MMM, Good!
Was having an exchange on FB that turned into something else.
I am sincerely curious. While in the Navy I was never a ‘snake eater’, and I’ve never eaten monkey brains, etc.
I have eaten various bugs and dog, and C-rats, even MREs.
So what is the weirdest thing (your call) that YOU have eaten?
ETA (update): Group Proposes Turning to Wild Horses for Food
LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s wild horses have been at the center of controversy for years, but the debate is now getting more attention because of a meeting going on in Las Vegas this week with people who want to round up the horses and slaughter them for food.
Protestors have been on the Las Vegas Strip educating the public about what’s being discussed at the horse summit. Some ranchers want to open a slaughter house in Wyoming and then use the horses for human consumption.
They say it is a humane way to ease the horse over-population problem, but wild horse advocates disagree saying the move is all about making a quick buck.
“They are claiming that we have so many wild horses that this is the humane way to dispose of them and basically what they are is a group horse breeders and livestock industry people who want to promote the slaughter of horses and continue the irresponsible breeding of horses,” said Suzanne Roy with American Wild Horse Preservation.
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Horse sashimi while in Japan.
It was delicious. It was sweet (in the Japanese sense), light, and had a very delicate flavor. It didn’t need sauce, garnishment, or anything. I recommend it. Good luck finding it though. I only ever saw it in Kure (near Hiroshima).
You might run with Sheepdogs if: You’re flattered that a discussion of what went into your Post Christmas Dinner Stock Pot inspired a discussion on TAH about the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten.
I ate Pacha in vinegar in Iraq.
To this day…just about the roughest meal I ever had to keep down.
Funny, a old shipmate and I were discussing eating monkey (not monkey brains, just monkey meat) just a few weeks ago…
Country Singer #4: Useful distinction indeed. I was referring to Special Forces stuff above. Between Alongapo in the PI and several other places… I dunno what I might have eaten?
Deep fried scorpions & grasshoppers in Thailand, dog in Uzbekistan…
Dog (black, of course, outdoor hotpot joint in Taipei County, Taiwan), roasted silkworms (jazz club in Hanoi, Vietnam), fried crickets (bar in Nanning, China), some sort of snake (some little “izakaya” in Naha, Okinawa, Japan) stir fried tiger wasp larvae (aboriginal restaurant, mountains of Taitung County, Taiwan) … too much other weird shit to really remember over the years but I drew the line at balut in the PI. Also had a really nice cobra blood/bile & kaoliang cocktail back when Taipei’s “Snake Alley” was its truly sleazy old self about 20 years ago, before they turned it into the sanitized version of today.
Bonez #7: Had Balut, sorta. Hadn’t drank enough to make it taste good.
You are surely a braver man than I, Zero … Effing NASTY!
While in Iraq, I’ve had Goat, Sheep, Cat and Dog. I think I had Horse once.
and I swear that I had monkey in Hawaii.
Oh and let me tell you folks if you’re trying to lose weight, go Buffalo, its a really lean meat.
We were drunk in a country not to be named…I have no idea what we were eating, but I’m sure it would not be on any menu in the US or Europe.
Well, I remember that horse meat used to be sold in the Commissary under a brand name of “ChevaLean”, back in the 70’s-80’s time frame.
We used to eat a lot of rattlesnake that my soldiers caught when we were training out at Ft. Hood. And I had a close civilian friend in Korea that owned a dog restaurant, so we ate a lot of Lassie. But by far the most unusual were some sort of marine polyps that was served to me while still quite alive. The Koreans like their sea food fresh – to the point of still struggling.
Got drunk in Olongopoo P.I. And ate a belute on a bet after watching a bar chick eat one — Puked until I thought I tasted my ass– San Miguel beer has caused many a person to do stupid Shit!
Maytag #14: Oddly, San Magoo in Hong Kong was a prized import.
Hung out there with the Brits, BTW, dunno what all THEY foisted on me? Think of Da Nang or Cam Rahn with the Jarheads leading you down a path>
Fuck that, fuck that sideways up the ass with a broken broom handle. I am NOT eating horse.
Not much to compare but I did eat a chipmunk once in New Mexico. Teaching my son ( a US Marine)
a lesson in eating what you kill.
Kinda like you, USNUSMCmom, not a lot– but I have eaten rabbit, squirrel, rattle snake… The weirdest stuff we eat is probably stuff we get right out of our cabinets— now THAT IS SOME NASTY SH*T
Iguanas in the Darian.
I can’t say that I’ve eaten anything to compare with the above.
But I don’t see what all the animal huggers are getting so twisted up about. Horse is NOT indigenous to North America, it was introduced by the Spanish during their period of empire, expansion and conquest.
(Except for PITA-those unprintables) I don’t see anyone getting worked up over the consumption of pigs, cattle, and chickens.
If the Enviros want to “save the horses”,then let them put their money where their mouth is and adopt a herd — instead of getting the Gubbment to pick our pockets to pay for the wild horses care. . . . Unless the Enviros want to see pictures of dead starved horses.
You need to check your facts, Woodman. North America IS the native continent of the horse. The Spaniards only reintroduced them after the mass die-off.
Wasn’t all that long ago that several restaurants in Montreal and Quebec City, Quebec served bacon made from horsemeat. One in particular with big truck parking was a weekly stop for me on my trips up there. It was easier to chew than Moose belly bacon, served by a housewife friend of mine.
#21ROS:
Point taken. But the fact still remains that the current crop of horses are not native, but (re)introduced by foreigners, thus they are not indigenous.
On the boat:
-Slumgolium
-Death Milk
-3 Bean Salad Sandwiches, bread using half normal amount of yeast because it’s running out.
Off the boat:
-Hong Kong, cat dim sum. At least we think that’s what they told us.
-Thailand, octopus. Whole. With ink. Squid jerky.
-Australia, kangaroo meat. (Not bad, actually.)
-Korea, more types of nasty ass kimchee that still makes my brain boil thinking about it.
-Guam, Spam kelaguen.
-PI, balut, anything that had been “tenderized” in Shit River.
Rattlesnake in Ft. Irwin, Scrambled eggs and earthworms on a meet and greet with S.F. in Ft. Lewis.
Baloot in the Philippines. Fermented mare’s milk in Mongolia (tastes like turpentine). Raw white fish and seal oil in western Alaska.
Gator, red fish..and MRE’s for several months after Hurricanes Katrina & Rita. Pretty cool how you make a meal heater go “bang” though….
Armadillo chili once in south Texas. The next week I had to move a dead horse that had been shot and several armadillos crawled out of the inside. I haven’t eaten armadillo since. . .