Unusual Foods

[Ambrosious]

What is the most unusual food you have ever tried and liked? Mine has to be mountain oysters, pigs feet, brains, and live squid. What are the regional favorites? Here it has to be grits, and peach pie or cobbler. Your turn.

 

[Shylady]

omg ambrosious I usually love to read your threads but i have to admit it is a bit early for this one.

 

[Juliangel]

I wish I could tell you what some of the strange things I have eaten were but I have learned not to ask. My stepmom is from the Philippines and she the food she cooks tastes wonderful, just dont ask what she puts in it.

As for regional food "real" cornbread, grits peach cobbler and butter beans cooked with a hamhock. Is red-eye gravy regional or does everyone eat it?

 

[Expertise]

A roast lamb...... a whole roasted lamb with eyeballs. Mmmm yummy. Seal blubber. Not yummmy. Cod tongues, ok.

Regional favorites. Fiddleheads (shoot of a local fern), Dulse (a kind of seaweed), Shad and Gasperaux (two very bony but tasty types of fish)

Expertise is blessed with a cast iron GI tract thankfully.

[Edited by Expertise on 12-12-2000 at 06:10 AM]

 

[TonyG]

Years ago I was on vacation in Denmark and at lunch I ordered a sampler plate. One of the items looked like jello cut into small 1" cubes. It even wiggled. I was told the item was "fish jelly" made from various leftover parts of a fish.

Regional: cheese steaks, soft pretzels, scrapple and tripe (which some would call unusual)

[Edited by tony_gam on 12-12-2000 at 07:33 AM]

 

[DriveSouth]

Hog Head Cheese or Souse

... Two names for the same thing. A regional favorite! May sound peculiar , but a slice on a hot biscuit... Now we are talking holiday fun.

 

[Cg1369]

Ambro, ain't nothing better than pork brains, scrambled eggs, grits w/redeye gravy and fresh made from scratch biscuits for breakfast.

Juliangel, ya gotta add some field peas with snaps and some okra to those butter beans. yummy !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Guest]

Unusual food that I've liked? None. I have tried squid though. YUCKIE!

 

[BrainyBeauty]

In Kenya, I went to a restaurant that specialized in the exotic. I ate (under protest) several different meats. I found I really enjoyed the wildebeest (tasted like a good cut of beef). I hated most of the other stuff (like Zebra because it was too game-y)

The scariest food I have ever eaten was fugu. That is the fish that is so poisonous/deadly that the chefs have to be certified by the Japanese gov't to prepare and sell it to the public. It was pretty good- after my hand stopped shaking enough to get the fork into my mouth.

Strangest experience- eating something identified on the menu only as "3 white things'. This was an appetizer. Now call me crazy buy I kinda like knowing what I am putting in my mouth. And 3 white things could be anything from toilet paper to fingernails! Yuk. I passed. I was happy to learn that our main course was chicken. I couldn't tell from looking at it but I believed them. But they forgot to mention that, in China, their method of preparation involved a hatchet and they serve the meat bones and all! I lost lots of weight on that trip!

Local oddities? I haven't tried it but there is something around these parts called goetta. I think it is a mix of meat and oatmeal?

 

[goddess_euphoria]

I don't know that it's really odd, but I've had crocodile, which I thought was very good. A couple other things that weren't really odd, just oddly prepared (at least to me), In Australia they had squid tenticles that were made up like onion rings, and giant shrimp with their faces & long feeler thingies still on. (I love shrimp, but I couldn't eat it with it's head laying there on the plate staring at me!)

Local? Pizza & beer! (This is a college town after all!)

 

[miles]

I wasn't sure what it was, but it tasted like chicken.

 

[Ksss]

calamari, which I found to be too chewy

Local food..we make this tasty meat dish called spiedies..marinated bite-sized pieces of chicken, pork, beef, lamb or venison..cooked on the grill and served on Italian bread with garlic butter..we actually have a festival called a speidi fest every year..Big party with lots of music, hot air balloons, and lots and lots of food..

 

[El Toro]

Octopus, alligator, rattle snake, and a lot of fried insects in the Far East...really don't care for that odd stuff, but I'll try it once..

 

[Comshaw]

Kaygogie, I thinks that's the way it's spelled, anyway a Korean dish. It's dog to you round eyes. And a nice cut of Gray whale meat. Not bad, a little fishy tasting and tough if you don't cook it right. Cougar meat is absolutely terrible, like chewing a rubber ball.
A Robin roasted over an open fire is delicious.
And of course many of the other things list here, head cheese, brains scrambled with eggs, chitlins, tripe and fish head soup.
Comshaw

 

[Nobody Special's wife]

SHARK!! AND SNAILS (tastes like chicken)

 

[Silverlily]

Cougar meat is absolutely terrible, like chewing a rubber ball.

According to the cougars, human tastes like chicken.


I've had rattlesnake sausage on a pizza, but it didn't really taste all that different. (It was fun convincing my daughters eating it made one hiss, however.)

 

[Mackdaddy_74]

Soft shell turtle and frog legs are the two oddest things for me.

 

[Ezzie]

Chocolate covered grasshoppers. They taste like a gooey chocolate chip cookie.