What is the most "obscure" or rarest food you've

bear

>>8370991
To me probably jackfruit. To anyone else, Nilgai, ants, or nopalitos.

>>8370991
alligator jerkey. I've also eaten snake, ox, and hammerhead shark (which is completely illegal).

I'd also say wild boar but it's pretty common. On the wish list I'd probably put Jack Fruit...I just haven't come across it and want to check it off my list.

>>8371010
Asian grocer, they'll even quarter them for you.

Snake satay in Indonesia

For me it is the McChicken, the rarest fast food sandwich

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Biangbiang noodles

>>8370997
Bear isn't too uncommon in northern regions. I ate bear meat at least 3 times a week during the 8 years I was stationed in northern Siberia. I hear they eat it more in the Canadian Arctic.

I ate lion meat.
It was shredded and in a taco.

Also >>8371030 this

>>8371334
Isn't predator meat fucking horrible for you? The bio-accumulation from the food chain rises up and concentrates into apex predators like bears. By eating predators like bears and sharks, you're ingesting considerable amounts of toxins.

I could understand eating it because there is literally no other food source available, but outside of that contingency eating bear with that regularity is stupid and dangerous.

Crocodile pies, kangaroo burgers.

Golden Babies

sea turtle

>>8371401
bears are practically vegetarian you fuck.

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>>8370991
Capibara (like a pig sized amazonian rat)
Shit was cash. Surprisingly tame, juicy and delicate.

Whale, aka muktuk. One of the only ways to get it, in America, is to have it gifted to you (can't be bought or sold) by a Native whose tribe has whaling rights. My karate instructor in high school got some and shared it with the class.
It's super oily, but I'm a freak that eats raw bacon. So I thought it was delicious.

>>8370991
In my city is a small restaurant that serves exotic meats like alligator and ostrich. I've always wanted to try it but I've had no real reason to visit in ages.

Plus the Ramen shop over the road from it is really tempting.

>>8371401
what the fuck did you just say you little bitch?

>>8370991
I was just informed a few weeks ago that I'd be eating rat soon, kind of mixed feelings about it.

>>8371429
I want to try whale so bad. I'm saving for a trip to Japan, and a whale restaurant is on my checklist.

>>8371429
Is it safe to eat raw bacon? I like raw meat in general but it doesn't seem like bacon is fresh enough for that.

for me it's onion soup, the one dish i crave more than any other

hopefully i will try it one day

>>8371504
No, it's a surefire way to get you parasites.

I'm sure whatever that anon is eating is something else, or he's incubating a nest.

the vagina of taylor swift

jk i wanna try the cappuccino Lay's chips

>>8371425
THE WORLDS LARGEST RODENT. IVE ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY IT. HOW WAS IT PREPARED?

>>8371504
Yes, but not Johnsonville, Oscar Meyer or any of the store-bought stuff. That stuff's been processed and sitting on a shelf for so long that it's likely covered in bacteria. Go to your local butcher and ask to taste test their fresh bacon cuts. Most butchers will let you do this. When you taste a cut that you're happy with, ask him, or her, to wrap it in wax paper to preserve the freshness.

>>8371551
roasted on an open fire. It's kind of like rabbit, kinda fatty.

I've tried llama multiple times, it's pretty good. Also have had rabbit, sheep's head/brain, chicken hearts, beef tongue, oxtail & gator.

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>>8371401
It obviously gives you their power dumbfuck

>>8370991

Dog ... In a stew and skewer .. Not bad , similiar to pork id say

Lutefisk. Everything said about it is true. I guess it doesn't help that I tried it at a funeral wake, but I don't think it could possibly be fitting anywhere else.

>>8370991
Jew
Extra crispy
Nose is best part

balut maybe? idk i grew up eating mountain lion and bear and elk but not sure if those are really rare.

I once had Fugu in Japan.
Wouldn't recommend.

I'd say shark fin soup and alligator. Both were decent but nothing crazy.

Also I don't know if that counts since most people don't hunt nowadays, but I eat grouse a couple times a year when I get lucky. It's breddy gud.

pre-nerf four loko

Well rare for abywhere but japan: fugu. Literally rare would be gold leaf

>>8371710

sparks alcoholic energy drinks

>>8371663
What its amazing, thr slight tingling is nice

My dad ate a jellyfish salad in Korea, on a business trip.

