I've eaten that lovely Welsh specialty, laver bread, not once but twice.
Also had goat - which I helped to skin and butcher with tools made entirely from stones. Quite tasty I recall.
Kaymak - a strage Yugoslavian spread that is somewhere inbetween butter and cheese. It's yummy on toast.
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I trained for general practice in an area where the local population was more Sikh than sick. I know it's rude to generalise, but Sikhs tend to be very generous and hospitable people and always offered refreshments when I did house calls to them.
The first time I was offered tea, I accepted (though not a tea-drinker), took a sip from the cup, and almost spat it straight back out. Punjabi tea, it appears, involves putting tea leaves, full-cream milk (plus a bit of condensed milk, no doubt), sugar and cardamom into a pan on rising in the morning, and letting it simmer away all day, dipping into it as required.
But I drank it, which was less difficult than eating the puri that came as a snack with it.
White, brown, wholemeal, granary, kibbled - you name it.
Where is lamb by the way ? Getting sheared ?
Sweat glands were like rubber !
have also had worm truffles & worm Sushi
Most exotic food? can't remember but it probably had something to do with rancid Yak butter.
I've had some kind of stew made from a sheeps stomach near the Caucus mountains. Goat curry at the Notting Hill carnival. Oh, and salo, which is a Russian/Ukranian thing, raw salted pork fat, often with garlic. Sturgeon. Loads of caviar.
Last year in Milan had donkey stew & kangaroo and ostrich in Sydney.
first, out in dubai - nice gift from a grateful shwarma shop proprietor when i worked for pepsi in the region
then... at the Budapest half marathon a couple of weeks ago we were at a trad. hungarian restaurant and working our way through the menu. what't this??
explanation in hungarian from the waitress...."it's stuffed with "VELEU" ... my hungarian didn't let me down......
"but that's BRAINS" sayeth i. "igen (yes)" replies the fair maiden.
erm.....tomato soup please.
we also saw some fantastic chicken feet soup: like consomme, but you crunch your way through the chickens' feet and clean your teeth with the claws (seriously)
WHO'S UP FOR THE BUDAPEST HALF NEXT YEAR?
One Greek Easter we were invited to a traditional day at a Greek families house. The whole pascal goat was on the BBQ & the head was cut off, the skull sliced open & then offered around with a tea spoon to scoop out the contents. Being guests my girlfriend & I had first dips!
Another delicacy I was forced to endure for the sake of good AngloGreek relations was fried sheeps balls.
I've just had a nasty thought. Maybe they were winding us up.
Most exotic though? The scotch pies at Celtic park - there's nothing like them (honest).
I also managed to order pigs testicles once - didn't understand the menu - didn't eat them either!
Well, you wanted exotic!
grilled sheeps testicles (only once, didn't know what it was, still find it very difficult to convince my father in law that I do not want to eat them again)
cows stomach
ostrich
alligator
cactus
and all this just to be a polite guest