Foods you eat that others here probably wouldn't touch!!!
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wow... all of the scintillating adjectives everyone is using to describe their repulsion to another culture's food staple is completely unnecessary
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RE: Krispy Kremes - yeah, I won't touch those. Seriously, the last time, it felt like I had a half-inch of crisco glued to the roof of my mouth. Ewww
RE: Goat - also known as Chevon. I used to raise goats, and prepared correctly, chevon is tasty. Makes great shredded meat for enchiladas. Now that I'm vegan, I wouldn't eat it, but I am not the kind of vegan that tells others what to eat... though I am very opposed to "factory farming" and huge feedlot operations, & the way most meat is processed in the "first world". If you gotta eat an animal, either go hunt it yourself, raise it yourself, or buy it from someone who actually raises them in grassy pastures - and has them processed by real people (not machinery) in small operations. You'll be amazed at how much better it is, healthier, and how much less you need to feel satisfied.
RE: Lutefisk. Yup, used to live in Minnesota. Sure, it has the consistency of a wet diaper, but it lacks the appealing aroma of one. Seriously, that stuff stinks. Yes, I've tasted it. Once was enough.
RE: Balute... every culture has its own way of getting enough protein in the diet... traditional cuisine is full of stuff that sanitized fast-food eating Americans over-react to. If you really want an eye-opener, try watching "Food, INC". You would be surprised how disgusting our very own food supply chain is. I won't eat unborn ducks, but if someone grew up eating it and it makes them happy, oh well... more for them, then!
My own "unusual" food, beyond tofu, tempeh, and chia-gel pudding ( I LOVE it, even just plain!), is kumquats.
Yup. Kumquats. Tried them for the first time last year. Looked up "How to eat a kumquat" on google, just to make sure I knew what I was getting into. OH MY GODZ, they are fabulous! You just pop them whole, peeling and all, in your mouth and munch them. Be warned, you gotta like sweetly sour stuff... they are tangy good!
I also eat Kiwis whole - fuzzy skin and all.
Durian is great, too... smells a bit like dirty gym socks soaked in old garlic, but tastes like vanilla/gym sock/garlic pudding. Durian is one of those foods, like cilantro, that you either like or hate... my DH cannot tolerate cilantro, and I can't tell the difference between it and old parsley... he hasn't tried Durian yet, since they are not easy to find where I live, but someday he will...0 -
People in India ask us why we eat cows......................seriously.You tried dog before. seriously
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Lol, thing is I'm an American..........born and raised. Personally I don't find others peoples "delicacies" disgusting, but rather interesting to hear.You've obviously never tried deep fried Oreos, Twinkies, or Snickers bars... Come to the south, you'll find them EVERYWHERE!
Hey, if other countries want to knock fine American cuisine, let 'em. Let us have our fun, too! All cultures have different specialty foods or delicacies. I think it's perfectly fine if I find one of their treasured delicacies absolutely putrid when they would probably do the same with one of mine. It's mutual disgust, see??
I have thick skin, so it takes alot to bother me. Some others might not take it that way. Just saying that if someone looked at you at your fattest and said "man that person is disgusting to be that fat" within ear shot, you probably wouldn't think that was okay. There is a such a thing as mutual respect.
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I thought of this as I ate dinuguan today. So here are my two:
BALUT- duck embryo
DINUGUAN-pork blood stew with intestine
grew up with filipino cuisine. I can say I have not had balut. However, when I go home to visit I ask my parents to make dinuguan. They don't add intestines but pork with extra fat for flavor and extra peppers. Yum!0 -
I've eaten black fungus before and liked it. I also love eel, especially when it's barbecued and sauteed
Other weird things I've eaten: Cow stomach, jellyfish, and escargot.
I'm Canadian and think poutine is delicious, but other people have told me it looks disgusting. Obviously they haven't tried it! :laugh:0 -
For all those grossed out about these foods, think about hot dogs and bologna. Real American food, made with what my Father in Law the Butcher called "Floor sweepings" ALL sorts of parts in there... It's just in what you know and are familiar with.
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For all those grossed out about these foods, think about hot dogs and bologna. Real American food, made with what my Father in Law the Butcher called "Floor sweepings" ALL sorts of parts in there... It's just in what you know and are familiar with.
May have to make a run to Costco for a hot dog this week now...
Yeah this is what I was thinking. I'd rather have most of the stuff in this thread, it might be "weird" or foreign, but at least it's real and natural food. Who knows what's in some of the processed foods people love to eat.0 -
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Oh man, opened this thread and saw the fertilized duck egg - I'm living in China and I tend to shy away from those things in the grocery store
Even if I did eat eggs, I think I would have a hard time getting this down - the bones would freak me out so bad!
Also, some of the adjectives used to describe delicacies from other cultures are pretty unnecessary - it's not "crap", "disgusting" or "revolting", it's just something you're not used to. So some cultures eat cat or dog - why is that so different than eating a cow or pig? Sure, fertilized duck egg is "like" eating a baby - so is veal, and yet that's not so strange to Western culture.
