# Eww, how can you eat that?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 20, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905 "2016-06-20T18:31:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 6
### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/101 "2016-06-21T18:33:07Z")
The only thing I can think of that grosses people out is when I order Uni (sea urchin) with quail egg as my sushi “dessert.” Manna from the Gods.
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### Author:  [@12mgdaily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/12mgdaily)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/102 "2016-06-21T19:46:06Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#):
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> Is the “scrap pork” in scrapple pig parts that wouldn’t ever be eaten on their own, like eyeballs and penises, or is it just the stuff that gets trimmed away from choicer cuts?
I checked online to see what is put in scrapple to make it commercially. Here is what I found: Once the hams, the chops, the pork belly, and even the best sausage-making bits are harvested, there is still a fair amount of “usable pig” left. These pieces, including the parts generally referred to as “offal” (liver, kidneys, jowls, snouts, etc), are boiled in water to extract both flavor and natural gelatins. The meat is then removed from the broth and minced finely; bones are scraped to remove the last tiny morsels.
I don’t know about eyeballs, but I have heard eyelids are used. Everything but the oink is delicious!
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/103 "2016-06-21T20:28:26Z")
**Usable Pig** would be a great name for a rock band.
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### Author:  [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/104 "2016-06-21T21:17:34Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> Along with the ingredients you mentioned, the star of the list that I remember was “partially defatted cooked pork fatty tissue.” Makes your mouth water, don’t it?
That’s basically what the darker inner layer of pork cracklings are. And they are delicious. Grinding them up to make “meat product” is practically a sin. :mad:
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/105 "2016-06-21T23:01:01Z")
Pickled okra. Man, I love the stuff, but I don’t know anyone else that will touch it. Ate it as a kid- we had a big patch of okra planted alongside the driveway!
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/106 "2016-06-21T23:39:50Z")
> [@August\_West](#):
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> Was your cow-orker ever in the Navy? Kielbasa is colloquially known as “horsecock” among us squids.
We never had anything as exotic as kielbasa. “Horsecock” was bologna. The Navy bought the bulk version and sliced it for mid-rat sandwiches. The polite term was “pony peter”.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/107 "2016-06-21T23:54:08Z")
> [@PapSett](#):
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> Pickled okra. Man, I love the stuff, but I don’t know anyone else that will touch it. Ate it as a kid- we had a big patch of okra planted alongside the driveway!
You know one now. I will eat the shit out of some okra whether it is pickled, fired or in any other form like as a base for gumbo. It is easily possible to screw up when cooking it so that it becomes slimy but pickled okra never struck me that way. Expertly fried okra is awesome too. If you left me alone with a decent sized jar of pickled okra right now, you would be lucky if you even got the jar with some juice in it back.
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/108 "2016-06-22T00:29:16Z")
> [@PapSett](#):
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> Pickled okra. Man, I love the stuff, but I don’t know anyone else that will touch it. Ate it as a kid- we had a big patch of okra planted alongside the driveway!
I’ve had fried and baked okra, and liked it. Never pickled; sounds like fun!
My b.i.l. once batter-fried some prickly-pear cactus leaves (suitably de-spined!) Vaguely okra-like: a little “slimy” and not strongly flavored. Made a real good salsa dipper.
As for “How can you eat that?” I once ate a prickly-pear fruit, right off the cactus, and got a spine in my lip. Not “ew” but “ow.”
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/109 "2016-06-22T00:43:30Z")
> [@August\_West](#):
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> Was your cow-orker ever in the Navy?
He was! A WW2 vet.
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### Author:  [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/110 "2016-06-22T00:43:32Z")
I used to boil the chicken livers I’d get when I’d buy a whole bird and give them to the dog. One day I tried one. Now the dog never gets them. I’ve tried fried chicken livers. I know many people like them, but to me, frying concentrates all that tastes off about liver. Boiling them seems to dissipate the nasty liveriness and preserve the good notes, according to my humble senses.
I have a friend who swears he likes to mash bananas and mayonnaise together and (gag) eat it in a sandwich!! ewww!!!
