Posted on 12/30/2010 8:40:30 PM PST by GSP.FAN
They say one man's trash is another man's treasure. The same could be said about food: one man's nightmare may just be another man's delicacy. From cow's tongue and pig's snout to chicken's feet, from fried worms and frog's legs to sautéed snails, the list of weird stuff we eat is endless.
The stuffed camel sounds like the original turducken!
I’ll pass.
I don’t understand why people who aren’t starving would stretch to each this kind of stuff.
How about BBQ duck heads?
I have had those. They are tasty.
I know. Seriously. Some of this stuff is just totally nasty...
I guess it is like the first person to eat a lobster- basically a louse. Someone was hungry enough to try and found out it tasted really good.
I can understand why.
Yes! They are good. There is a Vietnamese food store near me that has a variety of dried sea cucumbers.
Crickets are actually pretty good. Just add a little salt and lime..
It is said balut tastes like egg and duck (or chicken)
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Now, there’s a real mind-bender.
lol Some of the people who eat strange stuff (strange to us) might be horrified at McDonalds.
I was in China just south of Shanghai near the coast, and I was in a restaurant that had what looked like a pet shop inside. There were turtles, snakes, eels, crabs, fish and other things in tanks and trays, and you could pick one out, they’d kill it and cook it for you.
I got to discussing food with a local there and she found McDonalds to be very very strange. First the unfamiliar flavors, but what wierded her out was the concept of restaurant-as-factory, cranking out little disks of ground cow on bread, by the billion. China has bread, but not like Western bread.
I pointed out that there were McDonalds in Shanghai and Beijing and she said, yes, and Kentucky Fried Chicken! ewww!
McD’s and KFC are date destinations there with waiting lines and some require reservations. For me the thrill was getting a half chicken, noodles, and some sort of pickled, well, green stuff for the noodles plus some “thousand year eggs” off the street and eating in a park.
“I love strange food and can eat almost anything however, when I lived in Spain, raw squid in its own ink was rather hard to swallow.”
I’ve had that a few times. No problem.
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