Share your food experiences
 

Inspired partially by the Korean dog thread, what exciting foods have you consumed? Anything remarkable, good or bad.

Back in my heyday on the championship eating circuit (don't ask) I was in a competition to eat various gross/shocking foods. We had been chowing down on some jalapeno peppers. I could feel the fire starting to creep up my esophogus. Thankfully, the next course was a beverage - a cup of vegetable oil each. I was tearing up from the peppers so I slammed mine back. It wasn't quite enough and since the guy next to me was still struggling with his peppers I grabbed his cup of oil and guzzled it as well. In about ten seconds I consumed roughly 4,000 calories and 400 grams of fat. It quelled the fire and gave a really weird lubricated feeling in my throat.

My girlfriend's mom makes an amazingly delicious trifle.

Sunday went on a long bike ride for the first time with some friends in the Jura mountains. I bought a new bike to replace the old one smashed in my accident in February. On the way we crossed into France and stopped at a super market that was open...bought a traditional cheese (artisinal) called Reblochon which we used today to make a dish called Tartiflette a kind of gratin. We only added onions and threw in a bit of eggplant with the potatoes and cheese and had a salad on the side...yes a bit hot for this now but we ahd it at 2pm and I went biking afterward. A nice change from the Chinese food I had yesterday night (Peking duck) with some other friends who came to visit from abroad.

Had a tablespoon of Tabasco sauce for a five quid dare once...oh, and once drunk a strange mixture of...wait for it...honey, jam, tomato sauce, brown sauce, orange juice, marmalade, and butter, all strained through a slice of white toast.... :lol: Yeah, thankfully, the honey drowned out the rest of the taste and I only had a little sip but...it's not the best tasting concoction around... :arrgh!:

Also tried a mixture of tea and coffee...that's quite nice...

All I can say is wow!

I've eaten shark, frog legs and rattlesnake. All were okay, none were great.

I live in Darfur. Yesterday i got to eat some slugs I found in a rotting tree. It was awesome.

Some of these bizarre delicasies are interesting, but not all they are cracked up to be. You are a good dude, Steve.

I don't have a food story, but will relate a cocktail concoction.
In 1969 I qualified as a submariner on the USS Segundo (SS398). We had just arrived in Japan for liberty and my dolphins were pinned on by the Capt. As I prepared for liberty that night, I was told that to be a true submariner I had to drink my Dolphins. Who doesn't want to be a true submariner right?
We went to town and over to the Starlight Submarine Bar. There I was told to get a "buzz" going so it would be easier. So after a couple of beers, myself and a couple of other new quals were brought up to the stage. The old salts brought out the largest glasses they could find. Into the cups was added each and every alcoholic brew they could find......rum, vodka, gin, bourbon, tequila, etc. until the cup was full. At this point your dolphins are dropped to the bottom of the cup. Now to be a true sub sailor, you had to drink the whole concoction down and catch your dolphins in your teeth. It was quite the expierence, and the taste was something awful, however one of the guys next to me downed half of the drink, vomited into the glass, and commenced to drink it all back down and catch his dolphins.
Afterwards we went out and puked our guts out so as not to get alcohol poisoning. Such is the life of a sub sailor.............

Camel, Kangaroo and Emu (Australia is most likley the only country where it's legal to eat the animals on the national coat of arms!)

I do have a wish to eat snake:up:

I really like this place for dining. Here is the menu. I've indulged in just about all of it, including the rattlesnake and rocky mountain oysters.

http://www.thefort.com/Menu.htm

Kangaroo is great when it's cooked properly. Otherwise it's very gamey.

Marinated ocotopus tentacles is something odd i've eaten. They go nice in a mix with sun dried tomatoes.

Morton Bay bugs is something not many may have heard of (oddly enough people in morton bay have rarely heard of them.) They are a strange looking shell fish but taste great.

Frog legs aint delacy. They are good eating, same thing with gator, of cource i lived on the coast and bayu for a number of years. :yep:

They are also know as Balmain bugs. One of the best places to eat seafood is doyles restaurant

http://www.doyles.com.au/

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Yeah i've heard of them as Balmain bugs. Will have to check that resaurant out next time i'm in NSW, I think my brother actually lives around Watsons Bay. I love good sea food.

Frogs legs, Alligator tail, and other wild game. Elk, bear, antelope, squirrel. Supposedly my grandpa fed us some fried raccoon when we were kids too. Don't recall that though.