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Gross Things We Love to (ugh!) Eat!

post #1 of 44
2/18/07 at 6:34pm
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Raw fish! Eggs from fish! Smelly cheese! Steak Tartar (raw steak)!
What things do you like to eat that others might consider gross?
I love sushi, and I do eat stinky cheese, on occasion. And I've tried caviair (the cheap kind), and quite like it.
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post #2 of 44
2/18/07 at 6:49pm

caviar!

Caviar!! Disgusting when you think about it but boy is it good...
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post #3 of 44
2/18/07 at 7:12pm
Stuffed pig stomach Haggas, liver pudding, any kind of liver
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post #4 of 44
2/18/07 at 7:27pm
Love all of the above and don't think there's anything disgusting about them (except for the smells while cleaning and cooking the Haggis!).
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post #5 of 44
2/19/07 at 3:26am
I love haggis. It always amazes me that other nations think it so bad. If it is made by a good butcher (mine is brilliant, and makes his own to his own family recipe), cooked properly and served properly, it is extremely tasty. it shouldn't smell 'wild' whilst cooking...... The stuff available in the USA is made usually without the lights (due to US food laws), so it ain't 'real' haggis!:lips:

The best commercially available haggis is made by McSween's - an Edinburgh company. They do have some tinned stuff for export, I believe.

I also love calves liver - but not pig's liver. Hate kidneys - although my husband adores them as a breakfast dish!
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post #6 of 44
2/19/07 at 6:40am

Testicles!

One of my dad's cousins waxes nostalgic about the days when he used to eat "lamb's fry", which is basically skinned, fried testicles. (Three words that, used in close combination like that, may make male readers of this posting wince and cross their legs)

One of my guilty pleasures used to be calves' sweetbreads (pancreas/thymus glands), but I haven't had them for 20 years - I don't even know if butchers still sell them.

I love it, but a dispassionate view of Stilton cheese - soured milk with the protein strained out of it, left to stand in blocks until the inside grows mouldy - is pretty disgusting.
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post #7 of 44
2/19/07 at 7:22am
I love Stilton, but I also love a couple of Scottish blue cheeses, Dunsyre and Lanarkshire Blue... At the moment, my favourite stinky British style cheese at the mo is Stinking Bishop - but it costs a fortune nowadays - I blame the fact that it was the cheese of choice in the last Wallace and Gromit cartoon movie!
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post #8 of 44
2/19/07 at 7:43am
Tripe in menudo

I also eat some bizarre combinations sometimes like peanut butter and bologna on toast or fried bologna. I also have eaten some rather awful seeming "white trash survival guide" dishes like spam burgers, and "cupboard gumbo" which is nothing like gumbo unless you happen to have file' or okra in your cupboard which I never do.
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post #9 of 44
2/19/07 at 7:59am
GAGGGG
I'd forgotten about tripe!
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post #10 of 44
2/19/07 at 8:06am

Yum...

Nothing weird about that... Love fried bologna on toast with tons of mayo... :bounce:

I spent 10 years in the US Navy during the Viet Nam war and covered most of the Western Pacific during that time and have eaten some *interesting* things. Raw fish eggs (straight from the egg sack), raw jellyfish, dried squid, raw octopus, whale (quite tasty), and of course all the interesting raw fish during my stay in Japan.
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post #11 of 44
2/19/07 at 5:54pm
I don't care what Charlie Trotter says, I love to eat Foie Gras.
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post #12 of 44
2/19/07 at 7:29pm
Was skin diving in Puget Sound some years ago with a neighbor. We climbed up on a big rock and saw a whole lot of sea urchins. He pried a couple off the rock, pulled out his diving knife and cut the top off them. With the point of the knife he dug out the pink (as I remember) material and, at his urging, we ate it.

It was very good, tasting of seawater and - I don't even remember, not fishy at all - and I asked what that was.

He said oh, it's the testes of the sea urchin. :eek:

Well, it was good, and we had a few more for the road. Haven't had any since: they're not available much around Chicago.

