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So that is why they have to keep Punxsutawney Phil under guard.. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995
i do believe you couldnt call it totally wierd, but scrapple, is pretty much my overall limit, i guess im pretty tame, but if you know what its actually made of, yould get the point.
I haven't gotten around it yet! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by nickedNsliced
Mollejas = calf or young bull testicles.
Here sitting in a plate with some chinchulines.
Must've been some bad Haggis.Quote:
Originally Posted by silks
I lived in Scotland for 2 years and good haggis is GREAT and bad haggis is AWFUL. It all depends on who makes it, how they did it and what's in it. In general cheap haggis is not very good.
Also had Escargots....snail. Not very interesting. Not much taste at all. It's mainly the sauce that give snails the taste.
And also, for me Lobster is kind of weird and I've had that. Another case of great when done well and terrible when not done well.
Yeah, it's a living muscle but then so are clams and oysters. Guess I'll have to e-mail the Vatican for advice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troggie
Fried pig's ass.
Pretty rubbery and not very tasty. Not bad, mind you, but not great.
Taxonomically, snails are in the phylum Mollusca (making them mollusks like clams and oysters). They are further refined into the class Gastropoda along with abalone and conch to name two common, edible ocean-faring close relatives. Clams and oysters are in the class Bivalvia. So, while they are not from the same taxonomic class, they do share a common evolutionary lineage and are fairly closely related. Mollusks are evolutionarily more different from cows and pigs than any fish, since fish have spinal columns, thus placing them in the same phylum as mammals (Chordata).Quote:
Originally Posted by leadduck
That's a long answer, but as a biologist, it's the kind of thing that I've spent years learning. I understand the irony of using biological taxonomy to clear up an issue of Catholic Church Doctrine, but it may help and it's more than the office of the Pope would tell you :).
As for the weirdest thing I've ever eaten, I'd have to also say balut. I thought it was awesome though. Perhaps the stuff I had (from a Vietnamese friend) was fresher or something. I was also schooled on eating it from him and he told me not to eat the hard part. Apparently, you are supposed to crack the shell and suck out the juice, then peel out the embryo and eat that next. The juice was delicious duck broth and the embryo was tender and flavorful. Apparently it is eaten as a type of drinking snack when Vietnamese old timers are chilling out and having some beers. Seems like a hit to me.
The second weirdest thing I ever ate was my first balut. The very weirdest thing I ever ate was my second balut.
Pig's uterus....
It was served as part of a "miscellaneous meats" dish (seemed like a good idea at the time) at a chinese restaurant, 3 am. Didn't know what exactly it was other than it was whitish, chewy like overcooked calamari but with a slight porky taste.
I came to realize what they were weeks later when I saw them for sale at a chinese butcher shop.
The after effects are pretty cool. It's like a huge nasty viagra.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ogershok
Not sure if it's weird, but have had squirrel, opossum, rabbit, alligator, crawfish, menudo (wife loves it... I'm not a huge fan though), buffalo, deer, elk, etc.
I want to like lobster but it still weirds me out...
John P
I'm sorry....what???Quote:
Originally Posted by 1OldGI
Scrapple is good, we make it at butcherings, so is cracklins( the chunks of meat and skin that pop up when u strain the lard.) But around here groundhogs are pest but i try to eat what i kill, Fast fact, 1. a groundhog will only eat pure vegatation.2.a chicken will pick thru its own droppings to get maggots out of it. think about that when you are eatign ur chicken.
Deer heart and kidneys are good also i will fight ya for a deer heart, Ive actually skinned and cleaned deer up for friends and the only thing i wanted was the heart.
Would smoked donkey count. Election day 1980. Beer, whiskey, cheese and smoked donkey. Wasn't too bad.
As a man i feel ashamed to say this but i've never eaten some really weird apart from grasshoppers and Dandy lion flowers (quite good in the spring before they get to strong). This is why i'm ashamed, because my Bride to be has eaten some crazy stuff: cod tung, sea gull eggs, squirl stew, moose liver/tung, bear, seal, terr (tiz a sea bird), and her favorite Labrador caribou.
I live in Newfoundland so most of the sea food you guys mention seem normal, like squid, muscles, shellfish.
Scrapple is great. I've seen low grade stuff that is grey mush. Love me some scrappleQuote:
Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995
I unfortunately have never been anywhere outside of US/MEX/CAN borders and Islands so I dont get the fun and exciting "will this make me puke" food. I grew up a hunter, still am, so butchering and eating as much of the animal as possible is pretty norm. I can not abide eyeballs though. wont try em. I love deer hearts and poultry hearts.
Things that my friends say are wierd
osterich
emu
gator
raw trout with dill
goat
squirrel
bison
Javalina
prong horn
elk
mule deer
frogs legs
snails
chopped liver
chorizo and menudo
raw ground lamb middle eastern style with lemon and pita (soo good)
crickets, meal worms, ants etc.
all kinds of fish eggs from $200 russian caviar to little green ones that are raw and pop in your mouth
eel (love it, wife gags looking at it)
see urchin (hate it, like licking the ocean floor)
crawfish, lobster, crabs
octopus and squid
tendon (dont care for it)
Chicken feet (dont care for it)
and thats it for me. I hope to one day travel more and eat more exotic fare!
