Azn - do you have the chance to hunt coyote? Probably as close to dog as you'll get without taking a trip to the Motherland
I'm Irish... of good solid Irish stock! The traditional method of Irish cooking is to boil the goodness and taste out of it!! As a result, (as pointed out by Azn above), at an early age I grew to "dislike" the texture of boiled cabbage. I've had cabbage stir-fried and liked it, so it's not really a "taste issue".
Those that knew my Gran joked that she was responsible for garlic being introduced to Ireland, as she travelled the world as a cellist in the orchestra, sampling different foods, bringing home different things and growing them in her garden. Her house always smelled so wonderful, especially when her garlic harvest was drying in the conservatory.
I quite like ox tongue, though haven't had it in years. Ox tail stew is another nice dish, though very bony. I've never tried cruibíns (pigs feet) and really have no compulsion to go get some and try a recipe - that's not to say I wouldn't try them if served up to me some time.
Growing up by the sea, with a heritage of fishing behind me, I was roped into net fishing in the middle of the night as a young boy. In the days when fish were plentiful, most would be sold at the market and some would come home for cleaning and eating etc. I was usually charged with carrying the bag of guts and scales etc. to the estuary and emptying the contents into the water to feed the crabs and whatever else got to it. All it took was one ill-timed gust of wind to spray me with fishguts and that was me turned off pretty much everything about fish...
I've had veal with a crabmeat topping in a Cajun restaurant a few times, back when we lived in Dublin... mmmmMMMmmmmm... delicious!! Though veal gets a bad rap by a lot of people here... treehuggin' green party wannabees... *ahem*
I'd love to taste alligator, shark, buffalo, ostrich, dolphin...err...I mean... shark...
