Unique but Good Grub you have eaten
 

Good food you have recently eaten that you have not seen in many, if any, other places.
doesn't have to be exotic. Please include Title of dish and simple category: ex: sandwich, soup, pasta dish, vegatable dish, salad etc.

(no flashbacks to that Rat and Dog dish back in Viet Nam).


Name: Patriot
Category: sandwich

Descripton :
Long or short roll
american cheese,
tuna salad,
1 sliced hardboiled egg,
1 to 2 strips of bacon.

Name: Alligator
Category: Critter

Descripton :
Cajun pan fried gator.
Taste like chicken except the meat is flakey and light like fish.

Name: The Gobbler
Category: Sandwich

Description:
Fresh Turkey, Stuffing, cranberry sauce, all smashed between two slices of bread. Delicous!

name: octopus
catagory: seafood
ethnicity: greek

grilled, with a balsomic dressing. quite good

Food from the beautiful city of Utica, NY that as far as I know exists nowhere else.

Name: Chicken Riggatone (Chicken Riggies)
Category: Pasta
Description: Riggatone Pasta with romano cheese, olive oil, sometimes tomato sauce, sometimes ricotta cheese, chicken, and the KEY ingredient-> cherry peppers. Sounds simple and it is, but go there and try it.

Name: Tomato Pie
Category: Italian
Description: Thick, doughy crust with homemade tomato sauce on top, usually sprinkled with parmesean or romano. No Mozzarella. The crust is what makes it work, it has to be just right. It is usually served room temperature.

Name: Fried Greens
Category: Suprisingly delicious veggies
Description: Spinach, sauteed with olive oil and garlic, then mixed with calamata olives, cherry peppers, and topped with bread crumbs and romano. Damn!

Utica!
I went to college about 10 minutes from there.

Hmm.. 10 mins from Utica- did you go to Hamilton in Clinton?

Smoked alligator tail... very good... and very unique. Going to eat a nice Russian girl shortly but do not believe that this is what you were looking for... but still tasty! :)

ok lets see...

Name: Nutria Gumbo
Catergoy: Stew

Peices of Nutria mixed in with potatoes and rice. AMAZING!

Fried Alligator Balls!

Ostrich meat (very good)

Crawfish flown in from LA and boiled to perfection!

Seeing how it is hunting season here in the mid-west I`d have to say vension (the back straps) seasoned the way they should be or a vension buger or if you really want to get tasty nothing compares to a good vension roast. I walk right past the store butcher and smile because its already in the freezer and nothing like a good wild gobbler now thats eating men.

We have tomato pie here in Pennsylavania..

a favorite of Kids birthday parties..

"Pizza!, hey dad, where is the cheese????? Why is it cold? No, I'm not hungry anymore"

"Good, more for me son."

name: Elk Burger
category: Burger
ethnicity: Yooper
description: The Harbour House in Copper Harbor, MI. Tastes great!

name: snail
category: invertibrate
ethnicity: japanese
description: Edoko in SoCal...when I was a kid.

Buffalo Burger - $6, Buffalo Inn, Upland, CA

Name: Basashi (Japanese: 馬刺し, ばさし).
Category: appetizer

Descripton : Raw horse meat served with onions and soy sauce. Famous in Kumamoto Japan (where my company sends me). Tasted like a cross between beef and bacon. Not bad if you don't think about it.

I thought it tasted like wet horse. But sure beats the kujira.

Name: Rattlesnake
Category: Friggin' Serpent

Description, Tastes like the proverbial chicken, though rubbery and peppery. Ate a one inch by one inch meat-on-a-stick type piece that was being sold at a roadside stand in the Mojave desert on a dare by my older brother-in-law. Repugnant, but I was 16 then. Makes for a good change-of-pace in a conversation though!

Had this in India. Something they called "soylent curry". I don't know what is in it..

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1163103846.jpg

Oysters, raw on the half shell, with a dash of Tobasco.
Scallops, raw, big ones...like 2" diameter big, dipped in a wasabi soy sauce paste.
Super Crunch Roll, I don't know what's in it but it was tasty.

Erp...lunch today was good!

