Separately. Either way, my first preference (if possible) would be to find an alternative source of food. Coconuts, the local wildlife, whatever. I’d eat tree bark before mayonnaise on its own, let alone mayonnaise mixed with tuna. If I could acquire other fish to eat alongside my tuna, I’d be happy.
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I’ve been a chef for 25 years so discreet cough and step up to my soap box;
So basic formula for *what we perceive * as weird stuff is what we all know - salty/sharp and sweet together. Think Salted Caramel Ice Cream or Mint choc Chip.
So to say what I’ve eaten that’s weird?
Bacon in some kind of honey/syrup with something sharp/pickled. Bacon sandwich with gherkins or bacon sandwich with a squeeze of lime is quite nice.
A twist on salted caramel I’ve had is hand made vanilla ice cream with a LOT of vanilla pods and balsamic vinegar. If i didn’t tell you it was vinegar you’d never know., you’d think it was chocolate sauce on your ice cream.
going in to London and getting Guinness and Oysters is a far better flavour combination than you’d get with toffee-nosed posh people with champagne and oysters.
Talking of champagne… if you have champagne with Southern fried chicken it changes the flavour palette of the chicken substantially. The champagne keep your palette crisp and fresh and makes each bite of the chicken a burst of flavour.
As a brit, being served Stargazy pie for the first time is a bit of an experience.
Oddest flavour I’ve eaten is ris de veau (pancreas from a calf) or, sweet bread although you can have ‘sweetbread’ which is ovary or testicles. The pancreas I ate was served as a starter with cream and mushroom sauce. It’s really very gamey and very tender.
I have eaten; Horse meat, Lambs eye, Shark Fin, Live (tiny) squid, pasta made with squid ink, snails (if you feed snails garlic they taste like garlic without adding garlic during cooking) , frogs legs (Hello French people!) , Reindeer stew (hello Norwegian people!), Morcilla made with rice (hello Spanish people) Sulze (missing the umlaut .. hello German people, the Sulze I had was made from tongue)
It is quite depressing to me that most people - in the UK at least - have something like the same 15 meal regularly rather than try something new. Spag Bol, Mac cheese, Roasbif (hello again French people! XD) fish and chips, sausage and mash and so on. For a nation surrounded by water we have become weirdly NOT a seafood eating nation. British like Cod - deep fried and battered, plaice - deep fried and breaded, and coley - smashed up and made into fish fingers. You can get octopus, clams, oysters, langoustines, shrimp, crab, bass, bream, halibut, sole, Skate wing ( yum!) and so on. British are weirdly… plain when it comes to fish in the UK but will happily eat all kind of fish when they’re on hoiday and it’s called TAPAS.
Tuna Mayo with black pepper, mayo and a squeeze of lemon is staple way of eating tinned tuna in the UK. It’s very nice on a jacket potato. I don’t know what kind of horrors some of you have been subjected to but we always have 4 cans of tuna in our house to mix with mayo, lemon and pepper to make into sandwiches.
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So for Stargazy pie, are you meant to eat the whole fish head or is it decorative?
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Surströmming and Natto.
Both were way more enjoyable than I had imagined. The trick is to use them more like you would use a spice such as pepper as part of dishes.
Surstromming was delightful on bread with onions and creme fraiche as well as some herbs.
On its own? Hell no xD
I’d eath both of them again without hesitation
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You can eat them, and some people like the brains for their creamy texture but most just leave the heads and eat the rest.
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Haha oh yes it is a weird texture. I like getting Pho with “everything but the kitchen sink” included - tripe, tendon, goodness knows what else.
Agree absolutely love mayo + tuna mix, also good with a bit of stone ground mustard mixed in. By itself, with crackers, or grilled on a sandwich with cheese!
I’ve also had fresh deer liver sauteed with onions which was interesting. Very strong and gamey flavor… not bad, but not something I would eat regularly.
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