Alfresco

What’s the most spine tingling, hair raising, bone chilling food you’ve actually eaten...?

Crocodile, shark, monkey brain, cockroaches...

JackTheLad

I cook beef cheeks often for my kids and most people seem a bit surprised when I tell them that. So I guess it's exotic in some way! To me, beef cheeks are just a different cut of beef, very economical and tastes fantastic when stewed with heaps of tomatoes and herbs. Anyone who likes the most delicious, melt-in-your-mouth beef stew, I would definitely recommend it.

When I was little, I had all kinds of game meat, wild birds, etc, before many of them were banned from consumption, but none was really "spine tingling, hair raising, bone chilling" enough to mention.

Mrs JTL

sr71

i've had crocodile, as well as most Australian game meats like kangaroo, emu (or ostrich, not sure which one). Had deep fried grasshoppers in Thailand

Dorothy

Oh, for a minute when I saw the title I thought this was a thread about me.

Anyway, most exotic thing I've eaten. I've had buffalo burgers and moose. The buffalo was actually really not very nice, but I love moose.

framac67

From the facial area or the derriere. The reason I ask is... the first one would feel like a nice soft cherubic cheek and the others an asshole.

kimandken

Just Haggis for me..... I suppose it has a wee bit of everything

ABCDiamond

Snails, Frogs legs, and Black Pudding (or blood pudding for accuracy)

kimandken

I also like Black Pudding, but you do need to have HP Brown sauce to with it

Geelong Gent

human?

sonlymewalter

A Chinese friend of mine has eaten dog. It's popular in the village she's from.

Kooky.

I just can't; I'm very squeamish. I prefer my meat not to look like it was ever alive (hypocrite) and to come without lips and eyes.

Even having lived in Asia, and loving many types of Asian food, I couldn't bring myself to eat chicken's feet.

(Black pudding is my guilty secret, however.)

Lord_Farquar

Not really bone chilling, but have had horse in France.

Have also had Crocodile.

JackTheLad

The facial area, as the muscles there are heavily used to chew grass and therefore great for slow cooking or stewing. The derriere is also called the rump, far from being exotic, and lots of people like to eat. I find rump boring, too lean. For steaks, give me rib fillet on bone or sirloin any day.

So as far as cheeks go, I much prefer the former to the latter. No dirty jokes please.

Mrs JTL

sonlymewalter

I agree mate. Pigs feet are common too. There isn't hardly any meet on these and wings too

Kooky.

In Asian cuisine, nothing is wasted. Or should I say almost nothing - I was forgetting about those pesky sharks that swim around, dying a horrible death, once their fins have been chopped off.