It's hysterical though, because simple cherished things in American culture are pretty "gross" to a lot of my Chinese students. They are completely freaked out by the concept of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and I've been told more than once that my beloved Dr. Pepper tastes like medicine.0 -
Oh man, I'm surprised I forgot about this until now. LUTEFISK! I've only had it once, and hated it, so it's not really a food I eat regularly. However, I am subjected to its smell every year for my college's traditional Norwegian Christmas Fest.
It's basically fish fermented in lye and served drowning in butter. It smells horrible, tastes bland, and has the texture of a wet diaper.
Served in butter? You're doing it wrong. You're supposed to serve it with fried bacon in fat. (Yes, the sauce is bacon bits in fat). It doesn't taste horrible I think, it doesn't taste anything. The consistency is horrible though, but bacon and mushy peas sort of make up for it (but not enough that I'm willing to make it.) Besides, it's a glorified reason to drink Aquavitae (akkevitt! - potato liquor). (Source: My 21 years on this planet as a Norwegian)
I think horsemeat is extremely delicious, and we usually buy some at the farmers market when the budget allows for it. Farmers markets here usually only sell honey, various meats and cheeses.0 -
Well I have change a lot of habits since I understood the conditions we (European) put animals into to get our food in our supermarkets. I got much more disgusted by the ham in my supermarket when I think to the unhuman way the animal was treated, how it grow up in a cell, became in adult in 3 weeks instead of 9 months, suffered unnecessary pain and stress while dying,... than your photos. I feel that if I buy this meat, I am responsible....so we buy much more expensive meat just to eat animals which grew up and died in normal conditions.
Being disgusted by your photos would also mean I consider my culture is better than yours...and I can not give an opinion until I tried. By the way, we eat animal like sheep, rabbit, horse (they are so beautifull) and even frog leggs and snails here.
In Belgium we are crasy about mussels, but I never understood how crasy was the guy who tried it for the first time: it looks like it has already been eaten and venomous, but a guy tried. What about eating oyster alive?0 -
ok that is just plain nasty!:sick:0
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My initial reaction is that most of these foods are pretty nasty! But it all depends what you were raised with I suppose. In the UK we have black pudding (dried blood and fat in a sausage), brawn (pig or calfs head turned into a meaty jelly, often with brain included), calves feet and other similarly nasty stuff. I still wouldn't eat these things though!
Black pudding:
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I thought of this as I ate dinuguan today. So here are my two:
BALUT- duck embryo
DINUGUAN-pork blood stew with intestine
That looks like diarrhea stew. NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i certainly wouldn't eat it, and I wouldn't dare touch it with a ten foot pole0 -
My initial reaction is that most of these foods are pretty nasty! But it all depends what you were raised with I suppose. In the UK we have black pudding (dried blood and fat in a sausage), brawn (pig or calfs head turned into a meaty jelly, often with brain included), calves feet and other similarly nasty stuff. I still wouldn't eat these things though!
Black pudding:
I would eat that before the stew and the duck embryo LOL0 -
I have tried:
- reindeer - delish!!
- ostrich - my staple meat instead of beef. tastes better and is healthier
- springbok and kudu - whenever I can get hold of it. carpacio is amazing!!
- warthog - one of my favourites
- crocodile - not so nice
- mopani worms - surprisingly tasty!!
- raw oysters - nice if fresh
- haggis - I loved it, which was unexpected as I don't normally like internal organs
- squid heads are awesome, especially the cajun style
- rabbit - did not enjoy, but this could have been because it arrived on the doorstep fully furred, but dead on my birthday.
- pigeon - I did not like it so much
I am not squeamish and do not get put off my food very easily so am normally quite willing to try things. I do prefer my food to not look exactly like it did alive as it is easier to disassociate the food from the animal in my brain. I enjoy meat too much to be a vegetarian but I do love animals, I work with them!! I am not so sure about what carnivores would taste like as my understanding is that their meat is very unpalatable (to discourage other carnivores from going for them). Would probably give it a try though...0 -
I too have traveled around the world and here's my list of crazy dishes eaten:
Pidgeon, lizard, caribou, frogs legs (and no I didn't think it tasted like chicken) and wild boar
I used to travel with candy bars stored in my luggage in case I ran across a meal I truly could not stomach.0 -
My initial reaction is that most of these foods are pretty nasty! But it all depends what you were raised with I suppose. In the UK we have black pudding (dried blood and fat in a sausage), brawn (pig or calfs head turned into a meaty jelly, often with brain included), calves feet and other similarly nasty stuff. I still wouldn't eat these things though!
