I didn't try anything like sweet breads.

I don't want to try Haggis...

I'm interested in everything else.

Another thing I will never go for is Rocky Mountain Oysters.

I am usually very adventurous when it comes to food.

flavor wasn't bad, texture was very strange.

I just feel like, I have ruined the bull's meaning of existence.

But even I have had haggis. It wasn't bad.

I was told that they would bury the damn thing for a week or two before serving.

I know that is wrong, but I can't seem to shake that description from when I was younger.

But I didn't know. Or I'd never had eaten it in a million years.

"Hoots mon, I cannae believe you ate the Haggis without vomiting and all, ya daft bugger".

Well, that's how it was.

I was just told when I was younger that it was made that way.
It stuck.

I'll try anything once. I even managed to choke down a mouthful of chitlins, only a single mouthful but I can at least say I've tried em'.

Hated em? Yup you bet but I've tried em'

I've never even heard of some of those things.

Menudo
Cabrito
Enchiladas Suizas
Fajitas
Atole
Morcilla
Bacalao
Deep Fried Turkey
Barbacoa

Armadillo
Rattlesnake
Indian Black Buck
Venison
duck tongues
Frog soup

I tried that in Florida.

Venison in upstate N Y.

Fajitas are great.

And one dish I had at the Crazy Cajun, back before they invented turducken, was a sole fish stuffed with shrimp, wrapped in a sirloin steak. The motto at the Crazy Cajun was:

"I'm gonna make you hurt youself"

They would be:

Cabrito
Atole
Morcilla
Bacalao

Armadillo
Rattlesnake

Both are delicious.

I've also had a Filipino dish they call chocolate meat which is actually not made with chocolate at all but with blood and has a tangy vinegary taste. Not anything at all like chocolate.

Tasty though.

Yes, Borscht is delicious, while we will agree to disagree with escargot.

I tend to try everything three times.
1 - To try.
2 - Verify if I really don't like it.
3 - If a person whose palate I trust recommends a place.

If it fails three times, I'm never going for it again.
Maybe, I'll give escargot a try once more... One day. However, I blame my mother for deciding to make a business out of a snail farm.
Disgusting...
Particularly since I was force fed quite a few of that before the tender age of 7.

Searing hot and quick, or at low heat and for a long time. If you do this, you will have tender juicy morsels that melt in your mouth. If you cook it at low heat and for a short time, you en up with chewy rubber biscuits. Most common culinary mistake.

I had the Spanish version, "caracoles al mojo de ajo", in a tapas bar. They were excellent.

I've also had them in soups which were pretty good.

Oooohhhh... The tapas bar that was relatively close to me closed down.

Grilled would be hot and fast, soup would be low heat and long cooking time.

Thanks for the clarification.

I call it cheating, because I have eaten Caviar, but never the real stuff.

I missed Couscous from Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couscous

But I live with a gourmand.

Still, I don't know what geoduck is.


Cher

Geoduck
The geoduck, scientific name Panopea generosa, is a species of very large, edible, saltwater clam in the family Hiatellidae. The common name may be derived from a Native American word meaning "dig deep".





Oyster and clams are nature’s original finger food. Jam it open, pocket the jewels and slurp down the goodness. And nature, being the good stewardess she is, sometimes asks you if you want to supersize that. Of course, nature is also a prankster, because next thing you know, you get handed a geoduck and the bivalve is eating you.

The Geoduck, pronounced “gooey duck”, can grow up to three feet long and outlive the most persistent of humans. This strange and delicious animal also possesses a disproportionate amount of cultural cachet. It not only stars in a clam-themed thriller, it is also the sports mascot of Evergreen university.

It irks me to see the Phantom Gourmet on TV. How can one trust his taste in food, if he can't even use the proper word? Is he in the kitchen cooking? No. He's at the table eating like a gourmand, not a gourmet.

I could go for a muffaleta and a chili relleno or po boy

I'm not very adventurous.

Doesn't help when a lot of that stuff isn't Kosher (living with a Jewish family).

I am as adventurous as opportunity allows.
I love to try new things (even if they were once part of a live animal).

only little tastes before I quit eating meat… --lots of ethnic restaurants while on the road

others I have but never tried them.

I'll try anything once, and I grew up a military brat in Europe, Southeast Asia and the US Southwest.

The things I haven't tried have either been unavailable (post-BSE, sweetbreads and marrow got really rare) or I knew I didn't like a component (I've had rye bread - yuck - and pastrami - salty, but okay sometimes - so never a pastrami on rye) or I know I like the components, but don't like what they would do to each other (poutine -- I don't like wet fries.)

I would be higher, I just haven't encountered some of these.

adventurous re Asian cuisine.

...and he can sniff out the oddest ethnic restaurant in every city we've ever visited together.

I've eaten things I have no clue what they were.

I didn't end up with quite that level of curiosity about traditional foods of the world, but one of my brothers did.

I like knowing what I'm eating before I bite into food but I'm open to trying new things.

A confirmed food wimp

... fried bologna sandwich!