Out of your comfort zone meat eating experience

Seal eye (uncooked) in Nunavut. But when in Rome.....you don’t offend the locals.

I can understand the interest as while not common to eat eyeballs in areas with an abundance/surplus of food, they have lots of fats and oils and for traditional subsistence diets that was important.

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Insects are a bit outside my comfort zone. Have eaten earth worms, grasshoppers and crickets though. If I had the opportunity, I would probably refuse deep fried spiders from a Vietnamese street vendor. My niece told me about that one. I'll eat any kind of real meat. The only one I can say I didn't care for was some undercooked, fishy and rubbery crocodile while on safari in Kenya. Cleaned my plate though. Some of the more exotic stuff I've eaten and thought was OK is kangaroo, camel, bear, beaver, muskrat, feral pigeon, house sparrows, fresh water crayfish, red squirrel. I figure most any critter is made out of food, you just need to be hungry enough, or curious & adventuresome.
 
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Nobody mentioned antelope yet. That's as adventurous as I've been, but it's excellent as far as I have experienced.
 
I have eaten most things during work and travel. Here's a few interesting bits:
- snake - Had it a few times, tasted okay. It was very different and hard to describe. Maybe a bit fishy.
- alligator and crocodile - Texture was like stringy chicken with a cod-like flavour. I think the croc tasted better than the alligator.
- dog - Didn't know for sure it was dog but I suspected it was when it was served to me. Odd flavour but texture was like any other red meat.
- grasscutter - These are like a big guinea pig or swamp marmot. Very similar to a cottontail.
 
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Bear is delicious, just saying. In Ontario it is against the law to allow bear meat to spoil, so someone has to keep and store it and presumably eat it at some point. Bear is one of my personal favorites of big game meat.
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I'd like to go for spring Black Bear here on the island but I haven't been able to convince my wife to try it,;) yet. She's tried any Island Deer, White Tail, Mulies and Antelope from Alberta. Oh, and Moose but I've got my work cut out for me getting her to agree to trying Spring Black Bear. I'll keep working on it, in hope for this coming spring,
 
Here is the list so far of what we ate as a community.

Alligator
Alpaca
Antelope
Ants
Asian Deer
Bamboo mussels
Bear
Bear claw
Beaver
Beef
Big Horn sheep
Bison
Black bear
Blow fish
Bore
Camel
Canada goose
Caribou
Chicken
Chimpmunks
Cobra and Cobra's eggs
Cottontail
Cougar
Coyote
Crab
Crayfish
Crickets
Crocodile
Crocodile eggs
Deer
Dog
Donkey
Duck
Earth worms
Eel
Elk
Escargot
Farm raisen pigeon
Frogs
Frogs Mako
Garther snake
Gator
Goat
Grasscutter
Grasshopper
Grizzly
Groundhog
Guinea pig
Horse
House sparrow
Iguana
Jackrabbit
Jellyfidsh
Kangaroo
Kudu
Lamb
Lobster
Loon
Lynx
Mahimahi
Mole
Monkey
Moose
Moose nose
Mountain goat
Mountain sheep
Mule deer
Muskox
Muskrat
Octopus
Ostriche
Pheasant
Pigeon
Pine marteen
Pirhanha
Porcupine
Pork
Pork eyeball
Pork head cheese
Pronghorn
Ptarmigan
Racoon
Rattlesnake
Raw heart
Reindeer
River otter
Ruffed grouse
Scorpion
Seal
Seal brain
Seal eye
Sea worm
Shark
Shark sliders
Sharp skinned hawk
Sharp tail grouse
Shrimp
Skate fish
Snake
Snowshoe hare
Speed goat
Spruce grouse
Squab
Squid
SquidShark
Squirrel
Sturgeon
Suckermouth (Doogs Favorite)
Swamp marmot
Swamp rat
Tiger
Tofu
Turtle
Turtle eggs
Wallaby
Warthog
Whistler
Whitetail
Wild boar
Wild turkey
Witchetty grubs

121 Species/parts, this list is ABSOLUTLY amazing!! Thanks for sharing guys, feel free to add more species if they aren't listed here. :cheers:
 
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When I was a kid we shot a robin with our slingshot and cooked it over a bonfire. It was over cooked, dry and horrible. I suspect a properly cooked robin would taste better but its not high on my list to try again.
Also caught and cooked a snapping turtle once when we were young. My brother liked it but I had a hard time getting past the smell. I'd actually like to try it again to give it a fair chance.
 
I have travelled a bit, and as such, have been offered [and ate] a lot of different "meats"
In China on a teaching exchange, I took a tour with my interpreter, who informed me that
in one area that we would visit, dog was served extensively. I told him: "If you feed me dog,
I just don't want to know", lol. Probably ate some, but if so, could not pick it out as dog.

A lot of aversion to certain foods is entirely psychological. I am will to try practically any
food once, and then judge it by flavor [and texture]. I personally think we are missing out
on a lot of high quality protein by not adding certain insects to our diet. Some of them are
delicious. Dave.
 
FishHog said:
When I was a kid we shot a robin with our slingshot and cooked it over a bonfire. It was over cooked, dry and horrible. I suspect a properly cooked robin would taste better but its not high on my list to try again.
Also caught and cooked a snapping turtle once when we were young. My brother liked it but I had a hard time getting past the smell. I'd actually like to try it again to give it a fair chance.
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As youths, one of my pals and I did the same thing to a Bluejay. While it tasted OK, I remember it as very stringy and tough,
like chewing on rubber. D.
 
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