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OK, so after seeing all these posts for Indonesian designers, Canadian designers, British contest holders, etc., I've decided to start a thread that I can participate in. I didn't want to start an "American Designers" thread -- even though that's where I am from -- because it makes me think of all those damned "God Bless America" bumper stickers I see everywhere. Sorry if you have one on your car, but I'm pretty sure that if God is who they say he is, he pretty much likes the whole world, not just one country.
So anyway, all you Earthling designers get in on this thread so we can make all the aliens here feel, well, alienated. And bugy, I better not see you post anything here. We both know you're from off-planet. :)
Alright Earthlings. Here's my question: What is the most adventurous, exotic food you've ever eaten?
So anyway, all you Earthling designers get in on this thread so we can make all the aliens here feel, well, alienated. And bugy, I better not see you post anything here. We both know you're from off-planet. :)
Alright Earthlings. Here's my question: What is the most adventurous, exotic food you've ever eaten?
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Alligator(only a bite)...:) truffles(earth,not chocolate....LOVE:))
(umm looked up rocky mtn oysters, wow, youre brave;-))
(umm looked up rocky mtn oysters, wow, youre brave;-))
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yeah... rocky mountain oysters? that's pretty crazy...
@tini1 - i've had alligator too... very good!
@tini1 - i've had alligator too... very good!
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sif, camel is really nice.
if you want "eeww" the best i can do for you is warm kangaroo blood/grease from the carcass over a fire, now that was gross.
if you want "eeww" the best i can do for you is warm kangaroo blood/grease from the carcass over a fire, now that was gross.
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813 you're getting there
1009 , i see you are trying, am closing the 2000 soon, roger that :P
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sif, camel is really nice.
if you want "eeww" the best i can do for you is warm kangaroo blood/grease from the carcass over a fire, now that was gross.
if you want "eeww" the best i can do for you is warm kangaroo blood/grease from the carcass over a fire, now that was gross.
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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Alright, so I guess I never said what is the most exotic food I've ever eaten. It's definitely got to be durian, a notoriously stinky southeast Asian fruit. My husband (Dave) and I visited my brother and his wife in LA a few years ago, and Dave told my sister-in-law, who is Vietnamese, that he wanted to try it. So she took us to Little Saigon in Orange County where her mother met us at a market to help us pick out a ripe durian for $25. This was in the morning, and we drove around all day with this thing in the trunk of the car. It smells like you would imagine a pineapple might smell if it sat inside a bag of poopy diapers in the hot sun for a week.
We finally cut into the spiky fruit later that night, standing around in the kitchen passing pieces around a group of family and friends. We actually enjoyed it, in part because it's so unusual that eating it was an experience. It has a texture like mushy banana, which is a little hard to take. But the flavor wasn't anything like what I've heard described by others who've eaten it. I think we didn't find it so nasty in large part because by the time we ate it, we were so used to the smell, having lived with it the whole day.
After that trip, we caught an episode of Bizarre Food with Andrew Zimmerman. He went to Vietnam and ate some of the grossest things I've seen. But when it came time to try durian, he couldn't stomach it. Ha! Here's a video of that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75vm9ik5pjo.
We finally cut into the spiky fruit later that night, standing around in the kitchen passing pieces around a group of family and friends. We actually enjoyed it, in part because it's so unusual that eating it was an experience. It has a texture like mushy banana, which is a little hard to take. But the flavor wasn't anything like what I've heard described by others who've eaten it. I think we didn't find it so nasty in large part because by the time we ate it, we were so used to the smell, having lived with it the whole day.
After that trip, we caught an episode of Bizarre Food with Andrew Zimmerman. He went to Vietnam and ate some of the grossest things I've seen. But when it came time to try durian, he couldn't stomach it. Ha! Here's a video of that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75vm9ik5pjo.
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Durian almost has a custard like texture people either hate it or like it. You can also put it in the freezer and it's like icecream! I've tried pufferfish but there's nothing unique about it's flavour, I guess people just eat it for the thrill.
If you want to see a gross show, there's Man vs Wild http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuB3kr3ckYE don't watch if you're easily grossed out!
If you want to see a gross show, there's Man vs Wild http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuB3kr3ckYE don't watch if you're easily grossed out!
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well, I ate frog legs, um, not the testicles :-O...tonite we dined on calamari(squid, my kids love the little heads, with all the tentacles) ) anchovy salad(anchovies, capers, fennel, kalamata olives, EVO), fetticine with oyster mushrooms, marscaphone cheese,,,,yummo!(umm, I didn't cook it, even better, I go to my restaurant!!!
(If anyone ever comes to HApmton roads area, VA, I'll feed you great, even if your picky;-))
(If anyone ever comes to HApmton roads area, VA, I'll feed you great, even if your picky;-))
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grasshopper, squirrel, cricket, you name it...
all fried with spicy chillies.
hmmmm. :P
all fried with spicy chillies.
hmmmm. :P