Can't find coagulated pigs blood soup on list!

ihateroses

I work at a public school in South Korea where eating like a Korean is important and respected (not to mention delicious!). At this point though I think that the Principal and Vice Principal are putting me through a series of food tests to confirm their belief that Americans/foreigners cannot eat all Korean food.

Yesterday I ate coagulated pigs blood soup...they were impressed.....I think the next teachers dinner will be live octopus.

Might have to draw the line there. :happy:

What are some strange foods you have tried?

Lib_B

Balut. It didn't make it down and the rest of my stomach's contents came back up.

Jacwhite22

wow. I almost threw up in my mouth a little bit just reading that....You have a stronger stomach than I do.

Tonnina

Rocky Mountain Oysters... So meaty!
Fried Alligator... Nice flavor, doesn't actually taste like chicken!
Salt water as well as fresh water eel... MMM!
Bison meat... Rich and velvety!
Corn Nuts lol!

ejohndrow

I was going to say it seemed weird you couldn't find that, since it's obviously something westerners eat all the time. I think I'd be ok with the live octopus, and it's the coagulated pig's blood soup where I'd draw the line.

Truthfully I haven't eaten anything really crazy, I think menudo has been the strangest thing, but I'm down to try (nearly) anything.

ninerbuff

I eat all the "challenging" Filipino foods like dinuguan, balut, kare-kare with tripe. No fear from me.

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ihateroses

Balut. It didn't make it down and the rest of my stomach's contents came back up.

Dodged that bullet when I was in the Philippines...I just don't think I could handle the texture.

raybanfan11

Woooooowww dinuguan. Yummy. =P

nisemac

i'm near your neck of the woods...Beijing. Only 'different' thing I've had so far is jellyfish...oh, and the local grain alcohol. I haven't had the sea cucumber or the scorpions-crickets-silkworms-starfish-lizard-sea horses-on-a-stick yet.

btw, love Korean food. my daughter has started making cabbage and radish kimchi!

gp79

I spent a year in Mindanao and have tried many things, although never balut. A couple years ago I tried some sort of warm raw fish in a fermented coconut paste while in Tahiti, I can't say I'd do that again but I gave it a fair shot.

Jorra

Lutefisk. It has no taste but the butter they drown it in, but it smells horribly and feels like a wet diaper in your mouth.

EbbySoo

Steak Tartare, beef sashimi (this is very rare to find on menu...)

littlelily613

I am a vegetarian now, but last April when I was in Florida I was not-- we went to Gatorland and I had a few pieces of fried alligator. It wasn't bad, but I wasn't fond of the look of it inside, and now that I am vegetarian I certainly wouldn't eat it again. My dad fed me moose and deer when I was a kid, and I think fish tongues and cheeks (which I probably wouldn't have eaten had I know--he was a fisherman and brought home EVERYTHING). Like I said, I won't eat any of that now though.

rudegyal_b

blood sausage, cant say it was gross tho, its actually pretty damn good (but im pescatarian now)

AnneMichelsen

I ate a grasshopper once that had hopped into our solar oven by mistake. It was actually delicious!

PegasusDeb

This is why I don't travel abroad! My stomach could not handle that weird stuff. (or maybe it's my head that can't handle it! lol)
I think I ate horse meat once on a cruise. It was delish.

BondBomb

Somehow I thought this post would involve a prom followed by a gym fire. Can't say I'm not a little dissappointed.

ninerbuff

Lots of pics on this thread including a goat fetus.


http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/351460-foods-you-eat-that-others-here-probably-wouldn-t-touch?error_user_id=9285851&error_username=ninerbuff&hl=foods+that+you+eat+that+others

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ihateroses

Lots of pics on this thread including a goat fetus.


http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/351460-foods-you-eat-that-others-here-probably-wouldn-t-touch?error_user_id=9285851&error_username=ninerbuff&hl=foods+that+you+eat+that+others

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Nice! Idk how I missed it

p.s. I find it a hilarious coincidence that we both thought of posting this after eating pigs blood soup hahaha

AH2013

You are all making me want to vomit

It's too early in the morning for me to even think about some of these things you are mentioning (most of which I had to look up on google), but as a Scot I used to always eat haggis (spiced oats and meat cooked in sheep's stomach) and black pudding (oats etc mixed with pigs blood and cooked) so I guess that some of these things aren't so strange.

ninerbuff

This thread should be a sticky for people who have binging urges. They should have to read it and look at pictures. Of course if they were like me, they'd go an eat.

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Anomalia

cow tongue, chicken hearts.

Anomalia

Lots of pics on this thread including a goat fetus.


http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/351460-foods-you-eat-that-others-here-probably-wouldn-t-touch?error_user_id=9285851&error_username=ninerbuff&hl=foods+that+you+eat+that+others

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I actually did just get sick looking at the balut...

princeza9

In Beijing (how I sometimes miss it)- Baijiu and chicken stomach
Edinburgh, Scotland- haggis

When vising friends in South Korea, I managed to get away with trying kimchi once.

hbunting86

Something I tried and couldn't stomach was Fijian Cava.... awful and potent!

amy32lynn

ugh ugh so gross

Meeperslove

I have tried haggis, blood pudding, chicken heart, beef tongue, Sea snail, octopus on a stick, horse burgers, mushroom cookies

emczech5

In the way of weird I've eaten shark, alligator, octopus and tlacenka which is a czech dish I could only describe as meat jello. My husband has eaten capybara.

kokaneesailor

Whole deep fried sparrows, my guest's children used slingshots to down the birds which were sitting on the power lines. I was a UN soldier at the time and this happened in Syria back in 86.

After dinner coffee was passed around and everyone drank from the same cup. His mother had no teeth so it was kinda a bit weird for me. Its very rude to refuse food that is offered to you, so I ate/ drank what was offered to me.

AlessisMore

I've had guinea pig (really does taste like chicken) and alpaca (tough but tasty). Oh, and a lot of bugs when I'm biking :P

leadoff

I had Black Pudding ONCE while in Glascow, Scotland.