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1. On a flight to iceland once i had puffin as an airline meal, it was very chewy and didnt really have a taste. Here in Australia the super markets stock kangaroo which my dad sometimes has, it apparently has alot of nutrional value. My boyfriend (while working as a deckhand out on the Great Barrier Reef) caught and ate a shark, he said it was very tough and didnt enjoy it.

   Posted by Chloe veitch on 05/08/2009 10:25:07

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2. while i was holiday in South-Africa, my family and i had ostrich meat for dinner and it tasted quite nice but thats the first and last time i'll be trying it cos i developed a rash almost instantly all over my elbows and it itched for 2 days befor e it subsided...

   Posted by Tee on 20/04/2009 20:14:12

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3. I suppose the most exotic thing I've eaten was kangaroo, but I didn't like it enough to pay the high prices it fetches here (same cost problem with wild boar, but that was much nicer...). I've eaten horse (gorgeous), octopus (ditto - but not in salami), squid (yawn!) etc. I'll try most things as long as they are cooked first (or, with something like raw sashimi, prepared by an expert), unless they include bones/spines/shell - basically: crunchy bits - that are difficult to remove. I'm surprised (and not in a good way!) by the attitude of people who won't eat relatives of "Babar" the Elephant (or "Lassie" or "Black Beauty"), but regularly have "Bambi" (i.e. venison) on their menues... Oh, and I've eaten eel in London, so I don't think of that as exotic. I agree about the horrid tiny bones though!

   Posted by Andrew on 14/01/2009 23:54:42

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4. When I worked in safaris in Zimbabwe I ate just about everything that wandered through the bush. Especially good were impala, warthog, eland and buffalo. However the two strangest were snake (puff adder - rather like frogs legs) and elephant (a joint slow roasted over an open fire tasted rather like rare beef). My tracker was a local Tonga guy and he would eat the Vervet monkeys like in your show. However he would not eat Baboons deeming them too close to humans.

   Posted by enzo on 14/01/2009 23:30:53

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5. I ate stewed eel in vietnam. It tasted a bit fishy, but had so many tiny bones that it was impossible to eat! Yuk.

   Posted by catherine on 18/09/2008 12:07:46

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