Does jellyfish count? It’s a bit boring to be honest!
Second would be sea snails and they were pretty nice.
I’ve had jellyfish several times. It’s pretty great with toasted sesame seed oil. Sea snails are great too.
Horse, I think. It’s quite delicious, and quite common place here too
Where is here…asking for a friend
Italy lol
Horse- When I travelled to Uzbekistan, on airplane one of the meals was delicious meat with rice. I thought that its beef (it looked like it) but later I found out that its horses meat. Feel little sorry later because I enjoyed so much in meat of such a beautiful animal.
Aren’t they all beautiful?
Do you know much about cows?
Whale and fermented shark in Iceland.
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Yak. Had a delicious yak goulash in a restaurant in Thimpu, Bhutan. Very similar to beef, hard to tell because of the spicing.
It’s not really exotic here, as you just get it at the supermarket with the other meats, but people find it fascinating that Kangaroo meat is widely eaten in Australia. It’s a lovely and rich ted meat. Very lean.
Yep, tastes like venison. I eat kangaroo all the time too, but I suspect a lit of overseas people would find it peculiar.
Hákarl, the Icelandic fermented shark - while not exactly pleasant the first time, it’s nowhere near as bad as people make out.
Ostrich - looks like it would taste like beef, but actually it’s more of a strong chicken-like flavour which makes sense really.
I guess you could say horse, but that’s common in a lot of places in Europe. Like beef but less flavour, too lean, I’m not a fan.
The love and respect we give horses vs. other farm animals kind of makes me sad.
No rednecks in here bringing up eating squirrel? For shame.
It’s not exotic in the traditional sense, it’s a pretty universal animal, but it’s not commonly eaten so I’ll share. It’s pretty gamey and lean but the flavor is still pretty good. I think it’s rather tasty pan fried and served with biscuits and gravy.
IDK if it’s “exotic” but cariboo is f-ing excellent.
Rattlesnake. Not bad, but totally unremarkable - tasted like chicken. Still, I’d recommend it, because the best thing about it is getting to say you’ve eaten rattlesnake.
I think I had grilled blow snake once. I was camping with a bunch of other kids and somebody caught the thing. You’re right it tasted like chicken.
Not bad, but totally unremarkable
Pretty much sums up my experience with rattlesnake, as well. The novelty of it was the most interesting part, really.
Though that really applies to just about every “exotic” meat I’ve had. They all taste like a slightly worse version of other, more conventional meats, and it’s immediately made clear why it’s not more popular in the first place.
I tried Whale once. Honestly? It wasn’t that great. It’s a bit like a very dry, very though Tuna
Very, very poorly made in that case, probably. Properly prepared whale is honestly closer to beef than any other fish, and should be juicy and easy to chew.
Whales are not fish tho?
Exactly. Hence me comparing it to beef instead of Tuna.
I’ve eaten a rat.
In my youth I was trekking in Thailand and we arrived to our next destination late at night and we were starving. The only option to get food was a street grill which served only two foods: rat-on-a-stick and some kind of a fried jellyfish-on-a-stick.
The rat was actually pretty good. My friend chose the jellyfish and regretted this instantly.
LOL, I’m getting Discworld vibes. The vendor wasn’t Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala by chance?
Things were pretty crazy, but not Ankh-Morpok-level crazy ;)
Dog, it was chewie and not tasty at all, no wonder most people don’t eat it.
I wonder if it’s because it’s a carnivore. Are there any other carnivores people generally eat? Hmm…
lots of kinds of fish. most other carnivores are not cost effective to be eaten regularly.
Bear. I’ve never had it but I’m told it’s super greasy
Chicken
I heard something somilar about why cat doesn’t taste good.
Bears supposedly have very distinct tastes depending on whether they’ve been eating meat and fish or fruits and honey.
Think you meant to reply to the other guy.
Where dogs are eaten they are usually omnivores. Lots of scraps mixed with rice, at least in Southeast Asia.
It can be really good, though undeniably gamey.
What’s your favorite breed?🙂
I have no idea, as far as I know there are specific meat dog breeds.
Reindeer in a restaurant in Helsinki. It was good, a lot like beef. The reindeer were farmed, so it wasn’t too tough or gamey.
