Adventurous or conservative?

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Rose65

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In eating out and cooking, do you stick to what you know or are you truly adventurous with a robust digestion that copes? If so what is the bravest thing you ever ate?
A friend who used to travel a lot recently told me a hilarious tale of once eating monkey brains. It was necessary with the business clients to show willing. He truly can and does eat anything.


I'm afraid I stick to what know in restaurants. I mainly cook fresh at home, especially baking puddings and I have my favourite recipes, old cookbooks. I love traditional English food best.
 

We eat a very wide variety of cuisines, but there are some foods we personally dislike (the latter is true of everyone, I would guess). Our favorite cuisines are French, Chinese, and Indian. Spouse and I split on Italian: he likes Southern Italian cooking, and I prefer Northern Italian. We both enjoy SE Asian, Ethiopian, German, Macanese (subset blend of Portuguese/Cantonese), Japanese. He likes Peruvian; we both love Moroccan.

Not many weird things: I've eaten rattlesnake, fried insects (ants, grasshoppers, crickets, silkworms), and stinky durian fruit. I found them "meh" but nothing worse. I've had raw liver, which was some idiotic bistro chef's idea of a creative dish - he apparently assumed that if one can sear foie gras, surely one can sear any other liver.....which is so not true, LOL. I have no problems with sashimi or beef tartare, especially the Vietnamese variant which is marvelous. Not fond of oysters but shellfish in general have lost most of their appeal for me - odd as I loved them growing up, but now just a bite or two satisfies me.

I do draw the line at balut. I dislike slimy, and slimy with feathers is a step (a bite?) too far for me.
 
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Adventurous with the outdoors but not adventurous with food outside my own kitchen. In my own kitchen I know exactly what I my own food. The chances of waitresses caring that you canā€™t eat certain foods isnā€™t as big a concern to them as it is to me nor should it be. Then again Iā€™m very adventurous with food at home.
 

I think adventurous, I will try anything safe.

Eaten a variety of insects and wild animals including snake, possum, horse, racoon, escargot, conch, caribou, moose, mountain goat, octopus, turtle, dhub, alligator, and so on. Always try different raw things like jellyfish and sea urchins.

The hardest thing to eat I can remember was bierkase cheese, it smells awful, kind of like a well rotted dead rat... tasted pretty good though.

BIERKASE​

https://www.cheese.com/bierkase/
 
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RadishRose said:
I've eaten escargot but I wouldn't again, after I saw the slugs in my garden. I draw the line at offal, bugs and reptiles, although birds are descended from reptiles. Also runny eggs.
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Ditto. No snugs or snails or puppy dogs tails.
No clams or squid. No calimari
No shrimp or lobster.
No fish eggs.
Ok maybe Iā€™m not very adventurous. šŸ˜lol
Nothing slimy.
Im definitely fussy.
 
Alligatorob said:
I think adventurous, I will try anything safe.

Eaten a variety of insects and wild animals including snake, possum, horse, racoon, escargot, conch, caribou, moose, mountain goat, octopus, turtle, dhub, alligator, and so on. Always try different raw things like jellyfish and sea urchins.

The hardest thing to eat I can remember was bierkase cheese, it smells awful, kind of like a well rotted dead rat... tasted pretty good though.

BIERKASE​

https://www.cheese.com/bierkase/
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Ooh insects I could never eat. Nor seafood, especially raw - that is a big risk surely?
 
As I have become more acquainted with various animal species, I have been less inclined to keep them on my menu. I've always been pretty adventurous in other ways - but not where food s concerned
 
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