Asklemmy

All sorts:

• Cat & Dog in SE Asia
• Horse, Donkey, Zebra, Crocodile, Sheep's brain in Europe
• Kangaroo, Emu, Ostrich, Possom, Rabbit, Cricket, Goat, Huhu grub, almost all offal? etc in New Zealand
• Something I have no idea what it was in Russia

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• Moose and reindeer in Northern Europe
• Lots of seafood at home in NZ, both raw and cooked

I guess exotic is relative, someone in here saying kangaroo is eaten all around Australia and Alligator is reasonably common here. Someone has goat as exotic but it seems common most everywhere.

I'm gonna go with the turtle soup my grandma got us at a restaurant when I was little (family very Louisiana on my dad's side), I remember it being good. Don't think I'd eat anything even remotely endangered now, they were not back then.

Husband still raves about Indonesian fried frog legs, he lived there for years growing up.

My friend had us eat that Korean kind of octopus where it's still half-living when Koreans eat it. I wanted to leave so bad.

Jellyfish. A bit... enh?

A patty from McDonald's; I'd rather not do that again.

Jokes aside, I've had abalone and it was absolutely fantastic. A Singaporean colleague of mine got it for me from Singapore and I still remember how awesome it was.

IDK if it's "exotic" but cariboo is f-ing excellent.

Camel, crocodile, kangaroo, horse, whale, puffin…

Hákarl, the Icelandic fermented shark - while not exactly pleasant the first time, it's nowhere near as bad as people make out.

Ostrich - looks like it would taste like beef, but actually it's more of a strong chicken-like flavour which makes sense really.

I guess you could say horse, but that's common in a lot of places in Europe. Like beef but less flavour, too lean, I'm not a fan.

Yak. Had a delicious yak goulash in a restaurant in Thimpu, Bhutan. Very similar to beef, hard to tell because of the spicing.

Horse- When I travelled to Uzbekistan, on airplane one of the meals was delicious meat with rice. I thought that its beef (it looked like it) but later I found out that its horses meat. Feel little sorry later because I enjoyed so much in meat of such a beautiful animal.

I live in Vietnam. So, many things we eat would be unusual from the standpoint of someone on a North American or European diet. Mouse, alligator (called 'ugly fish'), frog, duck embryo, organ meats, and various insects are just 'normal food'. They're all quite good.

I suppose weasel comes to mind? That's something I've had that's not common locally. It's boiled with ginger until it just tastes like... mostly bones with ginger and very little meat. Not impressed.

A lot of people turn away from duck embryo, but it actually tastes pretty normal.

We used to eat a fair amount of dog here, especially in the North, but the new generation considers this fairly old-fashioned. I've had what's called "fake dog dish", which is the same dish made with pork. It's good. I've never bothered with actual dog meat as I'm concerned it might not be fresh -- it's expensive and not common anymore. So I'm worried someone might try to sell me meat that's spoiled to recover losses or something.

In neighboring Cambodia, you can get large roasted spiders. They look like black crabs, and people seem to eat them that way. It didn't look that good so I passed.

Hmmm. I've had rabbit prepared 5 different ways at a very expensive restaurant once (had just gotten a bonus for the first time in my life and it landed on my wife and I's anniversary). It was fantastic, like dark meat from a turkey or chicken, but a tad gamey which I didn't mind.

Venison is delicious, as is elk. Buffalo burgers are solid, not much different than regular. I've had ostrich jerky but it's pretty much the same as most other jerkys by that point.

Had shark once, was very good and similar to swordfish.

Funnily enough all of these things I tried in the US, and none while actually traveling abroad despite adventures to most of the continents at this point.

Goat. Ate it in Greece. Roasted with fine herbs. It was delicious.