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Tasty Weird Foods
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| November 6, 2001
| PJ-Comix
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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: thewholecow; thewholepig; tripe
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To: PJ-Comix
Not weird, but dates with shelled, salted, sunflower seeds are ambrosia. Crunchy and salty juxtaposed with chewy and sweet....Mmmmm.
Next favorite is La Vache qui Rit on Triskets. After that, it gets weird.
/john
To: okie01
Armadillo makes a decent stew barbecue, similar to pulled pork. And, yes, rattlesnake does taste like chicken (white meat).
I need to put those two items on my menu list. However, whenever I think of armadillo I think of roadkill. Do they actually raise armadillos somewhere in Texas as livestock?
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11/06/2001 8:12:06 PM PST
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PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
Wasabi peas!
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posted on
11/06/2001 8:13:25 PM PST
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July 4th
To: PJ-Comix
Not that I want to encourage you - but do you know what scrapple is? Also, I read an article once about the 10 worst foods - the one I remember of the 10, was described thusly: "Nothing you have ever eaten has prepared you for the horror that is Clam Jerky."
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11/06/2001 8:14:55 PM PST
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185JHP
To: PJ-Comix
Also some interesting stuff
here.
To: headsonpikes
I lived on moose many winters. Best stew in the world; burgers okay; moose tongue exquisite! We always ate (cow) tongue sandwiches at home. I never thought much about it until a friend of mine asked what that big ol' tongue in the fridge was. He almost fainted when I told him.
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11/06/2001 8:15:27 PM PST
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PJ-Comix
To: Southflanknorthpawsis
. . . peanut butter and bacon sandwich. MAHHHHHHHVELOUS........honest. P.S. - Best on toasted white bread. Agreed! Except for one thing: Best served on a toasted onion roll! Fantastic!
One problem, though: I can't eat it right now! It would be about the worst thing on my doctor-ordered, low-fat, low-cholesterol diet.
To: PJ-Comix
I can't tell you how touched I am..........
I think this is the first time that anybody has ever taken anything I've ever posted seriously.
Thanks!
To: PJ-Comix
I know it sounds awful, but at any DIM-SUN spot in the world you can get duck feet. They are usually braised in a dark sweet and sour sauce then steamed. Put a little bit of that Vietnamese chilly oil on it and it is GREAT! Only thing is they are mostly bone, so it is an artform trying not to look rude spitting 'em out!
To: Southflanknorthpawsis
Oh my, I LOVE Peanit butter and bacon sandwiches ! That is NOT weird.
I don't think it's " weird " but I love raw kolarahbi. It's a Hungarian thing. : - )
To: PJ-Comix
I'm a tripe freak---------Sicilian Style!
To: PJ-Comix
Not that usual but it is seasonal and not found everywhere: shad roe. Sauted in bacon fat (or butter) with lemon slices. The consistency of caviar but not salty and with a vague lobster/shrimp taste. Forget canned or frozen.
To: PJ-Comix
Tartar steak, pigs feet in jello, tripe soup, wild rabbit, sheep's milk, so many other delicacies, Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
To: PJ-Comix
"However, whenever I think of armadillo I think of roadkill. Do they actually raise armadillos somewhere in Texas as livestock?" Armadillo need no help from man to multiply and prosper; their only natural enemy being the pickup truck.
Aside from being stupid, they're damn near blind, too. If you see an armadillo in the wild, get in its path and then stand still. Soon enough, they'll be snuffling around your boots, trying to figure out whether they're edible.
No challenge to plink 'em with a .22.
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11/06/2001 8:20:43 PM PST
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okie01
To: Charles Henrickson
The main course was lutfisk, a bland, gelatinous whitefish, served with a cream sauce. I never had lutfisk but when I was a kid in Puerto Rico I ate a lot of Bacalao Frito which is Fried Saltcod. Man that stuff was great! Also in Puerto Rico I loved when the roadside vendors sold green coconuts on ice. First they opened up little holes in them to drink from. Then they would cut open the coconut and chop off with their machetes a little wedge of coconut wood that you would use to scrape out the soft coconut meat (much better than the dried ripe coconut meat.) Also I absolutely LOVE coconut milk where they mix coconut juice with milk.
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11/06/2001 8:20:56 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
To: Southflanknorthpawsis
My favorite sandwich is still bacon, scrambled egg and peanut butter on white toast, washed down with a big glass of milk. Yummmeeeee. 'Course I don't get one very often now that I'm well into middle age and all. My hubby thinks I'm nuts, but he likes raw onions and Italian dressing on cottage cheese. Go figure.
To: nopardons
I don't think it's " weird " but I love raw kolarahbi. What's kolarahbi?
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11/06/2001 8:22:53 PM PST
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PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
I must be the only vegetarian on Freerepublic!
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posted on
11/06/2001 8:24:29 PM PST
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Fraulein
To: PJ-Comix
Dirt...
but that was a long time ago.
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posted on
11/06/2001 8:24:42 PM PST
by
AndrewC
To: PJ-Comix
I worked with a Korean or Vietnamese guy (I don't remember which) once. We went out to a store so he could pick up some stuff for lunch. He bought this drink:
Grass jelly drink. Bits of jelly like stuff with real grass mixed in. I don't know what the jelly stuff was. I tried to "drink" (eat?) it, but I couldn't go through with it. He slurped it down like it was coke.
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