When I was a kid I used to drink Pineapple-Grapefruit juice. You can’t even get the stuff anymore and I loved it.
No one in our family will eat shreaded coconut either, but half of us will eat it as raw chunks. Only my dad likes the coconut milk.
I love scrapple.
Liver and onions!!!
Buttermilk!!!
Skillet Fried Corn Bread!!!
Collard Greens!!!
Hominy!!!
Grits!!!
–Dave has touched on a really interesting subject. If you’ve ever read about the Titanic taking on supplies you will run across the fact that the cooks stocked a lot of cornmeal for that voyage. They took on cornmeal for any voyage that contained a lot of Americans. The Yanks EXPECTED cornbread to be served with the meal.
Now, what Yanks regularly sailed the Atlantic at that time?
Ma and Pa Kettle? I think not!
Asters and Vanderbilts and J.P. Morgan himself expected proper cornbread with the victuals.
Good Cornbread is one of the great things the majority of this country has lost in this century.
I once ordered my favorite pizza topping and the punk on the other end of the phone said “EUW!” and said he was gonna get the other guy to deliver it. Green olives and feta cheese. Yum!
When I was little I loved braunschweger.
lowering voice to a whisper and I like Long John Silver’s. Really. My mouth is watering just from typing that.
Peanut butter and pickle sammidges. It has to be Jif and Nalley, or it’s just not the same. Usually on toast. Sometimes with swiss, onions, mustard, or cream cheese. Or whatever else strikes me as yummy.
I just know I’m gonna gross somebody out with this…
I discovered that the tastiest, most tender meat on a pig is in it’s mouth, along the lower jaw. It must hold a salivary gland or something. The first time I had it was when I bought some roast pig at a local Chinese deli. they had some miscellaneous bony-looking parts set aside for a dollar, so I figured I could make some soup with it or something. When I got them home, they looked fairly meaty, so I started chewing on them. Then I noticed that the particular bone I was chewing on HAD TEETH. Turns out it was half of the lower jaw…I had thought it was a foot/leg/shank.
I also eat pig snouts, chicken and turkey butts, and chicken and duck feet. Turns my wife’s stomach, sometimes, just to watch me eat.
ricepad, you’re making me envious. I wish I lived near a good Chinese market, one with a variety of cuts, fruits, and vegetables. I’d be able to make some very interesting dishes given that much plus, perhaps, a good deli or other European food shop. By the way, ricepad, I’d be worried about trichinosis, a parasitic worm common to almost all pigs that encysts in muscle tissue. It causes intense pain and weakness as your muscles are compromised by this invasive little bugger. It is most commonly spread though feces (eggs in the digestive tract) or, you guessed it, eating undercooked pork. I think it’s infestations like these that inspired dietary laws lo, those many years ago. Taboos change, diseases don’t. Cook that pig!
Missbunny, durian is right. When I was in Malaysia I ate lots of fresh durian there. It’s highly prized. It is a food like no other in the world. It delivers a hot sweet creamy blast of vital energy right into your bloodstream. It has a deservedly aphrodisiac reputation. It’s packed with warm energy. You can get high off it. I wish you could get it here.
Westerners freak out over the strong odor of durian. It’s like rotting onion garbage. Here’s the secret: once it passes your lips, you don’t smell it any more! And the taste is absolutely delicious.
When I was young, my mom used to make liver dumpling soup. It did NOT taste like liver, and I lvoed it, and I didn’t like many foods.
I always tried to get people to try it, but the very thought disgusted them.
Anyone else at all ever try that?
I’m happy to put jam on a hamburger, if I’m out of sweet relish.
I’ll eat many of the things mentioned in this thread:
Used to hate sushi, love it now.
Will eat liver, though I won’t go out of my way for it.
Candy with coconut in it doesn’t bother me.
I love bleu cheese in my salads. My mother thinks that’s gross but what does she know? She puts ketchup on eggs (which is weird to me), and tried to put sliced carrots in spaghetti (which is punishable by death to me, and yes, I will eat carrots)
I’m usually more willing to experiment with new foods than my friends.
What can really gross out people, but doesn’t bother me is eating food that the cat has licked, or nibbled on. Some of my friends can’t believe this. I told them, “Hey, she’s pretty clean.” One friend retorted, “Yeah but they lick their butts.”
