Squirrel Lasagne

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A restaurant is serving up Grey Squirrel Lasagne. The news anchor was out and about asking people if they would eat it.
The squirrels are culled from a local estate and rather than just bin them, they decided they could be made into food.
Just got us wondering what is the oddest thing people have eaten on their travels, or even at home. We would give Squirrel Lasagne a go by the way, especially if it was made from the little varmints in the garden
 
Had squirrel stew in the car park at the National. It was made by someone from the old Practical Poultry site. Very nice it was too.
However the most repulsive thing I’ve eaten, not because of the idea but because of what it was like, was sea cucumber which, for the uninitiated, ain’t no vegetable.
Years ago. Just off Tottenham Courrt Road was a restaurant called Antipodes. My casserole of kangaroo followed by chocolate covered scorpions was delicious.
But I draw the line at a deep fried Mars bar!?
 
I had rattlesnake once - just so that I could always say that I had! When we lived in NM, a friend of ours killed a huge one. He said "I ran over it in my truck. Had to run over it about six times, before I killed it!" So, being a sort of outdoorsy type, he cooked it. Waste not, want not and all that. It tasted kind of like turkey legs. Except you'd know it wasn't turkey legs, because of the shape!
 
We have eaten Kangaroo, Ostrich, Zebra and Buffalo.
You are not the first Hen-Gen to say sea cucumber is revolting. Never tried snake but would give it a go, always imagined it would taste like frogs legs (not sure why I have always thought that) but if it tastes like turkey then it does.
The most disgusting thing Oh has come across was in Iceland seal blubber burgers. They were offered as a welcome delicacy on a trip. That's what they were just compressed seal blubber.
Deep fried Mars bars or Snickers no way Jose
 
I'm a bit too squeamish to try anything like squirrel, sea cucumber, snake or scorpions. Call me old fashioned. :-) or just unadventurous. :-(
I recall many years ago being out with some friends, eating chinese food and what I thought were onion rings, were actually squid rings...suffice to say, they all laughed their heads off at me.
 
There's a restaurant called Grub Kitchen near St. Davids, Pembrokeshire. When on holiday, we have read the menu, but am sorry to say that, although always keen to support local businesses, we didn't go there for supper. See http://www.grubkitchen.co.uk Actually, on reading their present menus from the link, it sounds as if they've opened out their menu a lot, and now, when we return, I'm sure we shall give it a go.
In view of recent alarm about the way insect populations globally are declining at a catastrophic rate of 2.5% per year, maybe farm-bred insects are a good way to go.
 
Don't worry Tweetypie, squid rings pales into insignificance next to my friends dad who was a real know it all, on a trip to France insisted he understood all the French words on the menu, in spite of my friend saying "dad do you know what you have ordered"? "yes its lambs liver"
You should have seen his face when a plate of brains arrived :lol:
 
Having been or lived with vegetarians for most ( 2/3 maybe) of my life, going in for the more adventurous delicacies has been off the radar. In fact, foreign travel for me is a fairly recent thing. I haven't tried jellied eels (I don't think, unless it was very long ago.) Have cooked a squirrel that the dog caught. My folks were always picking up pheasants and rabbits from my dads drive to work in the morning. I used to really like tripe and onions in white sauce on top of mashed potato with some black pepper Yum! Not sure Id recreate the experience now though.
 
Rick, you could try Durian fruit! My brother tells me that it smells so utterly foul that you're not allowed bring it on public transport where he lives! But it's very popular in those parts of the world that it's native to.
 
LadyA said:
Rick, you could try Durian fruit! My brother tells me that it smells so utterly foul that you're not allowed bring it on public transport where he lives! But it's very popular in those parts of the world that it's native to.
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And yet it’s absolutely delicious when you get it past your nose. Had it in Malaysia.
 
What is that Scandinavian delicacy that comes in a tin and smells awful so I am told. Is it rancid fish of some kind, that seems to ring a bell.
OH declined Puffin when it was served up.
Going back to my friends dad, he tried to get away with it by saying "of course I love brains" and had to eat it or lose face
 
Durian is truly revolting IMHO. It smells like a gas leak. Ugghh.

