Out of your comfort zone meat eating experience

Beef & elk tongue. Might as well eat sandpaper.
The odd rutted up whitetail. Sometimes have a rank taste. Would much sooner kill a doe.
Old buffalo. Was given a case of steaks once. No one could eat it.
Only once did I have moose that had a strong poplar taste that was very bad.
Meat from a running caribou. It made my grandmother throw up it was so bad. Shoot them when they are calm.
Old Canada goose. Young one's taste fine. My wife will eat just about anything but won't cook a goose ever again.
 
I have tried a lot of things from crickets to bear but the most out of the comfort zone was human placenta when I lived on a commune. Was like a cross between ground beef and liver. The father fried it up at breakfast the morning after the birth (pun alert!) Me and him were the only ones who tried it. When I left the house and was walking through the woods back home I got kinda queezy thinking the experience was a bit canniballistic. Got over that quickly though. It's way more common than one might think.
 
franktank said:
I tried groundhog once to find out it was like chewing on a tire. Other than that my experience is normal and I tried pretty much all the game meat. I've heard that pigeon is like chicken but since they carry so many desease it's a hard pass for me.

The meat eater guy tried coyote, I will personally never eat dogs. I have to admit I never tried bear and never will, I just can't picture me doing it.

Share your experience, the worst game meat you'll never try too.
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Pigeons are more like ducks, not like chicken at all.
 
This is not "out of my comfort zone" so I guess it is off topic?

Black bear is pretty good, had it in a stew. It was as good as if not better than beef.
Beaver baked with pineapple, good but a bit strong for most people.
Baked Sandhill Crane, very tough, dry and stringy
Cotton tail rabbit, slow cooked with onion, tomatoe and cayenne pepper, very goo
Fried leopard frog legs, very good
Llama steak, very good
 
Whale sashimi. Not sure which kind of whale. Had it in S. Korea. It was blubbery, and oily but not the worst thing i've had.

One thing i've been curious about is seal meat. Seen documentaries of natives eating it and wondered if it was any good.
 
fyodor said:
I have tried a lot of things from crickets to bear but the most out of the comfort zone was human placenta when I lived on a commune. Was like a cross between ground beef and liver. The father fried it up at breakfast the morning after the birth (pun alert!) Me and him were the only ones who tried it. When I left the house and was walking through the woods back home I got kinda queezy thinking the experience was a bit canniballistic. Got over that quickly though. It's way more common than one might think.
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You win.
 
fyodor said:
I have tried a lot of things from crickets to bear but the most out of the comfort zone was human placenta when I lived on a commune. Was like a cross between ground beef and liver. The father fried it up at breakfast the morning after the birth (pun alert!) Me and him were the only ones who tried it. When I left the house and was walking through the woods back home I got kinda queezy thinking the experience was a bit canniballistic. Got over that quickly though. It's way more common than one might think.
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Dogleg said:
Crocodile was is pretty good if you have real crocodile not some ground up from whatever they can find on the floor burger. Tastes like chewy fish; or crap if you get the second one.

Kangaroo and wallaby can be very good; much of it tastes like deer with a bit of a wild taste. Some of it tastes like toxic waste, you might as well lick a battery then wash it down with gasoline. I don't know what some of them eat but it has to be poisonous. In Armenland you can shoot wild cattle for meat, but nobody will eat a white one. The red-skins are OK. The only possible explanation I can come up with is some types will eat a noxious plant that the others won't. I'd rather pound back 50/50 Draino and battery acid shooters that take a bite of a white one.
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Thanks for the report, made me laugh, 50/50 drains and battery acid lol
 
We have a hobby farm, and a Vietnamese friend. I've likely ate pig ####### by this point. Chicken feet were meh, headcheese had big chewy chunks i didn't enjoy, but flavor was good. Chicken blood sausage was ok. Spat out 21? day old fertilized duck egg. Who knows what else. I liked groundhog. Made soup with it.
 
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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My father was from Europe and he told me circa 1982 that only an Italian would eat robins and crows. He said Italians call crow "chicken with a black eye".
 
A few of the places I have eaten at.

Not sure the type of snake. Was good. Came back the next night and it was closed.

Kaohsiung


Siem Reap Cambodia. A French chef. Was surprisingly good actually. Was over priced for the neighborhood. Google shows the food.




Chiang Mai
Local street food. Get it freshly fried. In the sesame and chili.
Wasn't hot on the horseshoe crab. A bit gooey.
Crickets and meal worms were the best. Silk worm had a strange flavor. Can't describe it. Bitter but sweet.


If you are going to eat bugs start small.

Pretty sure I have had Chow Meow in ruralish China. They were watching us eat. Was a stringy dark meat. Wife thinks she found cat hair attached. A small village. Somewhere around the Laos border.

Durian is meh. Warm hot gooey socks with Onions.

When in rural Asia. Any meal that doesn't make you sick is a good meal!

I'm the type than could get stranded on a Island and gain weight.

Not much in food scares me. Been through the wet markets in China and bought dinner. Some are very filthy. You can see how desease can spread.
 
great kudu, roan, lord derby eland, forest dwarf buffalo, loin of lion and snake. i passed on soup monkey.

i ate rattle snake as well ...

muskox, bison more locally.
 
One time many many mewns ago they tried feeding me Ooligins.
Wasn't going to happen.
We put in a pump house in Kinkolith.
First thing I smelt coming up the gang plank.
I tawt they were fruck'in sawks hanging awn the lines.
Even them crows woodint tuch'im.

Orchard bears are gooder.
 
kamlooky said:
One time many many mewns ago they tried feeding me Ooligins.
Wasn't going to happen.
We put in a pump house in Kinkolith.
First thing I smelt coming up the gang plank.
I tawt they were fruck'in sawks hanging awn the lines.
Even them crows woodint tuch'im.

Orchard bears are gooder.
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Yeah panfried in butter those Candle Fish do have an aroma.
Smoked they are spectacular, leave the gutz and head in/on them brine and smoked and yum yum.
The Natives and early settlers would use them as candles and the rendered fish (grease) used as a spread or for cooking.
Check the history on those lil fishies and the fighting over them.
http://https://www.greasetrail.com/trail
A.Mackenzie in some circles is claimed to have discovered it, but in fact it has been know previously by 6000 years or so.
My no go is liver no matter how its cooked or how much butter and funions are added to it.
Rob
 
I’ve ate ludifisk (sp) I’ll now pass. A big thing in this Norwegian community. Gopher badger and swan, with some natives. Again pass. Squirrel, muskrat, and beaver are all good to very good. Beaver tail is not eatable imho. Moose nose soup was a 1 time thing. Cats, wild or not (roof rabbits) are good. I can eat young porkeypine but don’t like old ones. I’ve skinned a few skunks, they have beautiful white flesh, just couldn’t take the next step. Don’t do bugs and slugs and some dishes I don’t know what’s in it.
 
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