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SC Bracer posted:Anyway, how about this lovely delicacy? I'm allergic to peanuts and don't know what they taste like. Maybe I should try some salted termites just so I know what I'm missing.
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Gaunab posted:I love chicken gizzards for some odd reason even after finding out what they are. It's the muscle in the chicken that squeezes poop out. Chewy and delicious though. Here, tripa. Those are the intestines of the cow/pig.  You have to be very careful if you buy them on the street,sometimes they don't clean them properly and you will get tacos with a nasty surprise. It happened to me once, all my dinner went straight to the garbage can 
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Durian tastes a lot better than it smells, although I never thought the smell was that bad anyway. Pretty messy to eat though. Here's a treat from Cambodia - fried tarantulas:  I've never tried one unfortunately, but apparently they just taste like soft shelled crab.
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Tytan posted:Durian tastes a lot better than it smells, although I never thought the smell was that bad anyway. Pretty messy to eat though. I think I'll just eat soft-shelled crab instead 
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Bad Roy posted:I think I'll just eat soft-shelled crab instead A crab is just as gross as a spider. I think I'd rather eat the spider.
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Was Den Bruna Maten posted yet? If not, here it is. It's in Swedish but everyone knows Swedish anyway.
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madlilnerd posted:A crab is just as gross as a spider. I think I'd rather eat the spider. For UK goons there is a pretty good documentary on BBC iplayer about the benefits eating tarantulas and all manner of creepy crawly stuff. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01599yk/Can_Eating_Insects_Save_the_World/ Not sure non-UK goons can see but it's worth a watch.
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Half of these things I would probably eat if it was presented well and actually tasted good. There other half I might need a blindfold to stomach it. 
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Czernina is pretty much the worst thing, it's a duck blood soup with dried fruit and honey. Historically, when a girl's parents didn't like the guy applying for her hand, they served him this. 
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twosideddice posted:For UK goons there is a pretty good documentary on BBC iplayer about the benefits eating tarantulas and all manner of creepy crawly stuff. Works in Canada. Not sure if I'm happy about that or not, though. loving waterbugs. :| e: and the tarantulas, oh god. That said, that segment made me extremely thankful for my life in a first world country: I didn't have to dig up my food every day as a child, spider or not. cowboythreespeech has a new favorite as of 16:31 on Mar 21, 2013 |
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Tytan posted:Durian tastes a lot better than it smells, although I never thought the smell was that bad anyway. Pretty messy to eat though. Has anyone eaten a large bug like this? I'm just curious not about the taste but the texture. Are they mushy or do they actually have a more dense meat-like texture to them? I'm realizing that I have no idea of the inner-workings of the insect body. I've always pictured them filled with goo.
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I think I'd try anything in this thread, including the menstrual cookies, before I touched that chicken in a can. I'm seriously curious about who buys that.
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http://tolweb.org/Arthropoda/2469 I have to imagine their meat would be similar to crustacean meat.
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Tytan posted:Durian tastes a lot better than it smells, although I never thought the smell was that bad anyway. Pretty messy to eat though. EDIT: ^^^ Yeah, I'm imagining a slightly stringy texture like crab or lobster. Also this:  http://www.galaxylink.com.hk/~john/food/cooking/canton/shuangpinai.html It's double skinned milk over here, though I think overseas you guys might call it milk pudding? Doesn't look gross at all but for some reason the majority of the people I know just cannot loving stand it, maybe it's the texture or something. My favorite desert after durian puree with sago though. Deadly Chlorine has a new favorite as of 16:44 on Mar 21, 2013 |
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schwenz posted:Has anyone eaten a large bug like this? They're apparently quite meaty, with a white meat similar to fish or crab. The abdomen is a different story though: quote:There are certainly those who might not enjoy the abdomen, however, as it contains a brown paste consisting of organs, possibly eggs, and excrement. Some call it a delicacy while others recommend not eating it.
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Man, I dunno. Most of these foods look loving delicious. That wok of pig's intestines? gently caress, sign me up. Give me the whole thing. Dump some soy sauce on that mother. I'd want to eat a tarantula if they taste as people say they do but...I'm way too scared of spiders to be able to actually eat one. Maybe blindfolded.
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Tytan posted:Here's a treat from Cambodia - fried tarantulas: The nightmares  madlilnerd posted:A crab is just as gross as a spider. I think I'd rather eat the spider. ... WHY
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Crabs, spiders, scorpions, lobsters- all arthropods. Only difference is that crabs and lobster smell like sea water.
