posted on May 31, 2001 04:55:01 AM new
i love collard greens with lots of cider vinager on it. boy does it drive my husband out of the house! what a stink.
posted on May 31, 2001 08:36:33 AM new
Pepper Pot Soup - made of tripe. Stuff costs $1.23 a can. Can't hardly buy it around here. Campbell even stopped making it for a couple of years.
Collards are great, I drink the pot likker.
Aligator only tastes good thinly sliced and deep-fat fried. It's too soft to BBQ, in my opinion.
BBQ pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw on it.
Stuffed cabbage cooked with lots of sourkraut.
I love salted baked pigskin, chewy, with a little fat still on them. I'll eat them deep-fat fried but it'll make me sick.
Warm apple strudel or cherry pie with sour cream.
For my money: Frog does not taste like chicken. Neither does rattlesnake. Escargot tastes like pencil erasers dipped in garlic. So does octopus. Turtle tastes like beef gone bad. Ditto for black bear. Conch defies description.
Deer is OK ground with beef. Elk is awesome.
Caviar is nasty. Who's idea was that? It even looks awful.
My most recent EBAY aquisition is called "Entertaining with Insects; the original guide to insect cookery". But I bought it for the shock value, and to add dimension to my cookbook collection. I would no more eat them than I would prepare the recipes I have for "Calf's Head" or "Monkey Gland". But I love letting people read them.
posted on May 31, 2001 09:01:08 AM new
If you would like to read about eating weird things. Read Across China by Peter Jenkins. I read this book over 10 years ago and I can't remember all the foods he ate but they were quite weird.
posted on May 31, 2001 04:43:22 PM new
Use to love to dip french fries in my Wendy's Frosty. Never tried peanut butter and honey on toast. But use to eat peanut butter and honey mixed in a bowl. My mom use to love to drink buttermilk with a little salt and peper in it. One of my favorite snacks use to be potato chips and chocolate bars. Saw in the store over the weekend, microwaveable pork rinds. Haven't tried them yet. At $3.00 a box was a little pricey just in cause they were nasty tasting things.
posted on May 31, 2001 05:19:30 PM new
(shuddering) Eeewww! Some of you have listed some nasty-sounding stuff! Blech!
I'm a picky eater, so I don't like many weird things. Heck, I don't like many NON-weird things! LOL!
But here's some of the more unusual stuff I do like:
Orange juice and vanilla ice cream. In a glass. Together.
A wedge of sharp cheddar cheese, and a glass of orange juice. (I love orange juice!)
Fried okra. But it has to be fried until it's black.
Fried chicken livers, if my mom cooks them her "special" way ... and if I don't see them beforehand.
Saltine crackers ON a cheese sandwich.
Barbecue pizza from Pizza Hut. Supposedly it's a regional thing, so I don't know if it's available everywhere. It sounds gross, but boy oh boy it's GOOD!
posted on May 31, 2001 06:03:18 PM new
When it comes to food, I'm known as "plain jane".
I scrape sauce off pizza, I HATE tomoatoes in any way, shape, or form (and I'm italian!). When my grandmother would make her spaghetti or lasagna dinners she'd make me a bowl of pasta plain with butter!
I can never even order anything "normal" at a fast-food restaurant - everything has to be special ordered. Chicken sandwich, no tomato. Whopper with pickles and lettuce ONLY. Tacos with meat and lettuce ONLY. I also hate cheese.
The only thing I may be weird about, is I love ANCHOVIES on pizza. Can't have pizza without the fish!
posted on May 31, 2001 07:41:41 PM new
Pharlap that is totally disgusting, yuk, my poor stomach is churning just at the thought of french fries and ice cream.
Now the peanut paste and banana I will go with you on that one, I grew up eating that, and I still sometimes have banana and peanut paste on toast.
I can not remember who it was that said about the taste of liver and onion, but oh lord if there is one food that is going to make me throw up, that is it. I can not look at it raw or cooked, and the smell of it cooking ...........enough said.
Tripe is another food that can turn my stomach just thinking about it, my mother used to feed it to us when we were young, it was cheap and went a long way.....It went a long way because no one wanted to eat it.
posted on May 31, 2001 07:55:44 PM new
Peanut butter & blackeye pea sandwiches. The peanut butter melts and gives the blackeye peas a nutty sorta flavor--very good!
