Is eating your dead pet considered uncivilized?

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I also can't eat kidneys. The stench is horrible I probably wouldn't eat brain either, but I love hearts and stomachs. Chicken stomachs, that is. I've never seen pig or cow stomachs for sale anywhere.

For me, eating stomachs and hearts is the same as eating liver. Or an entire boiled chicken with legs and wings, which reminds me a lot more of the fact that this used to be a living, breathing animal than a pot of chicken heart goulash does.

A lot of people eat livers and gizzards down here. I've cooked them for others, but never ate them myself. It's popular. You can buy just an order of them at the KFC here. By chicken stomach do you mean the gizzard? Or is that something else and they have an actual stomach?

Hearts would be out of the question. Even moreso than a gizzard for me. It's the idea that it's a heart. I once bought a box of premade uncooked beef patties for my family. I served them, but couldn't eat them, because after I read the ingredients that said "beef hearts" it grossed me out. It's the fact that the organ does something that bothers me. Meat is just muscle, and that doesn't bother me.

Knowing that it used to be a living breathing animal doesn't bother me. As long as the head isn't on it. I roast whole chickens, and turkeys, and without the head, it's fine. I've seen a whole roast pig and eaten some of that at a bbq before, watched it cut right off the whole pig, and even though it had it's head, that didn't bother me. I think it's the "roast pig with the apple in it's mouth" idea kind of thing.

I was served a whole lobster in Florida once, and I dearly love lobster. I had just planned on eating the claws and tail. They served it with the head on it. Freaked me out right there in the nice restaurant over that bridge in Panama City. I ended up putting half my baked potato over it's head so I could eat it. Happened another time when I was out with my husband. Same solution. Half a baked potato. He thought it was hysterical. It wasn't that it reminded me it used to be alive and I felt sorry for it, but dead animal heads gross me out unless they are stuffed and hanging on the wall.

Oddly enough, I once bought a whole sack of whole boiled crabs and had no problem pulling the legs off to eat them. That may be because crabs don't have heads per se. I was careful not to touch the eyes though. Eyes gross me out too. Don't even get me started on watching people suck crawdad heads.

As for trying new meats, I highly recommend ostrich. It almost tastes like beef, but with all the health benefits of poultry.

There are hundreds of ostrich and nandu farms in Germany nowadays, and even a wild nandu population in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern A few nandus escaped from a farm a few years ago, and their population number is now in the three digits and growing. They don't seem to mind the cold winter climate.

Had it. Springbok is better!

Yes, I think that's the same. We don't have a special term for the avian and reptilian type of stomach in German.

I never had springbok, but I love deer and reindeer. Does gazelle meat taste similar?

It tastes mild. Very mild. Milder than beef. But oh-so tender. It's absolutely beautiful;. I've only ever had frozen versions but I can understand why the Seuth Efrikens like it.

Anyone here ever eaten snake before?

I roasted a few garter snakes when I was younger, quite tasty.

Put a hefty enough price on anything, PRESTO! A delicacy.

Maybe it was expensive for the store, but that was a $5 bowl of soup believe it or not.

Terrible marketing ploy.

Very average, run-of-the-mill, good food but not flashy mom and pop Southeast Asian restaurant in a strip mall. The soup wasn't enshrined in a display case or on some super-forward place on the menu, just hidden in there with everything else.

there is something to the psychology involved,
people are more willing to believe that quality comes with a price tag than they are to believe the half price identical item next to it is equally worthy of purchase.

So if you're at a restaurant where they charge $4 per an appetizer but $5 for something that has something exotic in it (all other things the same) that you're getting hoodwinked, forget whatever amount they had to pay to get that ingredient.