On 20/07/2012 5:20 PM, gloria p wrote:

> Traveling through Cambodia last fall we stopped at a farmer's market
> with loads of stalls full of fruit and vegetables and a few had
> fried tarantula legs, beetles, and other assorted bugs. We never saw
> those in any restaurant, even those patronized almost exclusively by
> residents, but they seemed to be selling well at the market for
> immediate consumption. No, I didn't try them, or the fried water snake
> folks were eating on the wall overlooking the moat around the temple at
> Angkor Wat. I'm pretty flexible about food, but not at that level.
>

You never know..... it might be good. When I was a teen my parents went
to Denmark and my mother said that most part the food was pretty good,
but she was grossed out by smoked eel. She thought that it was
disgusting and would not even try it. When I went there I took a couple
guys out for lunch and asked them to order me a traditional Danish
lunch. It was smoked eel. It was incredible.

We once had a party and had a platter of smoked fish open face
sandwiches. We had dark rye with cream cheese and smoked salmon, and we
had dark rye with egg salad and smoked eel. I did not tell anyone that
it was eel. Those who liked the smoked salmon liked the the eel as much
or more.