Food Are you an Adventurous Eater?

I think the most adventurous I've gotten is alligator, it was good but nothing spectacular (same with escargot) . There are so many things I don't like its hard for me to try new things, and when I do make myself I usually find I don't like it. I'd really like to like hummus but ick, every time I've tried some that someone has I just wanna gag. As I noted in the Wasabi thread, I did get up the nerve to try sushi this year, but I don't like fish that tastes fishy, so if I eat Sushi, Im stuck with things like yellow tuna. I tried eel and actually had to spit it out. I feel like Im the only person in the world that doesnt like fish sauce either lol. So yeah...I pretty much stay with the tried and true southern foods I grew up with.

 

I'm not very adventurous when it comes to food. If I'm at party or pot luck or something and there is something new, I'm usually willing to try it, but I very rarely order new things at restaurants. We rarely go out to eat and when we do, I want to enjoy it and not regret getting something I don't like. I'm slowly moving out of my comfort zone when it comes to cooking at home, simply because making the same old, same old every day gets boring.

If I was presented with balut, I couldn't eat it. The very thought makes me sick. The thought of eating crickets doesn't really bother me though...as long as they weren't alive and kicking when I ate them.

 

I'll eat any veg, and am totally excited to try new ones or new ways of cooking them.

Meat needs to be lean 'western-standard' cuts of beef, lamb or chicken breast. Always well done. As long as that's sorted, then I'm excited to try new recipes of any kind.

On an evening out, I do not want to ruin it with some taste-experiment-gone-wrong, though if the above ingredients are used, I'm fine to try unheard of combinations. That, however, does not feel adventurous, because I'm already on familiar territory with the basic stuff.

My own 'quiet' adventurousness is a wanton and lustful desire to try out how new restaurants cook stuff I've already identified as my favourite. For example, Butter chicken. One chef, 11 years ago, in a Hounslow restaurant cooked me butter chicken that would have got him a Knighthood if I were Monarch. Since then, the question "Can anyone equal or better that" has burnt in the bosoms of me and my ex. We have little social contact, but some things are sacred, and we keep each other up to date on the state of play of our Butter Chicken Quest. You know .. the way some parents who've split up will still honour the responsibility of sharing important news about their children. That sacred.

 

I am not this adventurous....

Japanese man cooks, serves own genitals - FRANCE 24

 

Wow!
So, we've got the story of the provider/cook.
I'd love to know the stories of the diners.

 

I am moderately adventurous when it comes to food. I like trying different meats. Living in Iceland brought on some interesting foods - puffin, whale, rotten shark, head cheese, soured sheep balls. Some of it is better than others, but I generally won't turn that stuff down.
However, I cannot get into the bug eating mindset yet. Maybe someday. And I have a harder time with strange sweets too at times.
In general, I like offal meat (chicken hearts & gizzards, beef tongue, tripe, liver [Monkfish is good!], pig's feet, etc).

As for the most adeventurous thing I've tried.. I guess that depends on what's adventurous to you . Maybe sheep brains would qualify. I wasn't a big fan, the texture was oddly custardy.