Elephant
>While exploring Mozambique in 1864, Scottish missionary David Livingstone was served this pedal delicacy, cooked in the “native fashion,” one morning. Finding it delicious, the traveler wrote, “It is a whitish mass, slightly gelatinous, and sweet like marrow.”
Giraffe
>“Properly prepared, and cooked rare,” pens celebrity chef Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall, “giraffe’s meat steak can be better than steak or venison. The meat has a natural sweetness that may not be to everybody’s taste, but is certainly to mine when grilled over an open fire.”
Penguin
>A particularly unflattering description of penguin meat composed by a Belgian seaman in 1898 suggests that it won’t be replacing chicken anytime soon: “If it’s possible to imagine a piece of beef, odiferous cod fish, and a canvas-backed duck roasted together in a pot, with blood and cod-liver oil for sauce, the illustration would be complete.”
Galapagos Tortoise
>These hardy reptiles were a dietary staple to traveling sailors throughout the 19th century. Though many compared the delicacy to fine veal, a young Charles Darwin was decidedly less enthusiastic. “[The] breastplate roasted … is very good,” his journal grants, “and the young tortoises make excellent soup, but otherwise the meat to my taste is indifferent.”
Lion
>A Tampa Bay restaurant began selling these $35 entrees last year before removing them from the menu a few months later. "[It's] surprisingly tasty," said one customer of this exotic grub. "The taste is kind like venison, and the texture is kind of like gator."
Python
>Looking to capitalize on Florida’s decades-long Burmese python invasion, Evan’s Neighborhood Pizza of Fort Myers now offers “Everglades Pizza” topped with slivers of these 20-foot snakes. “It tastes like chicken but chewier,” said one customer.
Camel
>Eating camel is a fairly common practice in much of the world, especially the Middle East. Chef Anissa Halou claims it reminds him of “a cross between beef and lamb.” Camel steaks are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to conventional red meat in much of Europe and even parts of the U.S.
Gorilla
>Gorillas are widely hunted down and devoured in parts of Africa, and the simians’ flesh is routinely sold at nearby markets as “bush meat." Flavor-wise, many have cited their cuts as rich, smoky, and veal-like.
Hippopotamus
>In the words of author and hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick, “It is my personal opinion that hippo meat is one of the finest of game foods … The taste is mild, less than lamb and more than beef, slightly more marbled than usual venison. It tastes exactly like, well, hippo.”
Peacock
>If you’re searching for an exotic alternative to traditional Thanksgiving fare, look no further. The eponymous host of the popular YouTube series “Dave’s Exotic Foods” stated in a special holiday episode that brined peacock sports a light and very turkey-like flavor. However, if certain medieval critics are to be believed, stocking up on some gas-ex first might be a necessary precaution.
Sloth
>“It was really, really tough and there really wasn’t much meat,” says American composer Aaron Paul Low, who helped catch and eat an unfortunate sloth on a trip to Peru in 2012. Tired of subsisting on nothing but indigenous fruits, Low claims his party “begrudgingly ate such natural wonders as armadillo, turtle, crocodile, toucan,” and many others. Sloth meat, he says, isn't for the weak-stomached. “[It was] one of the few absolutely disgusting animals we ate.” These adorable tree-climbers are illegal to hunt, but a few luckless specimens still get munched on every year.
fucking Darwin
Well, what is exotic for americans, anyway ?
> Horse
Really like beef, and cheaper.
> Snails
Chewy. They don't really taste anything, but it's all about the garlic and oily sauce, served very hot in a special plate and with special spoon-claw.
Btw, they are NEVER eaten raw.
> Frogs
Really like tiny chicken drumsticks. Often with garlic sauce also.
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Great post user. I mean it.
SOPA
>eating armadillo
RIP
DE
A sloth isn't an armadillo. I've killed, dressed and eaten an armadillo using a recipe from "The Joy of Cooking," 70's edition and you don't get leprosy. Stop believing mom blogs. I walk at sunrise every morning in a subdivision where everyone has 3-5 acres and armadillos are wandering and rooting in every yard. People are literally laying on grass that was tromped on by armadillos last night.
Manatee:
Nugent said of the rare opportunity: "Kind of like a cross between spotted owl and bald eagle."
Ah yes, "sea beef". I can't wait until these are farmed commercially.
>Giraffe
What?!!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
>gator
It just occurred to me how few "reference foods" we actually have when it comes to meat - that's why everything needs to be described as "tastes like chicken/pork/beef/veal, but more chewy."
Maybe I should try eating gator, or something.
Armadillo
iv never had lion but my grandfather used to talk about eating bobcat while he was a trapper, he said it wasn't very good, but i assume a lion spends less time running around getting stringy,
Based Depression-era grandpa eating pussy despite the taste, just because a man's gotta eat to live.
Long pork is really good