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Personally, I don't have a problem trying strange meats. I might try them only once, but if other people are willing
to eat them than so am I. I do draw a firm line
somewhere, but there are probably hundreds of options of edible critters without getting too specific with regard to
breed. Over at Boing Boing, they captured a neat shot of a roasted, teriyaki-glazed alligator, an image
you may want to avoid if you are a vegetarian. Of course, they followed up with a vegetarian version, pictured above, for
non-experimental meat eaters. I've had alligator, rattlesnake and kangaroo, in addition to the much more ordinary bison
and ostrich. The kangaroo reminded me of lamb and had a nice flavor with a bit of a gamey taste. The rattlesnake had a
meltingly tender, flaky texture. What's the weirdest meat you've eaten?
[Image via Boing Boing]
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3-21-2006 @11:30AM Robyn said... I've had jellyfish. Does that count? That's the only weird meat I like also. I don't even like lamb. or eel. or some kinds of fish. I'm very not into weird animal products.
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3-21-2006 @12:22PM Hawk said... Mealworms.
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3-21-2006 @12:57PM Hugh said... In Tokyo, my kind host took me to a sushi place in the Ginza we had beef (Kobe I think), horse and whale sushi. All raw.
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3-21-2006 @12:57PM rainey said... I've had alligator. When I was a preschool teacher my class loved a poem that has a verse that goes "alligator pie, alligataor pie, if I don't get some I think I'm gonna die" so, NATURALLY, I had to make them an alligator pie. We had it with a loaf of bread that looked just like your illustrating photo.
I've also had squirrel. My grandfather who was from a very rural area of Maine and hunted all his life came to visit. He caught a squirrel and made a stew of it. It tasted like rabbit and it was delicious.
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3-21-2006 @12:58PM zillionaire said... people.
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3-21-2006 @1:06PM ScottR said... No soylent green, but I have had ostrich. Tastes like chicken, only larger ;-)
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3-21-2006 @1:26PM Miriam said... Alligator: chewy, like shoes
Calves' brains: tasted liked they smelled
Ostrich: all the time at Hooligan's in Milwaukee
Pigeons shot off my grampa's roof: quite tasty!
Sea urchin: not a fan
Beef heart stew: very good
Bamboo Carterpillars in Brine (
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spinkitty/95296520/): um, not yet
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3-21-2006 @2:30PM ZaphodB said... Alligator: like low-quality beef.
Muktuk, which is raw whale blubber - I had beluga - with a bit of skin attached: Tasted like slightly fishy pink erasers.
Seal: Gamey, rich, and fatty. Quite pleasant, actually.
Musk-Ox: Also quite good. Gamey, lean beef.
Caribou: Unsurprisingly, like venison, but a bit gamier.
Ptarmigan: Somewhat like goose, but leaner, and 'sharper' in flavor.
Ah...the joys of growing up a foody in the far north. No haute cuisine, but some truly unique foods.
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3-21-2006 @3:14PM mamajane said... I grew up eating raw ground beef (still love it!), raw oysters, blood sausage, tongue, heart; also had rattlesnake, alligator, octopus. I'll try anything (I think!) The only thing I could not bring myself to try were the pickled lambs tongues my dad brought home. They were stacked up neatly, packed into a jar (commercially made). Probably would have tasted good. I think I was 10 or 12 at the time, & all I could think of were the poor little lambs ---
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3-21-2006 @7:46PM Huffy said... Goat's head, a Mexican specialty, and it was very tasty; I did, however, stay away from the eyeballs.
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3-21-2006 @7:58PM Alex said... People might be grossed out but here it goes:
Cat, Dog, Horse, Cow Brain, Alligator, all sorts of insects, tounge, heart, blood sausage, intestense and stomachs. Thats all I can think of at the moment. The really strange onese were either when I was in Germany or China.
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3-24-2006 @7:47PM Sara said... When I was 16, I ate these worms in Australia with the Aborigines. I can't remember what they were called though. They were crunchy...
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3-29-2006 @8:00PM lear said... Heh, ZaphodB apparently lives near me.
His list with the addition of:
Brown Bear - Strong gamey flavor, but great stew.
Black Bear - sweeter and and not as strong as the Kodiak.
Fermented Shark - A friend brought it back from Iceland. Pure evil.
Stink Heads - Salmon Heads that have buried and fremented. Intense fishiness and umame presence.
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4-19-2006 @11:09PM WeirdMeat.com said... I've eaten a lot of weird things, I've devoted an entire blog to the weird foods I've tried, so check it out here:
http://www.weirdmeat.com/
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