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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For me it's ostrich. I've eaten a lot of elk and bison, but they're so easy to get in my area, I don't seem exotic (my mom's freezer is always full of bison hot dogs). I've eaten a lot of ostrich too. I had a roommate for several years who loved it and would cook with it all the time (mostly chilli, but he'd also make meatballs and other stuff with it).

My exwife and I once watched some people get served live shrimp at a fancy sushi restaurant. They were squirming around, trying to escape. They (the people) couldn't figure out what they were supposed to do with them. They asked the chef to demonstrate how to eat them, but he either misunderstood or was just like "lol, white people" and took them back, chopped their heads off, shucked their shells and returned them to the people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Kangaroo. Not great. Overall despite being an omnivore I'm not a "meat person"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure. Maybe fugu. It honestly doesn't taste like very much. It's only a big deal because so few people aren't trained to prepare it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what fugu is but I think they say that word in Charlie the Unicorn.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a type of poisonous blowfish mostly eaten in Japan. Has to be prepared by very experienced chefs in order to not be poisonous.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing, what an experience! Do you get to watch the preparation?

The Charlie the Unicorn episode in question

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I served in the King's African Rifles, the local Zambezi tribesman called human flesh "long pig."

Never much cared for it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alpaca.

I had a steak. It was fantastic.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had clear, salty alpaca soup. It was food. I was in the Andes at some roadside truck stop. It was memorable, but the steak sounds much better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So, I was working as a diesel fitter in a mine in New Guinea back in '86, one of the local machine operators invited me back to his village at the end of my stint.

It was about 3 hours walk into the hills from Gono in the Highlands and was about as close to undisturbed traditional living as it's possible to get.

To cut a long story short, their clan had been feuding with a neighbouring clan and as part of a victory celebration after a battle they had this big feast.

Honestly, more like roast pork than chicken.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Valloch.

But not on purpose.

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