Exotic Food

scaredycat · 07-05-2010, 11:33 AM

I am your quintessential tell-me-what-that-is-before-I-eat-it girl. Wild turkeys are exotic-enough for me hahaha. What about you guys? What wild/exotic animal have you had the pleasure of tasting?

jason · 07-05-2010, 01:08 PM

Wild gator is always good. That and boar. Have not had wild turkey. We used to get deer up in NY, but have not had that in a long time.

scaredycat · 07-05-2010, 05:47 PM

Gator as in ALLIgator? Yikes! You go out and hunt it? Boar too? How dangerous! Oh wait... I see that you are in Florida... yeah...lotsa gators there alright. LOL

jason · 07-05-2010, 05:51 PM

I personally have not been gator hunting yet. I do have a friend that goes, and yes I do mean alligator. I hate to sound cliche but it does taste like chicken.

Boar hunting is something else I would love to do, but have yet to. I need to take the hunting safety coarse before I get my hunting license.

I have heard more people getting hurt from hunting boar then gators though.

Grady · 07-05-2010, 06:11 PM

I've had alligator before and, yes, it does have a chicken-y quality to it. I have some friends who regularly eat rabbit, but that's just not a meat I can get into.

northernbushape · 07-09-2010, 07:17 PM

Not sure about exotic, but I have eaten a wide variety of not-so-popular critters and plants. Probably bugs would fall into the exotic or not so common category. Worms are loaded with something like 6 or 8 essential proteins and palatable if you toss them in a pot and let them dry out. Then you can crush them up and put them into a salad. I have also had roasted grasshopper, ants, grubs, meal worms... mostly on beer-dares with camping buddies when we were younger. I don't regularly make a meal of insects; I do prefer more common foods lol.

I graze pine trees frequently, dandelions, nettles, fiddle-heads, sweet grass, clover etc.

I have eaten seaweed and different types of shellfish, octopus, shark, squirrels, rabbits, groundhogs, pigeons, all manner of game foul and of course big game. I have also had bear, although I was not real big on it. I found it greasy and very gamey.

I don't mind trying new things as I don't get too squeamish about it. I am also a big fan of foraging while I am hiking and camping.

Ha ha, I have friends who love Dim Sum in this place downtown where the menus are all in Chinese. I'll eat bugs from the forest, but I won;t do Dim Sum with them because I do like to know what I am eating.