There are a lot of foods I don’t like, but there is nothing I wouldn’t try at least once. How do you know if you like it or not? So far, I’ve tried all (and liked most) of the following:
Escargots, shell fish and frog legs aren’t even on my list as weird.
I’d never eat live bugs (other than the witchetty grub).
chilled monkey brains are out too.
I’ve heard so many bad things about lutefisk on this board I’d probably stay clear of that too.
Je mange tout. (And where is he, anyway?)
Any sort of brains, liver, heart or any similar organs. Maggot cheese, cheese that smells really bad, and milk. Bugs, dog, cat, snake, alligator, deer, squirrel, bull testicles, or bison.
Anything cured in lye is probably worth avoiding.
Maybe those big hairy Cambodian spiders. Y’know how those are prepared? One moment the spider is walking along, minding his own business. Some dude takes a stick and flips the poor spider directly into a fire. It gets roasted to death, and then – eight drumsticks!
but gefilte fish is the chicken croquette of the [kosher] sea … it is minced fish, actually it is fairly close in idea to a roman fish croquette recipe, simmered rather than fried llike we think of meatballs…[isiici omentata if memory serves]
Gefilte fish is the blandest, least fishiest, least disgusting seafood I could possibly imagine.
The taste of it is quite inoffensive, but it looks suspicious and the smell is evil. Norwegian author Odd Børretzen theorized that lutefisk was really developed as an educational tool to teach children to endure the hardships of life.
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Lutefisk just sounds like an accident that despite all reason somehow became accepted.
A live cow’s tongue always has a foot long stalagtite of viscous drool hanging off it. I can’t imagine it being less offensive because it’s dead.
Menudo. What hard luck scenario caused that to become a food?
The only things I would absolutely never try would be for health reasons. I would never eat anything human, unless it’s survival, in which case I have just the right masala. Also, I won’t eat anything simian. I would need to have a pretty good idea where my cow brains came from. I might be squeemish about live bugs, but I think I’d give it a shot. Some of those things that Les Stroud eats might be a bit much. I mean if Les has trouble eating it when he’s halfway to starving, I probably won’t eat it.
You guys are missing out on escargot.
I’ve eaten escargots and wasn’t fussed. A bit too salty for my taste. I thought frogs’ legs a bit overrated.
I wouldn’t even consider many of the things already mentioned (dogs, rodents etc). Of the ‘normal’ food items most people eat, I wouldn’t touch oysters; the mere thought makes me heave. Nor would I eat offal of any kind. Black pudding is off the list as well.
Alligator is very good and most people like it. It is is popular in Louisiana and farmed for food. It does taste basically like chicken the way it is usually prepared but the spices are a bit different and it usually comes with special sauce. Rattlesnake is much the same. Deer (venison) can be tough but good especially in chili. Squirrel is harder to prepare but most people like it if they don’t know what they are eating. Bison or, more commonly, beefalo is very similar to regular beef and not offensive at all. It is also farmed and always seems to be the next big thing in the U.S. (besides ostrich). Some big city supermarkets carry these meats in their specialty meat section.
I would eat pretty much most of what’s been listed. If it’s considered food somewhere on the planet I’d give it a try. Many of what’s been listed, we have regularly and like; escargot, frog legs, scrapple, beef tongue, crabs, lobster, clam, carpaccio, sushi, ceviche … yum.
Durian, I tried it but I didn’t like it. It goes on the very small list of foods I don’t like along with cantaloupe and urchin.
But Paris Hilton, no, not even if she bathed.
Once a year or so we get ‘Hog maw’ which is pig stomach stuffed with potato and sausage. Delicious. We also eat a ton of venison, including venison lasagna last weekend.
This sholdn’t count, I think, what you would eat when you were really starving and there was no other choice.
Add me to the chorus who thinks escargot is DELISH. If you asked me to whack-a-snail and eat it, not so much, but it’s soaked in butter and garlic and it’s just a tidbit of meat.
I would have a very hard time with dog, having been raised in this culture. I love veal, though. I don’t have a problem with eating a baby something that’s in no danger of going extinct.
I think I could eat bugs, fried and well-dead, given time. Alive and hopping about? Hell no!
Not if I see you first.
I’m glad the survival of the species isn’t dependent on some of the picky people in this thread. It may be that in the current time, people can choose to turn up their nose at sustenance, but that luxury could change in a heartbeat.
I would not want to eat John the Baptist dipped in honey or without the honey.
Terrestrial insects.
Other than that, I can’t really think of anything I wouldn’t once. I enjoy durian. Hell, I have brains in the freezer. (Hush, now.)
Well, the thread is “I don’t care if it tastes good.” I always figured that if society collapsed and it was a matter of survival, and I was getting protein starved, the world would start looking even tastier, and I’d get a lot less picky. As long as I can roast it or fry it.
You know, I think about post-apocalyptic scenarios all the time, and I’m obsessed with post-apocalyptic literature and I’ve noticed that one prevailing theme happens to be that “useless” upper-income white collar folk (esp. lawyers and MBAs) tend to get the shaft on account of not having any real skillz.
So I’m thinking in case of apocalypse I’m just gonna go ahead and die rather than having to suffer through a “the meek shall inherit the earth” + grub eating scenario.