Tasty Weird Foods

Self | November 6, 2001 | PJ-Comix

[not-an-ostrich]

About 40 years ago my mother was fond of a stinky bread we called salt rising bread. Anyone remember or know if this is still produced?

[Tribune7]

Pigs feet.

[True Capitalist]

My wife tried to get me to eat curry the other night, but I told her I'm boycotting Afghani curry goat!

[True Capitalist]

I noticed that in Singapore, they have signs on the subway platforms (kind of like our hazmat signs on interstates) which stated NO DURIANS ALLOWED.

[Hammerhead]

three words 'balute'.

[Dixie Mom]

Well the placenta recipes win the prize. Where did you find this?

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.

[moonshiner]

love the peanut butter and fresh onion sandwichs on toast. Do any Houston Fr's remember when Nance Industries had the wild game dinners every year? Ate some lion tamalas their, not bad.

[moonshiner]

Can still buy in East Tenn. very good with live cheese and onion sandwich.

[ODDITHER]

Wise decision!!!

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.

[not-an-ostrich]

Thanks so much moonshiner! If you could give me a specific source I'd love to buy some for my mother. She went thru chemo, been done for a year, for breast cancer and I'm always trying to find something to perk her appetite.

[poopsie2]

I don't care for summer sausage either...but oh, my, scrapple is good! I must admit it looks terrible, but then look at spaghetti on a plate and be honest. So much that looks revolting is great eating!

[poopsie2]

*smile*

[moonshiner]

I'm from Kingsport in E. Tenn. and all the major food stores carry the salt rising bread. I meant to say the bread is good with liver cheese. Liver cheese a sliced liverwurst.

[not-an-ostrich]

Thank you!

[flying Elvis]

Pickled Okra! Yummy!

[freefly]

A few more to add to my personal list:
whale (tasted a lot like rancid fat, maybe because it was canned!)
head cheese
blood sausage
picked eggs
pork rinds
prickly pear
mesquite pods
seaweed of various sorts (weird only in the USA)
Fried pickles (tried them just this last weekend, not bad!)
The following site jogged my memory and listed things that even I might want to pass on!
Ray's List of Weird and Disgusting Foods
I spoke to a friend from Singapore about trying durian...
She couldn't believe that I would want to (although she LOVES them!).
She said that fresh is MUCH better than frozen, which is what you mostly find in the USA.
She also said that she would see to it that I got a chance to try them.
Thanks (I think) to those who mentioned it on this thread.

[PJ-Comix]

mesquite pods

What's that like? I've used mesquite wood for barbeques but what are those pods? What kind of texture and taste?