Different cultures mean different recipes.

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I just read a post about Amazon selling an alligator dish. @Rebeccasfarm (Ocean Tiara) was as shocked as I was the first time I heard about it. But it much depends on our culture. I remember once when I was listening to Brenda Lee singing Jambalaya and decided to understand what it said. One thing led to another and I understood that jambalaya and jumbo, two dishes from New Orleans, where made at first with whatever the swamps gave. And there were the alligators for protein. I ate Guinea pig in Peru and found it as good as rabbit. One of my friends said it was gross. In other places they eat roaches and other bugs. I know that in Mexico, a giant ant is a delicacy. I´d pass. And although I love urchin, I always found gross that my father ate alive the very small crab that lives inside the urchin. YUCK!!! Many years ago, one of my maids, matter of factly said that she had eaten a dog. When she saw my eyes grow big she added that the dog had been very mean. What is the most "different" food you have eaten? In what way? I have eaten raw fish, seafood and ground veal meat.