Fugu As Fug

Japanese delicacy, the fugu fish (a type of blowfish) is one of the most metal dishes EVER. The fish is two hundred times more poisonous than cyanide and one small mistake during preparation can kill the hungry diner (23 people have died since 2000 from eating it.) So bad ass is a plateful of this, chefs need to be members of a guild and have a special licence from the Japanese government in order to be able to make and serve it. Its not cheap either and costs anything upward of £75 in Tokyo's swankier restaurants.
Fugu fish poisoning has been described as "rapid and violent", beginning with a numbness around the mouth until paralysis arrives as a foreword to blessed death. Oh and you will remain conscious until the reaper calls. There is no antidote. Despite all this, Fugu eating is extremely popular with Japanese diners and tourists alike. Like I said, bad ass.

Heres a guy eating Fugu. His mouth goes numb but he'll be fine (he hopes.)

Plain Snailing

Escargot. Or snail

I first tried escargot (snails) in France around 1985, when the Rainbow Bar & Grill in Hollywood was alive with the likes of Motley Crue and Guns n' Roses. Bands to drink scotch too. It was love at first bite and I instantly forgot what I was eating. And thats the trick with eating snails (and other types of 'delicacies'), push the ugly, gummy image aside and think 'thousands enjoy this dish, lets at least give it a whirl.'
So what do snails really taste like? Well i'll answer for those with cowardly taste buds. Snails tastle like snails and are about as far away from chicken as can be. In fact they are rather bland and without being drenched in garlic sauce, would a very dull meal indeed. The most accurate description I can give is they are like squid or mussels minus the fishy~ness. Same texture too, although snails are the more chewy.
And how does one go about eating these shelled wonders? Simple, you use cocktail sticks. Pick up the snail, plunge the cocktail stick into the shell and extract that juicy, slimey body (basically a slug on a stick) and bon appetit!
Usually you get around 7 or 8 on your plate (there was 12 in the pack I bought) and admittedly they are not very filling, but the garlic helps out in that department. Snails wouldn't get the average headbanger through a concert but if you're just kicking back at home with a case of beer and a few Napalm Death albums, you could do worse than chow down on yer garden snails.

Bands to eeat snails to ~ Gojira, Municipal Waste, Napalm Death, Lordi, Rammstein.


Nice!