What is the most bizzare meal you have abroad.Fried heart,kidneys,raw steak mince with a raw egg on it,lot of pepper on it steak tartare.Lentil soup.Cabbage soup,(Northern Portugal),kid stew(Goat not a child!!)Tripe or offal,not as bad as you think.Made as a stew with meat.Brains are eaten.Horse meat in france,more so in Paris.Snails are delicous with garlic butter,taste like chicken.Franchesinas in Portugal,half a foot high mega sandwich with eggs,steak,ham,salad,cheese,or whatever is left in the larder,topped with hot and spicy gravy,dont eat for a week after that.Feel free to add to the list.
could’nt beat a few pork souvlaki a plate of chips and an ice cold amstel at the belgians at the corinth canal on the way up to athens! the restraunt coming of the boat in brindisi just this side of monopoli best tuna steak ive ever tasted, beware of the guard dog in the night tho when having a wee!
I love a plate of Steak Tartare with plenty of tabasco sauce and some well fried fries.
I love Witloof or Leberkase. How about Nescafe Frappe? In fact the only thing I normally turn down is Andoilette
Wheel Nut:
Leberkase.
Now yer talkin’ Malc.
Did you try that with a fried egg on it with Kartoffelsalat a-la Deggendorf?
The meaty Kroquettes that one encounters in the Netherlands are rather nice too.
…and I’m sure that all the broke Brit drivers have tried a Frikadell at some point too, cos they were well-cheap…
Mind you, the European cake cabinets weren’t immune from a vist from time to time either.
Now for ‘proper’ exotic… In my day you could buy a big tube of caviar and a packet of crispbreads in Sweden for about 15 SKr. Bootiful.
A view from the other side: most continentals find British food incredibly exotic, like not belonging to Europe.
Tea with milk
Costly Crapfee and muffin (yeah, muffins are fine, maybe too big at times)
meat pies and sausages (9 out of 10 think “there’s something …funny (?) anout the seasoning”)
and chip coming with everything, also sandwiches or pizza
Anyway, to me very “exotic” was when I ordered a beer in southern Poland (right next door from my home country) and the waitress asked “with honey or juice?”
“errm… no honey, no juice, beer please”
“I understand that you want beer, do you want it warm with honey or cold with orange juice?”
“can I have just plain cold beer?”
“of course you can. it’s just people here don’t drink plain beer”
Mind you, my grandma used to serve me beer with strawberry sirup when I was kid and she looked after me and wanted me to sleep after lunch I liked that… But did not try the polish mix
Squis or octopuss in its black ink as a sauce,dont mix with wine,puked all night.
I think I may have eaten dog in Russia, but I really don’t like to dwell on that too much!
The French look at us with disgust when we drink pints of lager with lime or blackcurrant, although biere pression a la peche et framboise is quite civilised I still get headache with it
Tango`s in Portugal,super bock beer with red fruit syrup,Groshella berries.
Ate dog on a train journey in Thailand,was in a KFC style cardboard box.Ate rats there too,small bones,tasted like chicken,as they say when inRome,do as the Romans do.
toby1234abc:
tasted like chicken
Smells like fish, tastes like chicken… that’s probably the strangest thing I’ve ever eaten
I have eaten the Rat (Gibnut) that Belize served to our Queen when she visited the country, I have eaten Iguana (bamboo Chicken) Crocodile, Conch (large sea snail) very nice… I did a jungle survival course and ate snake (they don’t all taste the same or like chicken) lots of insects, mainly raw and sometimes alive depending on how big they were… I am a sea food nut though, that’s why the Grand Buffet is my favorite eating place in Europe
Harry Monk:
toby1234abc:
tasted like chickenSmells like fish, tastes like chicken…
I thought we were going somewhere else with that until I read it for a second time.
Not really exotic
Kimbling (spelling ) in Holland - chunks of fish ,which were size gert, served with Nassi rice.
The croquettes as mentioned in an earlier post were lush- a la Shergar
Frikadells - had a few of them. . what did they have in them then, tasted ok after a few Loburgs !!
Mind you , some of the “chefs specials” on P+O left a lot to be desired !!
Why did the soup always seem to be French onion
Harry Monk:
toby1234abc:
tasted like chickenSmells like fish, tastes like chicken… that’s probably the strangest thing I’ve ever eaten
Mee too. I thought it was angled at a form of feline delight at one point too!!
Most exotic food? Coutance or any other sea France . Ok not exotic but most certainly just as much risk of a burning ring of fire.
there is a restaurant between Jaen and Granada called El Zegli and the house speciality is goat and garlic, mmmmmmmmm! lovely
I have to agree with malc. Andouilette is the most foul rancid tasting thing i`ve ever had the misfortune to put in my mouth.
Rodents as large as small shetland ponies are hunted and eaten in South American countries.They are the Capybara,Paca,Agouti,Nutra/Coypu.Not sure if truckers over there have them on the menu.Moroccan drivers can pull up at a mint tea cafe,and order fresh racks and ribs of all meats,cooked in front of you.The meat carcasses do hang up all day in the heat,i would worry about blue bottle flies laying eggs in to the meat,as no fridges.
When I was on holiday in Morocco, the meat was kept indoors- don’t know if it was refrigerated but somehow doubt it- and you could tell what the butcher had for sale because the animal’s severed head would be outside the shop, on a chair.
France…pied a veau (calves feet) in garlic sauce
(Nice sauce shame about the feet all fat and gristle)
Horse steak
(confusingly on menu as bifsteak)
Italy…Donkey salami
(not too bad not much different from “normal” salami)
Robin
(as part of a mixed grill, just like a very small chicken)
Croatia…cevapcici
(very spicy fried sausage of dubious heritage)
Goat cooked on a spit
(very tasty but looked like an Alsatian on the spit)
Squid
(self caught in the dock in Rijeka cooked with garlic)
Holland…Ostrich steaks
(very lean no fat bit like beef)
Some very nice Cake in Amsterdam
S.Africa…Crocodile, Impala, Springbok,
and highly illegal Monkey biltong (dried meat)
UK…MSA fish and chips
Bet you can all guess the only one of the above to make me ill