Which food or dish in your travel that you are afraid to try?

[SoCalZone10]

Borrowing off the travel and food thread, I’m curious to find out what you won’t try when you travel to a different area.

For me, when I was near the Toulouse area, one restaurant had sweetbreads, Jacques Pepin posted on his instagram recently, I really didn’t know what kind of meat it was, and was too scare to order it. Will I survive the ordeal was going through my mind.

The other one is steak tartare, it reminds a tv show of Mr Beans, lol. However, my daughter has tried it before and she liked it, but I won’t eat anything rare like that.

 

[Barriehie]

I've had steak tartare and it was good! I eat stomach's and hearts so I'm in on the sweetbreads. Hearts are a muscle and just have a different flavor than what you'd think for a muscle. Stomach doesn't, IMHO, doesn't really have a flavor that's why those recipes are heavily spiced.

I'm not afraid to eat anything, wait, no pufferfish or any of that possibly toxic stuff if the chef screws up slicing it...

 

[badjak]

I won't eat intestines, unless I would offend someone by not eating it.
No monkey (can't eat my relatives) or eye balls ...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I won't eat intestines, unless I would offend someone by not eating it.
No monkey (can't eat my relatives) or eye balls ...

So no sausages then?

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

No eyeballs. I’m not afraid to try them though, I just know their structural integrity and vitreous filling would make for an unpleasant mouthful.

I love steak tartare and have a fat bit of steak in the freezer for making just that very soon, yum.

If someone else has eaten something and not died I’ll try it so I can’t really think of anything apart from elephant.

 

[badjak]

So no sausages then?

I make an exception for those. Thats only the casing though. Lots of sausages these days don't have sheep or pig intestine as casing.
And I am sure a frikandel or hot dog will have things in there that I don't know.
But kidneys and brains don't appeal to me.
I don't like the texture of liver but I will eat paté and liverwurst

 

[badjak]

I've been offered whale, but I refused as it is an endangered species

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

Octopus is the only meat I would turn down, I really do not like the texture, particularly the suckers. I will admit to having whale once when I was in Iceland, it tasted like poor quality steak (as a lot of exotic meats do) and I won't be trying it again. I have had Puffin which was really nice, and was taken in a licenced, sustainable way.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Yer agree endangered species are a no no from my POV.
Although I struggle to discern whats what on the fish front and often find myself googling which fish have good stock levels and which are a no.
Although I tend to to navigate around that by looking for the MSC logo.

 

[Morning Glory]

Spiders and eyeballs. There is a famous video of Gordon Ramsay with a group of people who regularly eat nice fat juicy spiders (sorry I can't recall which country). He does try one...

I'll eat almost anything else.

 

[Morning Glory]

There is a good game though: 'how much is your price?'. In this case if someone offered me a million pounds would I eat a spider?

Maybe. Offer me 2 million.

 

[badjak]

There is a good game though: 'how much is your price?'. In this case if someone offered me a million pounds would I eat a spider?

Maybe. Offer me 2 million.

I would eat it...
If it is not poisonous.
1 million
Let me start by buying a new outboard motor, a solar geyser and extra panels for my inverter

 

[TastyReuben]

The list is too long. When I travel, I’ll eat things I wouldn’t eat at home, but they’re still well within the realm of possibility.

 

[Morning Glory]

Here is Gordon Ramsay eating a spider. Its in Cambodia.

View: https://youtu.be/0B5GAlD9VUk?si=mJmZ0WkW0I7INUQX

 

[Gone Hiking]

Rocky Mountain oysters are a hard pass for me.