# So gross it might be yummy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-gross-it-might-be-yummy/77224 "2001-08-20T20:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Briminator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@Briminator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briminator)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-gross-it-might-be-yummy/77224/1 "2001-08-20T20:16:18Z")
If offered I might have to try it, but I would not buy it. > **[Howard's Crispy Fried Chicken Skins](https://www.taquitos.net/snacks.php?snack_code=542)** > > International Provisions snack - one of 99 chicken snacks and 139 meat snacks reviewed by Taquitos.net's snackers. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-gross-it-might-be-yummy/77224/2 "2001-08-20T20:18:55Z")
…hmmm…intriguing… On the other hand, I’d actually find it less embarassing to buy tampons and gay porn at the family drug store than this. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Magic-Gro\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@Amazing\_Magic-Gro\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Magic-Gro_Monster)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-gross-it-might-be-yummy/77224/3 "2001-08-20T20:28:59Z")
In my life I’ve tried garlic flavored ice cream at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, watermelon flavored marshmallow peeps, nicotine fortified Japanese energy drinks, unspeakably horrible smelling Malaysian “Durian” fruit and even “Clamato” (weird American clam/tomato juice) so I can speak from experience that “So gross it might be yummy” doesn’t always fly. You first! ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-gross-it-might-be-yummy/77224/4 "2001-08-20T20:29:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slortar \* > \*\*…hmmm…intriguing… > > On the other hand, I’d actually find it less embarassing to buy tampons and gay porn at the family drug store than this. 🙂 \*\* Bwahahahaa! Now, that’s funny. Me, I love the skin off roast turkey, chicken, whatever. However, I would not buy this product. Too much like pork rinds, the food of toothless people everywhere. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![Briminator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@Briminator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briminator)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-gross-it-might-be-yummy/77224/5 "2001-08-20T20:37:34Z")
If those chips are not up to your taste then I suggest you also check out the “worst chips ever” bit. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-gross-it-might-be-yummy/77224/6 "2001-08-20T21:03:33Z")
Cool! Just like what mom used to make. Literally. Yummy! ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-gross-it-might-be-yummy/77224/7 "2001-08-20T21:06:29Z")
I saw [these](http://www.rudolphfoods.com/micro.htm) on my trip to the UP. It was weird - they were in the display case, looking to all the world just like microwave popcorn, but noooooo! I wasn’t even tempted to try them, even though we were heading to camp and it would have been appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-gross-it-might-be-yummy/77224/8 "2001-08-20T21:17:23Z")
Actually, being from the South, and having grown accustomed to people eating things like fried pork rinds and pickled pigs knuckles, fried chicken skins actually sound _good_. The thing that came to my mind when I read the thread subject was a recipe I heard on NPR’s All Things Considered last week: [Barbecued Bologna Roll](http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2001/aug/010816.bologna.html), one of Elvis Presley’s favorite dishes, so you know it _must_ be good! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-gross-it-might-be-yummy/77224/9 "2001-08-20T21:44:25Z")
I was thinking that they sounded good. Of course my main experience with fowl skin is the crispy roasted duck skin pieces you get with Peking Duck.(Now if someone made a bag of those I would be on the way to the store right now :)). I wonder if fried chicken skin dipped in Hoisen would taste similar.