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Weirdest food you've tried/Is Irish food boring?

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  • 18-11-2016 2:10pm
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    Koptain Liverpool
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    Irish food is great. I love a good steak and fresh Irish spuds and vegetables.

    But we really are fairly boring/unadventurous compared to other countries.

    I've had live squid and silkworm larvae in Korea.

    I've had deep fried cows lips and rooster crests in tomato sauce in Spain.

    I'm aware of but haven't tried jellied eels in England and brandied swallows in France.

    What's the weirdest thing you've eaten?


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    Turtyturd
    Registered Users Posts: 28,394 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Snake soup in Kenya.

    Edit: can't actually remember what it tasted like.


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    frag420
    Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    Koptain Liverpool wrote: »
    Irish food is great. I love a good steak and fresh Irish spuds and vegetables.

    But we really are fairly boring/unadventurous compared to other countries.

    I've had live squid and silkworm larvae in Korea.

    I've had deep fried cows lips and rooster crests in tomato sauce in Spain.

    I'm aware of but haven't tried jellied eels in England and brandied swallows in France.

    What's the weirdest thing you've eaten?

    Just in France? If I brought her to Italy would she spit?


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    Help!!!!
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    Deep fried bulls testicles in Slovenia, were actually really nice
    Crispy pigs ears in Lithuania


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    irish_goat
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    Durian Fruit
    The smell evokes reactions from deep appreciation to intense disgust, and has been described variously as rotten onions, turpentine, and raw sewage.

    Absolutely disgusting stuff and the markets in Kuala Lumpur all stank of it.


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    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Marzipan.


    Everything else is fine.


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    Koptain Liverpool
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    Durian Fruit



    Absolutely disgusting stuff and the markets in Kuala Lumpur all stank of it.

    Curious to try this though :)


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    Koptain Liverpool wrote: »
    What's the weirdest thing you've eaten?

    Suppose human placenta is the one most people notice when I list the weird things I have eaten.

    People are often surprised when I mention catching killing and eating wild rabbit too.

    Used to think I was weird enough eating horse that I bought a few times - but then sher it turned out we were all at it without knowing :)

    Tuna Eyeball - Hákarl - snails - frog - pigeon in the UK - kangeroo and crocodile.

    I have not _yet_ had human toe in The Sourtoe Cocktail but it is high on my to do list. As is "Dragon in the Flame of Desire"


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    team_actimel
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    Some people only try weird food so they can say to others they had weird food.

    Live squid? That's just cruel.


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    Riskymove
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    says it all:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huSP7PtctC4


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    osarusan
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    Whale, both raw and cooked - delicious.

    Raw horse meat - tasted fine, mostly of the accompanying sauce.

    Bee larvae -weird but ok.

    Fermented squid guts - maybe the worst food it is possible to eat in the entire universe.


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    Koptain Liverpool
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    team_actimel wrote: »

    Live squid? That's just cruel.

    Well it was chopped up - you don't swallow it whole.

    And it's washed down with Korean vodka so it probably doesn't feel much......

    But on the other hand it probably is cruel yes :o


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    Grayson
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    Durian Fruit



    Absolutely disgusting stuff and the markets in Kuala Lumpur all stank of it.

    When I was travelling around SE Asia there were signs on loads of hostels and hotels saying it was banned on the premise.

    Apparently it tastes quite nice, it's just the smell.


    I ate Guinea Pig in Peru. Feck all meat on the ****ers. Went and ate a burger afterwards.


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    Bobthefireman
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    Koptain Liverpool wrote: »
    Irish food is great. I love a good steak and fresh Irish spuds and vegetables.

    But we really are fairly boring/unadventurous compared to other countries.

    I've had live squid and silkworm larvae in Korea.

    I've had deep fried cows lips and rooster crests in tomato sauce in Spain.

    I'm aware of but haven't tried jellied eels in England and brandied swallows in France.

    What's the weirdest thing you've eaten?

    What we have here is a food intellectual. Usually found gorging on humble pie as the snails inside grow horns and gouge their insides. That is unless a spud eating paddy has not knocked some sense into his caviar infested brain.


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    irish_goat
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    Grayson wrote: »
    When I was travelling around SE Asia there were signs on loads of hostels and hotels saying it was banned on the premise.

    Apparently it tastes quite nice, it's just the smell.

    Yeah it's banned on public transport and there was a fine in our hotel if we brought it into the room. Definitely doesn't taste nice though.


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    biko
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    I had Supermacs once












    once


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    Fighting Tao
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    Koptain Liverpool wrote: »
    Curious to try this though :)

    You can buy durian fruit on Moore St. in the Asian shop near the entrance to the shopping centre.


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    jester77
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    Yeah it's banned on public transport and there was a fine in our hotel if we brought it into the room. Definitely doesn't taste nice though.

    Doesn't taste as bad as it smells.

    Deep fried tarantulas were a bit icky, legs were nice and crunchy, the body was a bit too dry for my liking.

    Was on a Kopi Luwak farm in Indonesia, they cleaned the excremented coffee beans and roasted them fresh. Not a bad coffee, but not worth the price.


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    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,124 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    biko wrote: »
    I had Supermacs once












    once

    Abrakebabra once....

    Never again.


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