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Twee as gently caress posted:The nightmares Crabs have far unhealthier diets than spiders, being scavengers and carrion-eaters as opposed to active hunters and predators. Both creatures have long, articulated legs, come in a variety of freakish shapes and sizes...most people just find crabs alien, while spiders they find unsettling. I'd rather eat crab too, but there's no logic to that. Spider meat would be, with the possible exception of poison/toxins, much better for you on the basis of a better diet, I'd surmise.
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FedoraDefender420 posted:Anyway, State dish of South Australia, the Meat Pie Floater. My grandma used to serve us that as kids, only with tinned soup instead of peas. It was pretty awesome aged 10, but now I think about it, heavily processed and ridiculously unhealthy. Heinz vegetable soup and Hollands potato and meat pie, microwaved until lava-hot. Delicious. (Genuinely considering buying a pie and some peas after work so I can make a meat pie floater for tea).
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RentCavalier posted:I'd rather eat crab too, but there's no logic to that. Spider meat would be, with the possible exception of poison/toxins, much better for you on the basis of a better diet, I'd surmise. Not really, spider venom isn't resistant to stomach acid. Tarantulas, if you don't burn the hairs off them, would caused throat irritation, and/or an allergic reaction. Lonely Virgil has a new favorite as of 18:08 on Mar 21, 2013 |
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Lonely Virgil posted:Not really, spider venom isn't resistant to stomach acid. Tarantulas, if you don't burn the hairs off them, would caused throat irritation, and/or an allergic reaction. Venom is only dangerous if it gets into the blood stream anyway. Also, we don't eat horses, cows, or pigs with their hair still on. (I don't anyway.)
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The mayonnaise in Belgian friteries has a higher egg yolk to oil ratio than the commercial bottled mayonnaise available in North America, but it's not that different. We're just not used to it. I prefer the curry ketchup sauce in any case.
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Target Practice posted:When my brother and I were children, our great-grandmother (born in Brazil in the 1910s) would sometimes make us a desert that consisted of raw egg yolks, well beaten with just sugar. This was eaten raw and cold, with the sugar undissolved so as to be gritty. This was before the whole salmonella paranoia set in. I still have it every once and a while, but it's just not as good as she used to make it. My dad used to eat this when he was a kid in Italy! Raw eggs beaten with a ton of sugar, poured over toast (I think he would have eaten it over polenta). It's called "Oufs Sbatúus" in his dialect ("Uove Battate" in Italian; just means "Beaten Eggs"). He used to make it for me and my brother as a Sunday morning treat when we were kids, and we loved it.
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Lonely Virgil posted:Crabs, spiders, scorpions, lobsters- all arthropods. Only difference is that crabs and lobster smell like sea water.
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HighClassSwankyTime posted:Fries + Belgian mayonaise is awesome and there is nothing disgusting about it Yeah, mayo and fries are a really good pairing, specifically if it's mayonnaise that hasn't undergone whatever industrial black magic they perform to give it a shelf life of a year+. Only recently did I discover that mayo doesn't actually have the consistency of a refrigerated meringue when encountered in the wild. Tastes better too. --- I have one that isn't just an "Ewww, bugs/cows brain suspended in aspic/food that isn't from around heeeeeere!" type anti-food porn food. This is the perfect synthesis of food science gone wrong and the modern poverty diet. This is everything wrong with American food in a nutshell. This will destroy your kidneys and melt your digestive system down to a toxic slurry. May I introduce... the Mother-in-Law.  Your appreciation of the Mother-in-Law may vary, based on whether or not imgur feels like loading the image when you get to my post. Right off the bat, let me say it is a Chicago culinary invention, which is enough to tell you there is basically nothing of nutritional value contained within and that, unless you are a lumberjack or miner, it will make you fat. But there is something so inherently wrong with the combination of ingredients used in the construction of a Mother-in-Law that puts it beyond the acceptability of normal Chicago gut busters. Like a lot of Chicago foods, it's really just a riff on a traditional meal; in this case the torta de tamal, which is a torta with a tamale in the middle (thank you, Wikipedia). We do it up a little differently though. Our Mother-in-Law doesn't like you. First the tamale. A Mother-in-Law traditionally employs a Chicago-style tamale, which is a tamale only because we insist that it is. Chicago style tamales are mass produced in a factory, come out in long tubes and are whacked with a blade at regular intervals to make many smaller tamales that are roughly the length of your average one, then wrapped in white paper and sold frozen in a bag. The tamale itself consists of an outer layer of paste that sort of resembles- in both taste and texture- crumbly yellow playdoh and a gritty brownish meatish paste core whose principle flavors are salt and fat. You steam them to heat them up. Instead of a Torta, the tamale is placed in a hot dog bun. Chicago hot dog buns are extra glutey and generally steamed as well, which means they have an extremely chewy- almost gooey- texture when warmed. This pairs well with the hard snap of, say, a hot dog or polish, but when married to a wad of salted food clay it just feels wrong. Next step is the garnish. Dress with the cheapest, sub-Hormel, "chili" you can find sold at flea markets in oil drums, maybe also some cheese sauce (the highly acidic "nacho cheese" cheese sauce you get at 7-11s preferred) and nice pickled peppers as well, in order to guarantee dyspepsia immediately upon consumption. There's a reason they call it the Mother-in-Law; it makes you miserable until it's done passing through. Mother-in-Laws are best paired with a tall glass of warm Malort or maybe a sterno cocktail.
