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This year in Zimbabwe I unknowingly ate Giraffe,which was dead for 4 day's before taken from a snare. The black staff gave it to me after I asked what they were eating. It looked boiled, and they had it in a dirty old pot. The PH told me to never eat their food again,as their bodies have adapted to a different diet than ours.....it tasted pretty good though! I also had a few mopane worms,also given to my by the staff...the PH said this was OK. This all added to the experience of it all, and I suffered no ill effects. | ||
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Not all that exotic, but we asked the cook to whip up some -- and bear with my Swahili spelling -- ugalle (phonetically, uh-gall-ee). It is made from corn starch and water I believe. Has the consistency and look of really thick mashed potatoes. It was sorta bland, well more than sorta, but it was damn filling. Kinda like eating wallpaper paste, or so I have heard not being a regular diner on wallpaper paste. The staff would roll it up into balls and use it to sop up stuff on the plate. Mike | |||
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I thought the coolest thing was sitting by the firepit before dinner eating little appitizer hamburgers made out of elephant heart, but I guess it wasn’t all that adventurous or exotic. The PH said it was okay to eat some sort of plums the trackers kept picking while we were hiking. They were pretty good, but tart. Someone must know the name. They were elongated, firm and red. The whole fruit was 2 or 3cm long and about 1cm in diameter. I’m sure a lot of people have tried the cream-of-tartar from the boabab tree pods and marula fruit while walking. Kyler | |||
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MJ, I had that too...they call it mealy-meal or sad-za in Ndebele | |||
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The strangest thing I ate in Africa (or have ever eaten) is called "a page from the bible". According to my PH at the time, it is a ritual for a hunter that has just taken his first buffalo and apparently comes from the natives in Metetsi, Zim. It is a rectangle (approx 3 x 5 normally, but mine was smaller) cut fresh from the small intestine...not washed, but scraped with a knife. I ate it (I don't often get accused of being real smart  ), but was sicker than a dog the next day. Don't know if it was e-coli or some other flora attacking my gut, but it weren't fun for a couple days! I still thank my lucky stars that Anna-Marie had some sulfa anti-biotics. Canuck | |||
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The most exotic and one of the very best were the testicles from my hippo floured and fired as hor d' ouvers. Man were they good! "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Strangest thing I tried was some bark from an acacia tree..Masai tracker had an upset stomach.. He jumps off the truck and starts hacking bark from the tree and I tasted it... You know that taste of bile in your mouth after vomiting...Much worse and mouth goes instantly to cotton mouth dryness...Had to pull it from my mouth could not spit... Mike   | |||
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I had some of that too! The PH gave me some the day after the "page from the bible". It didn't seem to help much, but I already felt like I'd been run over by a truck, so it didn't hurt either.It dried my mouth out brutally too. Cheers, Canuck | |||
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I have had an iron stomach since I was a kid. I'll eat pretty much anything anyone else will. BUT, that was a dumb, dumb move to make on a safari. I won't make that mistake twice. And hopefully none of you guys ever risks a safari (or even just a couple days of it) by taking your PH up on a dare!! Cheers, Canuck | |||
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I hear you. If it won't make a goat puke, I'll eat it. I'm not afraid of how something tastes. Raw pork actually tastes good, but it's a BAD IDEA. | |||
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If this thread was the strangest thing I "passed" on while in Africa: Impala Anus stuffed with chunks of liver cooked over an open fire...yum | |||
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Buffalo Balls were ok . On long walks tracking game early season in Zim ,the wild spiky Cucumbers are great to quench your thirst. ozhunter | |||
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I recall eating a few weird things on various trips, the fruit from a baobab tree which the trackers seemed to enjoy, "guru" not sure of the spelling, but was made with buffalo intestine. One of the guys in camp once ate a fried cane rat, but I declined! If you want to see some unusual meals, visit the tracker camp on any given night, you will see many interesting things. | |||
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Now you're talking. That might even make the raw intestines go down smooth. On second thought, hold the intestines and just pass the Amarula! Mike | |||
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We tried that too. It wasn't bad, but was over-ripe and had a few bugs. Apparently "creme of tartar" comes from it???
