[S4B]

Oh Boboff they are GORGEOUS! Can I have one as a pet?!

[Boboff]

Let them out in the field this morning, after fencing it around with Barbed wire, went for a coffee and they escaped !!! Came down to see us for coffee, very funny. Have since run chicken wire all the way around, fingers crossed, they are out and have not escaped yet !

[Andy B]

In Argentina there's a delicacy you can buy in most supermarkets which of it were sold over here would be enough to drive animal activists up in arms.

I don't know the name of it but it's basically pig foetus. Yup, they have them in vacuum sealed packs next to the sausages and chops. Oh and they're not prepared. It's as if they take them straight out the mother and put them straight in the vacuum packing machine.

Bloody tasty though.

What on earth made you try that? Did you know what it was before you tried it? Or were you tricked into trying it like I was with Calamari? (I was told it was an onion ring!)

I saw them in the shops first and then we went to a restaurant and we had them there.....you only live once. Oh and I LOVE calamari.

I also love getting foreigners to try black pudding and telling them what's in it after they've eaten it...."oh it's just a spicy sausage"

[MK Chris]

Black pudding is fantastic. I wouldn't do calamari though, as I don't do seafood.

[Andy B]

I've eaten loads of weird stuff...warthog, Kudu, Impala, Octopus, Chickens feet! (crunchy), Kangaroo, Crocodile and Aligator, Shark's fin soup, Swordfish used to be considered a bit weird but it's quite normal now I think.

Oh and earthworms.

[MK Chris]

My aunt used to eat worms as a kid.

[rustybike]

I've eaten loads of weird stuff...warthog, Kudu, Impala, Octopus, Chickens feet! (crunchy), Kangaroo, Crocodile and Aligator, Shark's fin soup, Swordfish used to be considered a bit weird but it's quite normal now I think.

Oh and earthworms.

Wow! I'm so envious of you Andy. I wish I had the balls to try things like that... I think my rule is "... if it looks alive or the least bit unappetising I won't eat it." I've just this month tried Sushi which isn't actually that bad!

My aunt used to eat worms as a kid.

So did my sister (which explains alot), although after she'd then demand a kiss from mummy and I remember my mum's response once was "Oh Hell No!"

[Andy B]

I'll eat just about anything....even cabbage!

[ladbroke]

Black pudding is fantastic. I wouldn't do calamari though, as I don't do seafood.

I quite agree, seafood is only fit for cats in my opinion! Mrs Ladbroke keeps trying to get me to try different stuff but I cant bring myself to do it. The smell turns my stomach. Think it's something to do with childhood, as I remember the whole house stinking of it every Friday, and being forced to try it!

[catherine]

Some of the best dishes in the world include seafood. Scallops, Lobster, Crab, Squid are loved by 99% of chefs and are truely gorgeous if cooked right. I ate scallops raw at simpsons twas yummy and tender, i didn't quite agree with paying 14 pound for 1 and a half scallops though. Squid in calamari is usually overcooked, tastes like rubber and is very chewy, not good. If you went to a proper restaurant and tried these things you would love them, simple as.

[ladbroke]

For me it's not as simple as that. I have a dislike of fish, the smell and taste. Its the same as someone not liking the taste or smell of coffee. Personal preference.

[Sunny So Cal]

But a mild fish like mahi mahi or halibut doesn't have that fishy taste or smell.

[MK Chris]

If you went to a proper restaurant and tried these things you would love them, simple as.

Not everyone has the same taste though, young Catherine.

[Zoot]

If you went to a proper restaurant and tried these things you would love them, simple as.

Not everyone has the same taste though, young Catherine.

Exactly

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[Yudster]

........ Squid in calamari ........

What? Calamari IS squid, not a dish made from squid! And if it's cooked right it's lovely as you say - except I only really like the tubes, the tentacle thingies with the little suckery bits I can't eat.