I beer bonged a live gold fish. Does that count as "eaten"?
i'm originally from louisiana.... we eat pretty much anything there......... except possum...... i refuse to eat that.... or pigeon......
Scorpion
Cicada
Meal worm
sheep eyes
sheep ovaries
dog
chicken rectum
eel
grilled rabbit head
softshell turtle
blood curd
duck tongue
fermented tofu
kidney pie
black pudding
white pudding
haggis
whitebait
Some others I'm sure I'm forgetting. I'd eat almost anything. The only food I can't stomach is raw tomato, oddly enough.
Mind you, some of this stuff is only weird to the American palate which is notoriously finicky, especially here in the Midwest. I've lived in China and the UK, both with reputations of strange food.
I'd never heard of scrapple until I lived in Pennsylvania for a time. It took me a while to learn how to cook and eat it properly, but it's really good if made correctly. Taylor ham is another item that's hard to find outside of that corner of the country.Quote:
Originally Posted by jcsixx
No, not really...Quote:
Originally Posted by breachedpulse
Ive eaten at Arby's , nuff said.....
you are a brave.. brave soul.......Quote:
Originally Posted by thewatermark
the last time i ate mcdonalds i had to put a seat belt on the commode... made the poop scene from "dumb and dumber" look like a mild case of the runs....
If you think Taylor ham is good you should try turner ham (sugar cured country ham). A local place here has Taylor, Turner, and "city" ham for sandwiches. And a sign explaining the differences for the not so local folk.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChesterCopperpot
Balut pickled in tea
Lutefisk, I eat most anything once, and once was enough with Lutefisk. I enjoy most all Norwegian/Scandinavian food, but you can keep Lutefisk. About the only thing that comes to mind right now are some ARVN freeze dried rations we somehow came to posses, scrawny fish heads and rice. Oh, maybe some homemade rice wine given me by some Montagnards as a thank you. What made it special was the glass bottle. Not easy for them to source. They had a little drinking game where you all sat around in a circle, a bowl with water, and a stick with a small branch straight down suspended across the bowl. They filled up the bowl to the cross member stick with rice wine, and passed a straw. You were expected to suck the rice wine off the top to clear the down branch. Just kept going around the circle. Ever had a rice wine hangover?
I've had Jellyfish. that's weird. Endless sushi bar stuff still isn't odd but sea urchin is rank! I don't consider things like venison, elk, blood sausage and mince meat pie weird.
Thinly sliced cold pig's ear and stir fried jellyfish when I was on a buisness trip. The jellyfish was really good, although a strange texture. Wasn't fond of the pig's ear, but had to try it. :rofl2:
I am not really adventurous when it comes to food, but I like to drink the juice of a can of canned mushrooms. I have been told that that makes me weird. :)
Sounds a bit like me. I used to make hard tack and soak it in dill pickle brine. Made a great snack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruno
Then we are both wierd, I love mushroom juice!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruno
Chicken McNugget dipped in "sweet n sour" sauce..........seriously wtf is THAT!
seriously LOL'd at this one... both the dogs looked at me like i was crazy..... thanks for the belly laugh...Quote:
Originally Posted by pike3e
and to answer your question.... no flippin idea... i eat no fast food....
Maybe, I think canned mushrooms are one of the most disgusting things on the face of this planet. Fresh mushrooms I love. Canned...I loathe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruno
The stir fried JellyFish I had was at Dynasty over on Georgia Ave. in WheatonQuote:
Originally Posted by dward
I'm late on this one.Compared to most,I have not eaten anything exotic I guess.My most daring and one of the mostloved types of cuisine are that which hail from the British Isles. I love Haggis and Blood pudding if that count's. But I guess compared to this thread....TUMS or PEPTO would be the wierdest thing I ever et.Sorry..didn't mean to make ya'll squeamish (ahem).
Years ago I was a pretty avid bicyclist and during my jaunts up the S California Coast I probably ate every bug out there.-Har har.
I list this in the weird section only because my friends say it it. I go to the taco restaurant across from the office for lunch to get my pig snout tacos. They chop the pig snout into pieces and make a taco. I also get the pork brain tacos when they have them.
Ernest
The weirdest thing I've eaten wasn't weird because of the animal, but because of the preparation. It was squid in Korea.
One of the more common ways squid is eaten in Korea, is that it is slit open and gutted, and then laid flat on a wicker rack in the sun to dry. No cooking at all, not commercially dried, not salt cured. Just dried in the sun.
Then the tentacles are cut off, and the body is cut into tentacle sized strips. You can actually buy a cup full of it across the street from on of the movie theaters in Busan, and take it into the movie with you instead of popcorn.
Many of the restaurants I went to there also served the same dried squid jullianed and covered in a sweet red bean sauce as a side dish.