What have you eaten while travelling that you will never eat again? Or at least you hope you never will.
I began devouring the second scorpion.
However, this second creature was the largest of the three, and thus it contained a decent amount of scorpion meat. This was most disagreeable, as the taste of the meat was very strong, possibly bitter, and it had my face contorting in anguish as I successfully, but unpleasantly, finished this second critter.
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Tasty Fried Scorpions...
Here is a quote from my blog about my trip to Kyrgyzstan, which I have not yet uploaded onto TravelBlog, but hopefully it will soon be ready.
......And er uh a nice bowel of horse milk. I could have done without the horse milk but the matronly ladies living in yurts at the edge of the village selling it by the litre insisted that I drink some because it will make me strong. The bowel of it that I was given had a few pieces of mud floating around in it and it was possible to avoid the pices of mud by drinking carefully. What they were selling ranged from having a few pieces of mud floating in it to having so much mixed in with it that it is brown coloured. Despite this, the locals were buying it by the litreful. I was trying to forget that it was horse milk I was drinking but everybody who came to buy a few litres made horseriding signs to explain it to me, and drink up it will make you strong signs to encourage me to knock it back.
Post your own quotes or descriptions about what you hope to never eat again. Or post quotes from other bloggers about what they ate that you would never eat. I saw a photo of a plate of fried trantualas on a bed of lettuce, on the front page a few weeks about, but I cant find the photo to post here.
Reply to this For the next half hour or so we sat in happy companionship as Roger instructed us on the best way to eat our guinea pigs, even down to how to suck out the brains and find the tiny 'fox' ear bone which he insisted Mark put into his beer and drink!
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Sampling the local 'Cuy'sine
The bloggers did not mention if they will eat guinea pig again, but they did say it tastes like chicken, but doesnt everything!
Reply to this As I was half-heartedly working my way through a mouthful I felt something crunch inside. I was sure it was the shell of a river prawn, a rare delicacy in Marakai but fairly common in Malekula, so I crunched it up and chewed on the meat inside. After I had finished the meat I took out the remains of the shell to find to my surprise that it was brown, not pink.
"What have you done to the shell to make it go brown?" I asked.
"It's not a prawn, it's a beetle that eats taro leaves. It's really good, isn't it?" Redion said, beaming.
I felt a bit sick but was glad they had told me after I'd eaten it rather than while it was in my mouth. I looked down at the brown pieces of shell and noticed the remains of a pincer in there.
A quote from my blog from the island of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu
"Do you eat insects often?" I asked.
"Yes, because we get little meat here. We eat spiders, cockroaches, anything we can find."
Reply to this woops sorry, not as professional at doing quotes as you are Mell. That's from my blog about the island of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu
Reply to this Hello Edward 😊
Look to the right of the editor when you are making a post. The codes for making quotes and hyperlinks to your blogs etc are there.
Mel
Reply to this I had bulls testicles once, I don't think I will ever eat that again. But I have always been a person who thinks he should try everything once... They were huge, and since I knew full well what they were I had big trouble eating them. They tasted as you would expect, squishy and salty... I eventually only managed to eat half of the one testicle... On the other hand I have had fried penis too, but that wasn't such a problem. The way they had prepared it, it just looked and tasted like an ordinary sausage :-)
Monkey brains is also something I will not eat again... I found it lacking of taste, a bit like eating a sponge.
And finally there was something I ate in the jungle in Africa once. No idea what it was, but the meat was extremely bitter, it was possibly the most disgusting thing I have eaten... Unfortunatly since I don't know what it was, I might one day by sheer coincidence have the displeasure of eating it again...
Reply to this My two evil landladies in Russia must have been thinking about this thread while I was living with them; one gave me cat food, the other fed me spaghetti in a bowl of hot milk each morning.
The most random thing I have swallowed is pickled gherkin flavoured, fizzy Ukrainian milk with dill leaves floating on top. I have since learned to look a bit further along the shelf in my local supermarket and pick up the chocolate milk instead!
Ukrainians also make sausages with pigs' blood, in the shape of a meat product that shares its name with a rather well-known pair of travelbloggers :-)
J.
Reply to this Last night I ate balod, a delicacy here in the Philippines. It's a boiled egg with a chick inside and was a bit foul.
Reply to this One time in Thailand I was served a bowel of fat slimey noodles that stretched like elastic bands when pulled.
I used to judge people who order food, eat a couple of mouthfuls and then leave the rest behind. I thought, surely they know if they are hungry or not before they order. Now, I think there might be other reasons why people barely touch the food they order.
Reply to this At a (muslim) wedding in India I had two things which loved to try, but will never eat again although one of them tasted quite good!
The one which tasted good was 'mutton heel soup'. A brown, very nourishing soup with yellow gooey chewy things floating around in them, I knew what it was but had to try it anyways. The soup was nice, but the heel with tendons dangling out wasn't too nice!
The second thing I had was Mutton Brain. I know, not too fancy or exotic - but the consistency being somewhere between jell-o and yogurt was nothing for me. I almost tried more to identify the exact consistency of it, but luckily i didn't!
@ dudeness: yum yum.
Reply to this Ukrainians also make sausages with pigs' blood, in the shape of a meat product that shares its name with a rather well-known pair of travelbloggers :-)
Isn't this the same as black pudding in the UK/Ireland? Eventhough I am from the UK I will definitely not eat black pudding again, it's disgusting. Although my dad loves it!
I will not eat liver, the taste is just horrible...I remember taking a big bite of some meat on a stick from a BBQ (can't remember where in Asia we were) thinking it was beef and it turned out to be liver urrrgh. Neil was a little bit more savvy and let me try the meat before he did!
We haven't been fortunate (!) enough to try brain or testicles as yet! We've had chickens feet and other bits of chicken which we couldn't tell you what the hell they were if we tried.
Reply to this I'll probably not eat guinea pigs again although it really didn't taste of chicken in my opinion. I thought it tasted more like a hog-roast-style meat, quite game-y but not very much so.
Reply to this One time I ate sting ray. It was in this greasy pool of gralic butter sauce with giagantic capers...it didn't settle so well. I won't be eating it again anytime soon.
Reply to this Sea horse anyone?! Is there anything that doesnt get eaten in China?
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Reply to this Mell, I heard there is a saying in China: You can eat anything that has legs except the table.
I have no idea if it was a joke or if there is such a saying in China.
Reply to this I have no idea if it was a joke or if there is such a saying in China.
I know a guy whose grandmother is Chinese. He says, they do in fact eat absolutely everything that ever lived. He said they even eat endangered species, which he is not pleased about.
Reply to this Would you describe how that tasted Ali, since I am not planning to gain first hand experience.
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