# Foods you eat that other people think are really wierd. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316 "2005-07-26T23:10:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/61 "2005-07-27T18:09:31Z")
> [@RobuSensei](#): > > One thing I absolutely refused to try: Ba-sashi. Raw horsemeat, a specialty of Kumamoto Prefecture. \>shudder\< Oh, that does remind me. Horse sausage. I used to munch on that in Hungary. All my non-Hungarian friends found that weird. To be honest, horse meat ain’t all that. A bit too lean for me. Oh, and I love zsiroskenyer, which is a thick slice of European white bread, spread with lard, and topped with raw onions and salt (and sometimes chicken or goose liver). ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/62 "2005-07-27T18:11:51Z")
> [@RobuSensei](#): > > Well, I _tried_ to explain this to my friends, but they just couldn’t understand.No, although some people were mildly worried about it. Funny how they were all over the sukiyaki (meat & veggies & noodles & tofu & other stuff, simmered in a big pot on the table, and then _dipped into raw egg_ before eating). Although actually, that’s pretty good too. > > One thing I absolutely refused to try: Ba-sashi. Raw horsemeat, a specialty of Kumamoto Prefecture. \>shudder\< I’d try raw horsemeat, but I’d never in hell eat raw chicken. They may handle their chicken a lot better than Tyson or Purdue do in the US, but a chicken is a filthy creature anywhere in the world. Also, I’ve always kind of wanted to try horse. I’m another person who likes canned smoked oysters. I eat 'em on crackers. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/63 "2005-07-27T18:24:30Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Oh, and I love zsiroskenyer, which is a thick slice of European white bread, spread with lard, and topped with raw onions and salt (and sometimes chicken or goose liver). You win. Are they _ever_ going to give us a puking smiley? ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/64 "2005-07-27T18:32:59Z")
I always add a can of whole peeled tomatoes (crushed up), when I make Kraft Mac & Cheese. It’s a perfect combination. I get weird looks. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/65 "2005-07-27T18:38:24Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > You win. > > Are they _ever_ going to give us a puking smiley? This is also standard pub grub in Budapest. Fat+onions+salt=yummy goodness. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/66 "2005-07-27T18:45:52Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > Ethiopian food - I love it. Injera…drool. > > Everytime I mention going out for Ethiopian food, all kinds of dumb comments about “Ethiopians have food?” Yeah, funny. Yeah, I’ve gotten that comment too. Yummmmm, Ethiopian. > [@Chance the Gardener](#): > > I drink a kind of green tea called pinhead gunpowder. The leaves are all rolled up into little balls and fan out after they soak a little bit. Then my mug is full of dark green leaves, which I strain the tea from by keeping my upper teeth on the rim of the mug. A Chinese I used to work with turned me on to this years ago, and I still do it. It’s great. I don’t think that’s a weird food, just a weird way of drinking it. I drink gunpowder tea every morning but I use a teapot like normal people. 😉 I usually eat salad with only basalmic vinegar, not a vinegrette. and then I always drink the left-over vinegar. (basalmic’s too good to waste) I also make popcorn and top it with a little olive oil and season salt. People seem to think that’s weird too. And I eat a _lot_ of kale which all my friends give me crap about… ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/67 "2005-07-27T18:54:49Z")
I can regularly get odd looks from my non-Chinese colleagues/friends whenever I mention that I regularly eat chicken feet at _dim sum_ restaurants. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/68 "2005-07-27T18:56:58Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > musk sticks andmusk lifesavers What are those? ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/69 "2005-07-27T19:05:33Z")
Kangaroo meat is something else that people give me weird looks for. Even other aussies don’t tend to eat it all that often. But I love me some Kangaroo steaks. Or kangaroo mince. Tasty, and lean. But hubby doesn’t like it, so I don’t eat it any more. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/70 "2005-07-27T19:25:25Z")
sliced onions in a bowl of vinegar with liberal amounts of salt. when i was very young my mother would eat a half-onion like this every day while watching the Waltons. it wasn’t long before i was doing the same. i have now developed an addiction vinegar. i can be seen regularly drinking it straight from the bottle (malt & apple cider varieties are my favourites). i’ve also been known to eat cucumber, radish, and tomatoe in the same fasion (i ran out of onions and did some experimenting) green olives marinated in tobasco ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/71 "2005-07-27T19:30:08Z")
For being practically a mainstream food in the US i still get weird looks for my sushi bar and thai food likes. Most of my cow-orkers are positively leave the room disgusted if I show up with a take out sushi tray from a nearby restaraunt. Makes for more quiet lunches…ahhh. I recently was introduced to something called a “digestive biscuit” kinda like what US merkins know as a ghraham cracker. Its also draws odd looks from my cow-orkers. I also recently opined to my wife it might make for interesting county fair food. Big signs with “DRACHILLIX’S CHOCLATE DIPPED DIGESTIVE BISCUITS” should draw some curiousity. If fried twinkies and snickers bars sell, this should be an instant hit. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/72 "2005-07-27T19:33:37Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > …it wasn’t long before i was doing the same. i have now developed an addiction vinegar. i can be seen regularly drinking it straight from the bottle (malt & apple cider varieties are my favourites). This reminded me of another thing. Dill pickle juice. I buy a jar of pickles and drink the juice of out the jar. I currently have 2 jars of dill pickles in my fridge, with no juice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/73 "2005-07-27T19:39:18Z")