Mike :p
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post #13 of 44
2/19/07 at 8:10pm
:lol: :lips: KRAFT DINNER!!!!!!
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post #14 of 44
2/19/07 at 8:49pm
Agreed with mredikop...tripe in menudo.

Also, the green shiz inside of a lobster--what is that stuff anyway? the pooh? Try it with fresh sourdough.

I ate some knockwurst once and it smelled EXACTLY like catfood before cooking...but D*MN it was really yummy!

Steamed tripe and chickens feet during dim sum.

And once, my dad bbq'd/grilled pig intestine--4 inch whole tube pieces thrown into tortillas (not real chitlins, but that is what he called it). It ALSO smelled crappy but the flavor was surprisingly good.

And of course fruits and vegetables! (just kidding):lol:
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post #15 of 44
2/20/07 at 9:28am
Nathan's hot dogs. :smoking:
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post #16 of 44
2/20/07 at 3:55pm
Boudin!!!:lips: And what happened to Head Cheese? Where did it go? Is it now illegal or something?
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post #17 of 44
2/20/07 at 5:40pm
At dim sum, chicken feet. :)

In Pho, tendon, tripe.
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post #18 of 44
2/21/07 at 11:41am
Mary Kitchen canned Roast Beef Hash with four slices of american cheese and a splash of soy sauce.
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post #19 of 44
2/21/07 at 12:31pm
that would be the tamale. it's the liver, and it's quite the delicacy depending on who you talk to.
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post #20 of 44
2/21/07 at 3:34pm
Man, not in Wisconsin! We have enough Germans and other Europeans who eat it (suelze, souse, head cheese). For some unaccountable reason I loved it as a child, begged my mom to buy it. Now I just don't think of buying it.

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post #21 of 44
2/21/07 at 3:42pm
Well, Les (my SO) says my pineapple, mayo or banana, mayo sandwiches are gross. I've also eaten fried catfish eggs as a child and they were good! I'll try almost anything so I'm sure I've eaten quite a few things other people would think are gross.
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post #22 of 44
2/22/07 at 6:04am
Anchovies......hmmm good.
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post #23 of 44
2/22/07 at 1:37pm
My wife loves her Icelandic hardfiskur with butter (dehydrated fish filets, usually cod or halibut), and gets mad when I call it fish jerky.

I don't love it, though- I have a policy against any food I have to fight the cat for. :eek:
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post #24 of 44
3/2/07 at 4:14pm
gotta go with chicken's feet. Just thinking of those guys stepping in their own crap makes me never want to eat them again, but in the heat of the moment...i cave in.
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post #25 of 44
3/2/07 at 5:17pm
Jacaranda, your hubby should come here in May, we actually have a Testicle Festival!!! It's a big deal here and it's really alot of fun although I still (being a transplant to this area) find it alittle strange, lol.

I don't know where you live but if you find a greek restuarant, they can tell you where to find sweetbreads....there use to be a Greek restuarant in St. Louis that made the best! They were breaded, lots of garlic, butter and lemon, and lit brandy....I can still taste them in my dreams, lol.
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post #26 of 44
3/2/07 at 6:12pm
Heck, you could all dress up, hire a dance band and make it a "Balls' Ball." :bounce:
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post #27 of 44
3/4/07 at 9:53am
LOL if that's as bad as ya'll get, ya'll might be "intrigued" to see what we cook in our cast iron down here in south louisiana :)
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post #28 of 44
3/4/07 at 10:14am
Yeah, but not that gross compared to brain and veal liver.:eek:
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post #29 of 44
3/4/07 at 10:15am
Boudin is so so good, even though it is made out of pig's blood :suprise:
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post #30 of 44
3/4/07 at 10:48am
Not all boudin has pig blood in it. As far as brain and veal liver, we do eat calf liver, brain i've never had. What we eat isn't gross at all, it's really good, just some people, including my instructors, don't always see themselves tasting pig tails, stuffed ponce/chaudin, calf heart/kidney/liver/tripe, hocks, neckbone, turkey/chicken necks, chitterlings, gizzards, chicken feet and other stuff like that.
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