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D1andonlyDman Mar 16, 2010 4:01 pm


Originally Posted by adamak (Post 13588121)
And cow testicles. Just don't see the point to eating this. It's not good.

That must have been a very light dish, because cows don't have testicles. Bulls do, though.

InkUnderNails Mar 16, 2010 7:44 pm

Groundhog, cooked whole in a big roaster with sweet potatoes and carrots.

Barbecued raccoon

Sheep fries

Mountain oysters

Chitterlings, Also know as chitlins

Souse

TMOliver Mar 17, 2010 12:07 pm


Originally Posted by InkUnderNails (Post 13589981)
Groundhog, cooked whole in a big roaster with sweet potatoes and carrots.

Barbecued raccoon

Sheep fries

Mountain oysters

Chitterlings, Also know as chitlins

Souse

I had forgotten Armadillo (less likely to be eaten now after the revelation that it's the only known host for Hansen's AKA leprosy). The only meat with its own dish! "Porkish" when barbecued.

Possum, served w/sweet potatoes, in the Depression known as "Hoover Hog", greasy. A nasty scavenger, but easy to catch.

Nutria, available occasionally in Louisiana, served with "piquant" (Sp?) sauce.

Mountain oysters, lamb fries and turkey fries are a long way from unusual around here.

Chitlins? There's A restaurant a couple of miles away where they have a regular place on the menu.

Tripe's hardly unusual and between the accomplishment of the Spanish and the Normans, awfully good food.

The Mexican standard version, "Menudo", stewed with hominy, is an every day offering in dozens of small local "family-style" Mexican resturants, and a grand cure for hangovers, "para la cruda". The original Mexican "barbacoa" is not barbecue, but a slow roasted cow's head. pulled apart like pulled pork, with the eyes in demand among purists.

Souse/Head Cheese is right up there with tongue for sandwich making.

Italy98 Mar 17, 2010 12:25 pm

Having served in Viet Nam and Korea, and a business trip to Turkey I know I've eaten somethings that would not have been on a utensil let alone in my digestive track if I had known before hand.

icurhere2 Mar 17, 2010 7:14 pm

alligator, rattlesnake, raccoon, sea urchins, goat, scrapple, various animal hearts, pickled cow tongue ...

scubadiver Mar 18, 2010 2:45 pm

Grub and snake raw. We had patrolled past our supplies, living off the land. The VC were hunting us so we couldn't cook. Put enough wasabi on it, you can eat anything.

It helps to be hungry.

I'm not a fussy eater. I like cuy, although it took some serious intervention to be rid of the intestinal hitch-hikers they favored me with.

Uni is another matter. It tastes great, but the texture is of cold snot. Once that thought occurred to me, I couldn't finish.

Same with Blutwurst. It is delicious, but the thought entered my head I was eating scabs. Oh well.

Grasshoppers from street vendors in Bangkok are delicious. But then I found out they harvest them after they spray the fields.

mjcewl1284 Mar 20, 2010 8:35 am

Two foods that immediately came to mind when viewing this topic title
1- Snake

2- Ostrich

skchin Mar 20, 2010 11:20 am

Pancakes and Chinese clam sauce by mistake.

i7654 Mar 20, 2010 11:22 am


Originally Posted by skchin (Post 13613453)
Pancakes and Chinese clam sauce by mistake.

not sure why but this made me laugh

Billiken Mar 20, 2010 4:31 pm

Barbecued raccoon still tops my list of my weird food.

PTravel Mar 20, 2010 4:37 pm

Porcupine (or, perhaps, hedgehog), what was either pangolin or civet cat, dog and cobra -- all in China (and all delicious!).

dd992emo Mar 20, 2010 4:51 pm

"Baluuuuut..."

Live goldfish. Nothing to do with impressing girls. CPO initiation...(TMOliver knows what I'm talking about...)

aresef Mar 20, 2010 9:39 pm

Certain parts of a sushi set lunch in Tokyo. But the weirdest thing I didn't eat, which I knew enough Japanese to not order, was the basashi nigiri. Look it up. Or don't. Not looking it up might be best.

johnnybgood3 Mar 20, 2010 9:58 pm

Wow!

I thought my entries would have been at least near the best responses but not even close...

1 horse/durian/snake/intestines/all the normal stuff
2 goat testicles
3 a leech fresh off the leg of a malaysian tour guide - I realized the possible implications of this afterward...

I'm glad I have some things to look forward to, though!

dd992emo Mar 20, 2010 10:12 pm


Originally Posted by aresef (Post 13616063)
Certain parts of a sushi set lunch in Tokyo. But the weirdest thing I didn't eat, which I knew enough Japanese to not order, was the basashi nigiri. Look it up. Or don't. Not looking it up might be best.

I honestly do not get the aversion Americans have to horse meat. Cows, horses, baseball gloves, jackets, footballs...get over it. :D

To paraphrase the Original Bad Bob in "Judge Roy Bean"..."Cook that horse up for me. I want it blue...smothered in onions..."


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