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Eating dried baby squid.

No, no. Let's make eating live squid a family affair.

Sharks use urea in their blood for osmotic balance, living in the sea water and all. I've had dogfish before and it does taste like pee.

Aside from that, my oddest culinary venture was raw sea urchin gonads.
I was served them on the coastal shore by a Japanese marine biology professor who took an urchin out of the water, grabbed a spoon, pulled out the urchin central body and scooped around the internal edges revealing a pinkish gooey tomato seed like substance.
It really did taste like sweet tomato seeds and slightly salty.

I'll leave it at that.



[cue the peanut gallery]

I don't know, but I bet CV has the ink stained toilet paper to prove it?

In Japan, I ate eel, squid, sashimi (raw fish), beef sashimi (raw steak), fried cow tongue, and these raw itty-bitty silver fish you're supposed to sprinkle on your rice or something. I only put about 5 of them on my plate. HAHA!

As for the raw beef, it was cut into thin slices, presented similar to this. It didn't look nasty, nor did it taste bad. It tasted like...well...rare steak! I actually prefer my steak red in the middle, but I just couldn't eat more than a slice of the completely raw beef. The THOUGHT of it got to me more than the taste. I'd say the same thing for the cow tongue...couldn't eat more than a slice.

Oh, by the end of the trip, we were served intestine soup. THAT, I refused. I was so sick of trying weird foods at that point, and it looked pretty nasty anyway.

I like to try different foods. Here is some of what I tried, most of it I wouldn't consider weird but definitely not typical in North America:
Piglet
Octopus
Chicken hearts, gizzards,
Pig Feet, nose, ears, tripe
Cow tongue
Escargot
Frog legs
Lamprey eel
Horse steak (softer and more tasty than beef. Be ready to have a boost of energy after that!)
Ostrich steak (not as tasty as beef but even softer than horse)
Steak tartare (raw grounded horse meet mixed with eggs and all kind of spices)
and the best for last:
Chicken with blood rice: while killing a chicken, the blood is saved and used to cook the chicken with rice.
Coagulated pig blood: in small villages in Europe, they still have traditional festivities where they kill a pig the traditional way. They bring it out, hold it on the floor, tie it and stab it in the heart. The blood is then saved in a container, some spices are added. Some blood is then dumped in a big pot of boiling water with vinegar. The blood starts then to coagulate and forms a spongy texture piece.

Bon appetit.

lots of appetizing dishes so far; many of them i've eaten, some only a few time, others very often.

keep them coming, very interesting.

I'm thinking Anthony Bourdain ate this on one of his shows from Iceland(?) ... if I remember correctly he wasn't too terribly thrilled with it.

Not at all.

My turn!

Ostrich...very good, like tender beef.

Barbecued shredded Jelly Fish...mehhh.

...and...cue the banjo music and call me Cleetus....Rattlesnake...kinda greasy if I recall.

they talk about Bourdain on the link i put on the first post.
if i remember right, he said it was the worst thing he ever ate and it was disgusting.

to each his taste; i ate it 3 times, maybe once every year i was in Iceland! lol.

one thing i never ate while in Iceland is boiled cod eyes; i was told that nowadays in Iceland (that was in the 70's) that it's mostly the old folks who eat them.

i never accepted the offers to eat some, i wonder why...