Oh, very interesting entry, especially about the different foods and cultural issues! My experience with American cuisine during my time in the US was quite limited, as both my host family and the guest lady's mother each made only one "real", non-premade dish during the whole several weeks: "ham" with a dark sauce and mashed potatoes (which probably were premade, too). Everything else was fast food, which is really weird if you come from a home where there is a full meal including vegetables cooked each day, and where you can go for weeks without a meal repeating itself. I went home with the distinct impression that there was no such thing as American cuisine, but I've long suspected that it was more the family I ended up in.

I'd not have a problem with horse. I might perhaps try something a bit "easier" like sausage or similar, but I would definitely try it if I get the chance. Our French neighbours eat horse meat, and in some German regions, particularly Bavaria, people do so as well. Generally, I try more or less everything, because you never know which nice things you didn't know about. There's now so much food from other countries here that you wouldn't have found twenty years ago. The best restaurant in my town by general agreement is a Thai restaurant. I often find things in the sauce that I can't identify without asking, like for example small balls that were lotus flower seeds.

The most "unusual" thing I've eaten so far is probably kangaroo. There's a Chinese-Mongol restaurant over in the next town, and one of their offers is a buffet where you can select all kinds of raw meats and vegetables and a sauce and have the cooks roast it right there. When I made my way through the meats and discovered the kangaroo (not exactly a native Chinese/Mongol animal of course), I just had to! It wasn't that impressive, actually, more like somewhat dry beef, but at least I tried it.