I forgot about alligator jerky. I had that when I went to Florida once. The muscles I had at a Thai restaurant here. As for the squid and red curry with duck, I got that one night and then I got the octopus another night. I'm trying new things when I can. The only new food I have found so far that I would not be willing to try is turkey head cheese. There's just something about it that makes me feel uncomfortable, and it has nothing to do with the scene from Texas Chainsaw Massacre either
Back when I was a small fry and lived in St Louis, Missouri, there was a bar my way Mom and Dad and a bunch of their buddies frequent it often after local baseball games. My father played in a local minor league, being as how baseball is Church in St Louis, and they served food at this bar, really damn good food from what I can remember actually, and I remember one time they had written on their chalkboard menu, "yes we have cow brains". That freaks me the fuck out! I mean I understood a lot about animal Anatomy for someone my age because my father, grandfather and Uncle were all hardcore Hunters. I don't know how many times I watched my father's skin animals and butcher them. Even with all of that I had seen and experienced though, something about that just creeped me the fuck out.
I remember there was a phase in elementary school where a bunch of us boys for some reason became obsessed with sardines and all of us started bringing them to school everyday in our lunch and grossed the hell out of all the girls. I thought they were all right but overall they were kind of nasty and once The Fad was over, I don't recall anyone actually ever saying they like sardines again haha. With that said, the first time I ever got drunk in my life I was about 12 or 13 years old with my best friend and we were out fishing with my mother and her boyfriend at the time who were with some of their friends and all drunk and fucked up to death which is how my friend and I got away with getting drunk as well. My friend dared me to eat a live minnow, and being a weird kid as is but fueled by a Michelob tall boy, I ate it. My friend, also drunk and not knowing how to properly skin a fish before cooking it, cooked the whole thing and ate it.