strange food in Morocco?

Pigeon pie was really good. Harissa was incredibly hot, but excellent on couscous. Sheep's heads looked tasty, but my friend was too squeamish to approach the stand. :-(

In Fes, try the snails (the best guy being on Derb el Houra just off the Talaa Sghira to the left). If the snails are really too much, just get a bowl of the "buloud" or the tasty broth the snails are cooked in.

In the Medina in Rabat there's often a bloke with a cardboard box of hedgehogs. Being veggie, I've not tried one myself, but they are supposed to be good for the digestive system. You can see them in cages in the 'magic market' in Marrakech too.

I don't think you'd find them on any menu. You'd have to cook it yourself.

Never saw any hedgehogs there, but saw quite a few chameleons. Pets, I suppose, not food...

Weird things to eat in Morocco, hmm...

People really eat the WHOLE sheep (or cow). Brains, eyeballs, etc can all be found, especially in Marrakech.

In Essaouira, a friend always tells me about eel tajine - they literally curl the eel inside the tajine and cook it.

Hedgehogs, yes, and you can eat horse in the south.

B'stila is a sweet and savory pie made with pigeon, but you'd never know it - tastes like chicken. Still, it's a Fez specialty and quite delicious.

Snails are also very popular and can be found nearly everywhere on the side of the road! And in Djemaa al Fna, of course.

Twelve day old unrefridgeratored mutton (twice) at N'kob, slaughtered for Eid. I didn't expect to survive. No, the weirdest food is that home-made bread studded with small stones... No, hang on, it's glasses of petit lait with couscous after Friday prayers. It's such a pointless combination. No, no, sorry, mint tea is the one. That should have been obvious. No! Omlette! Cooked on a low light in large amounts of dirty oil. Nothing could be further from the original intention. No, no, no. Madame Ed Daoudi's home-made coffee. It lacked any coffee at all. The sad thing is I got to like it.

the sprite mixed with mint flavoring in tefrout. Camel kabobs with argon oil. bstilla with pigeon (sweet chicken taste) is always good. I saw a few of these gerbal mole things being offered drew the line at that. did have a seafood bastilla in Mogadir really enjoyed it. The cactus buds are interesting good flavor to many seeds

That is a good list. And a southern list, at that. Gerbal mole, Ward? Do you mean the ground squirrels? You are very funny. And cactus buds? Is that prickly pear? They are v nice but the prickles are a menace. Anybody ever try the arbutus fruit in the paper cones in Fes? Delicate flavour. Do people think they're lychees? I had squid tagine in Taghazoute. Quite disgusting. I don't know how I got through it.

I always enjoy the way the snail sellers in Fes spend most of their time picking the snails off the edge of the basket and dropping them back in. But, eat them? Forget it.

And where else in the world could you find an old guy selling FOUR different types of mint off a mat in the street? (Fes al Andalous).

One of the nicest dishes in Morocco are eggs poached in tomato sauce with unleavened bread for lunch. Only ever had it in the south -Souk Ifrane, Tafraoute, Tazzarine. Also unsalted Taroudannt butter for breakfast. Almost pure white. Somewhere in flavour between butter and British cream cheese.

I remember hiking in the desert one day and someone trying to tempt me with dates and milk. They almost succeeded. It sounded like the Old Testament Cookbook. As a result I now have Algerian dates and cheese sandwiches for lunch...

Thanks guys,
I'm looking forward to try the pigeon pie ;)
Lots of nice stories there.
See ya all
Alex