Venison is fucking amazing, I really need to eat it more often.

Ever since I live on my own and on a budget, it's the same shitty, cheap stuff every week for me. It's been ages since I tried something new, mostly because I fear that I don't like it and waste precious monies.

Tried fresh Miso instead of instant for breakfast today. As suggested, added green onions, Tofu, and some chicken. Sooooo much better than instant. Way different taste. Now I just wonder why I never tried it before.

Yesterday night I lit my whisky on fire for the first time.

The other day my friend made me a goddamn delicious vegetarian late summer lasagna with zucchini and a bunch of things I couldn't identify.

I'm eating and drinking everything they don't sell in the UK while I have the chance. By and large it's terrible. What the hell is taffy? And why does Hersheys have a lingering aftertaste of vomit? Taco Bell is a great success though.

>>4583
>What the hell is taffy?
Cooked sugar that's then aerated to have billions of teeny-tiny bubbles so that it's chewy and not crunchy.
I THINK.
>And why does Hersheys have a lingering aftertaste of vomit?
I don't know, but it really is some inferior product.

>>4583
>What the hell is taffy?
Delicious, that's what.

>>4583
GET SOME REESES RIGHT NOW

>>4585
False.

>>4590
Been there done that. Both the chocolate and the peanut butter was incredibly inferior. Would not eat again. However, America, I will admit your gummy sweets and fizzy juice - although not as good as Asian shit - is generally better than the stuff at home. Now if only you'd cut it out with the unneccessary colourings and other quite frankly alarming additives.

venison was good, but im a terrible schnitzel cook

>>4583

What kind did you get? Ive had a few kinds and some are way better than others. Laffy taffy and other faux-taffies in particular are awful and plastic-like rather than light and chewy.

Best americandies I can recommend would be paydays, dove chocolate, mr. goodbar, and a bunch of shit like merci and lindor truffles that you can probably get all over the world anyway. Pez and sixlets are delicious but kind of trashy.

Also what region of the US are you in?

>>4596
What kind of taffy did you get? Unless you've had real saltwater taffy, you're really missing out.

>>4603
>>4604
I can't remember what kind it was, but it probably was some nasty ass cheap shit. I don't even know where I got it from. And I was in Cali, Nevada and New York.

PS. Pepperidge Farm Milano biscuits are so fucking delicious.

>>4605

Holy shit I love milanos. So good.

up until last night i had never had a good and proper slab-o-meat steak. from what i've picked up about what makes a good steak, this one was average. but if this was average, my tastebuds quiver at what a great one must be like

Yesterday I went to this joint called Dino's Fried Pies. And I got a hand pumpkin pie. And it was goddamn delicious fuck.

Had a mango smoothie with boba in it.

Never again. OH GOD, I just couldn't stand the texture of the boba and I couldn't even drink any of the damn smoothie 50 percent of the time.

Salmon skin sushi.

Holy shit. Melted in my mouth so fatty and delicious.

Last time I was in Tasmania I had duck for the first time. I honestly don't know how I got through 30+ years of life with out eating duck at least once, but there you go. The duck itself was cooked in ginger and soy sauce, served on a bed of steamed bok choy, brocolini, and green beans. My intestines threw a little party in celebration of all the fibrous greens.

Chamomile/"sleepytime" tea.

Therapist suggested I try it instead of a beer for the insomnia.

But fuck this shit it is disgusting.

Pizza with a hint of Bhut Jolokia.
Of course, nobody told me until after the first bite.
Very funny, guys.
Ha ha.
I laugh.

>>4988

chamomile is the WORST

I recently had my first chili dog ever. I don't know what took me so long it was good.

it wasnt until recently that i gave pineapples a chance as a pizza topping, and found that they went marvelously as an accompaniment to various pork toppings

>>4998
Chili dogs are fucking great.

Rice beer.

Pretty delicious but has a funny after taste.

>>5058
Because it's fucking delicious when done right.

Pic related - ekmek. It's this Greek thing with like, a sweet tangle of noodles, with peach preserves on top of it and whipped cream on top of that. Delish.

Tonight I'm cooking up red beans and rice for the first time. It smells fantastic, I can hardly wait 'til it's done.

>>5063
Turned out quite good! Just enough heat to wake up the tongue without overpowering the other flavors, good texture, and the smell of the cooking peppers, onions, and celery had the kitchen smelling delightful for hours.

>>5062
oh baby oh baby

those bring back sweet memories of the five-hour bus rides from Athens to Sparta that are actually pretty fun because they stop every hour at some little place in the mountains where you can get those little ekmeks and souvlakis and strong Greek coffee and sit outside and smell the mountain flowers and olives and oh, my heart.

Fresh shrimp, squid, zucchini, and sweet potato tempura.

Before I just had crappy, flavorless grocery store shrimp tempura.

This is what heaven tastes like.

Grilled paneer. Was soso, but the situation was against me. Next time will be better.

