Have you ate any weird food?

[nomad]

When I say weird food, I mean foods not common in your region. For instance, dot meat is common in Korea and China but it is not a regular food in my place. People eat toads in Thailand, but in my place, we cannot imagine eating toads. Even though I have not tried it, rat meat is considered a delicacy by some communities in my county.
Have you tried any weird food?

 

[Heatman]

Snake soup is one weird food I've eaten once in my life. As much as I hated snakes, I had to eat it just to know if what they said about it tasting the same with fish is the same thing.

 

[passenger]

I have eaten rattlesnake: tastes pretty much like dry chicken breast; probably overcooked.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Nothing too weird. There isn't many options for super rare foods where I am. When I was in the south recently I saw allegator on the menu at a restaurant, I should have ordered it.

 

[Elvira]

No, I haven't eaten anything weird.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

No, I haven't eaten anything weird.

They say you eat as many as 8 spiders a year in your sleep

 

[Elvira]

They say you eat as many as 8 spiders a year in your sleep

Wasn't that debunked though?

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Wasn't that debunked though?

I dunno?

 

[Elvira]

I dunno?

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[Webster]

When I say weird food, I mean foods not common in your region. For instance, dot meat is common in Korea and China but it is not a regular food in my place. People eat toads in Thailand, but in my place, we cannot imagine eating toads. Even though I have not tried it, rat meat is considered a delicacy by some communities in my county.
Have you tried any weird food?

Rocky Mountain Oysters History and Recipe

Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies can be eaten. It just takes an open mind and a willing stomach. Of course, there are some people who will eat anything.

whatscookingamerica.net

Enough said.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Rocky Mountain Oysters History and Recipe

Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies can be eaten. It just takes an open mind and a willing stomach. Of course, there are some people who will eat anything.

whatscookingamerica.net

Enough said.

Eating animal genitalia? ....Sounds soooooo appetizing.

 

[Phillip]

I've had shark before...it was good, though

 

[passenger]

I've had shark before...it was good, though

That reminds me; I've eaten barracuda, only once. I've heard that it has a pretty high lead content...I wonder if that's also true for shark.

 

[MrDawn]

Someone offered to make Haggis for me and I turned them down.

 

[Black Angel]

I had a very close call with some chitterlings at the repast for my Grandmothers funeral.. when my husband and I were on line for food, I misheard the server and thought she said "Chicken" so I was like "Sure, pile it on" because I love chicken.. it looked weird but I figured that it might've been a stew or something.. so I didn't think much of it..

After that, we went to go find a table to sit down at and I am not sitting down 5 seconds, before my Uncle Steve was like "Gee, I'd didn't know a NYC girl like you loved chitterlings?" and I was like "I'm sorry, What?" He was like "Yeah, those are chitterlings.. don't you like them?" And I told him that I didn't and thought the lady said "Chicken" and both he and my husband started laughing their asses off and to the point of tears.. lol

So, I told my husband that if he wanted it, he could have them since he got some too.. apparently, he heard her correctly, and decided to get some to try since I got a big plate of them myself..

He didn't like them.. he said they were very rubbery..

I try to stay with only the meats I know, and can easily find in a grocery store or butcher and I don't mess with offal or anything that is "gourmet" or a "delicacy" or anything that will require that I venture behind a closed door or plastic curtain to get.. I have this theory where the prettier or more elaborate the language is when describing food, the grosser it really is..

So something like "Rocky Mountain Oysters" or "Balut" (<= please do NOT post this.. or if you do please use a spoiler.. just trust me on this ) et. al, is going to be an obvious HELL NO to me.. lol

 

[passenger]

chitterlings

AKA/ pork rinds/pig skins/chicharrones ....... in these parts? Those are really good munchies, IMO. I have eaten real, authentic chitterlings -'chitlins' but so long ago that I really don't recall just exactly what they're like.

"Rocky Mountain Oysters" or "Balut" (<= please do NOT post this.. or if you do please use a spoiler

Ah yes! You picked some real winners there.

 

[Black Angel]

Chicharrones/pork rinds are good, (especially with some Arroz con Gandules or Frijoles) but those are the skin, but I don't eat them too often.. as good as they are you are still eating mostly fried fat and a little meat.. I usually separate the fat from the meat since, it is good for Keto, but even then they can be crazy salty and oily..

Chitterlings, however, is the intestines.. (and sometimes they aren't cleaned properly either.. so eating them would be akin to eating the black vein on shrimp) but horrifying as it is, it is a staple in Soul Food because much like the other table scraps, this was the stuff that the slave owners wouldn't feed to their families, and so, the waste and table scraps, often went to the slaves, who then, made it apart of their cultural cuisine.. so I think a lot of people, especially in my Southern family, tend to stick to their roots where stuff like that is concerned.. I do love the other Soul Food cuisines there are.. and I do try to keep with most of that tradition as well..

But I still won't touch Chitterlings or Red Velvet Cake with a 10 foot pole.. lol

 

[passenger]

Chicharrones/pork rinds are good, (especially with some Arroz con Gandules or Frijoles) but those are the skin, but I don't eat them too often.. as good as they are you are still eating mostly fried fat and a little meat.. I usually separate the fat from the meat since, it is good for Keto, but even then they can be crazy salty and oily..

Chitterlings, however, is the intestines.. (and sometimes they aren't cleaned properly either.. so eating them would be akin to eating the black vein on shrimp) but horrifying as it is, it is a staple in Soul Food because much like the other table scraps, this was the stuff that the slave owners wouldn't feed to their families, and so, the waste and table scraps, often went to the slaves, who then, made it apart of their cultural cuisine.. so I think a lot of people, especially in my Southern family, tend to stick to their roots where stuff like that is concerned.. I do love the other Soul Food cuisines there are.. and I do try to keep with most of that tradition as well..

But I still won't touch Chitterlings or Red Velvet Cake with a 10 foot pole.. lol

Ooookay! Big difference then!

 

[tea4me]

Nope, nothing unusual. I did find that I really enjoy bison over cow, and elk is amazing, too. Moose? Yuck. Too gamey.

 

[Crys]

Someone offered to make Haggis for me and I turned them down.

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