[SeattleUte]

I recently read a book review about fierce food--wild animals, extreme exotica, and such. A client recently gave me an example of it. Once in China he ate at a very fancy restaurant. He ordered a famous dish. They brought a basket to his table, opened the lid, and it was filled with writhing snakes. He was asked to select one, which he did. The chef extracted it from the basket with tongs and then promptly beheaded it at the table with a cleaver. The chef then wrung blood out of the body into a glass and handed it to my client (the customer) to drink, which he did. Then the chef barbecued the snake at the table and served it.

This got me to thinking about whether I've ever had fierce food. I think the closest thing is that hairy cow's foot soup and on another occasion gunea pig. Not much, I'm afraid. Anyone else? (Sushi is not fierce food.)