MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo shocks radio listeners as he reveals he has eaten a bat and describes the delicacy as ‘really delicious’
MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo has eaten many delicacies in his time.
But on Wednesday, the 43-year-old shocked radio listeners when revealed he has eaten a bat.
The Scottish-born chef told WSFM 101.7 Jonesy and Amanda show on Wednesday that he tasted bat in a remote tribal community in Vanuatu while filming a Discovery Channel show called Chef Gone Wild.
Shocking! MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo has revealed he has eaten a bat and says the delicacy was ‘really delicious’
‘It was delicious, it really was,’ he said of the dish, which he added was cooked over a fire.
The MasterChef judge continued: ‘I know it’s a bat, I get it that. But when you’re there and you’re in some kind of comprehension and understanding of the culture you’re sitting in, that the fact it’s a bat kind of fades into nothing.
‘You’re just there in that moment doing this thing with that culture, learning something about them,’ he said of the experience.
Extreme cultural experience: The Scottish-born chef told WSFM 101.7 Jonesy and Amanda show on Wednesday that he tasted the delicacy in a remote tribal community in Vanuatu, while filming a Discovery Channel show called Chef Gone Wild (pictured)
Bat is not the only surprising thing Jock has eaten in the past.
The chef of the award-winning Adelaide-based restaurant Orana also told Gourmet Traveller that had eaten fermented grass from a cow’s stomach in Ethiopia.
He said: ‘In the village I was in, it’s tradition for four to five families to buy and kill a cow at Christmas.’
‘I’ve eaten a lot of nasty things in my time’: Last year, the MasterChef judge revealed to Gourmet Traveller that he has also eaten fermented grass from a cow’s stomach in Ethiopia
Jock explained that the fermented grass was taken out of the cow’s stomach to make a stew and cooked down to a paste.
He added that the stomach was then cut up, washed and eaten raw.
Jock said: ‘I’ve eaten a lot of nasty things in my time, and I would never want to be disrespectful to other people’s culture, so I had to eat. Was it delicious? Absolutely not.’
Being respectful: He said of the Ethiopian dish, ‘I would never want to be disrespectful to other people’s culture, so I had to eat. Was it delicious? Absolutely not’