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

No known insects for me, well, other than escargot, which I love when made correctly. No intestines or brains, other than casings, which I soak and thoroughly rinse when we are making sausage. No horse, goat, monkey, frog, snake, or whale if i was ever offered.

I've eaten gator, NEVER again. I eat foie gras on very rare occasions, and also chicken livers. No calf or beef liver again ever. Tartare is okay, but I prefer carpaccio. Tartare has to be ground/chopped at home though. We do eat carpaccio out from trusted restaurants, but it's usually homemade.

Craig has grudgingly eaten sheep testicles in Italy at a business dinner where he couldn't offend the host, who had ordered for everyone. He unknowingly ate andouillette in Marseille, thinking it was small andouille. He used lots of the mustard sauce served with it after the first taste. One of his partners had to eat monkey brains in China at a business dinner where he couldn't offend, but the whole dinner was rejected as soon as he could get to a restroom.
 
I tried ants covered chocolate as a dare from a colleague from South America, can’t remember which country, not Venezuela, not Argentina though. But the sight of Gordon Ramsay eating a spider is disgusting.
 
medtran49 said:
One of his partners had to eat monkey brains in China at a business dinner where he couldn't offend, but the whole dinner was rejected as soon as he could get to a restroom.
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No brains for me either, monkey brains must be a Chinese thing. I was told when I was growing up, my neighbor’s chauffeur ate them live, very disgusting.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
How can you eat live brains? I mean the animal must be rendered unconscious or it would be pretty horrific experience.
So was the chauffeur eating anaesthetic as a byproduct?
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I don’t know, I was told, maybe some place in the local China town at the time. Maybe we were discussing what people eat, definitely not a usual culinary dish for the locals.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Apparently eating monkey brains is illegal in China. Up to 10 years in the clink.
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It was at least 20 years ago that the brains dinner was held.

There are apparently several dishes that are either illegal or considered unethical in China now, as well as generally found to be disgusting in Western society, that are or were considered delicacies.
 
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