Tasty Weird Foods

Self | November 6, 2001 | PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

Just to take a break from politics for a bit, I was wondering if there are others out there who also have a taste for weird exotic foods. I thought I was one of a kind in this regard until I read a newspaper article that said that there are many folks who have a hankering for exotic foods that others may find yucky.

I've eaten sea urchin eggs directly from sea urchins, cooked ox tails (or "tako" as it is called in the Phillipines), raw quail eggs, all manner of spicy European sausages such as the very garlicky Kabanosi, blood sausages in Argentina, alligator meat, and I don't even have to be drunk to eat the worm in the Mezcal bottle (although I usually am since I have to drink my way to reach it).

So what are your favorite "yucky" foods? I am always on the lookout for new exotic foods so I will be most interested in reading your comments and food suggestions.

[PJ-Comix]

My favorite salad of all time was at a Sushi restaurant and consisted of seaweed, octopus legs, and tiny shrimps. YUMMIE!!!

[hole_n_one]

A big juicy mooseburger......with cheese.

[super175]

I got some reeeal stories to tell in this category...

[PJ-Comix]

A big juicy mooseburger......with cheese

I never had a mooseburger but would like to try it. How does it taste? Like venison? I've eaten venison. I kind of liked that wild taste.

[dep]

how can you think about a thing like food when there's cheese being discussed?

and remember -- moose lips stink cheese.

[Texaggie79]

apple pie.

[PJ-Comix]

apple pie.

Whenever I was in a restaurant when I was a kid I used to always order for dessert, Pie ala Mode "with lots of mode."

[Husker24]

Squirrel isnt bad, but it greasy as hell though.

[Joe 6-pack]

Take a trip Off the Eaten Path.

[Frohickey]

How about boiled duck eggs, with an almost duck inside of it?

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Well, it's not exactly exotic but I discovered it from some friends when I was a teenager. It's peanut butter and bacon sandwich. MAHHHHHHHVELOUS........honest.

P.S. - Best on toasted white bread.

[correctthought]

Black bear cutlets, yummy, have to eat them hot though, its a greasy meat that hardens when cold.

Alagator is good too.

[okie01]

Beavertail steaks fry up good, make excellent gravy. Not unlike the national food of Texas -- chicken-fried steak, with cream gravy.

Armadillo makes a decent stew barbecue, similar to pulled pork.

And, yes, rattlesnake does taste like chicken (white meat).

[PJ-Comix]

How about boiled duck eggs, with an almost duck inside of it?

YESSSS!!! I've had them. You can get those eggs at Vietnamese restaurants. You might need a few drinks first to work up the fortitude to eat those things.

[correctthought]

Kabanosi are great too.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I once ate a bird.

[ikka]

Sushi that consisted entirely of salmon roe (fish eggs).

Sinigang, which is very tasty, consists of tamarind flavoring in a soup like broth to which is added boiled pork, hot pepper, string beans and spinach - very yummy!

[dandelion]

People think I'm lying, but a peanut-butter-and-dried-onion samwich is the bomb. So is a cold spagetti-sauce samwich, cold meatloaf-horseradish-sauce samwich, or even the hobo-gumbo samwich (meatloaf, peanut-butter, soynut, beansprout and mayonaisse) - which must be constructed at 2 AM or later to qualify as a true work of art.

Of course, if you want to keep it simple and you are truly poverty stricken, the plain mayonaisse samwich can't be beat. If you even remotely think any of these sound good, then you need to visit "Recipes for the Culinarily Challenged", where you can find such sure-fire gut wrenchers as "Beer Flakes" and "Engine Block Burrito"...

[headsonpikes]

Moose tastes like venison, but is slightly less dry and gamy. ;^)

I lived on moose many winters. Best stew in the world; burgers okay; moose tongue exquisite!

[Charles Henrickson]

When I was in Korea for four months in 1988, I ate every manner of food that grows or swims in the sea. Also, with every meal, Koreans eat rice (not weird) and kim chi (weird, but good--fermented cabbage, etc., in hot red pepper paste). The weirdest thing I ate in Korea--just once--was . . . dog!

While I was growing up, every Christmas Eve Grandma Henrickson made a traditional Swedish dinner. The main course was lutfisk, a bland, gelatinous whitefish, served with a cream sauce. (Lutfisk is made gelatinous by soaking it for several days in lye!)

I actually like lutfisk! For most people, though, lutfisk is "the piece of cod that passes all understanding."