9/15: Crocodile meat

[ndetroit]

I've had the rattlesnake (in convenient sausage format).
-moose (my uncle shot it)
-elk (ditto)
-shark's fin soup (chinese wedding)
-pidgeon (blackened... again, chinese wedding)
-buffalo (and buffalo cheese... mmmmm)
-and tons of ostrich.. for some reason, it's on the menu at a lot of restaurants where I am (vancouver).


but the worst thing I've eaten by far is live Hermit Crab. I was out at a dinner in japan, and they just brought in these big hermit crabs on a platter, and everyone started chomping down on them... They were still wiggling around and whatnot. Odd colored blood, too. But... I didn't want to offend anyone, so I gave it a go...


That's nothing compared to our CEO though. He was telling me about this one time when he was doing business in China, and they took him out for dinner....

And the waiter brought out the main course:

(Heavily sedated) live monkey, with the head 1/2 sawed off.. (opened up like a bowl).
You are supposed to eat the brains.. Yeah.. just like in Indiana Jones....
He told them that as nice as their hospitality was, there's no way he's gonna eat that....

They all laughed at him, ordered him a steak, and dug in..

yum.