Trying new foods

[Irving]

I've got no problem with seafood, I just never even consider it unless I'm at Red Lobster or Joe's Crabshack.

[Great-Kazoo]

I've got no problem with seafood, I just never even consider it unless I'm at Red Lobster or Joe's Crabshack.

Those aren't seafood places.

[Hummer]

Those aren't seafood places.

Pretty much true. I've never come away from a Red Lobster without being disappointed in the quality of their food prep. Same with the Joe's Crab Shack we went to in Florida.

You'll usually have much better quality seafood buying from the grocery and preparing it yourself.

[Hummer]

Are there any foods that you haven't tried that you'd like to?

Me? I'd like to try a quality caviar but have yet to ante up.

I've liked all the sturgeon and white fish caviar I have had. Salmon roe not so much but I ate it like the bears do, straight from the belly. Would probably be better washed and soaked in salt water first.

We do fix sushi when we can find very fresh fish. When we visit the big city we look for asian markets where we might find fresh or frozen eel to make unagi.





As for foods I'd like to try that I haven't had, most are game meats like bear, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, even agouti and coatimundi like these I saw on Costa Rica recently.

Costa Rica has stupidly outlawed all hunting but of course the hungry citizens regularly hunt animals as subsistence livers. Now it's unregulated and incapable of sustaining native wildlife populations via game management.

[Justin]

Not sure I have a "list" but I'm always open to try something new. Like a few others here I've had some interesting foods. Alligator, kangaroo, rattlesnake, jellyfish, horse, rocky Mountain oysters, pickled eggs, shark...

Raw beef is one of my favorites but I won't have that except in a very fine restaurant. Been to a few places in Italy that the appetizer was simply raw ground beef with olive oil and black pepper on top. Yum. Ground beef is risky, cut steak is much safer.

Growing up in souther AZ, rattlesnake on the plate was not uncommon. Even had a few salads with baby green tumble weeds.

Dad and I made dandelion wine once, that was just OK.

Haven't had dog or cat (that I know of). I think I'd like to try one of those stinky Asian fruits...can't remember the name at the moment. It's the one that smells like trash...I'm curious if it's as bad as folks say it is.

My least favorite thing I have tried is sea urchin. Yuck.

Durian fruit. I bought one a couple years ago. Huge, heavy, and spiked like a medieval weapon, it's the only fruit I've bought that needed a dremel to open it.

The smell was bad, but not as terrible as I was expecting. Flavor was weird, but good. For me it left an after taste similar to parmesan cheese.

[mcantar18c]

I refuse to eat seafood in a landlocked state. Which sucks, cause I really like most of it. Something I really miss about NC.

I'd like to try some African big game.

[Ronin13]

Don't eat seafood, besides shrimp (depending on how it's prepared) I never enjoyed. Did get to scratch Afghan Noni bread off the list while over there (with halal lamb, which is delicious!), as well as authentic chicken curry prepared by Indians and Nepalese KBR employees who worked on our FOB. Still have yet to find real curry here that compares. Love Pho, we usually go to the one at either Leetsdale and Monaco, or Havana and Mississippi.

I would like to try Italian food in Italy, I heard something about the acids in the soil make their vegetables taste different than over hear. Having tried elk, buffalo, rattlesnake, boar, pheasant, and various other game animals, I'm hooked and want to try other game that doesn't reside in the western US (as I think I've tried about everything).

[ray1970]

I refuse to eat seafood in a landlocked state.

Lol. My brothers travel a lot and that's one of their rules. No seafood in a state that doesn't border an ocean and no mexican food in a state that doesn't border Mexico.

[ChadAmberg]

I refuse to eat seafood in a landlocked state. Which sucks, cause I really like most of it. Something I really miss about NC.

I'd like to try some African big game.

So you won't eat trout in Colorado? Or you would eat shrimp in California, which was most likely caught/raised in Thailand and shipped here? The key isn't where you are, its figuring out if you're in a trustworthy establishment.

[KS63]

So you won't eat trout in Colorado? Or you would eat shrimp in California, which was most likely caught/raised in Thailand and shipped here? The key isn't where you are, its figuring out if you're in a trustworthy establishment.

Same with crab. Lots of seafood in Hawaii is imported.