Please Doesn’t Serve Me This

Jules

Jules

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In a flier for a mainstream grocery store, I saw Stewing Goat Meat was $22 a kg (approx $10 a pound). Product of New Zealand.

They couldn’t even give me this.

Anyone ever see strange or unknown foods in your regular grocery store?
 

Yes, I've seen things like chitterlings (pig intestines), chicken paws, and such. I don't get them. I've never tried goat, and I don't see it at my store.

The deli sells fried gizzards now and then and they're really cheap - a serving costs less than 2 dollars. Actually, I have bought those and kind of like them, but there's a lot of chewing, so I don't have them often.

What I wish they had were some good quality ham slices in small size packages. I've stopped buying packages of sliced ham since none of what I've found lately has been very good or tender.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
Yes, I've seen things like chitterlings (pig intestines), chicken paws, and such. I don't get them. I've never tried goat, and I don't see it at my store.

The deli sells fried gizzards now and then and they're really cheap - a serving costs less than 2 dollars. Actually, I have bought those and kind of like them, but there's a lot of chewing, so I don't have them often.

What I wish they had were some good quality ham slices in small size packages. I've stopped buying packages of sliced ham since none of what I've found lately has been very good or tender.
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I keep chitterlings (chitlins) in the freezer at all times. Might cook some for Thanksgiving.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
Yes, I've seen things like chitterlings (pig intestines), chicken paws, and such. I don't get them. I've never tried goat, and I don't see it at my store.

The deli sells fried gizzards now and then and they're really cheap - a serving costs less than 2 dollars. Actually, I have bought those and kind of like them, but there's a lot of chewing, so I don't have them often.

What I wish they had were some good quality ham slices in small size packages. I've stopped buying packages of sliced ham since none of what I've found lately has been very good or tender.
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I don't know if you are OK with brand named processed lunch meat, but if you are - I recommend Oscar Mayer Carving Board .... it actually "seems" like real ham. :ROFLMAO:


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Goat dishes are relatively common in Australia - they often feature in Indian or middle eastern menus. I dont think I have tried it - but I expect it wouldn't be that different to lamb, which I do eat often.

as for weird (to me) foods, when I was in Cambodia, they offerred us roasted crickets and tarantulas - popular food there. Some people on our tour did try them - not me though.
have not seen them at home though.
Is possible you can get them in specialist asian stores here - but I have not looked.
 
We have buffalo and ostrich in the market here.

Rabbit (cottontails, snowshoes hares, and domestic) is delish - soaks up bbq sauce like nobodies business. I have never tried goat, but have seen it on the menu at Indian restaurants.

Crescent Duck Long Island, NY - duck tongue - new to me -

"For lovers of what is often considered an exotic delicacy, it is the juicy pockets of fat that make the duck tongue so prized. At approximately two inches in length, the tongue is small, yet its taste is intensely duck-like. When freshly fried, duck tongues are positively addicting with a crisp surface and a creamy, slightly fatty interior that melts in your mouth. Like potato chips or pork cracklings, one tongue is never enough."
 
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Oldeagle66 said:
Yes, I've had that tons of times, and squirrel.
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🤢🤮 I was about 11 or 12. My dad took my brothers hunting and they came back with squirrel. My precious mama wanted to make the boys feel like they provided a meal and cooked it... pot pie, I think. I'm not kidding when I say that the memory of that putrid smell that made me gag and go running from the house is still very strong.
 
I've had goat, it's good in highly-spiced stews.

I've had horsemeat. I would have thought it was hamburger if I didn't know better. I'll pass on it a second time, though.

I've eaten bear. It tastes like veal, in my opinion. I  would rather have veal.

Rabbit and squirrel I've had, too. I wouldn't go out of my way to eat it again.

I drew the line at guinea pig, though. I had too many of them as pets when I was a kid. It'd be like eating cat or dog. Nope.
 
Years ago, when I lived in an apartment, the neighbor across the hall was cooking (or shall I say) boiling a racoon for Thanksgiving. (of course it had been skinned). It still had it's head on. She said you always buy it with the head on, otherwise some people might sell you a puppy saying it's a raccoon. She did her best trying to get me to taste it, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. It was also the greasiest looking meat I'd ever seen in my life.
 
I've eaten unknowingly horse meat and goose. I will NVR do that again. The horse was ok, we dipped it in some dipping sauces and I don't even remember what the goose tasted like. We were vacationing in Paris and our lady friend we were staying with served it for dinner.
 
dobielvr said:
I've eaten unknowingly horse meat and goose. I will NVR do that again. The horse was ok, we dipped it in some dipping sauces and I don't even remember what the goose tasted like. We were vacationing in Paris and our lady friend we were staying with served it for dinner.
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Goose is very common meat here.. especially at Christmas time.... it's really delicious, but its VERY greasy, so the grease has to be poured off several times during cooking..
Duck is as common as chicken here... altho' more expensive ....Lamb is my favourite meat.. but it is rich... I have it a couple times a month and duck about every other month

Our supermarkets routinely sell Ostrich, Kangaroo... Bison... all are very gamey with little or no fat , and high in protein

I've had horse in Italy because I was told it was beef.. I didn't like it at all.. and it made us sick...
.. I've had crocodile... I had Rabbit stew as a kid cuz my grandad killed them and cooked them... I;ve had partridge, pheasant.. because I live in farming country and they are everywhere

As for Goat it's extremely common in parts of the UK ...not in butchers or supermarkets where I live... but in cities and towns which have high Jamaican, Indian and Pakistani Populations
 
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