Posted on 03/28/2012 12:58:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I'M sitting at a sushi bar in Sapporo, the main city on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, and staring at a strange, small, raw and salmon-coloured object on my plate.
"Er, is it the brain of a fish?", I asked my dining companion, who happens to be Tetsuya Wakuda, the celebrated Sydney-based Japanese-Australian chef with whom I’m travelling for a magazine article.
“No,” he replies. “It’s fish’s semen sac.”
Sometimes it’s best not to ask. But there were ever weirder dishes to come (see below) at this lunch. There are the adventurous types who actively seek out weird food on their travels. Me? I’m entirely a victim of circumstance.
I’m hardly a fussy eater and rarely seek out the odd and challenging dish when I’m overseas - they come to me. As a guest in another country no one wants to offend their hosts by rejecting their food, something which plays an integral part, and a subject of immense pride, in many cultures. Somehow I’ve managed to escape weird food in China (for which it’s notorious), having visited there on a number occasions. But I do draw a line at rats on a skewer (India), dog meat (Vietnam), fried tarantulas (Cambodia), guinea pigs (Peru) and Starbuck’s coffee (US).
Here’s my menu of the weird world dishes that I have succumbed to on my travels (and, yes, I’m sure on some of your wandering you’ve eaten a lot worse, so let me know).
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
For anyone here who has never lived in Wisconsin, google
“Cannibal sandwich”
Yum!
strange, indeed. All the ones I've seen were whitish; the roe sacks were salmon colored.
In any case, I'd rather use bait to catch a fish to eat, than waste the bait by eating it myself...unless it is Velveeta or Vienna sausages.
Roe, Milt, Cannibal sandwich it all sounds tasty. Most prefer things cooked probably even overcooked
Steak tar-tar
Many moons ago I ran a salmon trolling vessel in Southeast Alaska and have personally hooked, boated, gutted, iced and sold some 40 thousand salmon of various species. We ate all parts of our catch at times, including bellys, heads and livers for variety (A whole frozen chicken cost $15 in 1980 in coastal villages). The fresh roe from females is saved and sold mainly to the Japanese, but nobody bought the milt/sperm of the male fish which the French call soft roe, or la laitance. Floured and fried lightly, it is delicious - a texture similar to sweetbreads but tastes like the ocean.
Two cannibals were fighting over a missionary that would be their dinner. Finally, one proposes that they share the meal. “You start at the bottom, I’ll start at the top, and we’ll meet in the middle.” This was agreed upon, and they started eating their meal. After a few minutes, the first cannibal asked if the second cannibal was enjoying himself. “I’m having a ball,” was the reply.
“Hey, slow down—you’re eating too fast!”
Until Fukishima, none of this existed.
Go ahead, think about it...........
Until Fukishima, none of this existed.
Go ahead, think about it...........
Two cannibals had just finished eating a clown and were relaxing. One looked over to the other and asked “did that guy taste kind of funny to you?”
On a related note, Lizzy cat was sitting out front last evening
snapping mosquitoes out of the air and licking her chops every so often.
Who bites who?
I remember a fine time over at Eaker's place years ago scarfing raw steak & horsey-radish.
It was teh awesome.
Is that how you got your dain bramaged?
:^)
Skeeter sashimi!
What do you call a cannibal who just ate his mom’s sister? An aunteater.
What do you call a cannibal who just ate up his mother in law? Gladiator!
;^)
You should try witchetty grubs and honey ants!
Not kidding - they’re traditional Aboriginal delicacies.
>>>”and Starbuck’s coffee (US)”<<<
lol.. what’s weird about that compared to ‘rats on skewer’?!!
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