Indeed I did!

caribou filet mignon
category: main course?
location: banff/lake louise ski area. forgot which hotel (could be 'caribou hotel' ;) )
description: barely grilled served in 'blood'/cherry mix semi-sweet reduction, some veggies on the side

grilled quail
category: main
location: 'le grille' in hotel de paris
description: wooden oven grilled whole quail w/ orange peel stuck under the skin. served suspended (contraption looked like banana hangers for the kitchen) over a smouldering assortment of herbs sage, thyme etc.

Pizza in a cup. They went out of business though...

Here Here! +1x10^100!

Best Red Meat Ever (save the Russian Joe is going to eat!)

I remember them. They were way better than that other pizza in a cup place

Name: Big O
Category: Sandwich- Vegetarian
Description :
12 grain whole wheat bread
Cheese optional (perhaps Polly-o string?)
sliced Avocado
sliced Tomato
diced Habanero
Mmmm smooth and hot!

Description: Cuy Chactado (Deep Fried Guinea Pig)
Category: Rodent

These things are gutted and shaved, then flattenned out and deep fried, head, claws and all. Tastes similar to really crispy fried chicken. Not much meat on them, the skin is really crunchy and lots of small bones.
In the pic, you can see the large teeth.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1163114234.jpg

My Bros Pizza (Seattle) has something called the "dome" which must be bigger and better since it's pizza in a bowl.

Ethiopian Food

A variety of thick stews (called "wat") made from beef, chicken, lentils, and vegetables." It's all spread out on a spongy thin bread called "injera." To eat it you tear off a piece of injera and use it to grab a handful of the wat. No utensils required.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1163120438.jpg
Menu from our local Ethiopian restaurant.

Elk tips in bourbon gravy
category: main course
location: Firebird's in Short Pump, VA
similar to buffalo, maybe a little sweeter, could have been the gravy! ;)

Buffalo burger
category: "fast food"
location: Wall Drug, Wall, SD
similar to an angus beef burger, but different enough that you know it's not cow, very tasty nonetheless.

If you ever get down to South America, try some Alpaca steak. Awesome.

Your effing shi++ing us right? In Visalia?

Name Mater Paneer
Category Indian Food
Description Fresh homemade cheese cooked with tender green peas & spices in a curry sauce.
Love this stuff, you can get it at any Indian restaurant, some are better than others.

Name Pollo en Mole
Category Mexican Food
Description Chicken in a Mole sauce, Mole is prepared with dried chile peppers (commonly ancho, pasilla, mulato and chipotle), nuts, spices, unsweetened chocolate, salt, and a variety of other ingredients including charred avocado leaves.
Probable won't be able to enjoy this for a while, because I just had my Gallbladder removed.

Hugh R
No, this was in Arequipa, Peru. Alpaca steak is good too,

Try anything once, as long as its dead.

injera rocks. And the soylent stuff looks suspicously like saag paneer.

Bun - vietnamese cold noodle dish with various greens and meats with fish sauce. Amazing.

Good Grub continued....
 

Thanks Carmad, when I saw this thread my first thought was the "cuy" in Peru. Don't knock it till you try it guys! I was thrilled that someone posted it. It is a national dish in Peru like their ceviche is a national dish. (marinated raw fish in lime juice with hot flavor). I have also had the alpaca steak in the high Andes mountains there. I lived in Peru for a few years and have visited several times with family and keep in contact with friends there and always seek out their cuisine in the US when I can find it and also cook some specialties at home. Also, their national soft drink is "Inca Kola" a yellow colored drink made from an herb that is the only soft drink to out sell Coca-Cola in any country, thus Coca-Cola bought out the company in year 2000. At first taste it has a bubble gum flavor and is best ice cold, it was designed to compliment their ceviche dish. Enjoy.

On a trip to RAAF Base Tindal in Australia several years ago, a bunch of us Marines went to the Katherine Country Club for dinner. The menu included Kangaroo, Crocodile and Barramundi.

All of it was extremely delicious!!! The Barramundi with a taste of hot english mustard was exquisite!!! :D

Randy

Must be followed up by Gulab Jamun. I could eat a dozen of those things!

Mountain oysters at the Rocky Mountain Oyster festival in Montana. Enough beer or Jack Daniels beforehand helps...

Seems like there are a lot of Indian food lovers. Anyone for Ethiopian (the various "wots", if you like injera you'll like that)? No Thai (Evil Jungle prince, or Prik King, or various curries)?