name a food you've never tried, but want to try!

my mom will eat anything on this earth, except for eggplant. we've never had it in our house, so i've never eaten it.. but i've always wanted to try it.

what's something you want to try, but have never tried?

hehe I'm joining the spaghetti squash craze.

I've wanted to try alligator meat. Apparently it tastes pretty similar to chicken.

And it would be amazing to go to Italy and have real pasta.

I've tried most of the things I really wanted to try (I'm willing to eat almost anything if it's offered to me). But I want to try goat cheese, passionfruit, starfruit, kumquats, and fresh lychee, and I kinda want to try artichoke, but I've no clue how to cook it.

EERICA! I will make you eggplant! It is one of my ALL TIME favorite foods and I feel bad that you have never had it before! It is so versitle! Why doesn't your mom like it?! 

Hmm... a food I have never tried that I want to... probably some exotic meats like kangaroo, alligator, that sort of thing because I am a HUGE game meat eater! Ha, sorry if your a vegetarian! I am not sure there are any other things I actually want to try though... Perhaps a rare & deliciously fatty piece of fish, but I have tried a lot of fish so I am not sure what type... now I am going to go to the store with an urge to try something new! ha ha!

Wow. I guess I really do have a food fetish becuase everything you all listed I have tried or eat on a regular basis. Except cow brains and alligator. But I've had snake. And bugs. And horse. In Europe it's pretty popular...don't call PETA!

Here in Berlin they have these little pumpkins called Hoikaido, and you can even eat the skin. I stuff them and make pumpkin soup all winter long. It's hard to get spaghetti squash here too!

What I've never tried...hmm...I really want to do a food tour of Japan because they eat such interesting things and I love sushi and raw fish.

kaptain9 making pasta yourself is one of the easiest things ever. Flour and egg yolks. I use a rolling pin because I don't have a pasta machine and last month (before my "lifestyle change" I made foi gras and wild mushroom ravioli. Yum!

Sorry for posting an artichoke recipe here, but I can't believe so many of you haven't tried them! They are one of my most favourite things to eat. TRY THEM!

Artichoke recipe: Rinse the artichoke. Pull off the hard leaves near the stem, there are usually around 6 of these. I like to cut off the pointy parts because it makes it look pretty, but you really don't have to. TIP: Make sure the artichoke is heavy, (with moisture) not light, for maximum flavor and has tightly closed leaves. Trim the end off, but not too close, I like to use it as a handle when I'm eating the heart. Boil water on the stove, add salt and a squeeze of lemon juice so it keeps its color. Make sure the artichoke is suberged, you can use a colander or something to keep it down and depending on the size 20-40 minutes. When a leaf is easy to pull out it's done! Serve with any sauce you like, and suck the meaty part off with your teeth and discard the leaf. When you get down to the thistle stuff, scrape it out with a spoon and bite into the heart. It's amazing.

You can get fancy by cutting out the thistle stuff before you cook it and trimming the fibers off the stem, but I never did. You can also add things to the cooking water like sugar and whole black peppercorns.

I'd like to try rhubarb pie.

"beets.

There was a beet thread a while back that got me very excited to try roasted beets. But then I chickened out. Thanks for reminding me!" - cord

I love beets, but they don't love me.  I must have some allergy because about an hour after eating them, you'll find me on the floor in agony puking and pooping at the same time.  The second (and last) time this happened, my hubby almost called an ambulance.

shwarma is basically gyros or doner kebab - meat that's roasted on a huge stick and sliced off as the outer layer is cooked.  then it's wrapped in a flat bread/tortilla/pita type thing with veggies and sauce depending on where you are.

Pumpkin

Artichoke

Spaghetti squash

Shark meat

Double chocolate chip ice cream

Blueberries

Lime

Aloe vera (can you eat that?)

I would so like to try one of those desserts that cost like $1000 each. I think that at that cost( me not paying of course) would be 1000 reasons not to feel guilty about eating that decadent dessert.

I've tried shark meat! It's really really tough, you will know your eating a shark when you eat shark meat.

I would also like to try spahgetti squash, agave nectar (because I see it in a lot of vegan recipie and it sounds so exotic!) I also want to try ostritch! Um, what else would I like to try? Artichoke as well, it seems so strange to cook it.  I've seen a video but it looked really weird.  I would also like to try ricotta cheese becuase I don't think I've had it.  Or I have but didn't realize it was ricotta. I also want to try a diet coke cake because I've heard raves about it as well. :]

I've eaten fish brain before, :P.  Andrew Zimmern on bizzarree foods did it, so I was like, why not? Cracked open the head and sucked it right up! It tasted mushy, nothing really special. 

Another exotic food I've heard of was tongue, but I'm way to scared to try that.  I figure whatever that animal ate before me, I'd taste it. :P I'm pretty sure there's many more I'd love to try but as of now, those are the ones that come to mind.

I really want to try dragon fruit.  Cant think of any others at the moment! :)

Beets are a pain to clean and cook, but very delicious!

Mmm, love beets and eggplant and rhubarb pie is just the best warm with ice cream!

I'm usually an adventure eater. I'll TRY anything once but I've never had Indian food. It frightens me and I don't want to waste a cheat meal on something I don't  think I'll like so I never ask to go to an Indian restaurant.

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Original Post by singing_girl:

I really want to try dragon fruit.  Cant think of any others at the moment! :)

 Oh me too!! I just can't bring myself to pay $5 a piece to do it.

To the poster who had never tried tofu: it's really not disgusting at all, it takes on flavors well so just season it right. It's basically cheese made from soy milk. I'd try it in a restaurant first, since it's kinda hard to prepare right if you're not sure what you're doing, IMO. I LOVE the tofu at Noodles and Co, with their pesto cavatappi it's out of this world.

My foods:

Lobster

Grits

Pumpkin cheesecake with gingerbread crust (I saw a recipe and almost died on the spot)

Pumpkin cheesecake ice cream from Ben and Jerry's (new flavor for the season, sensing a theme here??)

Bread pudding

Pizza made on the grill

Original Post by ofeliajones:

kaptain9 making pasta yourself is one of the easiest things ever. Flour and egg yolks. I use a rolling pin because I don't have a pasta machine and last month (before my "lifestyle change" I made foi gras and wild mushroom ravioli. Yum!

 Hmm, maybe I should try making my own pasta. I've just always thought that a pasta dish made with high quality, authentic ingredients by someone who actually knows what he's doing would be a better dish than the standardized dishes found in most American restaurants.

 Well, I guess I'm with ofeliajones, I think there are only three things listed that I have not had!

1.$1000 deserts don't have any appeal...I would rather spend that $ on some time on a tropical beach!

2.and Pumpkin cheesecake ice cream from Ben and Jerry's is not on my list either, We have a couple of local Ice cream makers that whoop the pants off B & J.

3.Now dragon fruit sounds interesting...what does it look like?

few notes:

oatmeal? beets? blueberries? limes? really???

carefull cooking shark, if there is any amonia smell, do not eat it. (bad story to go with that)

fresh lychees: wash with safe water after you peel them (never been as sick as i was that day in Taipei)

New York delis sell tongue sandwiches, my hubby worked his way through high school making them!

gator tastes like chicken but its consistency is more like squid/octopus: rubbery!

try pickled beets, it is an easy intro! You can find them canned in the US stores, don't know about overseas...

Thought of another one: Durian.

We would see them (and smell them) all the time in Malaysia. Despite having the worst stench in the world, they are supposed to taste pretty good.

sushi

sushi and pad thai