Different cultures mean different recipes.
By marguicha
@marguicha (219608)
Chile
May 28, 2023 12:44pm CST
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.
What is the most "different" food you have eaten? In what way? I have eaten raw fish, seafood and ground veal meat.21 people like this
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
I have never had deer nor bison because they don´t live in this part of the world. But there are wild rabbits and you can also buy rabbitts that are raised for meat.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
@marlina We don´t have bison in my part of the world.
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@DaddyEvil (137232)
• United States
28 May 23
I've eaten bread made from ground crickets. It was okay but I really don't want to eat bugs if I can help it.
A Latino friend invited me over for dinner one night and it was delicious. He didn't tell me until after we ate that if was dog and cat meat we had eaten. I'd rather not eat that again, either.
I've eaten alligator steak and shark steak when I was a kid. Mom bought them in the supermarket here so we could try them. They were both delicious.
At the local fair we buy buffalo burgers. Those are delicious. I like mutton when it is first cooked but if it gets cold it tastes gross.
I've eaten bear and antelope meat my niece hunted in Colorado. Those are both delicious, too.
I've eaten sushi and burped fish for three days afterwards. I won't ever eat that again.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
I love sushi but I haven´t eaten many of the dishes you have tried. When I was a child, we ate whale meat once in a while. I did not like it at all. That was before whales were protected. IIAnd if I were rich enough, I´d eat hot, warm or cold mutton meat every day. I love it.
Once, when I was a child, I had a terrible tummy disaster. No antibiotics helped. My aunt at whose house I was had a Native maid. She told me that she´d heal me if I did not ask what I was taking. I would have done anything so I said yes. She gave me a rather bitter herb tea and I took it. In 2 hours I was jumping and romping and was even capable of going into a pool. I asked her then what she had given me and she said "infusion of horse´s s**t". I sometimes wish that doctors learned more about ancient medicine.
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@DaddyEvil (137232)
• United States
28 May 23
@marguicha 
That infusion would be coming right back up after she told me what it was... Probably all the food I'd eaten in the week prior to that, too. 
That infusion would be coming right back up after she told me what it was... Probably all the food I'd eaten in the week prior to that, too. 1 person likes this
@AmbiePam (88667)
• United States
28 May 23
I don't think I've eaten food that is too different. Caviar isn't that weird anymore. I have had ostrich, and a buffalo burger. I don't think I would take it well if someone told me they had eaten a dog unless their family had been starving. I'd understand if they had no other choice.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
I have tried ostrich twice and did not like it much. And I´ve never had buffalo in my life. But we don´t have buffalos here.
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@AmbiePam (88667)
• United States
28 May 23
@marguicha Did you have ostrich at a restaurant or in someone's home?
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
@AmbiePam At someone´s home. In fact, in 2 different houses.
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@RebeccasFarm (87943)
• Arvada, Colorado
28 May 23
The only different food I have eaten that most would not touch is rabbit and pigs feet and ox tongue.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
I love the 3 of them. They are favorites for me.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
@RebeccasFarm I would eat tongue every day because it is also easy to cook. But they don´t sell it at the supermarket so I have to go to the butcher´s to get it. Same with the pig´s feet. And rabbits are even more difficult to get.
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@RebeccasFarm (87943)
• Arvada, Colorado
28 May 23
@marguicha You are the only other person I know that likes those 3 the same.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
I like to try weird things. But I will not eat bugs.
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@RubyHawk (99410)
• Atlanta, Georgia
28 May 23
@marguicha I haven’t eaten bugs yet.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
30 May 23
@thelme55 I live it. Specially tuna and salmon.
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@thelme55 (76645)
• Germany
30 May 23
@marguicha Yummy, aren’t they? I love them.
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@crossbones27 (49032)
• Mojave, California
28 May 23
I mean its life people eat all kinds of stuff to survive. We did not have corporate world bringing us beef to our house every week and now that is even bad they say. Plants we can only eat plants now. Plant based meat. Because cows fart alot and a abundance of them create global warming. When that truly catches on you are going to hear, can you believe that person eats a cow.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
I´m eating less meat but it has nothing to do with global warming. I just prefer other food usually. But I would not eat plant based meat. When I eat a steak (rarely) I want a thick juicy one.
@wolfgirl569 (101727)
• Marion, Ohio
28 May 23
I have not ate anything unusual for my area.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
If you travel a bit you might have to eat something that you are not used to eat.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
@wolfgirl569 I don´t think that I´ll travel much in the future either.
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@1creekgirl (41061)
• United States
29 May 23
I ate one bite of barbecued racoon until I spit it out. My husband told me it was pheasant.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
29 May 23
I´d use a racoon to make me slippers, but would not eat the meat.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
29 May 23
I jave seen people sell snakes for food in Mexico. But I haven´t eaten it.
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@spiderdust (14740)
• San Jose, California
28 May 23
I've eaten groundhog several times, which some people find weird.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
We dont have groundhogs in my part of the world. But I have eaten with pleasure other rodents such as rabbits and guinea pigs.
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@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
@spiderdust In Peru they eat a lot Guinea pigs. I have tried them and they are as good as rabbits.
@spiderdust (14740)
• San Jose, California
28 May 23
@marguicha I have eaten rabbit too. I think around here, people generally think of eating rodents as a weird thing (with the exception of rabbit; it's not a commonly eaten meat, but it's not considered unusual). My dad was a hunter and groundhogs were an agricultural pest where I grew up, so they were in season all year. It's a very gamey tasting meat though.
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@Nakitakona (56299)
• Philippines
31 May 23
I have eaten different food's from foreign countries like Italian, Chinese, American, among others.
@marguicha (219608)
• Chile
28 May 23
Japanese food has a lot of raw fish, depending on what you order.
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@LadyDuck (466821)
• Switzerland
29 May 23
It's not jumbo Marga it is GUMBO, it's a sort of stew and it's very good, seafood gumbo is particularly good. Of course they eat frog legs in New Orleans as French also do and they eat escargots.
I have eaten raw fish, snails, frog legs, calf brain and alligator nuggets.
@LindaOHio (170055)
• United States
29 May 23
I have eaten alligator and deer. That's about as strange as I've gotten. I really don't like venison and wouldn't eat a deer again anyway.
@zainkhan121 (858)
• Pakistan
29 May 23
lol @ the dot meat .... i mean "Your dog bites people , let's eat it, "
what's for dinner babes? "a dangerous dog "
@Rashnag (30593)
• Surat, India
29 May 23
I don't like to eat wierd dishes. Good for you that you try it. Have a good day. Take care 
@Beestring (14085)
• Hong Kong
29 May 23
I love Japanese sashimi, i.e. raw fish, raw Tuna, raw Salmon. I've also eaten deer meat, snake meat.
When I was a kid, I heard people eating deep fried cockroaches. I've never tried that.
@ainnaqo66 (303)
• Indonesia
29 May 23
different foods and different cultures are always interesting topic. I was stunned when i heard that Vietnamese eat Mouse !
i have eaten raw fish, raw shrimp, Natto (it is japanese dish looks gross but i do love it, some people cannot eat it some Japanese even)
