The list has all kinds of different foods, ranging from the regional/national specialty to the pop culture-iconic to the just plain weird. Some unusual items include:
- Crocodile
- Black pudding
- Sea urchin
- Poutine
- Durian (BTW, the Cine-Sib and I absolutely hate durian, so consider yourself warned)
- Haggis
- Fugu (the only item on the list that might literally kill you)
Buon appetito, gentle readers!
13 comments:
Sea urchin is wildly overrated (though reckoned a delicacy in Japan).
Fugu, on the other hand, is the best fried fish I've ever had and is the perfect fit for fish 'n chips. The English need to get on this before the Japanese import the idea and do it one better (as is their wont).
And what about 狗肉? Plus, I miss this one, too!
Oh! Now that Sarah Palin has popularized the idea of mooseburgers, we TOTALLY need to put this on the list.
I also want to add Peking duck, bird's nest soup (or shark's fin soup), and my favorite Moroccan dish, b'stella.
狗肉！？悪魔ダゾ！
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Black pudding wasn't so bad in Scotland with lamb, oats and barley and served with fried tomatos and fried sliced potatoes. Yes the Scots don't seem to experiment much beyond frying everything. But to be honest haggis is enough to make you become a vegetarian and to deny any ancestral connection to Scotland. I don't even want to think about the rest of the list!
i've had alligator, not crocodile. tastes like chicken. seriously. it's just stringier.
I've had alligator too, and it kind of tasted like fishy chicken and the texture was a little odd. Mmmm-hmmmm, deep-fried alligator nuggets, Cajun-style.
I had black pudding in England, once. It was just served as black pudding, none of that other stuff Pat mentions, which actually sounds pretty tasty.
Are the Scots more civilized? Or was it because it was served at a Royal Army base?
And the world of Cajun delights is a whole other thang. I miss it so much up in Yankee land.
Cajun delights? 2 words: shrimp etouffee. Oh, man!
I join the lament for good Southern cooking in Nerdworld.
100 edibles (I won't call them "food") that will cause you to die, is more like it. :-)
Hey, Brian -- any weird local eats in your neck of the woods??
Minerva,
Plenty, I'm sure. I live in Ann Arbor, you know.
But I wouldn't know about them. Canadian food is "exotic" as far as I'm concerned. :-)
Heck, I'm still mad that the store that made donuts while you waited in a river of hot oil was replaced by a sushi joint. In all of Ann Arbor, there is no Dunkin' Donuts for Pete's sake! Like we need more sushi?
But good luck on that culinary "bucket list" I know I'd need a bucket nearby if I tried those things...
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