Balut is a fascinating food. I don’t want to try it even once.
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Found on the front desk on a night shift. These sounded so terrible I had to try a few just to satisfy my curiosity. A sort of vaguely waffle shaped puffed corn snack with such an awful synthetic flavour I think it will keep me wide awake the entire night shift. I think this is why my nursing colleagues eat this sort of stuff on night shifts! ‘Straight outta Chompton’ 
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This caught my eye at the grocery store the other day. Pink pineapple from Costa Rica in a fancy box for $7.99.
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Balut is tasty, but I don’t need to eat it again. I might eat it if somebody else is buying. Then again, I might not.
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Balut is a bridge too far for this guy. I thought about trying it the first time I visited the Philippines, but I realized I would never have the courage to dig in.
It may be a character flaw. When I went to the Lutheran dinners, I usually ate the Lefse, not the Lutefisk.
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Nah. No point eating anything that makes you feel uncomfortable. There’s no joy in that.
I ate escargots, frog legs, and sea barnacles when I was younger. I can’t say I enjoyed the idea.
I wouldn’t be able to tell the differences among frog nuggets, rabbit nuggets and chicken nuggets, from the taste.
The idea of eating frogs and rabbits bothers me a bit, so I won’t go out of my way. At the same time, I’m not bothered if someone used leftover rabbit in a pasta sauce or risotto.
The idea of frog meat bothers me more than the idea of rabbit meat
I haven’t knowingly eaten horse, iguana, guinea pigs, turtles, bear, or squirrels, and I have no interest. My cousin served me moose sausage, and I ate it to be polite. I wouldn’t seek it out or pay for it.
I have no interest in eating fermented shark, seal, live baby octopus, or balut.
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I, too, will only do lefse; meatballs, anything but the lutefisk. Tried it, hate it, forget it.
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I was born and raised in Uganda, where grasshoppers were fair game to be eaten. They collected en mass around street lamps, where they were easily harvested. I can’t remember who cooked them for us, but my mother refused to eat them, so as kids we used to hide them in her rice; never fooled her! I loved to eat them.
I love most offal. Veal sweetbreads are wonderful, as are veal kidneys in mustard sauce. There is a famous Goan dish called Sorpotel, that contains a variety of pork organ meats and pork blood. It’s a staple at celebrations.
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