I also eat a lot of "wild game" which can include but is not limited to: rattlesnake, neutra (yep, looks like a big rat, but is very tasty) and bobcat.
I hate to see anything killed just to be killed, so that is why I started eating the strange stuff. When someone I know shoots something they consider a varmint they bring it to me. They know if they don't, and I find out about it, they have to listen to my lecture about some poor creature giving up it's life for nothing. I have even been know to eat "road kill"...a big jackrabbit jumped into the side of my car and broke his neck. I couldn't just leave him there, so I picked him up took him home and made a stew.
I really haven't found too many things that cannot be eaten. I have never tried skunk, though I am sure it is probably edible if you could get past the smell!
posted on May 31, 2001 08:16:58 PM new
Menudo is only served once a week for one reason (other than it takes forever to make): It is *the* drinking food.
A bowl before drinking will save your life (trust me on this). Also, it is the BEST cure for a hang over, hence only served on Saturdays.
Sure, you can get 'ok' Menudo durring the week, but the really good stuff is only served on Saturdays.
Tripe is a delicacy in many cultures, and while some might call menudo something other than a delicacy, it is one indeed. The true character of a Mexican restaurant is seen in its tortillas and its menudo, and not just on Saturdays.
To enjoy tripe, you have to develop a love for textured foods which acquire their taste from their surroundings.
Chinese serve tripe as a pure delicacy, available at many dim sum restaurants. It's easy to compare the honeycomb variant from the stringy kind.
Tripe is a standard ingrediant of pho, the great Vietnamese soup.
It just doesn't get any better than some of the tripe dishes served in Parisian sidewalk cafes. Exquisite sauces. Pronounced "treeps", they'll point out.
It's a sincere tragedy that most Americans eat plenty of tripe, but ground into sausage and hot dogs.
posted on May 31, 2001 10:39:41 PM new
stusi=
There is an ostrich ranch near where I live and I get ostrich jerky there. Very good too!
victoria=
don't eat the black caviar, you have to eat the large orange salmon caviar. As a kid we would roll them in our mouth and see how long it took before they popped...
roofguy=
Ever try Nutella? It's a chocolate/hazelnut spread made in Italy. Great with toast!
thedewey=
your orangejuice/ice cream mix sounds good, almost like a creamy orange julius.
My son eats his french fries dipped in a concoction of catsup (whats the diff between 'catsup' and 'ketchup' anyways?) and mustard. He calls it "cats-turd"...
posted on June 1, 2001 12:28:16 AM new
Oh yummy. Malady, have you ever tried Nutella in the single serve packs. Stick it in the fridge or freezer for a short time and then take it out and simply enjoy. Or if you buy the big jar, just eat it with the spoon, and don't forget to hide it from the kids'.
posted on June 1, 2001 01:11:52 AM new
Wow, I read this whole thread and I'm gonna barf! I have had peanut butter and honey on toast, likewise chocolate spread on bread (kind of like peanut butter, it's standard breakfast fare on kibbutzim). This weekend I was opening a can of olives for my kids and I chugged the juice. Straight, not sissy-fied with water. Probably won't do that again but I was thirsty and it was cold. 'Definitely give a pass on the cow balls. This is one of the more interesting threads I've seen at AW. Eeeew!
Not much to confess. I like horseradish?? (No, it's not made of horses.)
posted on June 1, 2001 01:53:28 AM new
I must say that I do not eat the nasty tripe, dog food additive, animal waste, testicle, bloody flesh garbage that you people eat!
3 meals a day at Red Lobster from now on would be perfect after this thread.
~
Sweet lazy life
Champagne and shrimp scampi
I hope you'll come and find me
Cause you know who we are
Those who deserve the best in life
And know what money's worth
And those whose sole misfortune
Was having mountains o' nothing at birth
posted on June 1, 2001 07:12:23 AM new
Nettak=
I have never had nutella in the single packs. I usually get the large jar (at costco). Have had it by the spoonfull-great stuff! Besides toast it's delish smeared on cookies with a large glass of milk...
