Foods you eat that other people think are really wierd.

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).

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.

You win.

Are they ever going to give us a puking smiley?

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.

This is also standard pub grub in Budapest. Fat+onions+salt=yummy goodness. :slight_smile:

Yeah, I’ve gotten that comment too. Yummmmm, Ethiopian.

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. :wink:

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…

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.

What are those?

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.

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

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.

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. :slight_smile:

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.

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.

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. :confused: 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.

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.

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…

I completely forgot about this. I love pickle juice.

I remembered another one. Cold rice in milk with sugar. Makes a great dessert.

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. :wink:

The only thing “weird” I eat that I can think of, maybe, is beets on my veggie burgers.

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.