I really wanna try some kinda eyeball

>>8372636
>Wants to try eyeball
>Has two of them

Get to work you lazy cunt.

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>>8370991
Your mother's cooking.

>>8370991
Turtle soup or squirrel and dumplings. Both were surprisingly good.

>>8371550
The chips were awful, IMO. Buy a small bag at a store to try them out first.

I've tried most of the things people are listing and never even considered them wierd. The wierdest for me was eating an armadillo I shot in my yard. Roasted him with some thyme, rosemary and lemon. Tasted like a strongly flavored pork roast.

>>8373539
>Can't compete with a leper

I'm okay with this.

Either ostrich, yak, or alligator.

>>8370991
Either jellyfish or fermented duck eggs. Would not recommend jellyfish.

>>8370991
Lambs brain and eyes.

>>8370991
Roasted snake a local aboriginal elder cooked

>>8371423
apart from all the fish, of course.

>>8372571
they have jars of jellyfish heads at my asian supermarket

what do with them?

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>>8371504
>>8371542
>>8371568
Raw pork (and cured) is safe to eat
Mettbrötchen is delicious

>>8371001
for real? im from Brazil, they don`t taste that great, and they stick like glue

>>8370991
I had dolphin in Panama City, Florida back in 2003....I had no idea it was illegal

>>8373826
That looks fantastic but no one around here does such a thing and I'd be scared to try making it myself

crocodile burger. if it even was that.

I ate malaysian bbq once, don't think most people around me have done that.

>>8373841
You can buy it here in every butcher shop , freshly made , ready to eat , it's nice for breakfast when you had too much beer the night before

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>>8370991
In order of scarcity:
1. My own semen.
2. Other people's ejaculate.
3. Blue Pepsi.
4. Whale Sausage.

Shark fin soup all of my life since my grandmothers cantonese. A+ dish btw.
Pork tongue is another one. I know lots of people eat beef tongue, mexicans in particular, but pork is still pretty rare.

Ate durian once. It was okay. The smell is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be. It tastes like citrusy almond with a little bit of onion, in the form of a fibrous paste. I'd eat it again.

balut. I've got a Vietnamese friend who's trying to find a century egg for me

alligator, rattlesnake, and I think squirrel but it could've been something else.

I'd like to try more exotic fruits probably.

>>8371662
>eating lions
What part of America are you from?

So no one has mentioned human??

Dad bought zebra steaks once. Pretty underwhelming.
Also had musk ox jerky and dried whale blubber in Greenland which was very different from anything I've ever tasted.

>>8373926
Not him but I can get Tiger tacos in Tampa, Fl.

>>8373819
Don't eat 'em, but they make a good stock for a fish chowder.

Rattle snake poppers
Seafood nachos with squid and caviar
Aligator
A savory chive ice cream with bacon bits a balsamic syrup in a crisp cheese cheese ice cream cone
Eel
Chocolate-covered ghost peppers with espresso powder (not good!)
I have eaten some crazy shit idk why I'm having a brain fart

Children

>>8373963
I had Iranian saffron ice cream once. It was amazing. Bright yellow.

>>8370991
for me its a tie between Deer heart & liver or sea snail

deer liver when when cooked right is fucking amazing, and the heart is fatty but not overly oily. Sea snail just kinda tastes like a chewier escargot tho, you have to pair it with just the right foods or else it just falls flat.

I've been tempted lately to try rocky mountain oysters, although I think i'm probably still too much of a pussy to go for it just yet

>>8374006
agreed with the escargot compare with the sea snail, I've had it a few times and it basically the same shit.

>>8373830
Yeah, tastes like juicy fruit gum and I loved that shit as a kid. The sap is a bitch though, practically ruined my knife.

Cow heart, Guinea pig, Chinese alligator

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a manta ray taco

>>8373958
Where can you get them in Tampa?

>>8374196
My mistake, it was lion tacos. Anyway the place is called Taco Fusion but apparently it's closed now due to CONTROVERSY.

Regardless plenty of distributors offer rare and exotic meats, for a price, then you just double charge the customer. 50% profit.

Not obscure really but I eat a lot of game. My brother in law hunts moose and dear so have had moose burgers and tacos. I always find it interesting how lean the meat is. That house is a hunters paradise. The pelts they have are beautiful

>>8373826
Murica doesn't have same safety standards. Even raw beef and raw eggs aren't safe (unless you go find some tartare quality ingredients in specialised shops.)
Thanks Europe.

