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I love Uni. Don't ever dis uni again, SG! Two nights ago, the wife and I went to a restaurant in Vancouver called Crave, right by the gym. They're supposed to have these great burgers. I ordered the habanero burger. Now, the description say "nuclear". OK, I like hot, really hot a lot. We get the burger and it's so hot that I can't taste anything. It's like one of those stupid challenges you see idiots do on A&E. I took like three bites and left it.I've eaten a lot of strange stuff. Fish eyes, turkey, goat, sheep, and bull balls, pancreas, hagus made with real sheep stomach, pig snout and ears and tail, jellyfish, fish livers - the habanero burger was the worst thing I'd ever eaten.
Mine... was something I tried pretty recently. Uni - Sea Urchin sushi. It tasted like what I'd imagine the slime that grows on the side of piers and docs. It looked like a tongue. I'm really big on texture, and it was pure mush. It's this weird slimy salty thing. I've had raw oysters too and I thought those were bad with feeling like I was swallowing a salty snot loogy, this was worse 10x, and you had to chew it.
Quote from: Smossy's Girl on July 02, 2014, 12:29:38 PMMine... was something I tried pretty recently. Uni - Sea Urchin sushi. It tasted like what I'd imagine the slime that grows on the side of piers and docs. It looked like a tongue. I'm really big on texture, and it was pure mush. It's this weird slimy salty thing. I've had raw oysters too and I thought those were bad with feeling like I was swallowing a salty snot loogy, this was worse 10x, and you had to chew it.Fun fact. Uni is actually the gonads of the urchin. I tried it once at a really fabulous sushi joint in Maui and it was well prepared enough that I could get it down without too much trouble, but I never want it again.The absolute worst was Sea Cucumber. It was retched. I could baaaarely get it down, and then it took a big glug of cognac to get the taste out of my mouth. Haggis is actually really good. It's kind of like a bunch of different sausages stuffed in a loose casing. Just don't think about what you're eating.
When I was a kid, my Polish grandparents used to make something called Sulz (not sure if that's how it's spelled). Basically, it was a vinegry onion and pork fat jello. Gross. I might like it now though. I was not too keen on the charnina either. Duck blood soup. That was pretty nasty too.