> [@](#): > > i have now developed an addiction vinegar. i can be seen regularly drinking it straight from the bottle (malt & apple cider varieties are my favourites). Vinegar addiction isn’t a pretty thing. You start out with the Malt Vinegar and Balsamic Vinegar and all the pretty jars withn the flavorings laid out inside. Eventually your money runs out and you can’t afford the good stuff anymore, and you start doing shots of Heinz White Vinegar all day. Then the generic brands. Pretty soon you’re sniffing RTV straight from the tube for the acetic acid. Eventually you end up on street corners selling Witch Hazel to support your habit. ---
**Author:** ![lexan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lexan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/74 "2005-07-27T19:40:51Z")
I’m a big fan of peanut butter and Doritos sandwiches; my brothers and roommates always think that’s disgusting. I dated a girl who used to eat garlic and peanut butter toast, which always seemed odd to me. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/75 "2005-07-27T20:19:10Z")
> [@False\_God](#): > > Atually, it’s originally a Dutch thing, but, yes, a lot of Jews and goyim alike delight in herring in a number of ways. > > My contribution is either Vegemite on pretzels (for when a salt lick is too unwieldly) or fried chicken skin. Salted, peppered, and with either a shake of cayenne or a shot of hot sauce. I also like pork rinds with sour-cream based dip or as redneck bourgousie canapes, which are pork rinds topped with caviar and sour cream. Salty, crunchy and no carbs. HA! Chicken rinds! I put that down on a ‘Favorite Foods’ list as a kid and got roundly derided for that by my classmates. “Eeeeewww!” I’ve tried chicken feet, too, at the CNY banquets my family has sometimes, and they’re not all that. Just gnawing exercise. My friend looks at me weirdly when I dunk my fries in mustard. 😕 Yellow’s fine, but whole grain mustard – whee! Raw tomatoes with sugar on – wonderful stuff, got turned onto it after a group trip through China. ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/76 "2005-07-27T22:24:56Z")
Yeah, chicken rinds are fatty, salty happiness. In addition, if you put sliced onions in the pan while they’re rendering, you get griebenes, which then are put on dark rye bread after it’s spread with the cooled chicken fat and salted. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/77 "2005-07-27T22:46:41Z")
Pork rinds, but not the generic ones in the snack food aisle. There’s a name, I can pronounce but not spell for this - you get them in the butcher counter at the mexican grocery store. They’re big (or sometimes small) hunks of pork skin with hunks of greasy, salty meat still on them. They’ve been fried into submission and they are totally addictive. They are 100% fat and cholesterol BUT ZERO carbs, so old Doc Atkins gotta love 'em right? Also menudo. Nothing, and I mean nothing cures a hangover like a big steaming bowl of intestines in a steamy, chili-ish broth. Cold bacon. Funny, all my favorite indulgences are so good for me… ---
**Author:** ![Frankenbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@Frankenbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankenbear)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/78 "2005-07-27T23:28:02Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > This reminded me of another thing. Dill pickle juice. I buy a jar of pickles and drink the juice of out the jar. I currently have 2 jars of dill pickles in my fridge, with no juice. 🙂 I completely forgot about this. I love pickle juice. I remembered another one. Cold rice in milk with sugar. Makes a great dessert. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/79 "2005-07-27T23:54:12Z")
> [@Snowboarder Bo](#): > > Cold pizza for breakfast > Veggie burgers > Veggie “chicken” stuff > Veggie sausage > Veggie bacon > Veggie baloney (I’m a vegetarian, so anything of this ilk gets me strange looks) > Stale cheese doodles (I leave the bag open over night) > Dehydrated mushrooms (easy to make and delicious) > Dehydrated pineapple bits > those snap pea crisp things I get in the food market > Mangos > hmmm, come to think of it, this list could be really long for me… I’ve always been more of a trendsetter than a follower 😃 Check, check, check…aaaand check. This list is all regular fare in my home. The veggie stuff is mine, the cold pizza for breakfast and stale doodles are hubby’s. I can’t eat junk food anymore. Also, most people I know, on the east coast back home and here on the west coast use ranch to dip their chicken in (any style chicken, also breaded nuggets). I’ve only tried barbeque sauce on anything in the past year. It seems kind of sweet. I must be weird. 😉 The only thing “weird” I eat that I can think of, _maybe_, is beets on my veggie burgers. ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316/80 "2005-07-28T00:13:31Z")
> [@mr bus guy](#): > > Pork rinds, but not the generic ones in the snack food aisle. There’s a name, I can pronounce but not spell for this - you get them in the butcher counter at the mexican grocery store. They’re big (or sometimes small) hunks of pork skin with hunks of greasy, salty meat still on them. They’ve been fried into submission and they are totally addictive. They are 100% fat and cholesterol BUT ZERO carbs, so old Doc Atkins gotta love 'em right? > > Also menudo. Nothing, and I mean nothing cures a hangover like a big steaming bowl of intestines in a steamy, chili-ish broth. Chicharrones. One of the things I took as part of my consumable allowance before going to South Asia was chicharrones and about twenty cans of menudo. And menudo seasonings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-eat-that-other-people-think-are-really-wierd/314316.md?page=5)