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[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Carp. Had it in poland. The toughest fish meat I've ever had, riddled with tiny annoying bones. Tastes a bit like discount supermarket proscuitto... not exactly horrible, but it was so much effort to eat the damn thing to boot

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Most freshwater fish sucks. And all offal is awful.

Edit: Mutton is also garbage tier meat lamb is pretty good though.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Human tastes pretty weird. Like pork but much more salty.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Any wild ungulate. I've had some rodents like squirrels and nutria and so long as you let the meat chill for a couple days, tastes surprisingly good! But I've had wild boar, deer, moose, bear, and horse and they was some pretty rough experiences.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I have yet to find seafood that I like.

Irony of ironies is that I love fishing. Luckily anything I catch worth keeping my wife is more than happy to eat.

People always tell me that good fish shouldn't taste/smell fishy. I retort that I suppose good beef shouldn't be beefy either.

I'm willing to hear people out, try different fish prepared in different ways, still haven't found one that I liked, at best they're mostly tolerable.

I've figured out that I generally tend to enjoy freshwater fish over saltwater. If I catch a couple nice trout I'll eat that for dinner with my wife instead of having to make a separate dish for myself, I won't hate it, but I won't like it either and I'd probably rather have a hot dog.

And I like raw fish better than cooked.

I might actually kind of like raw oysters, but they are in no way worth the cost.

Lox isn't bad, but I'd prefer just about anything else over it.

There are a couple fish-based products out there that are so far removed from fish that they're hardly worth mentioning for the purposes of this comment that I do enjoy, like Worcestershire sauce and Asian fish sauces, katsuobushi, Caesar dressing, Crab Rangoon (let's be real, you could probably leave the crab or "krab" out of most takeout rangoons and it wouldn't change much) some Japanese fish cakes, etc.

The absolute worst is shrimp though. Nothing about shrimp is appealing to me, the taste, smell and especially the texture are all pretty repulsive.

I'm not otherwise a guy with a lot of food hangups and consider myself a pretty adventurous eater. Weird tastes, textures, bizarre fermented stuff, strange meats, etc. are all generally OK in my book, there's not many other foods out there that I don't enjoy. In my house right now I have some double salt salmiak licorice, a bottle of Malört, a wide selection of hot sauces going up to around 1 million scoville, I'm pretty sure I have both Vegemite and marmite somewhere in my fridge, some very peaty scotches, and plenty of other very divisive foodstuffs that I enjoy.

I have tentative plans to visit Iceland next year, so I'll probably end up torturing myself with some hákarl at some point. And I don't intend to seek it out, but if it happens to be offered to me for free somewhere I may consider trying whale, which I suppose is technically seafood.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

Any "big game". Moose taste like swamp.

Venison can be good if it's properly butchered and stored. It so often isn't though. People will shoot a deer then leave it to hang for a day in 50-60 degree weather. Just gross.

Bears are too greasy. And they're too smart, eating them is just bad karma.

A lot of game meat can be good, people just have no clue what to do with the processing side of it. They'll spend thousands of dollars buying the most ridiculous gear to kill the damn thing, and then just fail at butchering and preserving. Hunting is the easy part.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

They’ll spend thousands of dollars buying the most ridiculous gear to kill the damn thing, and then just fail at butchering and preserving. Hunting is the easy part.

Sounds like advice that should be remembered.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Most people make the mistake of harvesting old bulls. The young ones are tasty.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago

Oyster. Anything with the consistency of snot that you're supposed to swallow without chewing isn't food. I can make my own salt water that tastes much less disgusting.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

As an oyster fan, I can confirm that different species make a pretty enormous* difference to both flavour and texture.

*within the confines of slimy salty shellfish meat

[-] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

You're not supposed to chew them?! I love oysters but I chew them up.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I'm pretty sure you're supposed to chew them. I don't know how you're supposed to get any of the oyster flavour otherwise.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

I quite enjoy a half dozen sea-snots (just fresh with a wedge of lemon please), but I can see the lack of appeal.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

Tucking into fresh oysters with lemon juice and tobasco is one of the only times I enjoy being alive

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Hear me out. Have you tried them grilled in garlic butter with a little sprinkle of parmesan?

If it's not for you then you won't get any hate from me. I just wanted to throw that out there.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago

I don't hate myself that much, though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

I wasn't a big fan of goat

[-] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago

Crocodile can be a bit hit and miss. Supposedly ‘tastes just like chicken’ but there was an extra flavour I can’t describe.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

From my experience, between gator and frog you have

Gator: chicken with a hint of fish

Frog: fish with a hint of chicken

[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

I can't speak to crocodile, but I have eaten a lot of gator. If it's not prepared properly it goes from tasting like water chicken to tasting like swamp thang.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Gotta be possum. That shit is musky

[-] [email protected] -3 points 9 hours ago

Saying worst meat is a disrespect to the animal that was killed

[-] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Uni (sea urchin) at a Japanese restaurant. It was like cold fishy jelly. Although I'm told that fresh uni is different. Not gonna try it again unless someone else at the table orders it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

yeah, not a fan; I thought it tasted remarkably of how piss smells.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

An undercooked venison burger. I can't remember what it tasted like when I ate it, but coming back up it was very unpleasant

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Dude, camel fat smells and tastes so bad

[-] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

You said not lamb but lamb. Nothing will ever taste worse than the lamb steak I had from a high end Brazilian churrascaria once. It straight up had the taste and texture of poop. Thinking about it makes me gag.

That's also where I learned how much I hate filet mignon

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Cockroach (if that counts) and rat.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

What's the story with the rat

[-] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago

We're just glossing over the cockroach, huh?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

I had a salt and pepper fried cockroach once. It was like a papery gusher with questionable insides

[-] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

Those words in that order are a pretty wild ride.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

I ate a chicken ball dipped in spicy peanut sauce one time because my dad told me it was a chicken ball. It was the testicle of a chicken. It actually tasted fine before I found out what it was.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Woof. I haven’t had nearly the same adventures in meat as you have, but I can say that duck tongue is gross.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Another one of those things that taste pretty ok if you don't know what it is. I think that's why hotdogs are popular.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Honestly the less you know and the less you think about any meat you’re eating in general, the more enjoyable it is.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Ya that's true

[-] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Street food vendor was selling kabobs. Later found them catching and cleaning rats in a nearby alley.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

Perch and Catfish are pretty awful. Catfish more for the texture. Perch just tastes bad.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

I always wanted to try catfish, and there was a restaurant I really like that does everything else really well, so I tried it and... Nah. Tasted like fishy dirt meat. I've had bad duck, too.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Tasted like fishy dirt meat

I'm not a fish-eater in general, but I am an avid fisherman (I just catch them, the wife eats them,) so I've heard a lot of stories from my fellow anglers (which should, of course, be taken with a grain of salt, there's a reason they're called "fish stories")

There is a persistent rumor I've heard that some people will take catfish and other bottom-feeders like carp home alive to let them swim around in a bathtub of clean water for a day or two to sort of flush all of the mud and everything out of their system before cleaning and cooking them

Allegedly it's more of a southern thing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

That’s a really good idea, honestly. If your goal is to eat catfish, that is.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

I tried kangaroo in Australia and it was not good.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Kangaroo tends to either be really good or really bad, nothing in between. Probably down to the quality of the chef, hence why I never cook it at home

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

A kangaroo steak I had in oz is in the top 5 steaks I've ever had

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