>>8370991

Eaten :

Morels found wild

The worm at the bottom of a bottle of tequila

Bison

Durian

Bear

Alligator

Thresher shark

Eel

Want to try :

Whatever that crazy fish in a can meme stuff is the name escapes me.

Burger in a can

All the south Asian fruits you can't get in the west

Find my own truffles

>>8374211
That's some bullshit. Ah, ok, I think I heard about that place around the time of the World Cup being held in South Africa. At least, the lion meat thing in Tampa sounds familiar.

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Ive had salsa de chinicuil hidalgo mexico

I am looking forward to getting my hands onto some caguama (sea turtle/they were endangered) grease for a pal of mine he asks for it regularly

>>8371401
The majority of what bears eat is fish, berries, and the occasional deer or elk this is for grizzly bears black bears eat anything there meat has had the higher chance for toxins

>>8371504
Its cured so its safe to est raw but tastes like shit if there is alot of fat stick to panchetta

>>8374233
you mean surströmmings?

>>8373791
apart from all the bears that don't live next to an actively spawning salmon stream.

>>8370991
I've eaten bear and balut. The balut was overcooked.

I'd like to try whale.

>>8372636
>buy whole fish
>grill whole fish
>eat whole fish's eyes
>throw away rest of fish
Was that so hard?

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this ball made out of shrimp and kobe beef

>>8371401
I'd be most worried about trichonosis.

>>8371001
>>8371010

There are two commonly known kinds of Jackfruit.

Jackfruit, or Nangka (Nung-car) in Malaysian/Indonesian, is this slighty sticky yet firm, kinda rubbery, soapy.

It's sweet and refreshing, imagine a sweet coconut meat. (The white flesh inside, that is plain tasting but refreshing).
Texture is like a tender, but rubbery cooked squid.

Another one, which has no official English name, still same species.
Is called Cempedak (Chump per Dark) in Malay.

Cempedak is REALLY sweet, it's soft and sticky.
Slightly mushy, sweet like a cross of banana, marshmallow and a good durian (minus the smell).
Texture.. it's like an uncooked marshmallow + cooked crab pincer meat.

Nangka is refreshing, best eaten chilled.
Cempedak is sweet, great made into fried fritters.

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Not necessarily weird, but pretty obscure. It's farinato, a type of sausage made only in a small region of Spain, with Ciudad Rodrigo and Salamanca being the main places. It's made of pork fat, bread crumbs, pumpkin, paprika, star anise, and aguardiente. Usually fried up with eggs, or made into croquettes with honey. Shit is delicious, my host mom made it for me all the time.

It's similar to farinheira in Portugal if you've ever heard of that, though that's made with chicken.

>>8375447
>fish

Dat mercury

>>8370991

I ate human flesh once

was pretty dried up and cold so it didnt have much taste

>>8373840
Mahi Mahi/Dolphin/Dorado is the same thing
You weren't eating a dolphin like Flipper

>>8376242
Boogers don't count as flesh, just say paste.

>>8374211
How were the tacos? I've been wanting to pick up lion steaks from Exotic Meats, but they're expensive

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>>8370991
I had Minke whale in Oslo, Norway recently. Not bad but not special. It was merely a novelty

>>8371423
This. Aside from Polar bears, most are closer to vegetarians

>>8372571
You can get that at authentic Chinese places in the US. It's just chewy and has no flavor

>>8373840
Dolphin is another name for Mahi Mahi. You ate a fish not a mammal

>>8370997
Bear sausage is GOAT tier

>>8370991

when i was in chinatown, i ate jellyfish

>>8376334
No, it was definitely Dolphin friendo

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>>8376372

Seems unlikely. Pic related is almost certainly what you had; Florida is fucking famous for it. It's called dolphin, dorado, mahi-mahi, and various other names.

>>8370991
I'd like to try some tiger wine and most of the Chinese traditional medicine that rely on endangered species.
T. Edgelord

>>8374233
>>The worm at the bottom of a bottle of tequila

That's MEZCAL retard

Boxty

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Shark fin soup.

I was working at a Catholic school in Thailand and for a christmas buffet they served Chinese food to all the teachers. I'm 98% sure we had Shark fin soup as an appetiser.

What's the name of that dish that you have to eat under a cover to supposedly hide your shame from God?

