**zigaretten **is right, the neck is the best part. Makes wonderful soup!
Anchovies, deep fried pork skins, cheese and Karo syrup, scrapple, and mushy bananas.
Not liver, but Liverwurst sandwich with raw onion and hot mustard on rye bread with a beer. Yahhooooooooo!!!
Well-aged kimchee made by small Korean women with their bare hands.
Haggis. Tasty stuff, and really not scary - there’s scarier ingredients in Oscar Mayer Weiners (which I don’t tend to eat very often, thank you very much…). Kinda tastes like a cross between sausage and meatloaf, with a hint of oatmeal. Has the consistency of meatloaf.
Sushi. Especially the chargrilled eel. There is an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet in Plano (Osaka, off Preston road if you wanna find it), and my wife and I can stuff ourselves for under $25.00 each.
Calamari. No, not Admiral Ackbar, but really good, tender fried squid. With marinera sauce.
My Favorites:
- All sushi other then tuna and Urchin (spelling) (Tako is my favorite)
- Sauerkraut
- Olives (all kinds, my family things I’m nuts)
- A blue caffiene ladden drink called Brain Wash (can’t find it around here anymore :-()
- Sardines in mustard on toast (back bone removed first)
- Stewed tomatoes right out of the can
- Grits with Jelly
I love hot dogs, no matter what jokes people make about raccoons and old boots. I usually keep a package in the fridge, because I’ve found they’re good in those I-too-busy/hungry-to-care-what-I-eat moments. Give me a James Coney Island hotdog with some mustard and onions and an order of cheese fries, with some chili for later, and I’m happy.
This thread has made me feel so normal.
Natto (fermented beans found in Japan).
I can’t stand it, but my brother digs Moxie! (I discovered this disgusting soda on a trip to Massachusetts, but I hear it’s big in the southern USA.)
Damn, I love this place - I just drank my first bottle of that stuff back over the holidays. Very tasty, I must say. Made my wife nearly gag.
How can you love hickory smoked almonds and NOT love Rauchenbier?
(Baloney milkshake? Is that anything like that line from STP’s Interstate Love Song - “Feeling like a ham and mustard shake…”?)
Bernse: I was just sharing a bag of leftover black jellybeans with 2 of my cow-orkers and we were commenting on how almost no-one likes black licorice. There’s always plenty left in the discount racks the day after Easter.
fruitcake.
Ahhh, other licorice lovers. Love the stuff. I will conciously pick out the black jelly beans and Mike and Ikes…heaven.
I have to remember this the next time my friends call me picky which is their “polite” way of giving me shit for being vegetarian.
And I love okra! Yum! Pickled okra and the slimier the better!
And now I must possess and consume Double Zout! How can I get my hadns on this delicious satanic candy?
trishdish, i have what some would call catholic tastes in food, and the one time i tried double zout, i almost fainted.
the worst thing is that i couldnt get it out of my mouth; it was stuck to my teeth. ill never forget it. wow, was it awful.
It’s not big in the Southern US. After all, the stuff is disgusting and southerners have good taste. Moxie is produced in Massachusetts and predates even Coca-Cola. There are still pockets of people in a few towns in Maine and Massachusetts that drink it by the case but even they are dying out.
Plain, dry, uncooked ramen noodles.
Yup. I break 'em up into smaller chunks, sprinkle the li’l seasoning packet on 'em like salt and pepper, and just go to town.
Yeah, they’re dry, but I like em crunchy.
Tripler
And the bag makes a convenient container from whence to dine.
Another vote for natto. Japanese food even most Japanese think is disgusting.
And there’s no food that can’t be improved with kimchee.
I’m one of the few (only?) Americans who likes Vegemite. I also like Moxie.
Lemons, straight off the tree. Mmmm, yummo! I love sour things. Really, very, suck your face in sour.
Also vegemite, but all TRUE Australians do (it’s the law).
- Menudo
- Chicken livers
- Beef liver
- Sardines–Especially the ones in hot mustard sauce.
- Greek food-- Love it all. Lots of people here in flyover country can’t stand any of it.
- Pickled herring
- I, too, love hot sauce on lots of stuff that many people think
inappropriate. Haven’t tried it on popcorn yet–must try it soon.
7.Sweetbreads
James Coney Island? James Coney Island?
Are you a Houstonian? When I lived there, we used to call them “Cheez Whiz Dogs”. Hie thee to Big Frank’s on the double. Much better; they use real shredded cheese, not that James cheese glop.
Forgot about sushi, although almost everyone I know likes it. I’m not a big fan of the raw molluscs, but I love the raw shrimp (ama-ebi). Yum!
Sardines in mustard sauce are yummy.
Tripler, you’re one sick puppy. 