Don wrote:

"... It helps if you have a tummy that has digested everything from snails to fried rattlesnake."

Ah, come on Don, you can do better than that.

Snails I first had when I was 8. Rattlesnake at about 11. (And yes, it does taste amazingly like chicken.)

Frogs' legs: 8 and most recently in January in Cambodia. (With tons of ginger. THE best. They also had sparrow on the menu, which I would have tried if I thought I wouldn't have to eat the whole fried sparrow, bones and beak and all.)

Now here, I don't think even uni (raw sea urchin roe) can top this one: Goat testicles in Viet Nam.

Yup. They were tough, and gamey, but hey, we were hungry and in an impoverished province five hours south of Ha Noi, and that is what our host ordered, so down they went, one by chewy one.

Cathryn