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### Author:  [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/111 "2016-06-22T00:45:45Z")
Fish sticks
Tator Tots
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/112 "2016-06-22T01:29:47Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#):
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> I used to boil the chicken livers I’d get when I’d buy a whole bird and give them to the dog. One day I tried one. Now the dog never gets them. I’ve tried fried chicken livers. I know many people like them, but to me, frying concentrates all that tastes off about liver. Boiling them seems to dissipate the nasty liveriness and preserve the good notes, according to my humble senses.
Try browning them in butter with a chopped shallot and a splash of dry vermouth. Then serve them for breakfast with scrambled eggs and lots of buttered toast.
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### Author:  [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/113 "2016-06-22T01:39:14Z")
English muffins
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/114 "2016-06-22T01:55:27Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#):
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> I used to boil the chicken livers I’d get when I’d buy a whole bird and give them to the dog. One day I tried one. Now the dog never gets them. I’ve tried fried chicken livers. I know many people like them, but to me, frying concentrates all that tastes off about liver. Boiling them seems to dissipate the nasty liveriness and preserve the good notes, according to my humble senses. . . .
First time I ever had chicken livers (fried) I didn’t know what they were. Some kind of meat. Chomp. Hm… The flavor seemed oddly _strong_, but not unpleasant. I looked more closely at one, and deduced, anatomically, what it was.
> [@cg16](#):
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> Fish sticks
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> Tator Tots
> [@cg16](#):
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> English muffins
??? Would anyone go “ew” at those? Those are very common and widely admired foods.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/115 "2016-06-22T01:56:27Z")
> [@cg16](#):
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> English muffins
Gross!!!
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### Author:  [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/116 "2016-06-22T02:02:04Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> Gross!!!
English Muffins are so underrated lol
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### Author:  [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/117 "2016-06-22T02:03:07Z")
> [@Trinopus](#):
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> First time I ever had chicken livers (fried) I didn’t know what they were. Some kind of meat. Chomp. Hm… The flavor seemed oddly _strong_, but not unpleasant. I looked more closely at one, and deduced, anatomically, what it was.
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> ??? Would anyone go “ew” at those? Those are very common and widely admired foods.
It seems that none of my friends or anyone in my family like English Muffins and always prefer toast.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/118 "2016-06-22T02:09:30Z")
I am not adverse to many foods at all. Alligator and rattlesnake are very good although they really do taste like chicken unless you go out of your way to spice them differently. Almost all seafood including raw oysters are great too.
However, I can’t stand rhubarb for some reason no matter how it is prepared. The sour factor isn’t a problem because I adore raw lemons and limes so much that my dentist told me to quit eating them because they were destroying my teeth. I didn’t listen enough and it cost a lot of money to fix that. Rhubarb just tastes like a sour weed to me even when it is mixed generously with strawberries.
I bought and eventually finished a whole jar of Marmite. That is definitely an acquired taste but strangely addictive as long as it is spread extremely thin. I tried a whole spoonful once and instantly wished that I hadn’t. It wasn’t that it tasted that bad. The problem was that the taste is so intense and salty that there is not enough water in the world to make it go away. It is like you licked the contamination caused by a terrible brewery waste truck and a salt truck collision. I am not sure how that product ever got off the ground in the first place but it is oddly appealing once you get used to it. I have never tried Australian Vegemite but I would if the opportunity presented itself.
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### Author:  [@appleaday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleaday)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/119 "2016-06-22T02:29:48Z")
The only person who ever “ewwed” over my food choices was a super fussy roommate from my college days. She emitted an “eww” over peanut butter toast; and a double “eww” over pancakes with an egg on top. "But you’re eating the same thing, " I said.
"Yeah, " she said, “but they’re on separate plates.”
I’m wondering if that is an “eww” factor for others – Pancakes, eggs, and syrup happily mixing together on the same plate? (Preferably, of course, with some bacon or sausage as well) I’ve never heard anyone else “eww” this combo, but maybe they’re just being polite.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eww-how-can-you-eat-that/757905/120 "2016-06-22T04:19:26Z")
My grandmother, who grew up in a Russian \*shtetl, \*was raised to never waste anything even remotely edible. It totally grossed us out when she made fish-head soup. None of us would eat the fish heads, but the soup was delicious. But then she’d sit down and suck out the fish’s eyes and brains and anything else removable. Totally gross!
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