Ate me some chopped up fried Alligator earlier this week. Dipped it in cajun mayo and washed it down with a pitcher of Bud. Washed the bud down with shots of tequila. Chased the tequila with bourbon. It was a good night and good eating.

>>5136

Had some for the first time last night as well. I was disappointed because I thought it would come in literal tail form, not popcorn chicken :/

Also, maybe it was the way mine was cooked, but it tasted like a mix of catfish and Chik-fil-a nuggets.

Müsli. Specifically, Seitenbacher's #8.

I can't go back to normal breakfast cereals. Goddamn.

>>5146
yeah, reptiles tend to have that kind of half fish half chicken flavor. Frog's legs are very similar but gator has a chewiness like fried clams.

I wish I could get it in some kind of steak form so I can plain grill it and get a good sense of what the meat is really like without all that flavored breading.

Ate a Craisin for the first time and almost shit myself. The flavor...it felt like I was being tazered with love. In my mouth.

>finding out it's 1 part fruit and 22 parts sugar

A prune.

From Costco.

Holy shit these are delicious there must be like a million parts additional sugar, right?

>no sugar added

:O

>>5184
Raw cranberries are pretty delicious too.

>>4583
Hershey's tastes bad because it is bad. Literally. It has 'gone bad'.

The guy who started the company already had 2 tanked candy companies under his belt when he decided to go into chocolate. When he first started up he was unable to get an exact step by step recipe for what he wanted to make (milk chocolate) and so he just dicked around, resulting in some of his ingredients going 'off'.

Why people liked it I have no idea, but it was successful enough that they still produce the same spoiled flavor today through a process called lipolysis, which is a chemically induced breakdown of the fat in the milk. Many other companies now do the same because Americans who don't know any better think that's how milk chocolate is supposed to taste.

True story. Look it up.

The last thing I tried for the first time was alligator jerky. It tasted pretty much exactly like I'd imagined a dried swamp creature would taste.

Deliciously firm but tender. Felt kinda bad eating it because baby octopi are adorable, but DAT TASTE. UNF.

>>5262
Cephalopods are probably my favorite critters.

Why do they all have to be so delicious. ;_;

Tried this after a friend recommended it. Holy tits it is hot, yet so damn delicious.

There's a new Chinese restaurant in town, and they have a dish called 'Scholar's Duck'.
So delicious.
The backbone of the dish is a sauce which I can't begin to properly describe. It's a subtle flavor, not overly sweet or tangy, and rather fragrant. It also seems to be something exclusive to this restaurant, unless it's better-known by another name, as Googling only turns up the menu for the restaurant.

>>5262
>>5264
You will suffer greatly for this indignity. We will find you. There is no escape. Perhaps your human larva is tasty as well!

Toffee yogurt
Heavenly delicious. Then I looked it up on the web...

>>5376
>The sticky substance that leaves a mans anus after his gay partner has ejaculated in his bottom!

Morels.

Got a bag of dried morels. Put some in a risotto made with sherry and vegetable stock. Enriched with an egg yolk just before serving, served with sauteed portobello and poached eggs.

AMAZING

Blue Cheese Hamburger I got from the burger.

I burnt it a little, but it was fantastic other than that.

Japanese buffet. I had all of the things.

Shark, squid, octopus, eel, one of each of 22 kinds of sushi, and some other shit.

It was all delicious as fuck.

I didn't know tomato soup could be so DELICIOUS

>>5496

>never had tomato soup

GRILLED CHEESE

EAT IT WITH GRILLED CHEESE

Sweet popcorn. Meh. Still prefer it salted.

>>5502
yea Kettle Corn is always lacking when I go with it. Now Fresh Carmel Corn (made my first batch after trying some of the Redenbacher kit stuff) Now that stuff was Godly. Smelt like the old fancy candy store that used to be in our old mall till the Anchors pulled out.

Turkey Burgers though I did something wrong because they tasted like rubbish, should one use fresh ground turkey instead of patties?

1 Month hung meat.

You will never in your life taste any meat better than high game meat.

>Tomato basil soup

Big Mac
Actually pretty decent for fast food. Definitely had worse. Kebab still rules supreme though.

Pumpkin pie fudge:

http://www.nutsonline.com/chocolatessweets/premium-chocolates/fudge/pumpkin-pie.html

Oh my god. Oh my god.

Goose.

That was different. Like... a beefy poultry. And it wasn't as greasy as I was afraid of, but still, pretty dang greasy. I wouldn't mind trying it again, though. With suitable sides this time. (This was a really last minute thing; my aunt had a goose she couldn't eat anymore for some reason and we HAD to have it today.)

>>5573
Goose can be AMAZING, but it can also be incredibly horrid. And a lot of that is actually dependant on the bird itself.
We needed years to find someone who could provide us a consistent quality bird for christmas every year. But yeah, it is pretty greasy (that's what makes it taste so good). Not even near duck levels, though.

