Strange culinary experiences

[queencityfan]

Originally Posted by gingele

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Edited to add: I'll stick with the roasted goat meat and moussaka

So, they told you it was goat did they Amy?


I'm a fairly adventourous eater too, I have had the basics, crickets, grub, grasshoppers, blood sausage, lots of different game, lion & bear, oh my!


No cockroaches though..........

[gingele]

Originally Posted by queencityfan

So, they told you it was goat did they Amy?


I'm a fairly adventourous eater too, I have had the basics, crickets, grub, grasshoppers, blood sausage, lots of different game, lion & bear, oh my!


No cockroaches though..........

Hmmmmm....well, whatever it was it was succulent.


And I'm like you...I'll try pretty much anything. But gotta draw the line at cockroaches. Unless it's been a bad month and company's coming.


BTW - great to see you back in Playa...saw you sneak in to some recent pics! Any chance you might be back in late July?

[Ginger]

Okay, well I've eaten goat! Curried goat, at an East Indian festival. And to be honest, it was VERY good.

[ncmarg]

Originally Posted by Michele

I am notoriously known as a person who will eat almost anything. (I draw the line at anything that is still breathing or beating) I am a huge fan of organ meat, raw fish and most things that would be customarily considered....yucky. Fortunately, here in Mexico, I am presented with plenty of opportunities to enjoy such yummies as liver, tongue, sweatbreads etc. One of my favorites is a locally made blood sausage that occassionally turns up at my favorite source for carnitas. Unfortunately, this Sunday they were sold out but I wrote about our Sunday culinary routine in my blog just today. Nothing too weird on our menu today. The mix of meats is unsually whatever is left over, pulled from the back, stomach, rib cage and head of the pig. I haven't quite developed a taste for the buche (stomach). It's got a weird crunch to it, like ear cartilage. The rest of it is juicy and wonderful.

Michele, your blog food looks wonderful! Is there anything in the Tacos Kastacan that would make someone squeamish if they knew it was in there? If not, I'm heading to Teresita when we're in PDC in May!

[Michele]

No I don't think so. It's really just fried skin and meat. You CAN have other things mixed in if you ask for it.

[Michele]

Originally Posted by Ginger

Okay, well I've eaten goat! Curried goat, at an East Indian festival. And to be honest, it was VERY good.

Hey!! Aren't you the person who turned Stewart on to the awesome Barbacoa place on 307 across from Chedraui (ish)?? That's pretty adventuresome fare!!

[Ginger]

Originally Posted by Michele

Hey!! Aren't you the person who turned Stewart on to the awesome Barbacoa place on 307 across from Chedraui (ish)?? That's pretty adventuresome fare!!

Uhhh.....yeeeaahhh...that was me.....oh yeah, I think that was goat. Please tell me all I ate there was regular goat??

[Michele]

Originally Posted by Ginger

Uhhh.....yeeeaahhh...that was me.....oh yeah, I think that was goat. Please tell me all I ate there was regular goat??

Yes. Regular goat for sure. They have a lot of other "more funky" items on the menu as well!!

[bufante]

I have ate dog once in Korea. It was good I thought. I have no idea what kinda dog, anything fried isn't bad.

[Woodman]

Originally Posted by bufante

I have ate dog once in Korea. It was good I thought. I have no idea what kinda dog, anything fried isn't bad.

I ate dog in Korea too,and monkey on a stick in the Phillipines and octapuss teniciles on a stick in japan and cat at the chinness place in town.

[MoonDollar]

I will eat just about anything but I draw the line at pets and bugs! A cockroach near me almost requires a straight jacket There is NO way it would get remotely close to my mouth.

I wouldn't say I like anything exoctic. I've eaten tons of dead animals. Bear, goat, wild pig, elk, buffalo, beaver (imagine the jokes) oodles of deer.

[Ginger]

we have friends, he is Canadian, his wife is thai. He has had dog in THailand. It is fairly common in Asia, he says. He says it tasted fine.

I couldn't eat it. But he says you can't get all uppity about it....he says many Indians think the same thing about us eating cows....how could we do that, in the same way...they worship cows.

I said, sorry pal...I'm uppity, no one is eating my Moses!

[DavidB]

The first year we were in Playa we were walking down the beach with some friends that have been going to Playa for 15 years. We ran into a guy selling Ceviche out of a big cooler. He would just take a big ladle and scoop out the Chevice into a big plastic cup. Give you a little spoon and a pack of crackers. $3 We would have never thought about trying it but Paul said it was great. And it was.

[ycraig]

In Puerto Vallarta they use to come down the beach with fish on a stick. It would be whatever they had caught that morning. Sometimes a whole fish other times strips of fish (I think Mackeral). They would cook it on the beach with wood and cocanut husks. You would get a slice of lime and hot sauce. I think the cost was two dollars. That and a couple of beers was lunch