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Old 18-10-2016, 23:35
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Inspired by the chicken feet thread.

In my case it's ducks' tongues, in a Chinese restaurant in Manchester. The strange thing about a duck's tongue is that it has a bone inside it. The best way I can describe it is to say that it's a bit like a bony foxglove - velvety on the outside, with a strangely distressing core of bone.

I have to say that in theory it was nice, due to the chilli and sesame oils, but the bone creeped me out too much for the experience to be enjoyable.
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Old 18-10-2016, 23:46
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Probably a dessert made from frogs fallopian tubes.
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Old 19-10-2016, 07:57
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Probably mealworms or python, both were nice enough.

I think a lot of people have a very arrogant attitude that our culture is correct and everyone else's is wrong. Who are we to say that eating dog or snake is wrong? Meat is meat to me, if it's legal then I'll happily try anything.

I've never been somebody who is freaked out by food, if it's safe then I'll give it a go. I never really understand how people get freaked out so much on things like I'm A Celebrity, it's not like they're going to give you something that will harm you so just get it down you!
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Old 19-10-2016, 08:50
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Pigs tails and trotters.

Tripe.
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Old 19-10-2016, 18:58
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a pate made from a thrush ( the songbird). This was in France, many years ago, I wouldn't eat it now.
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Old 19-10-2016, 20:24
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Andouillettes.
Just disgusting.
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Old 19-10-2016, 20:54
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A spatchcocked guinea pig with everything, except innards, intact - teeth, nose, head and claws. The ears and nose were crispy 😜
We'd seen them romping in a pen in the village earlier and everyone assumed they were pets.
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Old 19-10-2016, 21:34
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I've never been very adventurous with food

years ago I had a tin of Clam and Tomato Sauce for pasta.......that was pretty horrible

a tin of ratatouille........that's horrible as well

not very weird though, just horrible......
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Old 20-10-2016, 10:10
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Probably mealworms or python, both were nice enough.

I think a lot of people have a very arrogant attitude that our culture is correct and everyone else's is wrong. Who are we to say that eating dog or snake is wrong? Meat is meat to me, if it's legal then I'll happily try anything.

I've never been somebody who is freaked out by food, if it's safe then I'll give it a go. I never really understand how people get freaked out so much on things like I'm A Celebrity, it's not like they're going to give you something that will harm you so just get it down you!
I'm with you on this for the most part, but ... dog? Really? I just couldn't.

And I'm pretty sure that's not legal in the UK.
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Old 20-10-2016, 10:30
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I don't think its a good idea to eat predators like dogs or cats as they concentrate any nasties their prey have eaten. I avoid sword fish for that reason too.
I suppose the oddest thing I've had is frog, in Thailand. Quite tasty though it was with a lot of garlic so I'm not sure what frog actually tastes of!
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Old 20-10-2016, 10:59
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I'm with you on this for the most part, but ... dog? Really? I just couldn't.

And I'm pretty sure that's not legal in the UK.
Is it illegal though? I'm not sure it is, I just think our culture frowns upon it, the same as horse for example. That's my point though, who are we to say that our culture is correct and that the Koreans for example are wrong for eating dog? If I went to Korea I would 100% try some dog. To me it would be no different to eating a cow, pig, sheep, deer etc.
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Old 20-10-2016, 11:23
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It's legal to sell horse in the UK - so long as you aren't pretending it's Beef Lasagne! You'd probably have to buy it online though as I'd imagine any butcher selling it would be targeted by PETA and the local pony club.
Not sure about dog/cat - I suspect no abattoirs are licensed to slaughter them, so that would stop it.
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Old 20-10-2016, 13:02
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Is it illegal though? I'm not sure it is, I just think our culture frowns upon it, the same as horse for example. That's my point though, who are we to say that our culture is correct and that the Koreans for example are wrong for eating dog? If I went to Korea I would 100% try some dog. To me it would be no different to eating a cow, pig, sheep, deer etc.
No it's not illegal to eat dog or cat in the UK. The problem would be finding a source of the meat. It's almost certainly illegal to go round slaughtering your own dogs so unless you wait for them to die of natural causes it's pretty hard to do it.
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Old 20-10-2016, 21:46
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Probably a dessert made from frogs fallopian tubes.
I assumed that was a joke, until I looked it up. Tasty!
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Old 20-10-2016, 22:58
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This thread simply got hypothetical after post 7.
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Old 21-10-2016, 00:24
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Not me but my OH - he will eat anything. We were in Thailand and he ordered deep fried frog and they brought him a big plate full then he proceeded to fit them together like a jigsaw puzzle.
Belgium - Horse meat
India - he had Brains - they are from the front of head sir and they are very good.
Maylasia - Washed and turned by hand intestine soup with veg.
Sri Lanka - baby stuff from the sea (what ever that was)
Australia - Kangaroo - camel - lamb etc and anything that had a pulse or came out of the sea.
Me - beans - veggies etc and no meat or fishl

When we were in Thailand for 3 months he would wait for the insect man to come late afternoon and he would go downstairs and have butter fried bugs - the local kids thought it was great a foreign man would eat with them.

He did draw the line at dogs and cats in Vietnam as our friend had both stolen and she knows where they go.
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Old 21-10-2016, 00:55
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Not it counts as weird, but I had baby octopus in an Italian restaurant once. Absolutely delicious, not in the slightest bit rubbery like squid.
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Old 21-10-2016, 08:10
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Not it counts as weird, but I had baby octopus in an Italian restaurant once. Absolutely delicious, not in the slightest bit rubbery like squid.
Squid is only rubbery if it's been poorly cooked. I've had some lovely squid in good restaurants. I've had baby octopus a couple of times too, it was very nice, they just brought the whole things out.

No it's not illegal to eat dog or cat in the UK. The problem would be finding a source of the meat. It's almost certainly illegal to go round slaughtering your own dogs so unless you wait for them to die of natural causes it's pretty hard to do it.
That's pretty much what I thought. I know part of why people are against eating dogs is the way they are slaughtered in places like Korea but a lot of it is "Oh no, I couldn't eat a dog, they're pets!" which is ridiculous. I don't think there's any meat I wouldn't try apart from human.
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Old 21-10-2016, 09:24
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Not it counts as weird, but I had baby octopus in an Italian restaurant once. Absolutely delicious, not in the slightest bit rubbery like squid.
Squid shouldn't be rubbery, if it is it's overcooked generally.
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Old 21-10-2016, 12:47
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Squid is only rubbery if it's been poorly cooked. I've had some lovely squid in good restaurants. I've had baby octopus a couple of times too, it was very nice, they just brought the whole things out.



That's pretty much what I thought. I know part of why people are against eating dogs is the way they are slaughtered in places like Korea but a lot of it is "Oh no, I couldn't eat a dog, they're pets!" which is ridiculous. I don't think there's any meat I wouldn't try apart from human.
I agree with you. As long as it's safe I'll give it a go. Can't say you Don't like something without trying it in my opinion. I know grown adults that won't even try some common British foods as they think they don't like them.

With the horse meat scandal I didnt mind the fact that I may have actually eaten horse instead of beef it was the not being informed what we were eating and being missold it that I had the problem with.
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