Steak tartare doesn't require particular bravery, it's not a very extreme taste (not exactly bland but it's not like anyone would ever taste it and go "ooh, that's a strong taste").
Weirdly I had both spaetzle and steak tartare over the weekend (though I was only trying some of Caron's spaetzle). Spaetzle is good comfort food... to me it's sort of like macaroni cheese.
To my shame I've also eaten shark but I know better now and never would these days.
How have you never had pistachio ice-cream? It's lovely. Or key-lime pie for that matter.
You could probably do crab cakes and Tom Yum with a quick visit to a thai place -- both are lovely. (Crab cakes are not a strong "crab" taste). If you were lucky you could also get soft-shell crab too.
Sweetbreads, by the way, don't mean what some people think they mean... they refer to certain glands (thymus and another I forget), not usually testicles. They're pretty delicate tasting really.
I've only had dried Durian... like certain cheeses it really does taste much better than it smells but it's not amazing.
Because I'm the type who basically orders things on menus by habit if I don't know what it is or if I do but I've not had it, I guess I've noshed my way down about 2/3 or 3/4 of this list... of the ones I want to try, fugu is the top but it is super expensive... specially prepared porcupine fish contains a small dose of a toxin which is supposed to add to the taste (but alas is fatal if badly prepared in which case it contains a not-so-small dose of a toxin). It's ruinously expensive and can't legally be served in the EU unless you take steps to get round. More realistically I've never had kobe beef.
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Weirdly I had both spaetzle and steak tartare over the weekend (though I was only trying some of Caron's spaetzle). Spaetzle is good comfort food... to me it's sort of like macaroni cheese.
To my shame I've also eaten shark but I know better now and never would these days.
How have you never had pistachio ice-cream? It's lovely. Or key-lime pie for that matter.
You could probably do crab cakes and Tom Yum with a quick visit to a thai place -- both are lovely. (Crab cakes are not a strong "crab" taste). If you were lucky you could also get soft-shell crab too.
Sweetbreads, by the way, don't mean what some people think they mean... they refer to certain glands (thymus and another I forget), not usually testicles. They're pretty delicate tasting really.
I've only had dried Durian... like certain cheeses it really does taste much better than it smells but it's not amazing.
Because I'm the type who basically orders things on menus by habit if I don't know what it is or if I do but I've not had it, I guess I've noshed my way down about 2/3 or 3/4 of this list... of the ones I want to try, fugu is the top but it is super expensive... specially prepared porcupine fish contains a small dose of a toxin which is supposed to add to the taste (but alas is fatal if badly prepared in which case it contains a not-so-small dose of a toxin). It's ruinously expensive and can't legally be served in the EU unless you take steps to get round. More realistically I've never had kobe beef.