I have yet to find seafood that I like.
Irony of ironies is that I love fishing. Luckily anything I catch worth keeping my wife is more than happy to eat.
People always tell me that good fish shouldn’t taste/smell fishy. I retort that I suppose good beef shouldn’t be beefy either.
I’m willing to hear people out, try different fish prepared in different ways, still haven’t found one that I liked, at best they’re mostly tolerable.
I’ve figured out that I generally tend to enjoy freshwater fish over saltwater. If I catch a couple nice trout I’ll eat that for dinner with my wife instead of having to make a separate dish for myself, I won’t hate it, but I won’t like it either and I’d probably rather have a hot dog.
And I like raw fish better than cooked.
I might actually kind of like raw oysters, but they are in no way worth the cost.
Lox isn’t bad, but I’d prefer just about anything else over it.
There are a couple fish-based products out there that are so far removed from fish that they’re hardly worth mentioning for the purposes of this comment that I do enjoy, like Worcestershire sauce and Asian fish sauces, katsuobushi, Caesar dressing, Crab Rangoon (let’s be real, you could probably leave the crab or “krab” out of most takeout rangoons and it wouldn’t change much) some Japanese fish cakes, etc.
The absolute worst is shrimp though. Nothing about shrimp is appealing to me, the taste, smell and especially the texture are all pretty repulsive.
I’m not otherwise a guy with a lot of food hangups and consider myself a pretty adventurous eater. Weird tastes, textures, bizarre fermented stuff, strange meats, etc. are all generally OK in my book, there’s not many other foods out there that I don’t enjoy. In my house right now I have some double salt salmiak licorice, a bottle of Malört, a wide selection of hot sauces going up to around 1 million scoville, I’m pretty sure I have both Vegemite and marmite somewhere in my fridge, some very peaty scotches, and plenty of other very divisive foodstuffs that I enjoy.
I have tentative plans to visit Iceland next year, so I’ll probably end up torturing myself with some hákarl at some point. And I don’t intend to seek it out, but if it happens to be offered to me for free somewhere I may consider trying whale, which I suppose is technically seafood.
I wasn’t a big fan of goat
Donkey.
Any “big game”. Moose taste like swamp.
Venison can be good if it’s properly butchered and stored. It so often isn’t though. People will shoot a deer then leave it to hang for a day in 50-60 degree weather. Just gross.
Bears are too greasy. And they’re too smart, eating them is just bad karma.
A lot of game meat can be good, people just have no clue what to do with the processing side of it. They’ll spend thousands of dollars buying the most ridiculous gear to kill the damn thing, and then just fail at butchering and preserving. Hunting is the easy part.
Most people make the mistake of harvesting old bulls. The young ones are tasty.
Uni (sea urchin) at a Japanese restaurant. It was like cold fishy jelly. Although I’m told that fresh uni is different. Not gonna try it again unless someone else at the table orders it.
I think uni is overrated as well. It’s not bad, but overrated.
Oyster. Anything with the consistency of snot that you’re supposed to swallow without chewing isn’t food. I can make my own salt water that tastes much less disgusting.
Hear me out. Have you tried them grilled in garlic butter with a little sprinkle of parmesan?
If it’s not for you then you won’t get any hate from me. I just wanted to throw that out there.
You said not lamb but lamb. Nothing will ever taste worse than the lamb steak I had from a high end Brazilian churrascaria once. It straight up had the taste and texture of poop. Thinking about it makes me gag.
That’s also where I learned how much I hate filet mignon
What would your favourite meats be?
I’m honestly not a big meat eater but venison is good. I’m a bigger fan of sausages and smoked meats.
I tried kangaroo in Australia and it was not good.
Presuming you mean meat I consistently dislike no matter if it’s well prepared or in good condition: None. I would say beef and chicken but those were isolated instances and you removed them as options too.
Then… I don’t know, every time I tried something else it turned out to be good. Once I had a codfish that wasn’t well prepared. It was tough like a shoe sole and full of bones. But it didn’t taste terrible, so I’m not sure if it’s a suitable option.
Alright well what’s some of the more exotic meats you’ve had?
Not many, I’ve had crickets, ants, mealworms, venison, kangaroo, I think that’s it for unusual. Not sure if things like duck and eel make it to the exotic list for you. I’ve had kangaroo more times than I’ve had eel though, probably just because of location.
Haven’t had ants, mealworms or kangaroo but I do keep hearing kangaroo is pretty good. How were the ants and mealworms made?
My thoughts on kangaroo are, kind of unsurprisingly, that it tastes exactly like it evolved on a different continent than any other meat you’ve ever eaten.
It’s still definitely in the red meat family, but it’s different and it’s hard to explain how. I’d say it’s maybe more like venison or maybe lamb than beef, but it’s definitely its own thing.
There’s a lot of cases where depending on how you prepared and seasoned it, I don’t know if I could necessarily tell you with 100% confidence if I was eating venison or beef, and maybe even a couple things you could probably pull that with lamb or goat vs beef. I’m pretty sure I could reliably pick out a kangaroo dish from a lineup 100% of the time.
It was good though, I would absolutely eat kangaroo again if it was more readily available around me. It’s kind of a stronger flavor that some people might have an issue with.
The roo is good and I would have it more often if not for the price tag.
The ants and mealworms were pan fried, sauteed I guess. They were good. Ants were like a zesty citrus crumb and mealworms were sort of like popcorn.
Venison, and for the same reason as lamb
I don’t like muscles from the Puget Sound because they taste like it smells and I cannot get past that.
Alligator. Venison. Duck. Butterfish. Trout. Mussels.