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Didja Redo posted:Yeah, but with the seafood, the hard parts stay on the plate. You're eating soft, tender flesh, not a hairy crunchy mass of chitinous legs. A crunchy mass of legs are usually very delicious:  But,well, here have a roasted iguana instead:  I believe you don't eat this in the USA? I've read that every time one is caught you throw it back to the water, in my hometown you are out of you mind if you do that: 
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Twee as gently caress posted:The nightmares I don't know, there's something about them being furry rather than slimy looking, plus the appeal of knowing that no-one drowned at sea harvesting them  . Also my family aren't big on seafood, so I find crabs etc a bit weird. I've never had an oyster.Mealworms though, I've eaten those.  My mum buys them freeze dried to feed to garden birds, so I decided to try a few one day after reading a New Scientist article on bug proteins. I can't really remember what they taste like, sort of meaty/umami? The dried ones stick in your throat a little. I've also had dried crickets, a bit like this but smaller:  My cheerleading captain brought some to a cheer sleepover and insisted we all try them. Not too bad, again they stick in your mouth a little. I don't think I would have a problem with eating bugs in the future. I'm sure you could process maggot protein into a block just like tofu. I remember there being a HSBC advert a little while back where they put some sprinkles on a skewer full of crickets. I'd totally go for some of that. Ditch the boring Bahn Mi trucks and bring on the sprinkle bug truck!
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Rabbit Hill posted:My dad used to eat this when he was a kid in Italy! Raw eggs beaten with a ton of sugar, poured over toast (I think he would have eaten it over polenta). It's called "Oufs Sbatúus" in his dialect ("Uove Battate" in Italian; just means "Beaten Eggs"). He used to make it for me and my brother as a Sunday morning treat when we were kids, and we loved it. If Alton Brown is to be believed, Salmonella is a recent occurance in eggs, and even now is not as likely as people treat it as. Although Alton might just really like his home-made mayonaise and nog. Buy pasteurized eggs if you can find them. Also, do Dropies go in here? They don't look gross, taste awesome (once you get used to them), but are really, really, really salty.
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Call Now posted:Czernina is pretty much the worst thing, it's a duck blood soup with dried fruit and honey. Wanted to post this one, but it's not something you can eat everyday due to lack of fresh blood  Either way it's pretty tasty and depending what will you add ranges in taste similarity from chicken broth to tomato soup, but always stays creamy. Now, for something disgusting that most of Poles will indeed eat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaki#Poland - a soup made from beef guts. Another thing that most English people find weird is the fact of self-made buttermilk - you just put the milk in a darkened place for it to ferment (I don't know if that's the correct word). The milk however cannot be processed otherwise it will just go bad. Good buttermilk can be chunky. I also get strange looks when I bring pancakes filled with ham & cheese, or pâté, or even white sweet cheese - in UK pancakes are eaten only with jam and any other combination is blasphemy (at least in my parts). My brother however would have eaten pancakes with vegeta or mustard. And lastly - sour cucumbers. Unlike pickles, these are put in a solution of salt, water and herbs and jarred for 3 and more months, so that they undergo a process of fermentation. For fresh cucumbers we don't bother with putting them into jars and just put them into pots, so they can spoil for a week. We also drink the sour cucumber juice.
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Whoever posted poutine in this thread, gently caress you. That stuff is amazing. Content: http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/ A (now rather old) blog about a guy trying disgusting foods, including some already mentioned here (huitlacoche, silkworm pupae, natto). Some of the things in this thread I can't imagine myself eating (bugs, random organ meats, etc.) but I can see how they're acceptable foods. Menstrual blood cookies? NO.
