Foods you eat that others here probably wouldn't touch!!!

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  • Neonazu
    Neonazu Posts: 6 Member
    DURIAN!!

    I don't know why but I think Westerners don't really like the smell.

    Its pungent, heady smell is aromatic!! :DD
    :happy:
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    I'm curious. All of us "Westerners" are grossed out by foods from other cultures. Are there any Western foods that gross out people from other cultures?
  • Thena81
    Thena81 Posts: 1,265 Member
    feta cheese mmmm im greek, i cant help it lol ;o
  • NightOwl1
    NightOwl1 Posts: 881 Member
    I'm no animal rights person, but the balut is incredibly cruel. I mean like psychopathic crazy cruel. I lived in the Philippines for a year, and I'm extremely glad I never got exposed to it.
  • catshark209
    catshark209 Posts: 1,133 Member
    Cotija cheese smells like diarrhea but it's good.
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    feta cheese mmmm im greek, i cant help it lol ;o

    Doesn't qualify as a food others wouldn't touch! :love:
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    yeah that embryo thing has an ewww factor off the charts.. why not just eat an actual grown up duck? very yummy!
  • Alexdur85
    Alexdur85 Posts: 255 Member
    Omg.. and I was coming into this thread thinking I'd post "See's candy".. yeah.. you win..
  • Kymmu
    Kymmu Posts: 1,650 Member
    i regularly make bone stock. When it sets it's like meat jelly.
    It's very nutritious....
    I have to skim out the bones after 24 hrs of slow cooking.
    They disintegrate in your mouth......
    Is that bad? ( It's high in minerals esp. selenium)
  • jamja
    jamja Posts: 190
    Lard sandwich :)
    Ewww

    oh please! Don't knock it till you try it!
    Don't make me eat it... Please
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    i regularly make bone stock. When it sets it's like meat jelly.
    It's very nutritious....
    I have to skim out the bones after 24 hrs of slow cooking.
    They disintegrate in your mouth......
    Is that bad? ( It's high in minerals esp. selenium)

    I don't think that's gross at all!
    Even with regular meat soups, the best ones are always the ones with the bones included (you take them out after). They impart a great flavour to the soup and you're right, very nutritious. Sometimes we'd even eat the marrow from inside :)
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    Lard sandwich :)
    Ewww

    oh please! Don't knock it till you try it!
    Don't make me eat it... Please

    Eat up!! Well unless there are religious restrictions..
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  • jamja
    jamja Posts: 190
    Ok doesn't look all that bad. Just the idea is hard to get past
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    Ok doesn't look all that bad. Just the idea is hard to get past

    It's really not all that bad. It's gotten an unfairly bad rap. Look up the nutrition info.. less saturated fat than butter, and has unsaturated fat. Also it makes the flakiest pie/pastry..

    1 tbsp

    Calories 115

    Sodium 0 mg

    Total Fat 13 g
    Potassium 0 mg
    Saturated 5 g
    Polyunsaturated 1 g
    Monounsaturated 6 g
    Total Carbs 0 g
    Dietary Fiber 0 g
    Potassium 0 mg
    Sugars 0 g
    Trans 0 g
    Protein 0 g
    Cholesterol 12 mg
  • jamja
    jamja Posts: 190
    Well if you made it for me I might have to eat it.
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    Yeah, I'm apparently pretty tame. Mine's ketchup on scrambled eggs. I call it bloody eggs.
  • VinVenture
    VinVenture Posts: 290
    Yeah, I'm apparently pretty tame. Mine's ketchup on scrambled eggs. I call it bloody eggs.

    After trying the japanese Omurice (light omelette on rice, served with ketchup) I've started having ketchup on all kinds of fried egg. Just makes them better.
  • brookepenni
    brookepenni Posts: 787 Member
    My 2 cents worth... The OP wanted to shock so it's a bit rich she gets on her high horse and expresses her upset with people being rude. No one is mocking the culture - just the fact you chose to call out with excitement your weird food fetishes...

    I've done alot of traveling, but both those things I couldn't consider, same goes for cat or dog...

    I have had quite often goat which I like (you can buy it easily here in Australia) and amongst other things rabbit (they are a pest!), emu, buffalo, crocodile oh and of course kangaroo.

    Traveling through Egypt I once tried pigeon. Way too many bones for me. Through Cambodia earlier this year my boyfriend tried an array of spiders, crickets, water bugs and other weird insects. He said the frogs stuffed with lemon grass were lovely. I don't go guts. So nothing whole for me. I also don't like feet.... Ewwww.
  • bigdawg62
    bigdawg62 Posts: 127 Member
    I was in the Marine Corps during the 80's and we went to the Phillipines quite frequently. It was a ritual when we went out in town to raise hell that we would always make the new guy eat Balut. So yes I have had it and surprisingly its not bad, the beak is a bit crunchy though.
  • dobarber
    dobarber Posts: 611 Member
    I think I just turned vegan.
  • JoDeeD
    JoDeeD Posts: 391
    Apparently I am tame too! I will try most things and am getting more adventurous. I won't try chitlings though. I love vinegar based things.
  • auctoritas
    auctoritas Posts: 204
    Horse. I really like horse. Especially raw.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    Lard sandwich :)
    Ewww

    oh please! Don't knock it till you try it!
    I'd try it. Probably like it too since I like to eat "real" fried pork skins.


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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    DURIAN!!

    I don't know why but I think Westerners don't really like the smell.

    Its pungent, heady smell is aromatic!! :DD
    :happy:
    I've heard of it, and apparently it smells like wet dirty socks. But heck, walk into a locker room and you get used to the smell.


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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    i regularly make bone stock. When it sets it's like meat jelly.
    It's very nutritious....
    I have to skim out the bones after 24 hrs of slow cooking.
    They disintegrate in your mouth......
    Is that bad? ( It's high in minerals esp. selenium)
    I've had this. It's good.


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  • Sexi4eva
    Sexi4eva Posts: 20
    Nasty!!!! Just Plain Nasty!!!!
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    I was in the Marine Corps during the 80's and we went to the Phillipines quite frequently. It was a ritual when we went out in town to raise hell that we would always make the new guy eat Balut. So yes I have had it and surprisingly its not bad, the beak is a bit crunchy though.
    That's when you know you've eaten balut!


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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    Apparently I am tame too! I will try most things and am getting more adventurous. I won't try chitlings though. I love vinegar based things.
    Then you may like dinuguan (blood stew). We make it with vinegar.


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  • Jorra
    Jorra Posts: 3,338 Member
    My 2 cents worth... The OP wanted to shock so it's a bit rich she gets on her high horse and expresses her upset with people being rude. No one is mocking the culture - just the fact you chose to call out with excitement your weird food fetishes...

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    Yup. She.

    I also wouldn't call it a weird food fetish, it's a traditional dish. I would be interested in the dinuguan, but probably not the balut. I don't even like fried chicken with bones in it.
  • Cbandelier
    Cbandelier Posts: 217 Member
    I'm no animal rights person, but the balut is incredibly cruel. I mean like psychopathic crazy cruel. I lived in the Philippines for a year, and I'm extremely glad I never got exposed to it.


    Compared to the way that commercial chickens and other food animals are currently raised and slaughtered today, that little duckling's death seems pretty humane to me.
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