Our PHs (especially Alan Vincent) love tripe, so we had that a few times. Its not bad. The best thing I had was liver from my first buffalo. Shortly after getting back to camp and showered up, the cooks (Alan's mom and fiance) brought out some fried liver from my buffalo. It was absolutely delicious and went nicely with the Safari lager I had with it.  mmmmmmmmmm If I had a time machine I'd go back to that moment right now!!!!I've also acquired a taste for marmite. I have it in my cupboard at home and eat it on toast with cheese. Cheers, Canuck | |||
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Elephant liver grilled over a small fire whilst the rest of the elephant was being carved up. Excellent, but I was quite hungry. Steve "He wins the most, who honour saves. Success is not the test." Ryan "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Stalin Tanzania 06 Argentina08 Argentina Australia06 Argentina 07 Namibia Arnhemland10 Belize2011 Moz04 Moz 09 | |||
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I had the bush oysters in Africa, both Kudu and Buffalo,sliced and fried, both variaties were grt. When I worked in Russia, I always stopped in a particular village to have a "shashlik" had been doing that for 6 mnths when a mate asked me if I knew what meat it was. I was taken aback a bit when he told me it was dog ! but tasted grt before I knew what it was, so I carried on stopping there for my snacks. | |||
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OK, this will get you. My masai tracker in Tanzania in Sept gave me a real treat. After the buffalo kill, he proceeded to gut the animal. My PH told me he was going to give me a kidney ball or liver ball. I cant remember. It is taken directly from the buffalo, first thing and eaten. He was a round ball of meat (about the size of a golfball)that was very tender and not bad. I tried it but my taste buds got the best of me and I started gaging. It sure gave the trackers a good laugh though. In Namibia we had Gemsbok and Kudu tongue for lunch and it was pretty good. And something else for lunch I dont want to remember or even think about. I think it had soemthing to do with the springbok intestine. No thanks!!!! But the best african meal was the Giraffe kobobs. man that was great and tasty. I would eat that again in a heartbeat. Ray Matthews Matthews Outdoor Adventures 2808 Bainbridge Trail Mansfield, Texas 76063 | |||
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I have had buffalo tongue, but my favorite and not really strange is Impala liver and onions with eggs for lunch. This year I will be hunting 3 of the tiny ten and I hope to have one stuffed and whole roasted over an open flame spit. | |||
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Next time in africa try this HEARTY breakfast. Shoot a duiker. use 1 liver use the kidneys use the heart fry some onions with some diced bacon. then fry the diced heart add the diced kidneys once cooked add the liver in stirfry slices. dont over cook the liver. once cooked spoon over freshly scrambled eggs. TO DIE FOR | |||
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On my first trip to Zim, my PH fried the heart from my first Cape buffalo. He diced it up and pan fried it with onions, garlic and butter...very tasty. Makes my mouth water now just to think about it. Zebra isn't bad either...kinda like pork. Bull1 | |||
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bbq'd honey badger - actually was quite tasty | |||
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I think that I didn't eat anything of uncommon last year in Namibia on my only (  ) African Safaris, but ony different ways of preparation or kind of animals.In Italy I have eaten stewed tripe, is normal in my family, in Namibia the little intestine of gemsbuck, part of the tripe, is cooked on brai, in Romania is a server in soupe (ciorba de burta); balls, I 've taste bovine and wild boars balls and heart, fried as described by SBT; liver, I love it moreover with onion (but I don't love too much the boar liver), I'll try to do it in the next June trip in Namibia; I found also a big truffle last year, a real delicacy for the Italians; tongue treated with "salnitro"( I don't have the translation for it)stewed. Anyone spoke about brain or marrow or spinal cord? Eell I ate also them in Italy ( it was normal before crazy cow epidemy), but I don't know if they are eaten in other countries. Anything else? Ohhh yes, kidney. I have to ask to Mabel if it is possble to do some next year. For sure I ate different animals like Kudu, gamesbuck and impala. I would like to taste ostrich, warthog and zebra bye Stefano Waidmannsheil | |||
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Okay here's a big piece of advice....dont show this thread to your wife if youre thinking about taking her to Africa!!!!!....Or maybe show her and youll be going alone..hmmmmmm Pro Staff for: In Natures Image Taxidermy | |||
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At one dinner on my recent hunt in the Selous, I was served buffalo tail soup and a dish made from the stomach of the buff I had taken that morning. I like the loin better. | |||
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Boer, thanks that is just what I will do with one of the small guys in addition to the whole roasted body. As an aside on my first safari I ask for liver and kidneys with a lunch (egg, beans, fried mushrooms and toast) instead of bacon. While we were eating I noticed my PH just playing with his food like a kid and I ask him about the organ meats and he said I will just pass. | |||
