Exotic food is popular in poorer countries - have you tried any?!
"Soul food" is a romanticised euphemism for what African slaves were forced to eat (and made as palatable as they could) from all the rubbish left over from the slaughter houses... Pig tails, ears, lungs, many innards and other parts people would find gross even to mention today... Now Soul Food is sssoooo exotic!!!
A poor farm labourer or factory worker in Britain was only slightly better off in the same era, so there was ox-tail, pigs trotters, chitterlings, tripe, etc. Every bit of a pig is edible... But any meat protein was a "luxury" not an everyday item by a long chalk. Whole families would be raised on very basic products indeed. Basically what could be made from flour and lard.
...What a long way to come. No way would we eat any of their food these days. What is not taboo because it has become totally unfamiliar, we are told is "bad" for us. I heard recently there were only two people who still prepare tripe in the whole of the UK! My grandparents would simply not believe that! It was a traditional mid-week meal for a working man and his family in the north until just a few years ago...
And when I last asked the village butcher for bacon bones, he said they do not get any... Everything now comes pre-packed and factory prepared, so all he does is serve it. No bones or nasty unfashionable bits! As for trying to source real suet... Forget it! Now that really has become the most "exotic" product in rural North Wales!!!
We now go to other countries to try their "poor people's food". So it is socially acceptable, we call is "exotic". Yes we would not dream to try our own, but mess up the planet flying around the globe to check out other people's! Funny lot we are!! LOL!
Answers: What we are not familiar with on our home patch, is regarded as "exotic" by most people. Looking through old cooking and housekeeping books will bring up so much which we would now consider "outlandish", never mind "exotic"! We (in the rich west) now import what is considered "street food" in poor southern countries. Which is probably where this question is coming from.
"Soul food" is a romanticised euphemism for what African slaves were forced to eat (and made as palatable as they could) from all the rubbish left over from the slaughter houses... Pig tails, ears, lungs, many innards and other parts people would find gross even to mention today... Now Soul Food is sssoooo exotic!!!
A poor farm labourer or factory worker in Britain was only slightly better off in the same era, so there was ox-tail, pigs trotters, chitterlings, tripe, etc. Every bit of a pig is edible... But any meat protein was a "luxury" not an everyday item by a long chalk. Whole families would be raised on very basic products indeed. Basically what could be made from flour and lard.
...What a long way to come. No way would we eat any of their food these days. What is not taboo because it has become totally unfamiliar, we are told is "bad" for us. I heard recently there were only two people who still prepare tripe in the whole of the UK! My grandparents would simply not believe that! It was a traditional mid-week meal for a working man and his family in the north until just a few years ago...
And when I last asked the village butcher for bacon bones, he said they do not get any... Everything now comes pre-packed and factory prepared, so all he does is serve it. No bones or nasty unfashionable bits! As for trying to source real suet... Forget it! Now that really has become the most "exotic" product in rural North Wales!!!
We now go to other countries to try their "poor people's food". So it is socially acceptable, we call is "exotic". Yes we would not dream to try our own, but mess up the planet flying around the globe to check out other people's! Funny lot we are!! LOL!
Japan is not a poor country. I have eaten raw octopus. Is that exotic? Would much rather eat my tennis shoe! :O
That's because exotic countries are usually the poorer ones, idiot!
Ya - scharmas in Iraq. Killing enemy soldiers can really work up an appetite.
i've had chineise and indian and thai and ethiopean....
they are all delicious !
I have no idea what you consider exotic. Ive had chocolate covered ants in chile. Monkey in Mexico, Iguana in Mexico, Dog in Taiwan, Bear in Montana, Horse in Mongolia, Cow Brain tacos in El Salvador, Soup with a chicken foot in it in Colombia, Snake various times. All in all, Id stick with chicken
I EAT IT ONLY........!!!!!
what do you class as exotic? Traditionally, spices have been used in hot countries as it naturally preserves meat as well as regulate body temperature.
I had tried alot of things when I was younger.My dad was a hunter..I have tried frog legs which taste like tender chicken.Then there is moose stew,deer,wild bore,and the last one was chocolate grasshoppers..I didn't care for any of the wild game.
-Crocodile meat in Old Orleans (a restaurant, not the city)
-Chinese bitter melon - YUK!
-Broccoli and ginger soup (Relatively tame, but an usual - and DIVINE - combination!)
-Kidneys (one of my favourites)
-Sushi - liked it
-Sharon Fruit (musky and quite nice)
That's all I can think of atm. Thinking about it, foreign people must consider our cuisine exotic!
My daughter lived in China for two and a half years and has eaten Locust
i tried Eel and shark soup in hong kong?
What we think is exotic is quite normal in the country of origin.
I cook in the Indian, Chinese and Italian style - from all regions of those countries. Love them all.
My father-in-law on a visit to Switzerland from England went with me to our corner shop and was amazed at the varieties of pasta and other items for sale. 'It's like a delicatessen,' he said.
'Yes, but if I want golden syrup, real chunky marmalade, baked beans or brown sauce, I have to go to a specialist 'English' shop,' I replied. Poor man, he couldn't cope with that.
ive had a deers nob in japan
raw pigs b0llox in france
black pudding in scotland
zebra in africa
aligator and kangaroo in australia
lobster in portugal ( very nice )
dog in russia
big mac in the states