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I think my favorite is the "Pickled Pork Rinds." quote:I knew I was in trouble as soon as I opened the jar, and heard no reassuring vacuum seal. I must admit that made me nervous, but what are the odds of a dusty jar of warm pig skin going bad, right? And, quote:While I cannot endorse the eating of Pickled Pork Rinds, I do endorse playing with it like a puzzle. I did have some fun trying to put the pig back together, but eventually that got boring as I lost the will to live. 
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madlilnerd posted:I don't know, there's something about them being furry rather than slimy looking, plus the appeal of knowing that no-one drowned at sea harvesting them I will never in my life ever eat a meal worm, nor gently caress with meal worms for all my days. You see, I used to have a lizard. And this lizard liked to eat meal worms. Eat crickets too, but we liked to give him live meal worms so he could run around and hunt. Well, one day, he got sick or lost his appetite or something. And we put a few live meal worms in there with him, in case he got hungry. He lay still in the corner of the cage for a day or two. Lizards do that, reptiles can be very lazy, we didn't think much of it. Then, on the third day, we pushed aside the lid and reached in to take him out. Shifting his body revealing glistening holes, and from them slithered out fat, well-fed meal worms. The worms had eaten him alive, possibly from the inside out. Mealworms. Yeah. They make a good meal alright. Out of you. or your lizard, god rest ye smaug
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RentCavalier posted:I will never in my life ever eat a meal worm, nor gently caress with meal worms for all my days. You see, I used to have a lizard. And this lizard liked to eat meal worms. Eat crickets too, but we liked to give him live meal worms so he could run around and hunt. Well, one day, he got sick or lost his appetite or something. And we put a few live meal worms in there with him, in case he got hungry. If it consoles you he probably died and the worms scavenged him.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Was Den Bruna Maten posted yet? If not, here it is. It's in Swedish but everyone knows Swedish anyway. I know there are a ton of traditional dishes that involve jellied meat and gelatin in general (head cheese, sulze, etc.), but I have never seen one of these elaborate meat-and-veg aspic molds outside of 1950-1970s era cookbooks. Where did this kind of dish come from? Do people still regularly eat this anywhere? Is it associated with any particular holiday or occasion? In my opinion, aside from the bodily-fluid based dishes and the canned chicken, this is the most unappetizing and downright alien food in thread. Has anyone eaten one of these quivering monstrosities?
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The neat thing is gelatin itself is meat based and the meat gelatin dishes came first, so there must have been a time when people were turning their noses up at strawberry jello.
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I always pictured original use as just a thickening agent or the stuff that suspends small chunks of meat in the meat-matrix that is head cheese type deli meats. These gelatin salads with like 12 things floating in them was what I found bizarre. My grandparents, who are from the midwest USA, used to do a similar sort of thing with the dessert jello molds at christmas dinner. I never liked jello as a kid, so I was always grossed out and kind of confused that there was canned pineapple, marshmallows, pretzels, maraschino cherries, celery bits, and walnuts floating in it. They were great cooks otherwise, I guess I never *got* jello salads.
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:If it consoles you he probably died and the worms scavenged him. I used to care for lizards as a student. One of the things they always said is you gotta crush the head of a mealworm before you feed that sucker to a lizard. So what I'm saying is yeah, they prolly ate him alive.
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King Pawn posted:I think I'd try anything in this thread, including the menstrual cookies, before I touched that chicken in a can. People who lived through WW2, the same people who buy and enjoy SPAM. Years ago, a few friends and I saw our first Chicken-In-A-Can on a store shelf, and laughed for a good half-hour straight. My Nana, however, looked at me like I was a lunatic when I tried to tell her the funny story about a CHICKEN in a CAN! Also, roughly half this thread has made me very hungry. Roughly half of you are crazy.
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Rabbit Hill posted:My dad used to eat this when he was a kid in Italy! Raw eggs beaten with a ton of sugar, poured over toast (I think he would have eaten it over polenta). It's called "Oufs Sbatúus" in his dialect ("Uove Battate" in Italian; just means "Beaten Eggs"). He used to make it for me and my brother as a Sunday morning treat when we were kids, and we loved it. It's basically uncooked meringue on toast. Kinda weird when you think about it, but not bad really. My dad grew up in spain and would go on and on about toast with olive oil and sugar on it. I thought it was just something that they came up with that out of poverty but when I lived in Spain last year I learned its totally normal. Victoria Beckham was right, the Spanish do put olive oil on everything.
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