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I shared a hunt in the Selous this year with a really fabulous hunter and all round nice guy from the States, and although I wasn't there at the time (THANK GOD!). When he was hunting with Pierre earlier in the week he took an impala and Twiga cut a slice off the fresh (raw) liver and ate it. He then offered a piece to the client who apparently took and ate it without batting an eyelid..... then he (the client) took his knife and cut the scrotum and ate one of the balls...... then offered the other one to Twiga...... Who wasn't about to have anything to do with that kinda shit!! - Twiga commented to me later, 'that was one white man who was more like a Masai than most Masai'. I could hardly believe it when I heard the story - I wasn't just appalled - I was F****NG APPALLED!!!!!  How anyone can eat a raw, warm, bloody bollock, I simply don't know....... YUCK! | |||
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I ate eland testicles in SA, sliced crumbed and fried, which were quite, tasting like the fat of a crumbed pork chop. They were good but the worst, wierdest thing I ate was in Zim a few years later. I was staying with Charlie Stanton and had a great time, some 10 years ago now. It was more of a play holiday than a safari as I spent a lot of time with his sons, daughter and a school friend of theirs since we were all pretty close in age. One day their mother prepared something called "motulus" (sp?) It was made from impala intestines, which didn't bother me so much, and looked pretty good, much like fried calamari rings. Thinking I was looking at something fried, I picked up the smallest, darkest piece and started chewing on it. It didn't take long to realize that it was boiled, and that the smallest darkest "ring" of the the intestinal tract is in fact, the arsehole. It, realy, actually tasted like shit. | |||
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leopard here. It wasnt that bad! | |||
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I shot a Cape buffalo one time, and because we already had a large Wildebeast in the bakki, the boys cut the Buff in half around the middle to get it all in the car. When they gutted the bull, they split the large stomach, and cleaned it out, but the small stomach they left filled wit it's green contents. Of course all the intestines were loaded in the bakki, and both stomachs. I wondered at the time why they left the small stomach full, but forgot it after a minute or two. That night we had steaks cooked on a brai, and when served at the table the tea boy offered me some souce, in a bowl,for the steak, that looked exactly like the contents of that small stomach! I declined! The steak was perfectly cooked, and was a dirrect gift from the Gods. However, to this day, I have not had anyone tell me what the green stuff in that stomach was used for, or if in fact, the stuff is used as a souce for meat!  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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Not strange really but I ate something not many people get to eat: Sitatunga filets. | |||
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Hippo tail soup, in the Luangwa Valley of Zambia, was as good as any soup I've ever eaten. The other was what the Boers refer to as "Puff-Adder". Take the cleaned intestine of an animal, my Gemsbok, in this case, stuff it full of cubed meat, kidney, heart, and liver, tie off both ends, then braise it in Coca Cola, believe it or not, in a large pan, on a braii. Quite excellent, and it does resemble the nasty bugger that it's named after too! | |||
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Bushbuck pizza... "I envy not him that eats better meat than I do; nor him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do; I envy him, and him only, that kills bigger deer than I do." Izaak Walton (modified) | |||
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Nothing really odd in RSA, but I really enjoyed every meal. Impala meat pies stuffed with mushrooms and onions; Kudu, Bushbuck, Springbok, etc. Some of the best was cooked over the grill: Bushbuck and Nyala. The absolute best red meat I've eaten in my life was Bontebok. Most food was very similar to what we eat here in the South (US) and the jams/jellies, chutney was all good. Some of the finest Sherry I've tasted (and miss) is Monis. Amarula was a new treat and I can get it here at home. Some of the SA beer was good too. An Avo-burger at the airport in Jo'burg was new to me and now I like Avocado on my hamburger. In just over a month I'll be in Zim so I'm sure something new will come along. Good hunting! Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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The most unusual to me was puff adder which actually tasted a good deal like very fishy fish. Not great! The best was leopard tenderloin and Tommie chops(Ruark was right) Yummie! Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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Kudu brains, deep fried little pices. I thought it was mushrooms. Tasted pretty good. Perception is reality regardless the truth! Stupid people should not breed DRSS NRA Life Member Owner of USOC Adventure TV | |||
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Hippo nuts... sliced thin and fried and eaten with a cold Castle on the banks of the Luangwa. Did the hippo tail soup, too and it was quite tasty. On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Several years ago, my son and I were on an elephant hunt with Roy Vincent. We had the skinner walk inside the carcas to retrieve the testicles as they are undescended in the elephant. We ate them for an apetizer and they were good..a little like chicken and a little like liver. I told my son we were eating "essence of elephant" and he thought they were good until he found out what we were eating. The elephant heart was quite sweet. | |||
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