Are you adventurous with food?

Have you seen what I said about you on the "cinnamon" thread? You've conformed it!

I don't eat offal, shellfish or tinned fish! I will try most other things though. I have tried mussels but did not think much of them! Liver & kidney texture puts me off more than flavour, though I am not keen! Tripe and other animal bits do not appeal. Visually I find them unattractive!

I like thoughtfully spiced and flavoured food.... not so hot that you cannot taste the food under the spice!

My favourite food is middle eastern usually found in Lebanese retaurants but there are a few good Turkish/ Iraqi/Iranian/Morrocan places that do delicious grub. Now I am feeling peckish

I love offal , shellfish , specially oysters , and tinned fish , in fact I have that every day for lunch .

In fact there is very , very little I do not like .

No, I am not adventurous with food.

I'd love to start trying different kinds of food but I'd have to pay for it as I'm a lousy cook. But, when it comes to my own diet I will eat the same food every day for ages till I tire of it and then move on. At the moment I'm eating tinned sardines in tomato every day [the dog has the tomato juice on her dried food and she loves it]. I have been known to eat porridge for a week. I sometimes see an interesting recipe but part way down is always a difficult to get ingredient. I want to try sushi.

Nonu I'm with you on that choice of food! I love sweetbreads but can rarely get them. Liver, kidneys, heart, lobster, prawns, oysters, bring them on please!

MrBags made a small amount of Inuit-style pemmican today. He used venison instead of caribou. And he ate it all! He's going to make some more and I will get a taste.

He says it's very more-ish.

It's dried raw meat ground up mixed with meat fat (beef fat in our case, but it would have been caribou fat). Some groups of Inuit lived on virtually nothing else when hunting was thin.

Who else has eaten, or would eat, real pemmican?

Now that I would try!

We love kidney and we eat pigs kidneys fried with onions and soured with a spoonful of wine vinegar. it is a German recipie. Cheap and delicious and a portion for the cat as well all for 2 Euros, ready sliced. Available on Tuesdays.
nanaej if you like Lebanese food or foods from the Middle East then you will be getting offal as well. They use all the animal. They can't afford not to.

Galen ,

Depends what you mean by adventurous. From this thread it seems to mean do you eat all the bits of an animal. In which case the answer is no. Am I adventurous with other food? Erm, let me see, no not really, a bit boring actually

I think one of the worst foods imaginable is Andouillette - sort of sausages filled with pigs intestines! They say the French can only eat them because of all the mustard they cover them in to mask the smell!
I love prawns but cannot bring myself to eat oysters because they are eaten raw. I eat mussels very occasionally. I eat pâté but now very rarely do I eat any other sort of offal or things such as trotters etc. I must confess to liking my meat to look like a piece of meat - love duck either as it is or as Confit.
Just had steak on the barbecue - first one of the season.
I love Moroccan tangines and Lebanese simple food. Am unable to have curry often now as it causes digestive problems. I also adore reading cookery books!

During the war we got whale meat, which was foul - almost black and very strong. I have eaten horse, but nothing more exotic. My grandson has eaten zebra and ostrich. I believe there are some ostrich farms in the UK.

Greatnan, we were not quite 5 when the war ended, I can't remember what we ate. I don't think whale was on our menu though! Zebra wasn't highly thought of as meat in Africa - reputed to be riddled with parasites. I had some Grants Gazelle at a barbecue once. Very good. That was long before I became a veggie.

My DH I think would sell his soul, or possibly me for sweetbreads. Whenever he meets a butcher or finds a butchers we haven't been in before he cross examines the poor soul on the possibility of obtaining them. We're not talking about what the Southern Hemisphere calls sweetbreads .

Being African I've eaten warthog ... and I've daintily nibbled on snake to be polite. Ostrich is horrible, yuk, dark and tough. That's about the extent of my adventures with food!

One thing I've been meaning to ask - I had such a strong craving the other day for "anchovy toast" - hot buttered toast spread with Peck's Anchovette. Why of why can't I find that on the shelves here? High in Omega 3. Bring it on.

You could try Gentleman's Relish, Grannyknot.

Wilfebeast is good. And I've eaten ants too! And a lot of matoke.

One of my few redeeming features as a child was my willingness to eat virtually everything put in front of me. I love shell fish, offal, including heart, but not brains or bollocks. My dislikes are very mundane, fresh milk and milky drinks and I don not like eggs unless they have been 'improved', scotch eggs, cheesy scrambled egg, and flavoured omelettes.

five quid for a jar of fish paste!

Plus eleven pounds postage.

Go on Grannyknot - you know you want to.

+ £11.00 postage! . My craving just passed.

You can get 'Gentlemans relish' at any decent supermarket!

Not Peck's Anchovette Fish Paste, though, Galen....