Day 55

[tripperfunster]

I just ate a peacock egg for lunch. Trufax.

I kind of feel like I should now have some sort of superpowers or invincibilty or sumthin'.

Our male peacock is too young to breed, and the female is obviously NOT too young to breed. (they usually have to be at least two or three years old.) We put some eggs in the incubator, just in case, but nope, nothing there, so any subsequent eggs she laid have gone IN MAH BELLEH! And the kids, although I didn't tell them. Quincey would think it was cool, and Harry would probably feign death.

As compared to chicken eggs, they are BIGGER, obviously, but milder too. Duck eggs have a kind of thick membrane around them and a harsher taste. Even our pig (when he was alive) didn't care for them, but loved chicken eggs.

What strange things have YOU eaten lately? Double ententres allowed and encouraged.

Comments

[coffee-n-cocoa.livejournal.com]

I've never had duck eggs, but I've heard they're richer than chicken eggs, rather than harsher. Maybe it's in the preparation?

I haven't eaten anything exotic lately, but I've had beaver. It's good, tastes like steak!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Well, STRONGER, perhaps? To me, I don't like fish and eggs to taste like .. fish and eggs? ;) I like them mild. I think, too, that that thick membrane just kind of grossed me out.

Beaver, really? Where did you have that? *cuddles my national animal*

[theficklepickle.livejournal.com]

I've eaten kangaroo, but that's not really exotic; a lot of places in Australia serve it. I didn't think it had much flavour, and it was a bit tough.

I think for odd meals my mother probably takes the prize, though. I turned up at her house at lunchtime one day to find her tucking into a plate of fish, cauliflower and tinned spaghetti.

[magically25.livejournal.com]

I haven't eaten chicken today but does cock count?

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

You KNOW it does!

[vividescent.livejournal.com]

Won't be long now 'til you become a true egg connoisseur.

[demicus.livejournal.com]

Geez, I just glanced at the first line & I could've sworn, just for a second, that I saw 'goose' in place of 'peacock'. Nevermind.

Can't say I'm a big fan of eggs but I'll agree that less membrane is always better.

Strange eats, eh? Well, I've just gotten over an epic bout of food poisoning so I'll have to say Staphylococcus or Salmonella. *Gives the userpic the stink eye.*

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

I personally haven't eaten anything strange lately. I used to go to this Oriental buffet, and I'd have their sushi, and odd white cherry-like things. Not sure what they were exactly. They sort of tasted like tinned cherries, but thankfully without that tinny aftertaste.

I got introduced to 'bitter melon', a Chinese thing. (Sort of tasted like cactus.)

Oh, and at the Mexican grocery, one of the fruit water drinks (agua frescas ?sp) was made from cactus and pineapple. It was a bit too sweet for me.

My grand (who grew up in the Depression and was from a farming family) was once talking about the different critters her dad shot (that they later ate.) She mentioned possum, raccoon, said that they only got skunk once because it was too messy to deal with and then stopped at 'cat'. (Feral cats from people's barn cats, I'm assuming.) But when you're hungry, you'll probably eat anything.

I had a co-worker many years back whose dad, like some dads in Texas, liked to go hunting once in awhile. One day I opened her fridge and saw what I thought were giant avocados. They were emu eggs!

Y'see, the emu is not native to Texas. Emu raising was a bit of a thing here, until people realized it wasn't that profitable. Some stupid idiot folks released their emus into the wild instead of eating them. Since they are not native to Texas, they can cause damage to the environment and crowd out native species.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has rules and regulations about when you can hunt, what you can hunt, and how many you can catch. I've heard that if you go out and hunt wild boar (which are non-native) you can pretty much bag as many as you carry.

It's been several years, but I'm given to understand that this was the case with my co-worker's dad. He saw a nesting mama emu, shot the emu and took the eggs as well. TP&WD had no problem with it. (Definitely can't do that with native birds.)

I didn't get to eat any emu egg though....

[narryaworry.livejournal.com]

Hmm, weird things I've eaten lately. Well, I go to a culinary school, so I've got quite the choice available to me. In the past week I've had caviar, foie gras, beef tendon, a ton of different charcuterie items, and an absolutely amazing heritage breed soy braised pork belly. I get around in the culinary world if you know what I mean.

[xenafox.livejournal.com]

OMG I WANT A PEACOCK EGG!!! Omnomnom...eggs.

I've been eating a lot of mocha cake 8D

[accioslash.livejournal.com]

Quincey would think it was cool, and Harry would probably feign death.

Hahahahahahahahaha! OMG!! I think Harry and I are twins separated by a couple (if couple is now defined as 'four') of decades. Though I would have performed a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally long and annoying bit of gagging and slurping of the equivalent of a bathtub full of water to get the taste out of my mouth first. It's a talent.

[ansku]

This was really fascinating :)

I haven't eaten anything strange or particularly interesting (by Finnish standards) lately, but I suppose reindeer might count as somewhat exotic...