Well that's why i put it in a thread about weird things to eat ;)

In reality the salmonella depends on how the chicken is raised, processed and handled. This wasn't grocery store chicken. Chicken sashimi is common in Japanese yakatori places, which is where I had it.

In Japan, the sanitary conditions are amazing and so eating raw anything is totally fine. SURE, there is that once in a blue moon someone gets sick, but I think that's no matter what the conditions are.
We often eat raw egg, raw chicken, rare pork, raw beef, etc.

Sooooo delicious! I miss eating raw egg on everything. You can't do that in the US. Nor can you eat raw beef!!! There are a few places that serve beef sushi. Raw beef on rice with wasabi. Sooooo delicious!!!

I just made myself hungry....
:eek:

I know the feeling :D

Raw beef is quite commonly eaten here in Belgium though, so I'm quite used to eating that (and I love eating raw beef).

Raw beef, steak tartare, is common in Europe as you point out and it is pretty easy to find at restaurants in NY as well. Not sure about other parts of the US.

Someone once fed me something called a "chillito" from Taco Bell. Not sure what was in it, but I don't believe any of the ingredients occur naturally. Compared to that, testicles, bugs, and fermented blubber were pretty de rigeur.

Duck feet served as a dish in dim sum breakfast. It was yummy like chicken feet.

Camel is very stringy. We were in an Iranian town where we were served "lamb". Later when someone who spoke English came by to say it was Camel that they were all out of lamb.

I had a (whole) frog stew in Hong Kong somewhere. Chili-stewed snails too, in the same restaurant.

Also tried a kudu steak in Botswana. It was actually pretty tasty.

I ate the worm at the bottom of the tequilla bottle. Slightly crunchy but soft when the innards squished out in my mouth.

Ate some bull testicles at a colorado restaurant (rocky mountain oysters).

Pickled goose webs, with horse radish. Yummmm!

Strangest food
 

Strangest food I've eaten, mostly in S. Korea.

Live Cctopus (well, rigor mortis cephalopod really), San Nakji.

Bonus, video of me eating it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV_vY...0&feature=plcp

Loach/Mudskipper Stew, Chueotang.

Congealed Oxblood Soup, Haejangguk/seonjiguk.

Fermented Soybean Soup, Cheonggukjang

Raw beef w/ spring onion, minced garlic, pepper, oil, honey, pine nuts, sesame, and salt, Yukhoe.

Smothered/fermented raw crab, GeiJang.

Fermented fish roe, Myeongran.

Japan.

Raw chicken, sashimi style.

Natto (fermented slimy soybean, w/rice & a raw egg.

Colombia.

Milk/Brandy/Fruit/Live crabs + blender = Berraquillo.

Mexico.

Corn fungus, huitlacoche.

China.

Cold beef honeycomb tripe.

Assorted offal: Sheep/Cow brain, trotters, tripe, face meat, etc.

Cheese.

Chimay Vieux, Tête de Moine.

Others I'm sure.

MRS: pigeon brains in China (delicious)

MR: live monkey brains, straight out of the skull case, in Vietnam during the war (not delicious)

They must have been absolutely tiny! How did they serve them up?

Dog burgers.
 

Before dog meat was outlawed in Baguio and the rest of Benguet province, I bought some and had it ground in the market and made dog burgers on the grill. :p

How does dog actually taste? Eating domnestic animals like cats or dogs is generally frowned upon here (not sure if it's illegal), but I'm still curious as to how it tastes. I've heard cat tastes similar to rabbit though.

Never had cat. Dog is similar to other carnivores, but less gamy.