I can get you exotic meats. Hippo steaks, giraffe burgers…
It’ll all be goat.
A family friend once invited us over to celebrate a promotion. To celebrate, they prepared an expensive meal and had expensive alcohols. The star of the meal was a thinly sliced piece of raw horsemeat. It was not particularly interesting, though it was very tender. I think it was more intended to “share the wealth” than for its actual appeal and flavor profile, though I was a kid and there was a cultural difference, so maybe I’m wrong. Either way, it was an interesting experience.
Horse meat is pretty good. There is a social taboo about it in the US, and it’s all but illegal here, but horses raised for meat aren’t bad.
Flamingo, but the meat is a bit tough…
All sorts:
- Cat & Dog in SE Asia
- Horse, Donkey, Zebra, Crocodile, Sheep’s brain in Europe
- Kangaroo, Emu, Ostrich, Possom, Rabbit, Cricket, Goat, Huhu grub, almost all offal? etc in New Zealand
- Something I have no idea what it was in Russia
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- Moose and reindeer in Northern Europe
- Lots of seafood at home in NZ, both raw and cooked
Something I have no idea what it was in Russia
Here in Russia we eat very simple food because… because of the climate. I don’t even remember anything unusual; the rest is imported from abroad, countries with a favorable climate.
I guess exotic is relative, someone in here saying kangaroo is eaten all around Australia and Alligator is reasonably common here. Someone has goat as exotic but it seems common most everywhere.
I’m gonna go with the turtle soup my grandma got us at a restaurant when I was little (family very Louisiana on my dad’s side), I remember it being good. Don’t think I’d eat anything even remotely endangered now, they were not back then.
Husband still raves about Indonesian fried frog legs, he lived there for years growing up.
Kangaroo, its meat is added almost everywhere, you won’t even know…
“Lengua”, or beef tongue. Makes for some killer tacos
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“Exotic” meat’s meaning animals besides the “normal” ones, are generally not great. They are novel, but the quality of the meat is low since normally the quantity of that kind of meat is low. Also there is a reason the meat is “exotic” in the first place. If it were particularly good, it would be mass produced since you can grow meat in a lot of places and the costs don’t really vary that much.
I’d say if you want “exotic” meat, as in high quality beef or whatever, go for it. If you want "exotic’ meat like elephant meat or something like that, it’s not worthwhile.
You are leading to the fact that initially the choice for the mass food industry was the choice of duck or chicken, the choice of chicken… That’s how it happened.
Duck isn’t really exotic though. At many super markets you can get duck meat just like you would chicken, and duck eggs. I’d say duck is also mass produced, just obviously not as much as chicken.
growing up in back country Montana I had a lot of things. hunting/trapping/fishing is still a way of life for folks, less so now but growing up I had bison, squirrel, gopher, wild turkey, grouse, beaver, bear, deer, elk, moose, antelope once when we visited the other side of the state, basically all species of fish, even snake a few times.
I think the most exotic of all of it was probably the beaver tail. it’s really fatty/oily. it wasnt bad but I wouldnt eat very often even if it was readily available. venison or bison is more my style, or smoked brook trout.