Black pudding:
I would eat that before the stew and the duck embryo LOL
I love black pudding. Would never had listed it in the disgusting column
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I didn't get to read everyone's replies but i wanted to share our Polish customs: Duck blood soup (which is very tasty and has prunes in it, served over noodles or potatoes), headcheese, chicken feet, pig stomach soup (cream based), krupnik sausage (pig inerds with buckwheat). And my all time favorite for winter: Fish egg soup (eggs from a Northern Pike; I live in MN).
I'm so hungry right now!0 -
Thanksgiving dinner...take the turkey heart, cook, and add to the gravy for the mashed potatoes. YUM!!!!!0
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That means more for me then!:laugh:I thought of this as I ate dinuguan today. So here are my two:
BALUT- duck embryo
DINUGUAN-pork blood stew with intestine
That looks like diarrhea stew. NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i certainly wouldn't eat it, and I wouldn't dare touch it with a ten foot pole
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As I said, I'm vegetarian so I find eating any form of meat kind of gross. Whether it be chicken, beef, pork, even fish. I dislike it. I'm fully ok with others eating meat as it is there body they're putting that into but I'm allowed my own personal opinion on the matter, just like yourself for liking such things. The reason this gets me quite iffy is because it is boiled alive, before it's even hatched, before it's had a chance to look at it's mother. I already said 'good for you that you can stomach that', which was me being serious, I wasn't being sarcastic. Good for you, most people wouldn't go within a 10 foot radius of that stuff so yeah, go you but me, personally? I find it repulsive. That's my opinion, just like it's yours to like it.
Because it ain't alive anymore. Cows were alive before being butchered and so are pigs..................which now makes me think of bacon!!!!!!!!!!!!MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMI'm vegetarian so I eat really basic things, but my appetite is 100% gone after those pictures. I think that's me set for a good 24 hours...
Sorry if you take this offensively but how can you eat something that has been boiled alive? [I googled that **** to find out what the hell it is exactly]. In my eyes, that's like eating an abortion/unborn baby. I really don't get it. Good for you that you can stomach that but no. I really can't figure this one out.
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Also, I find your replies to some of these comments quite rude. I already stated I was vegetarian yet you still felt the need to put that last part. Some people are asking for it, by being very rude towards your lifestyle choice but I don't think my comment was particularly offensive. Plus, I already apologised if it came across that way but you still felt the need to be very obvious [and infantile] with your love for meat in a reply to my post, which, in my eyes, was uncalled for.
You should really have expected some of these replies, considering you posted such graphic pictures so no need for any of it.
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You asked a question. I answered quite unrudely. It might be that you just have thin skin.
As I said, I'm vegetarian so I find eating any form of meat kind of gross. Whether it be chicken, beef, pork, even fish. I dislike it. I'm fully ok with others eating meat as it is there body they're putting that into but I'm allowed my own personal opinion on the matter, just like yourself for liking such things. The reason this gets me quite iffy is because it is boiled alive, before it's even hatched, before it's had a chance to look at it's mother. I already said 'good for you that you can stomach that', which was me being serious, I wasn't being sarcastic. Good for you, most people wouldn't go within a 10 foot radius of that stuff so yeah, go you but me, personally? I find it repulsive. That's my opinion, just like it's yours to like it.
Because it ain't alive anymore. Cows were alive before being butchered and so are pigs..................which now makes me think of bacon!!!!!!!!!!!!MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMI'm vegetarian so I eat really basic things, but my appetite is 100% gone after those pictures. I think that's me set for a good 24 hours...
Sorry if you take this offensively but how can you eat something that has been boiled alive? [I googled that **** to find out what the hell it is exactly]. In my eyes, that's like eating an abortion/unborn baby. I really don't get it. Good for you that you can stomach that but no. I really can't figure this one out.
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Also, I find your replies to some of these comments quite rude. I already stated I was vegetarian yet you still felt the need to put that last part. Some people are asking for it, by being very rude towards your lifestyle choice but I don't think my comment was particularly offensive. Plus, I already apologised if it came across that way but you still felt the need to be very obvious [and infantile] with your love for meat in a reply to my post, which, in my eyes, was uncalled for.
You should really have expected some of these replies, considering you posted such graphic pictures so no need for any of it.
Done with this thread.
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You asked a question. I answered quite unrudely. It might be that you just have thin skin.
Even as a vegan, I'm with Ninerbuff here. He didn't really make any rude comments regarding vegetarianism, etc., just stated a fact - all animals raised for meat are alive at one point. Crabs and lobsters are boiled alive too, would you go up to someone and ask them "how they eat it"? I'd guarantee they'd all give you the same answer - "With butter."
Also, I can't really say that the photos are "graphic" - that's just what the food looks like. Western culture is really desensitized because we don't really like meat to look like animals - my co-workers here in China think Americans are silly for not serving meat dishes with heads/feet/etc. We may not agree/be willing to partake, but that's what food looks like in some parts of the world - don't be so sensitive.0 -
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No... I definitely wouldn't eat any part of that... but the duck embryo is pretty interesting! I guess it's just the biologist in me coming out. Didn't know it was considered food.0
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