I figure my food preferences are culturally British - not modern British, but British before curry was standard fare. Plus a lot of additions from living in Canada and then California.
I absolutely love beef kidneys. I prefer chicken liver to beef liver - much easier to mess up cooking beef liver, and produce something about as appetizing as the sole of a boot :-( But I used to stop at the same town every time I took a particular 6 hour road trip, just to eat beef liver and onions at a particular restaurant that did it right. Beef tongue is great. Hearts are OK. The idea of eating testicles squicks me, so I've never tried them.
While I enjoy a good steak, I'd rather have a slow-cooked piece of tough meat than an also-ran steak.
As a child in Canada, I used to eat raw beef hamburger; that ended with mad cow disease and a move to the US.
I'm happy to eat raw fish, and it doesn't have to be in cute little sushi rolls. Cooked fish too. But please don't serve something like trout whole, looking like a critter. I can't think of a fish I don't like, though there are some I avoid because of overfishing/endangerment. I love scallops. I'm more or less meh on other shellfish. (I eat them, but don't seek them out.) Lobster's fine, but taking a nut cracker to one is no fun. And a bit of squick for boiling them alive. I have a nice jar of pickled herring in the fridge right now.
I've eaten buffalo, and prefer beef. I've eaten rabbit, and it was OK. I eat all the standard North American meats - beef, pork, chicken, turkey, lamb. I like goose. Ostrich is tasty, but I've only had it a couple of times. I wouldn't seek out horse, or pick it from a menu, but I'd eat it if served to me. I've had goat a couple of times, and it was awful; I now actively avoid it on Indian buffets. But I'm not sure the problem was goat, it might just have been the way it was cooked. I love lamb, cooked according to recipes from approx. Greece thru India, but *not* the way British or traditional white Americans cook it.
Given a choice, I pick the more humanely raised meat, but don't put much effort into it.
I've never knowingly eaten insects, but I'd be willing to try.
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I absolutely love beef kidneys. I prefer chicken liver to beef liver - much easier to mess up cooking beef liver, and produce something about as appetizing as the sole of a boot :-( But I used to stop at the same town every time I took a particular 6 hour road trip, just to eat beef liver and onions at a particular restaurant that did it right. Beef tongue is great. Hearts are OK. The idea of eating testicles squicks me, so I've never tried them.
While I enjoy a good steak, I'd rather have a slow-cooked piece of tough meat than an also-ran steak.
As a child in Canada, I used to eat raw beef hamburger; that ended with mad cow disease and a move to the US.
I'm happy to eat raw fish, and it doesn't have to be in cute little sushi rolls. Cooked fish too. But please don't serve something like trout whole, looking like a critter. I can't think of a fish I don't like, though there are some I avoid because of overfishing/endangerment. I love scallops. I'm more or less meh on other shellfish. (I eat them, but don't seek them out.) Lobster's fine, but taking a nut cracker to one is no fun. And a bit of squick for boiling them alive. I have a nice jar of pickled herring in the fridge right now.
I've eaten buffalo, and prefer beef. I've eaten rabbit, and it was OK. I eat all the standard North American meats - beef, pork, chicken, turkey, lamb. I like goose. Ostrich is tasty, but I've only had it a couple of times. I wouldn't seek out horse, or pick it from a menu, but I'd eat it if served to me. I've had goat a couple of times, and it was awful; I now actively avoid it on Indian buffets. But I'm not sure the problem was goat, it might just have been the way it was cooked. I love lamb, cooked according to recipes from approx. Greece thru India, but *not* the way British or traditional white Americans cook it.
Given a choice, I pick the more humanely raised meat, but don't put much effort into it.
I've never knowingly eaten insects, but I'd be willing to try.