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.
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.
You can totally chew them
I don’t hate myself that much, though.
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.
Most people make the mistake of harvesting old bulls. The young ones are tasty.
As someone who just bought land and is learning to hunt, this is a very interesting comment.
Perch and Catfish are pretty awful. Catfish more for the texture. Perch just tastes bad.
I would put catfish above mahi mahi
Mahi Mahi is delicious and has a wonderful texture. As does monkfish.
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.
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.
That’s a really good idea, honestly. If your goal is to eat catfish, that is.
Perch are good if you fry them right. But I live up north where the water stays cooler, I think it makes the fish taste better. You go down south and anything you catch just tastes like swamp.
Whatever perch were were getting in Massachusetts were gross.
Oh, man… I’m not a huge fish eater, but I can honestly say some of the best fish fry days I remember were when we couldn’t catch enough walleye to feed everyone. Someone would take a few of us kids out to have us catch a couple dozen perch. Beer battered and fried in a cast iron pan over an open campfire? Perch are effing delicious.
Cockroach (if that counts) and rat.
What’s the story with the rat
We’re just glossing over the cockroach, huh?
I had a salt and pepper fried cockroach once. It was like a papery gusher with questionable insides
Those words in that order are a pretty wild ride.
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.
Woof. I haven’t had nearly the same adventures in meat as you have, but I can say that duck tongue is gross.
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.
Street food vendor was selling kabobs. Later found them catching and cleaning rats in a nearby alley.
Yikes, did you notice something was off when you ate it?
It was seasoned really heavily. Tasted pretty bad as I recall but honestly my memory of the actual taste and texture has been overrun by the memory of finding out what I just ate.
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
What would your favourite meats be?
I’m honestly not a big meat eater but venison is good. I’m a bigger fan of sausages and smoked meats.
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.
I think uni is overrated as well. It’s not bad, but overrated.
Venison, and for the same reason as lamb
Here I see a lot of people who have been served badly prepared game. For any meat that tastes too gamey, if you’re not sure how to prepare it, there are some tricks that work pretty much everytime:
- Make an infusion of ginger by boiling it for half an hour. Lot of ginger, the water must taste spicy. Then soak the meat in it overnight. It won’t really live a gingery taste in the meat, so it’s good for most preparations.
- Don’t roast, but braise. Red wine, juniper berries, rosemary, cloves, bayleaves, and laurel are good with most wild animals and musky meats: deer, wild boar, mutton, rock goat, etc etc. Sheepmeat and goatmeat can also go with a lot of cumin, turmeric, chili, cinnamon and cardamom, if you want a more central Asian vibe.
Gotta be possum. That shit is musky
I don’t like muscles from the Puget Sound because they taste like it smells and I cannot get past that.
I wasn’t a big fan of goat
I tried kangaroo in Australia and it was not good.
Donkey.
I had wild rabbit at a restaurant where the chef cooked meat he hunted himself. It had a really strong flavour I couldn’t quite name. I could see other people enjoying it, but not me personally.
There was a sign that warned diners to watch out for free prizes (shotgun pellets). I didn’t come across any, but I was wary of chewing too hard in case I did.
Most freshwater fish sucks. And all offal is awful.
Edit: Mutton is also garbage tier meat lamb is pretty good though.