Cuttlefish is something else that I can't recommend. It's like eating refrigerated cartilidge, as far as the texture goes.

I've also suffered a particular Chinese variety of fermented tofu that smells & tastes of horse manure; the smell & taste lingers for ages. Most tofu I enjoy, but that one...

Oh, and the ultimate has to be kimchi, beloved delicacy of South Korea. Imagine filling the salad drawer of your fridge with radishes, garlic, white cabbage & fresh chilli peppers, then going away on a three week summer holiday. If the elevtricity went off just as you left the drive, and stayed off, what you'd come home to find in your salad drawer (i.e. rotting veg with garlic & chilli) is what the Koreans enjoy as kimchi and describe as "fresh". It has to be tried to be believed!!!
 
I'm imagining an avant garde buffet party with a spread of all these things :)
This morning I collected the eggs out of the next box and brought them in. This evening I took out what I thought was another egg from Bonnie only to find that it bounced! It was the rubber one I had put in there a week ago and forgotten.
 
My strange eats are mostly just old fashioned I think. When we lived in SW France offal was a local big thing. Its not my taste but my Dad used to genuinely like it, in the local French style tripe would be cooked with tomato, wine and herbs which he'd always order, and then say it wasn't as good as the plainer sort was in England! I remember one meal we went out for, when the starter consisted of 35 snails, then tripe for him and stuffed goose neck for me, stuffed with all sorts of other cheap bits of goose. I wouldn't order it now as I realise the necks were stretched from the force feeding of grain for foie gras.

In Portugal I have had goosefoot barnacles a few times. They are harvested from rocks and are dangerous to pick, so they are very expensive to buy. My advice would be not to bother. They look like a birds foot, with toes and nails! Our local speciality, which I love, translates as goats stomach, stuffed with rice, chorizo, goat and mint. Its boiled (like a haggis), then served in slices. Its the taste of mint which is totally unexpected which I particularly like.

I have also eaten horse (regularly in France), elk and reindeer (in Sweden) and here in Portugal roast suckling pig is a prized delicacy - there is a town with about 30 restaurants, all specialising in it. I'm not sure about squirrel lasagne, it must be a lot of faff for not much meat, plus can you still taste the meat under the sauce?

I have heard of kimchi (Archers) but never seen it, and I know you can't take durian on public transport in Singapore, but again I have never seen it. Seal blubber burgers sound absolutely revolting beyond belief. The most unpleasant thing I have ever tasted is some Finnish cheese which looks just like fudge, so you dip in expecting a sweet treat and you get something vile, vile, vile, and then you can't get rid of the taste. Yuk!
 
The fish in a tin is Swedish called Surstromming and is literally rancid fish. it was voted the worst smell in the world by the Japanese, but I imagine Kimchi would run it close
 
Icemaiden said:
Durian is truly revolting IMHO. It smells like a gas leak. Ugghh.

Cuttlefish is something else that I can't recommend. It's like eating refrigerated cartilidge, as far as the texture goes.

I've also suffered a particular Chinese variety of fermented tofu that smells & tastes of horse manure; the smell & taste lingers for ages. Most tofu I enjoy, but that one...

Oh, and the ultimate has to be kimchi, beloved delicacy of South Korea. Imagine filling the salad drawer of your fridge with radishes, garlic, white cabbage & fresh chilli peppers, then going away on a three week summer holiday. If the elevtricity went off just as you left the drive, and stayed off, what you'd come home to find in your salad drawer (i.e. rotting veg with garlic & chilli) is what the Koreans enjoy as kimchi and describe as "fresh". It has to be tried to be believed!!!
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I got a recipe for a type of kimchi (it's one of those things that's got lots of variables). It had beetroot, carrot and cabbage in. It was - weird. It tasted horrible, and yet......I found I couldn't stop eating it! Just kept going back to the jar for another forkful! A friend said that fermented foods are really good for the gut, and obviously, I needed whatever was in it!
 
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