I didn’t need to hear that. (I still trust kitty, though.)
How may I disgust you? Let me count the ways!
I’ll eat most any part of any animal. No meat disgusts me. Tripe, heart, liver, brains, and tounge are all delicous. Mountain oysters are yummy. Chicken gizzards are wonderful. Scrapple and head cheese are also tasty. Pork, beef, chicken, and mutton are mundane. Venison (elk, deer, and antelope) is excellent. Bear and wild boar are good, as is wild fowl of all varieties (duck and goose especially). Armadillo and racoon weren’t too bad. Haven’t had 'roo yet, but am looking forward to visiting Oz. Also looking forward to trying haggis sometime.
We get some really strange stuff in some of the yakitori (Japanese grilled chicken) or yakiniku (Japanese style Korean BBQ) resturaunts here in Osaka - chicken knees, chicken butts, whole roasted sparrow, testicals (beef and pork), pigs feet, and so on. The only chicken part I couldn’t finish was the beak. Seriously, the cook at the yakitori shop around the corner from my house was snaking on these last week and I had to try one - CRUNCH. No thanks.
I’m not as big on seafood, but have been known to eat some strange ones: frog legs, alligator, and crawfish. Here in Japan I’ve had much “worse”: octopus, squid, dried fish of many varieties, dried squid, dried octopus, dried “fish flakes”, salted fish guts, salted and spiced fish guts, salmon roe, sea urchin gonads, and whale. Live shimp and octopus are among the strangest things I’ve eaten. Finally, “fugu” or puffer fish, raw, dried, and in various soups.
Also, while many people find raw meats disgusting, I’ll eat almost any - as long as I trust that the cook knows what he’s doing - have had the following raw: beef, beef liver, chicken breast, chicken gizzards, shrimp, crab, a wide variety of fish, octopus, squid, venison, horse, and whale.
Insects are also tasty: chocolate covered ants, grubs of many varieties, grass hoppers, bees, and wasps.
Note that I’ve eaten all of the above at proper resturaunts.
Also, I love many Asian fish sauces, especially nuc mon, miso, and vegimite.
For fruits and veggies: okra, turnip greens, collard greens, and almost any other veggie from back home in East Texas. Many varieties of seaweed - fresh, dried, and otherwise processed. Yams, not sweet potatoes, “real” yams. If you haven’t had a real yam, think slime.
Anyone for seconds?
An actual Chinese poem
“A Chinese Gourmet’s Lament” (Author unknown)
We will eat all things that have four legs
And all the creatures of the sky
And when these are all gone
I will have my table and chair baked
And my kite stir fried
My favorite sandwich–liversausage on cinnamon raisin bread
(untoasted).
Love it! 
I don’t know where the idea came from, but my brother and I both love peanut butter and bacon sandwiches.
For some reason, people are disgusted when I heat escargots. They don’t like that they are snails.
At Chinese restaurants, I like salt-and-pepper shrimp. Since all of the seasoning is on the outside, it’s eaten shell and all. Traditionally, the heads are eaten as well. That grosses people out. Also, at Chinese restaurants, the fried fish still has the head on. Come one, people! You don’t eat the head! The flesh is really good!
I get some odd looks when I eat onion rings with mustard. It’s the only way to eat onion rings! Try it! Trust me.
Tofu. Specifically, “family-style tofu” at Hong Kong Express. No one believes me that it’s good!
Brussels sprouts. I don’t know why people don’t like them.
Not a very exotic list, but those foods do get comments.
Oh. And fried alligator. At the last So. Cal. Doper Shindig, I ordered some at Café Tu Tu Tango. The other dopers tried it and they agreed that it was good. Although Cowboy Greg said they tasted like elf.
When I was a kid, my favourite sandwhich was peanut butter, honey and corn flakes. Baked potatoes had bacon bits and honey.
I still eat honey and cream cheese or honey and Cheeze Whiz sandwhiches. I also eat straight artificial bacon bits by the cupful.
Apparently there’s no such thing as European ethnic food west of the Mississippi. I miss the Bohemian restaurants I used to go to on Cermak road west of Chicago.
Liver dumpling soup - love the stuff.