One post made me laugh out loud in this Pit thread I started: a list by Rufus Xavier of the “fanciful food dishes invented by the witty participants of this thread.” The list, as amended by posts later in the thread, include:
[ul][li]Goat eyeballs (a real delicacy in Jamaica)[/li][li]Dung beetles[/li][li]Fried turds in ranchero sauce[/li][li]The corpse of an ancient Viking (my personal favorite)[/li][li]Eye of newt fried in elephant semen[/li][li]Poodle goulash[/li][li]Pickled goat brain[/li][li]Sudanese monkey testicles in brine[/li][li]Iguana fetuses[/li][li]Pickled oryx pancreas[/li][li]Big pot of dog shit[/li][li]Pyongyang-style engorged St. Bernard penis infused with kimchi juice[/li]Organic free-range elephant penis glazed in yak bile and dressed with a delightful medley of fresh free trade bamboo shoots, baked to perfection in a Viking oven
[li]Gullah clay[/li][li]Sauteed scent glands from locally raised skunks[/li][li]Quivering, bloody slice of goose flesh, freshly cut before your eyes from a writhing, screaming animal (a real 15th century meal)[/li][li]Yak spleen[/li][li]Shrew’s tongue stuffed with cilantro and anteater ovaries[/li][li]Pickled macaque intestine[/ul][/li]
So, let’s say you move into a McMansion in Hinsdale, Illinois that stood on what was once the site of a modest ranch house, and the place is equipped with a kitchen that costs more than the gross national product of the Central African Republic. You decide to hold a dinner party for your friends. What exotic, fanciful food and drink would you serve to your guests?
Don’t forget to serve with vienna sausages.