>>8377015
How were the children?

>>8377135
A little tight but nothing lube couldn't fix.

>>8377069
ortolans

>>8377069
Ortolans

I guess I'd say kimchi.

>>8371425
and guinea pig
they are easy to grow and harvest
unlike big pigs

>>8377174
You're too adventurous for this thread.

>>8377248
I can't really think of any "rare" food I've eaten. Does bulgogi count?

Exotic meats;
Ostrich, kangaroo, horse, donkey, pretty much every UK game bird, deer, boar, rabbit, kid, bison, springbok.

Other than some other uncommon foods might include, birch tips, wood sorrel, dryads saddle.

Well, i'd probably have to say shark tail. Illegal though, and judging by the taste its not worth eatint.

gator and escargot
most game meats Venison Bison Quail Pheasant goose moose

Mentioned to coworkers that I used to have rabbit a lot as a kid and people were freaked out, but pretty sure it isn't "obscure"

>>8373826
That's not safe though, germs just give zero fucks.

I've had lamprey.
I'd like to have whale.

Ate a single headphone once. Poop was smooth as latex a few days later.

Not sure if it is rare or not, I just am not sure what it was. I was in a rural part of Costa Rica, it was a seed pod type thing that the locals called "guava," though it is clearly NOT what Americans call guava (they call this guyabo).

The thing was shiny and black and looked somewhat like the carapace of a beetle, the texture was remarkably similar to cotton candy, as was the taste. I think it was a seed, and each little seed was inside a larger pod.

Anyone know what that was?

>>8377069
Was gonna say this

>>8376337
what is so good about goat?

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>>8377609
Sounds a bit like tamarind.

>>8376715
Tequila is mezcal, reatard

I see it as pretty dumb and pointless to try and eat all these edgy meats like bears, whales, snakes and lions (cause you just know they're going to be tough, fatty and otherwise unpleasant and chances are that the cut and cooking method won't be great either).

There are probably hundreds of under-utilised and forgotten herbs, vegetables and mushrooms in one's own country that people should try if they want to be food hipsters. To say nothing of the unusual and historical cooking methods and recipes from home and around the world.

Pine Mushrooms that grow in a secret spot in the Cascades, made into 'Mushroom Tea'- a seafood and mushroom broth, mixed with all sorts of veggies

so goooood

>>8377297
Depends on the area you live in/ate in and authenticity

>>8374118
>Pier fishing south Fla
>Ultra light rig
>targeting snappers which are abundant
>dark shapes scream under the pier
>think fast cloud moved across sun
>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.webm
>wind sprint length of pier to save line
>walk whatever it is up the beach
>4 pound sting ray
>ick
>9 kids come running
>You want that mister?
>Yeah. No.
>lead kid whips out pocket knife
>stabs it in the "head"
>picks it up on knife handle
>they run off with it cheering

So apparently eating ray is a thing.

>>8378719
Ever had "scallops" at a typical lower-mid tier 'murrican chain restaurant? You ate stingray.

i always wanted to try soft pretzels and baked ravioli

fly agaric

>>8378818
I know how to identify a scallop. Those kids were so happy though, like they really put one over on me. I heard they do them in a barbecue smoker. real local thing. Sanibel, Captiva, Espero thing.

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>>8377609
Was it this fruit? It's called guama.

>>8371401
Then i'll just eat a baby bear.

Buffalo burgers I guess
They were good

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I'd like to try Ortolan.
Songbirds drowned in Armarac and then flamed

>>8370997
made some bear chili. shit was delicious

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>>8378818
name one American chain restaurant that serves stringray and calls it "scallops", reddit.

Oxtail poutine

guinea pig, peruvian way. That's really good. And you can just see the guinea pig.

Goat
I'm not very adventurous.

>>8372636
I ate a rabbits eye while in survival school. I remember the cornea having a very interesting texture, and it was kind of salty.

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For me it is the jalapeno McChicken, the most obscure fast food sandwich.

>>8377500
It's not any different than eating sushi or steak tartare

>>8378677
They're both made from agave but they're not the same plant

>>8378719
Poor Mexicans in my area eat stingrays, saltwater catfish, and pretty much every other easy to catch trash fish.

The downside is that every once and a while they'll get lucky and get a snook or a red fish or some other valuable sport fish. Being poor Mexicans, they ignore the size and catch number limitations and just take however much they want.