, stingray are hardly considered exotic foods for my culture since we eat a lot of seafood. Sorry...hehe

I used to get irked by eel...but teriyaki eel is so good when cooked well.

Weird foods in my culture that (even I don't dare eat anymore) are as follows;
1) Coagulated pig's blood (soft cubes, like soft bean curd >_<)
2) Pig/cow's intestines
3) Snake blood
4) Chicken feet
5) Sea cucumber

[MasterDias]

Er, I think I'll stick to hamburgers.

I have eaten Indian(as in the country India) cuisine before. It was a decent meal although hotter than what I'm used to.
I have no intention of ever getting within 10 meters of coagulated pig's blood or cow's intestines.

[LorentzForce]

I dislike drinking/eating blood. Don't like them.

But I'll still eat cow intestines. In fact, my dad loves it. I just eat it, neither liking it or disliking it. It tastes alright when cooked right...

Chicken feet are alright, but they don't have much meat.

Raw squid and octopus tastes VERY nice. In fact, I love them. Mmmm....

Koreans eat all sorts of stuff.

[EireWolf]

Mmmm... I love Indian food.

I've had calamari; it's really good when it's hot but not so hot when it's cold.

I love sushi... especially sake (raw salmon).

Probably the most "exotic" foods I've had are frog legs (pretty darn good, actually!), and escargot (snails). The escargot was pretty good too... drowning in garlic and butter. Mmmm.....

[Technomancer]

I'll try just about anything once, and really do enjoy finding new foods.

I don't know if I'd consider calamari to be exotic, most places I know here serve it in one form or another. Of course when I was living in Halifax I used to be able to get it for $2 a pound, so I ate if fairly frequently, although I'd have to clean it myself. Blood's not too bad either, at least when served in a blood pudding. It's great for breakfast (so are kippers, but that annoys my housemates too much)

Where I live, it's fairly easy to get European foods, and the more common asian ones as well. The better grocery stores will carry a wide variety, and the farmer's market is always great. Of course, Toronto isn't far either, and it's also the most multicultural city in the world so you'll find a fair selection there as well.

[andyroo]

I usually eat some European food (Germand, Italian, et cetera), some Indian, various food from East Asia, and I think that's it. A few animals that I guess would be considered exotic would be Duck (fried), squid (calimari mostly), any kind of seasoning and sauce you can put on food. I have had seaweed before, kinda bitter, and maybe fish... I almost never know what kind I'm eating unless it's fresh water (Salmon, Trout, and Cat Fish).

[...] The better grocery stores will carry a wide variety, and the farmer's market is always great.

Also, for the rarer foods you can find them at small stores that specialise in such imports, like Indian foods and spices for example, in almost any city or town.

[YesIExist]

*grins broadly* Being that I was born and raised for nineteen years in Alaska, US, I have partaken in some "unordinary" foods... Nothing truly exotic, though. I have eaten crab (not too many people in the Lower 48' states can say that), moose burgers, and duck.

Not too exotic but not common either! (Just like me! Heehee.) ]

[font=Arial]PS - I LOVE sushi, especially with crab or shimp! Yum!

I live in Maryland. I love crabs w/Old Bay! Mainly soup and crabcakes.

[Stephen]

"I live in Maryland. I love crabs w/Old Bay! Mainly soup and crabcakes"

I was born just outside of Baltimore. Amen my sister...amen.

[Debitt]

XD I LIVE off exotic foods....

1. Thousand year old egg. Not really 1000 years old, but it's preserved egg that's been wrapped in something or other (ashes come to mind...) and preserved. ^^ They're a pretty black-brown-turquiose color.
2. Jellyfish. Crunchy, believe it or not.
3. Stir fried ferns. 'nuff said.
4. Sea snail. =D Really really good. You have to pry them out of their shells with pins, though.
5. Geoduck. Or Elephant's tusk, whichever you want to call it. REALLY DARN BIG clam things that you cut up (they're that freaking big) and cook.
6. Pig intestine. This was not intentional, and I plan to never do it again.

[Omega Amen]

My mother is Chinese, and I ate (and still eat during the breaks) her delicious cooking. So I practically lived off Chinese cooking. I guess most people would consider that exotic.

[Straylight]

Hmm I dunno whether anyones heard of this, but theres something in the Phillipines where they take a fertilised duck egg containing a half-developed fetus and EAT it. Apparently it's quite high in protein.

I've never tried it though.

[LorentzForce]

SL: I have heard about it. It was on TV, and I went 'hmm'. Wonder what it'd taste like.

[Aka-chan]

I've eaten takoyaki, but I think the weirdest thing was a whole flying fish egg sac in miso soup. It didn't taste all that terrible, but the texture was really weird.

[Straylight]

What I wanna know is why I just ate two whole chillis in one mouthful... and chewed.

*is suffering from the effects

[shooraijin]

> theres something in the Phillipines where they take a fertilised duck egg containing a half-developed fetus and EAT it.

That would be balut. No comment.

One food I absolutely found hateful in Malaysia (sorry, Mave) was durian. Even durian ice cream was nasty. The fruit stinks (literally -- the Singaporean subway will not allow durian on board because of the odour), and the flesh had the consistency and flavour of onion custard.

I did love rambutan, though!

As far as other odd foods, I've had calamari (fried, as well as boiled in its own ink -- this was rubbery and weird), sea urchin, snails (garlic-y! mmmm), ...

[Haibane Shadsie]

I eat ethnic Mexican food - true Mexican food, living in the Southwest here... but I've eaten stuff a lot of fellow white people even living down here don't know about.

One my favorite drinks is Horchata. It's a milk-like, cinimon flavored Mexican rice drink.

I eat Carne Asada quite often... in tacos, usually.

I love Pozole. It's a soup made of pork and hominy.


I've MADE and eaten Honduran-style pallella. I got the recipe from a chruch friend who is from Honduras. (Unfortuantely, I havent' seen her in a couple of years, as her family moved to Montana). She brought this pallella to a church pot luck once and I really liked it, so I got the recipie. I made it a couple of times. I think I lost the recipe, though. It's diffrent that Spanish-style pallella, and it's really good.

[Debitt]

One food I absolutely found hateful in Malaysia (sorry, Mave) was durian. Even durian ice cream was nasty. The fruit stinks (literally -- the Singaporean subway will not allow durian on board because of the odour), and the flesh had the consistency and flavour of onion custard.

My mom eats durian....that stuff is gnarly~ YOU smell bad after you eat the stuff, too. >.<

[shooraijin]

> I eat ethnic Mexican food - true Mexican food, living in the Southwest here...

Oh, that reminded me ... I liked tripe, too. Menudo, properly prepared, es muy sabroso. Chitlins, though -- hmm, I agree with Bill Cosby, if anyone's ever heard his monologue on "where the food ain't finished and where the food is finished -- leave those things a-lone!"