I've always wondered what people taste like...
Probably chicken!
I've always wondered what people taste like...
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I've eaten a lot of unusual foods here in China as well. Dog, rabbit, ...
Had a friend in college named Lee who was from Taiwan. Besides being a brilliant hacker/programmer, Lee was an extremely serious guy and not disposed to joking around much. Once, a bunch of us were sitting around a 50lb bag of rice in my friend Mike's apartment lamenting that we had nothing else to eat, and talking about the things that "could" go with the rice.
(in many starving students' apartments it was common to have a huge bag of rice and a rice steamer as some of the few pieces of "furniture" in the place.)
... as the conversation turned to odd things to eat, the idea of eating dog was mentioned. In his calm, measured way Lee said he had eaten dog ... someone then asked him what it tasted like and he thought for a moment, and in total seriousness replied "it tastes much like cat". We all cracked up. Lee was not amused.
I have no desire to try either of them.
Love the story and wish I had eaten cat so I could assess the comparison. I personally wouldn't expect them to taste similar, though. If I haven't shared it before, dog's very close in flavor and texture to mutton and is usually prepared in the same ways, often a stew with some dried chilies, garlic, ginger, star anise, lots of carrot and Chinese onion (not the root but the thick stalk), and probably a bunch of other spices and stuff.
i've had it loads of times, so it doesn't really count, but as it's been mentioned so many times, and this one snuck into my carryon on my way out of edinburgh, here's one of these elusive little guys!
"Huitlacoche?... wow thats exciting, I've never had it before.... if you order it I would love to try a bite!"
"But what is it?" She narrows her eyes at me, knowing me a bit too well.
"Its... a mushroom that grows with corn." I am so evil. I didnt lie, exactly... but nor did I say "oh, its corn smut! Its a fungus that infects an ear of corn's very soul!"
So a few weeks ago I brought my inlaws to one of my favorite restaurants in Astoria, Pachanga Patterson.
The haggis pics remind me a bit of kishka, which I absolutely love ... the buckwheat/barley/groats type ... rather than the matzo type.
Kishka is easily one of my very favorite breakfast foods, kishka is one of those smells coming from the kitchen in the morning that, along with coffee brewing and bacon frying, is legend. I'd eat a whole ring of it myself if given the opportunity. "Who Stole the Kishka?" indeed.
... I'm wondering what the side is in the last pic. Looks like it could be taters or maybe apples/pears? ...
Is kishka kind of like goetta? I love some goetta for breakfast.
Is kishka kind of like goetta?
I'm a Louisiana boy, so I'm not picky. We'll make a feast out of something we caught in a ditch on the side of the highway. There are a few foods I'd like to try. Morels, Kobe beef and a few others. As far as "exotic" foods, I've had rabbit, squirrel, beaver, coon, bear, several kinds of ducks & geese, coot, rattlesnake, turtle, coonass caviar (fried crappie eggs), bear, moose, deer, elk, pronghorn, ostrich & God knows what else that I've forgotten about. I don't eat this stuff because it's exotic, I eat it because it's damn good food.
On a side note, what's the difference in a Louisiana zoo and a zoo anywhere else?
Most zoos have a pic and description in front of the animal's cage. Louisiana zoos have the same pic and description along with a recipe😃
Yeah, even Andrew Zimmern had problems with it on Bizaare Foods, he had it in Iceland and it was called Hákarl.
Coot AKA Mud Hen...
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/american_coot/sounds
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