You expect me to eat that???
 

When I was 10 years old, my dad took me to Spain for the first time. He took me out to a very nice restaurant in Sevilla. I told him I wanted pasta for dinner. When the meal arrived, I looked down at a plate full of baby eels! YUCK! What is the most exotic meal you have had abroad?

"What's the most adventurous food you've ever tried..."
Calamari, there is another thread going on this subject; search on this title. You might want to add your pasta story there.

(gagging...)

Baby eels are OK, except that they wiggle a lot and tickle on the way down.

BTW baby eels are called "elvers".

It's when they come back out of you that you have to worry!

Thank you everyone for the delightful way you have just made my coffee go down. :?

Ahhhh......

We have so many well-eeled, eelectric personalities on this forum. What would I do without you all?

(grin)

Aren't baby eels from the feet of British babies? Sounds rather ghastly to even think about eating those.

eww capo

capo-eels are those things that hang on eelephants! they are a taste treat in some far away lands :)

It actually was not as bad as haggas (sp?) and not as good as sea urchin.

Once, while stationed in Gordonia, we were offered undercooked splinel.

Goat in a bucket, in Mexico. Don't ask -- it was disgusting. For the rest of that trip the running joke was, "I'm so hungry, I could suck the hairs off a goat!"

In Japan I ate things I couldn't even name, and they were raw.

Marilyn, O.K. I think you win!

Thanks, Calamari (and what an appropriate name that is for this particular thread, although I share your love for it). I am afraid to ask what the prize is. :-$

I think it will definiately have to be something served in a bucket.

Marilyn

Will you be serving anything from a bucket at the forderite soiree?

I wasn't planning to, Calamari, but do you think our adventurous fodors gourmets would appreciate "Cabrito Rico a la bucket"? (That's "boo-kay" as the woman on the BBC sitcom says.) :-D

PS I heard a rumor (well, ok, I read it on another post) that you are thinking of gracing our soiree with your lovely presence. Since it is a potluck, I would look forward to one of your specialties, calamari fritti perhaps? You are welcome to use my kitchen to prepare it!

Logandog, I just quickly read your post and thought it said Spaniel!!! All I could think about was my furry friend at home! YIKES. My grandfather was from the old country (Poland) and loved pigs feet--blech!!