The next big food boom

[Daisy]

I'm always amazed how many different types of restaurant flourish in city centres. We live in such a rural backwater that the most exotic restaurant locally is Indian (and very good, too), but mostly it's pub food - also very good.

So I don't suppose I'll get a chance to try the latest restaurants with exotic menus, but what do you think - would you be adventurous enough to sample Efo Riro, Gizdodo or Ayamase?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2k713lvpno

[Oma]

Well I would give it a try ,
not keen on oily stuff and I wouldn’t eat gizzards,
I would probably opt for the vegetarian type dishes as I’m funny about meat product you never know what’s in them.
But I have heard it’s flavoursome.
We have a market that comes to the local park twice a year
It has all types of food stalls and there is a Caribbean stall,
it’s always popular and smells lovely but we haven’t tried it .

[Daisy]

Oma, I would give it a try as well. I tend to choose vegetarian dishes because I'm not too keen on meat, and I'd definitely try fish dishes.

[Nanto2girls]

Not for me i'm afraid. I'm boring, I stick to English/British meals.
I love meat,but i like to know what i'm eating.

[Plantaholic]

I would give it a try, but I mainly eat out in pubs.

[Gemini]

Hmmm, the gizzards and locusts are a bit off putting!

Otherwise if I was sure there was no hidden beef or chilli I may try it!

[Daisy]

I'm sure we used to have a culture of eating 'more' of meaty things like offal etc. Gizzards do sound a bit offputting.

[Grauntie Mag]

When staying with friends in France, we were all invited to join their friends for dinner. The first course was gizzards. How I didn’t throw up there and then I don’t know. Also, when OH was in business we used to have a ‘staff outing’ . His partner’s wife was a foodie and she would book it. One year we went to a restaurant in London which served mostly offal. I can honestly say there wasn’t one thing on the menu I could bring myself to eat. I ordered pigeon breast as I had to order something. When it came, it was all but raw. 🤢
I’m not very adventurous, so I probably wouldn’t try the meaty stuff.

[WeeGranny]

Before we got married I shared a house with OH and two others. I was horrified when we had roast chicken for Sunday lunch and he insisted on cooking the gizzard and all the bits that came with it and ate the lot! This was when chickens did come with all the bits!

[Daisy]

When I first started visiting France I was interested to see that they eat "nose to tail" of most meats. I remember my grandad doing much the same in the 40s and early 50s. I remember as a child the only unusual animal product I really couldn't eat was udder. It was very white, pale, dense meat with a really strange taste.

Moving on to the present day, Eva has nose to tail raw. The only things she is hesitant about are pigs ears and ox kidney!

I always used to cook the turkey giblets to make stock for gravy on Christmas Day, but now I freeze them and give them to Eva later.

[Plantaholic]

Giblets are used for stock for the gravy in our house.