>>5557
i made/tried pumpkin pie for the first time the other day. wasn't amazing, but im sure someone else could do a better job

i forgot to list of things i tried in america. namely smoked ribs and pulled pork.

fuck you Australia, how did you end up with this bastardised idea of a barbecue.

cant make ribs as i lack a barbecue , but i'm about to attmept to make my own slow cooker pulled pork.

I just made the most delicious cookies ever.

http://www.food.com/recipe/coffee-cookies-43977

I've never had coffee cookies before so I was a little worried because coffee isn't exactly my favorite thing but these are amazing.

>>5575
An Australian barbeque isn't something that's supposed to be enjoyed.

It's something that's supposed to be overcome.

>>5583
I can attest to this.

...Also, take your own beer.

Back on topic, I ate goat for the first time while I was in Malaysia. Goat curry, to be more precise. It was rather delicious.

Long version: I went out to tea with Mrs Shrike's dad to a nasi kandar somewhere in KL chinatown (don't ask where, my brain is still trying to make sense of KL roads). He ordered roti telur and a goat curry, I ordered nasi goreng ayam, thinking I'd be getting some delicious, spicy chicken rice. Basically the nasi goreng ayam I'm used to in Melbourne, but better. What happened next requires a little elaboration…

In Australia, once a town become large enough to warrant restaurants, it will rapidly acquire a Chinese restaurant. Whether it's good or bad, serving Cantonese cuisene or Sichuan, it will have a sign that says "CHINESE RESTAURANT." And it will always serve a dish called "Special Fried Rice." In the better of these restaurants, Special Fried Rice will consist of yesterdays (or earlier todays) rice, stir fried with some roast pork or Chinese sausage, egg, and fresh green vegetables. In the worst, it will be freshly steamed rice, barely fried in a pan with ham, peas, chunks of carrot the size of small continents, and bits of corn. And it will taste exactly like steamed rice with ham, peas, chunks of carrot and corn.

This, as it turns out, is what I had ordered at the nasi kandar, with the exception that instead of ham, I had what appeared to be a leg of crumbed (breaded) chicken, and not a particularly meaty or well-seasoned one, that had been mutilated with a meat cleaver and chucked into the wok.

Needless to say, I was a little disappointed. So Mrs Shrike's Dad shared his goat curry with me, which tasted awesome, and in which I could identify the remains of things like curry leaves and fenugreek seeds.

So yeah. Goat. It beats shitty fried rice hands down.

Philadelphia rolls.

I...just don't think that rice, cream cheese and mayonnaise should ever be combined.

Coffee. i shit you not.

it was either keep paying for iced coffee out the vending machine or drink the free instant coffee to stay awake at work.

>>5626
If you've got to this point in your life without having drunk instant coffee, I envy you.

>>5627
both instant and legit

>>5628
So have you not drunk proper coffee still?

>>5629
barely a few sips

Booze on New Year's.

I think it was champagne?

Tasted like butts.

>>5630
Oh dear. Next time you're in Adelaide, head to the central market and go get a coffee at Lucia's (if it's still there).

>>5632
oh man i havent been to the markets in ages. will do

>>4542
>A while ago i set the goal of trying something i've never had before.
That's on my bucket list. Here's what I got sofar:

-Blood
-Cat/Dog food
-Duck
-Fish Maw
-Frog Legs
-Guinea Pig
-Heart
-Locusts
-Grasshoppers
-Maggots
-Kidneys
-Mussels
-Octopus
-Ostrich
-Pidgeon
-Brains
-Feet
-Intestines
-Shark Fins
-Sheep
-Squirrel
-Tongue
-Tail
-Turtle
-Wild Boar
-Crocodile
-Deer
-Quail + Quail eggs

And pig/cow/chicken of course.

>>5653
>blood

as a sufferer of random nosebleeds, i started to wonder just how much of my own blood i've drunk by letting it go down the back of my throat

>>5653
If you liked heart, try lamb's heart. It's the best, most delicious meat I've ever eaten.

Oh, and also: Chipotle in adobo sauce
I know it's nothing special for you Ameribros, but I was totally psyched to try it. Really tasty, but a little bit too hot for me. Couldn't possibly eat it without some bread and milk on the site.

Tried some boar. It was pretty bad. I don't mind gamey meat, but it just tasted kinda 'dirty'. Like licking pavement and then biting into a goat.

Vodka and cranberry juice. So simple and refreshing, I kick myself for not trying it sooner.

Frog legs. Lightly fried at a Chinese place.

Holy shit. Amazing.

Lobster Bisque.

OH god... OH GOD...

Coconut chicken with sweet chili sauce.

Guernsey cow's milk.

Wasn't whole, but damn that shit is nice.

Elk and antelope in jerky form.

Wasn't a fan of the antelope but holy shit that elk was amazing.

Buffalo bacon.
It was so much better than regular bacon, and I didn't think that was possible. My house smelled amazing for a full 24 hours after I cooked it, too.