I'd like to try ostrich one day.

Looked it up and it looks delicious! I love sushi to begin with and have wanted to branch out beyond my regular "salmon special" order that I've been doing for the past 3 years.

Please do so, you'll be surprised on how good it could taste, to be honest a couple months ago I was also like you, does not really like to touch any other sushi but the one using salmon, but now i've liked quite a few others type also, i even tried tuna sashimi, the one i vowed not to touch.

Everyone needs to try tender dog fillets for at least once to put them off for life (and no id never try it myself, although i know some who actually love it - guess they've never owned their own dogs....)

No need to own a cat or dog, for being unable to eat them cooked! Simply do a small research about what diseases those 2 specific species can catch, how many and how horrible species of parasites they carry upon or within them at all times, and that the Toxoplasma can find a good host in cats, mostly transferred to them from an eaten rodent or contaminated countryside soil.

This, and all this preparation it needs to be cooked, like the fur removal... You don't simply eat a cat, a dog, or a hedgehog. Full of seen and unseen pests, the lot of them!

Dogs and cats have been known to be consumed during the world wars, or periods of deep poverty and hunger. Hedgehogs are eaten mostly by gypsies, or Roma.

Ostrich is delicious, very rich dark meat that looks like beef but has a taste of its own. Love it!


I would like to try grilled snake. I absolutely love chicken and snake meat looks kinda similar when you cook it.

Ostrich, is like the most nutritious and healthy meat type of food, you can get. Low fat, high protein, big nutritional value. After ostrich is wild rabbit, then turkey, after it hare, finally chicken. In this order, starting from ostrich and going down, is the best type of meat you can feed on.

Has one disadvantage, though. In countries that this bird is not naturally present, its meat tends to be pretty expensive...

It is somewhat expensive but not any more expensive than organic beef, plus I pick up ostrich meat only when it's 50% off, that way it's affordable. We import our ostrich meat from Australia & South Africa, there are local farmers who try to breed ostriches here but the terrain and climate isn't ideal at all. You need heated stables otherwise they won't survive winter.

Where can I get some? :D

You mean ostrich? I get it at the supermarket in the packaged meat section, ca 10-12 Euro for one 200g filet (or smaller, can't remember) but 5-6 Euro for when it's close to expiring and that's when I buy it. They don't always have it at the smaller stores, same with rabbit and horse meat which I can also find in the packaged meat section. Meat is rather expensive here, decidedly more expensive than in Germany. I noticed that e.g. grass fed bio beef in Germany costs the same as normal beef in Switzerland so unsurprisingly a lot of people who live close to the border go meat shopping in Germany.
Our stores don't always lower the price to 50% when stuff is close to expiring though, seems they'd rather throw stuff away :( Some expired stuff is used for pig food but the regulations on what can be used are strict here so a lot of perfectly fine groceries just go straight to the trash. Dumpster diving is illegal here and they lock the containers in most places.
The ethics of eating meat are open to discussion but throwing food away -especially meat- is heart-wrenching and disrespectful. I should be given a medal for going to the grocery story and buying the discounted close to expiry date meat five minutes before closing time. Or maybe I'm just looking for excuses to continue carnivordum. Carnivorality, carnivorness???

Now that the magic word "ostrich" has been uttered, i suddenly remembered my long forgotten secret wish, to prepare (myself of course) and devour ostrich meat, and one of those giant eggs... I was always fascinated by the perspective to cook a giant spanish omelet out of one ostrich egg, those massive works of art (the one with all various/random things inside, like yellow cheese, bacon, three color mild peppers, chili, agaricus bisporus mushrooms, salami, olive slices without core, onions, hints of garlic, and end it roasted in the oven)...

Rabbit
They sell it at my supermarket so it's just a question of time.

Some kind of little bird (I mean the size of birds we see everyday flying around) used to be on my list but I've had it (I do not remember what kind) and found it too dry.

I find it weird the number of people who never had lobster but on the other hand I was over 25 my first time eating it. I was disappointed but I hate having to work for my food once it's in my plate. I much prefer scampi.

I would be game to taste dog and cat but I don't think I'd like them regularly. I think I would be game to taste any kind of mammals. I would not mind tasting rat or mice if they were raised in clean conditions I've wanted a rat burger since watching Demolition Man.

I've tasted alligator at a food fare and I find it too rubbery. I would like to taste snake meat but I wouldn't be in a hurry to taste eel.

Something I like but is taboo in a lot of places is horse meat. It's better than beef.

I've tried some of these. As I remember, bear meat is very chewy and can be kinda gamey, alligator is rubbery / fishy but isn't too bad in Sweet & Sour sauce or a good gumbo, and rattlesnake meat tastes like pure gristle - okay in a chili, but not that great. Rabbit is okay pan-fried or in a stew and tastes a bit like chicken, especially when cooked with butter and onions - but - IMHO - rabbit isn't as tasty as your average chicken, and isn't nearly as filling as chicken. Goat is actually a variety of venison and tastes great if it is dressed out correctly - then it tastes just like deer meat.

I truly disliked every caviar shared with me. I can't work out why others think it is such a wonderful thing, which is why I have often accepted a cracker of it when someone offered what was supposed to be 'the good stuff.' Never did work out what was great about that high salt / oily taste. blech!

Korean food choices are definitely the awesome, according to my spouse. I love what I have tried of Korean food, though I usually stick with the bim bab (sushi-like appetizer with BBQ beef) and the Bol Go Gi (Korean BBQ beef,) we once got a couple's plate with many things and they were all delicious. I like the side dishes they offer with meals that aren't spicy, especially their bean sprouts and spinach. I just avoided everything with red pepper in the couple's meal, which was fine with my husband because he loves kim chi and all the rest of it.

Other foods: I liked some lobster when I was a kid, but not others. I guess it depends on what the lobsters ate and whether it was cooked to rubbery-ness. I'm not a fan of most seafood and skip lobster options as rule, but I did like a lobster dip I had a year or two ago. My husband likes a lot of Japanese foods & treats (he lived in Japan as a kid,) but I'm only a fan of seaweed rice crackers & some sushi - so far. Mostly we make our own sushi these days, but only with whitefish / sealegs - or spam musubi (very tasty!)

Personally, I really like regular venison (when I can get it) and I want to try caribou/ elk / moose stews/roasts to see how different they are or are not. I wouldn't mind trying buffalo either, but its been too pricey so far.

I wouldn't mind trying abalone if I am ever in the right region and can afford it.

I'd also like to try real, fresh tiramisu. I've only had the frozen version of that desert.

That's the same here in Germany, or even worse. It has only been on very few rare occasions that I've seen products for lower prices that are close to expiring. People rather throw food away than earn 20 cents less money ... ):