Which food or dish are you afraid to try?

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

A 80 - 90 % drop in stock levels means fishing for them is restricted. Or at least it is on paper.
In realty I can go into the supermarket section in El Corte Ingles in Spain buy baby eels (angulas).
Tbh I don’t really understand why they are allowed still to sell them, decimating immature stock for something that at best tastes meh seems wrong.

But unfortunately as soon as something becomes rare demand increases and it becomes worth poaching and a black market springs up. It has in Spain.

Baby Eels

Check out the price per kilo on these things, it’s unbelievable.

So yer when I travel to Spain Eel and baby Eels are definitely something I avoid eating.

I feel the mod choppers must be hovering by now

 

[badjak]

I feel the mod choppers must be hovering by now

Nah, because you are afraid to eat them as otherwise they may get extinct.
Totally on topic in my book

 

[Morning Glory]

Mod.note: I started a new eel thread and referenced the posts in this thread. If you want to chat any more about eels please wriggle over to the new thread: Eels

 

[detroitdad]

I think I'll try anything once. I had steak tartare once..... that won't happen again.

 

[karadekoolaid]

So yer when I travel to Spain Eel and baby Eels are definitely something I avoid eating.

I've had them over here in the twopics. Nothing to write home about, I'd say.

I had steak tartare once..... that won't happen again.

Yep, it's a bit of an acquired taste, isn't it? I've eaten the Lebanese/Middle eastern version, which is raw kibbe.
Still - we all love carpaccio (don't we?) and that's raw.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I've had them over here in the twopics. Nothing to write home about, I'd say.

Yep, it's a bit of an acquired taste, isn't it? I've eaten the Lebanese/Middle eastern version, which is raw kibbe.
Still - we all love carpaccio (don't we?) and that's raw.

Yer there really is nothing to them. Not even a great texture