mmmmm. I long for black pudding. Only get it about once a year.

Y'know, it seems to me that whatever we are socialized with, what we grow up with, isn't disgusting. I remember eating brains once, and once I got past the nasty texture, they really weren't bad. Cow brains. I grew up eating heart, liver, kidneys of beef, elk, deer. I guess that's as bad as it got for me. Oh wait, I forgot chilimac. I just LOVE chilimac. Now that's disgusting. People here eat roe -- the eggs -- of say, kingfish, or dolphin[fish] for breakfast. Ugh. Nasty fishiness to me. I guess it's mostly perspective.

A friend of mine goes to a restaurant in Florida that serves fried bat. She says they don't have a lot of taste - that they are just crunchy.

FRog legs? They're WONderful!! I haven't thought about that in a long time. There was a place aboutt 50 miles south of Salmon called the 28 Club, and we went there for frog legs and it was a delicacy to us.

Oh crap. I've transmogrivied into that old phart stage wherein one laments fondly about past mastications. ugh.

Okay, to recover somewhat on topic, a local delicacy here is called cowfoot. There's a very good reason it's called that. Y'know, I'm pretty open minded, I think, but certain things in life I've not had to try to know they didn't fit.

ha ha!

In my family, we call pigs feet LE PIE, you have to say it with a French accent like calling Targets TARGET in French. Its not funny when its typed.
Anyway, since frogs are my phobia there's no way i'd masticate one of those babies

Fried bats?
I dont think, i know i'd vomit

Froglegs are always in the back of my mind when i go into a restaurant and the texture of the chicken is questionable.
Whats more expensive frog legs or chicken?

No one has mentioned 'mountain oysters'... fried pig nu... er, ba... er, testicles. Something I haven't had the ba... er, testicles to try yet, but I've heard they're real good.

I've personally never figured out why people get all grossed out when I mention fried rattlesnake though... that IS delicious!

TheRedneck

Originally posted by dgtempe
Whats more expensive frog legs or chicken?

Def frogs legs.
Fortunately I had a 'dealer' in Dubai..
A few beers and Pierre would sort me out with a 'fix'

Another 'weird' taste was the stuffed vine leaves in Greece.They REALLY have a fixation for Dill over there..
They put it in everything..Must be cheap or something.

I'll try anything once but the one thing I really don't like is when they put those finely sliced nuts on desserts.. it's just plain wrong!!

It's like ice-cream with sprouts or something.. they just SHOULDN'T be in the same serving.

OMG OMG We bought this interesting looking cheese from France. It's called Morbier, but we remember it as "morbid". We bought it out of town, so when we got it home, opened it, smelled it, and nearly died from the smell, we couldn't return it easily.
The next time we were in that city, we decided that the cheese just must have gone "bad", and so we bought more to try! OMG this time we got past the smell but decided to taste it, and nearly died from the taste.

If you really think about it, almost everything besides fruit, vegetables, and grains is pretty gross.

Eggs: Chicken embryos. Yummy!
Milk: Animal breast milk. Yummy!
Meat: The corpse/flesh of an animal. Yummy!
Wine: Fermented grape juice. Yummy!
Cheese/Yogurt: Bacteria cultures. Yummy!

Etc.

Not that I don't love all of the above but when you start to think about what you are really eating, it can make you squirm, regardless of how used to it you are.

Anyone here like Limburger cheeze or Liverworst... actually I like them both, but most people hate them

Oh and I haven't seen anyone mention Liver either. And if you think about eating a chunk of someones liver, well that is pretty disgusting.

Ooo argentus " mmmmm. I long for black pudding. Only get it about once a year. "

being the big hairy scotsman that i am, i cant go without my roll on black putting or haggis and brown sauce every morning, washed down with some Irn Bru... Both are served in my office canteen.


You guys also need to try the scottish delicacy of " deep fried Mars bar "..

Absolutely awesome!



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