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Tacos.
Not the "hard shell" variety that is sold in the USA. There is a whole universe of tacos all over Mexico: beef, pork, goat meat, sheep meat, boiled egg, rice, hot peppers, shrimp, crab, octopus, many insects and larvae (chapulines, ant eggs, mosquito eggs, caterpillars), nopales (prickly pear), many kinds of herbs, sausages, etc. The list is almost infinite.
Those all sound delicious. I think the insects and larvae might be a weird texture for me but I'd still give it a try.
Tacos are great, never tried the more exotic ones though, except nopale. My college had it once for some reason but tbh it just kinda tastes like the seasoning they put LOL
"Exotic" is a strong word for nopales. (Nopal is the singular, not nopale) You can get it at every grocery store in the Seattle area. And yeah it doesn't have a strong flavor on its own. Kinda like green beans?
I can vouch for ant eggs (escamoles) and roast grasshopper (chapulines), they're tasty but a lot harder to find around here.
Maybe niche then? Didn't realize exotic had a negative connotation
I don't remember the last time i saw cacti for sale in a supermarket. Though in all fairness I go to asian ones maybe 70% of the time and standard american ones for the rest
I don't think exotic is negative, it's just too commonly available for me to think of it as strange or foreign. Even the Asian groceries around me carry it.
They do here too, the leaves and the fruit of the tuna, but it's probably exotic outside of the Americas.