Out of your comfort zone meat eating experience

have ate horse meat and liked it. muskrat was excellent.bear not so much. elk was terrible. rabbits ,squirrel , all good. tried horse milk and found it to be very drinkable.one food item i like is whole corn washed in gillets lye and cooked . sounds terrible but i had an amish friend who gave me some and i liked it . come to think of it this guy was a great practical joker so i do not know if that is the way to make it .
 
farmer47 said:
have ate horse meat and liked it. muskrat was excellent.bear not so much. elk was terrible. rabbits ,squirrel , all good. tried horse milk and found it to be very drinkable.one food item i like is whole corn washed in gillets lye and cooked . sounds terrible but i had an amish friend who gave me some and i liked it . come to think of it this guy was a great practical joker so i do not know if that is the way to make it .
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I’m surprised you didn’t like the elk, you should give it another go. Slow cooker elk roast with carrots, yams and potatoes is one of my favorites.
 
Restricted to "outside my comfort zone", picked and cooked up some sea cucumber on the coast last summer. Threw the strips in to cook with some rockfish fillets in butter. They were more than edible, quite good, thought the texture was different.

Some of the best game meat I have eaten - Spring black bear.

Some of the worst game meat I have eaten - Spring black bear.
 
My dad ended up in east Germany as a young child after ww2 ended, he said food wasn’t always easy to come by under Russian occupation, meat even more so. They trapped and killed small critters with slings, slingshots and snares. Lots of rabbits if they were lucky, he used to joke about eating “roof rabbits”. I asked him once what a roof rabbit was, he laughed and said cats.
 
franktank said:
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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No UNI..?
No Geoduck..?
Those remain a couple favs...
 
While in Peru had Alpaca, Guinea Pig and Silver Arowana. Didn't really like the Guinea Pig. Tried Muktuk (Beluga skin and fat) while in the Arctic. To me it tasted like solidified cod liver oil. Turned down the blow-fly larva from a freshly killed caribou. I'm not that adventurous.
 
A couple of obvious ones missing from the list would be common fish species, but they're not really "out of your comfort zone" for most of us - salmon, trout, pike, whitefish, halibut, catfish, plus clam... (but beef and pork are on the list so...)

Fish eggs/roe and uni (sea urchin, or more technically their gonads) are two more to add to the list.
 
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crow is not on the list.
As for robins, a friend of mine once told me he cooked up a bunch for a meal when he was playing "Super Hippie in the Woods". Claimed it was better than squirrel. Also said the north american robin is actually a "thrush", and quiet common as food in europe.
 
Hollow Point said:
crow is not on the list.
As for robins, a friend of mine once told me he cooked up a bunch for a meal when he was playing "Super Hippie in the Woods". Claimed it was better than squirrel. Also said the north american robin is actually a "thrush", and quiet common as food in europe.
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Have you tried crow?
 
dan belisle said:
Dog, snakes, various lizards, donkey, monkey, various bugs, bats, alligator, crocodile, lion, giraffe, zebra, warthog (delicious), ostrich, raven (yuck), whale, seal. Whatever the locals ate where ever I worked mostly. - dan
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So you are the one that ate the bat...
 
A few years ago we ate a garter snake.... My son seen it on youtube and wanted to try it.... So one day we found one in our window well. We gut it, washed it and fried it up. I made sure to overcook it. It looked like beacon strips but tasted like crap........... So no more snake for me :)
 
fratri said:
A few years ago we ate a garter snake.... My son seen it on youtube and wanted to try it.... So one day we found one in our window well. We gut it, washed it and fried it up. I made sure to overcook it. It looked like beacon strips but tasted like crap........... So no more snake for me :)
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They smell like crap too, I'd eat earth worms in a heart beat before snake. I'm not sure if we can safely eat earth worms alive and raw tho.
 
I was gonna reply to this list bit but after 12 pages I got basically nothing to add. All been covered. I'm older now and not nearly as adventurous so my guess is if I haven't eaten it by now I ain't gonna try it !
Cheers!!
 
If we are going to count insects as well then the large one in the photo below is out of my comfort zone. I eat the rest and they are very yummy if cook correctly. Not sure the name of the smallest one but man, I love it the most.

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Ultraviolet said:
I travelled to Mexico and a local farmer made a mole to welcome us. Actually tastes okay. If you could get farm raised pigeons, they are delicious.
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I've eaten pigeon in restaraunts in Europe. It was good, but not as good as pigeons I've shot on farms around here and cooked myself. Urban pigeons will be eating trash so I'd only eat them out of necessity. If they are hanging around a farm on a steady diet of spilled grain they'll be good.

I didn't hesitate to try any of these and they were all at least o.k.:

alligator (restaurant here)
eel (fish & chip shop in England)
bear
iguana ("Belize chicken")
frog legs (restaurants in Europe.)
horse (restaurant in France)

I'll go hungry for a while before I ever eat insects.
 
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