I had some of the best fish tacos in California.. totally sold on them..

and then I tried at 4 or 5 different places since, and was not as good..

So will have to phone up my friend and figure out that restaurant again in California to revisit those famous tasting fish tacos..

btw.. Pig snout was sold at Co-op stores way back when.. so yes, I agree, it isn't that big of a deal..

Can still buy a whole hog head here in TX :D
Makes the best tamales.

Great..

Who needs to go to a luau for hog head cooked?..

Do it right in your backyard..:D

Damn, this thread makes me hungry.

I've tried whale sperm sushi in LA. Donkey in Beijing (didn't know what it was before I ate it - local friends ordered and we just ate). In Vietnam grilled rat was on the dinner menu but I couldn't get myself to try that. (Although everyone else at dinner liked it and even ordered a second plate of it.) :rolleyes:

The problem with reading German/Austrian menus is that they seem to join a lot of seperate words together to make up one long confusing word. I pride myself on my attempts at speaking German although I am complete rubbish.

I took my wife to a swanky restaurant in Salzburg and ordered what I thought I had understood - the same dish for both of us. What arrived was what appeared to be a raw ox toungue in one piece curled around on a large white plate. No problem with tongue ... just the way it looked.

Neither my wife and I could eat it but it was our fault (my fault .....) and so no grounds for complaint. But what to do? When they weren't looking my wife wrapped each of the toungues up in serviettes and bagged them ..... we threw enough money on the table and left quickly ......

I still get sweaty thinking about it.:D

Camel in Dubai, loved it. Would have it again in a heartbeat.

Street vendor kabobs of undetermined meat in Istanbul. Really spicy and really good, still cannot figure out what it was.

I had cow's hooves at a west African restaurant called Masala Yangu in of all places Naperville IL (sadly this restaurant has since closed, expected it as Naperville isn't exactly expanding culinary land). The texture (soft, almost jelly like) is not a Western texture, I enjoyed the soup though.

I don't see myself re-thinking what gfunkdave ate, & puffin is for sure on my list when I get to Iceland.^

Soft, jelly like is where its at.. I've had beef tendon, and tripe yesterday.. yum.. a delicacy..

I also like chicken feet in soy.. especially the meaty part where all the fingers join..^

Not had puffin per se, but a friend had a couple packages
of seal and a couple of auk that he'd gotten from a relative
who is authorized to hunt such things; he cooked some
seal and found it okay and cooked some auk and found
it utterly disgusting, so he threw away the other package
of auk. When I came to visit, he proudly defrosted the
other package of seal and discovered that he'd kept the
wrong package. When he described the taste of auk, I
suggested a line of attack. We brined the birds, removed
all the skin and visible fat, parboiled them, soaked them
in a soy-ginger-garlic marinade, and grilled them. They
came out tasting sort of between marine duck and
land-based duck: i.e., okay, not much better than that.

I'd try all the other foods listed here except possible the
whale come and the casa marzu.

I would like to have tried some other Icelandic foods while there - mainly puffin and reindeer. I couldn't bring myself to try hakarl, the notorious fermented shark that is usually served in the midwinter feast. Anthony Bourdain pronounced it the most vile thing he had ever put in his mouth. In fact, Icelanders usually chase hakarl with a shot of brennevin - their local schnapps that tastes like caraway-flavored gasoline - just to get the taste out of their mouths.

Cuy in Ecuador, a local delicacy.

Cuy = Guinea Pig

Driving around Iceland you realize there are way more horses than people to ride them. Didn't try foal, but enjoyed the rotted shark (a tiny bit was enough).

Good idea to eat shark, rather than finning shark and throwing em back into the water..

In Iceland, they bury them for a few months so they're nice and rotten, then dig them up and eat them.

Don't believe me? Look up hakarl on Wikipedia.