Posted on 11/06/2001 7:57:20 PM PST by 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.
The original source for those recipes is Mothering Magazine, September 1983, Vol. 28, pg 76. It's routinely posted on various birth forums. The source I posted it from is here. Another page with the recipes and other creative uses for placenta is here. (That page also includes a recipe for placenta roast which claims it is a good recipe that "should NOT go to waste." LOL
Here is an article describing a British cooking show that created quite a controversy when it featured the preparation of a placenta. (Click title for source.) Can you imagine stir frying and puréing your placenta and serving it to a houseful of guests?!
Thursday, May 28, 1998 Published at 13:02 GMT 14:02 UK
Channel 4 rapped for serving placenta
Britain's Channel 4 has been severely reprimanded for a programme in which a woman's afterbirth was served up as paté.
The Broadcasting Standards Commission said the episode of TV Dinners, shown in February, breached a taboo and "would have been disagreeable to many".
The presenter, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, devised the recipe with mother Rosie Clear for a party to celebrate the birth of her daughter Indi-Mo Krebbs.
The placenta was fried with shallots and garlic, flambéed, puréed and served to 20 relatives and friends as a pate on focaccia bread.
Mrs Clear's husband Lee had 17 helpings but the other guests were less enthusiastic.
Labour MP Kevin McNamara was one of nine viewers who complained to the Independent Television Commission about the show.
The ITC passed the comments on to the BSC, which upheld the complaints on the grounds of taste.
Practice is not illegal
The commission accepted it was not illegal to cook or consume afterbirth - in fact it is considered highly nutritious and mothers in many countries are encouraged to eat their own.
The programme makers had also sought to treat the subject sensitively and fairly, said the commission.
But in its report the commission said the content of the show would have taken many viewers by surprise - despite a vague announcement before it was aired.
Mr McNamara, MP for Hull North, said the programme was "offensive to the public".
Channel 4 said the programme was not a conventional cookery show and was designed to challenge conventional wisdom.
I can still smell the Karakul sheep stew cooking. No amount of curry could cover up that smell or taste. I just couldn't get used to it.
What's that like? I've used mesquite wood for barbeques but what are those pods? What kind of texture and taste?
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