# What bizarre dishes have you fed to... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 1, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128 "2006-09-01T22:15:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/1 "2006-09-01T22:15:58Z")
…the Mormon missionaries when they came to visit? Admittedly, the worst we ever did to them was spice cake cooked in a microwave oven. But we were in college at the time–it was a well-intended treat at the time. They didn’t convert us, my roommate and me, but we fed 'em because they were nice. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/2 "2006-09-01T22:40:09Z")
All they’ll ever get from me is a knuckle sandwich, no mayo. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/3 "2006-09-02T03:28:12Z")
The grossest thing ever fed \*to me \* when I was a Mormon missionary would have to be bull cock. And I’m not talking about a hamburger patty made of ground cock, or diced cock in broth, where you wouldn’t be able to tell what it was. No, no, no. It was an eight inch, veiny bullrod, steaming and glistening on a small mound of rice. At the stump end, where it had been cut away from the body, you could see the cross section of the inside, complete with arteries, veins and this weird spongy erectile tissue. How did it taste, you ask? Why, it was awful. Thanks for asking. Have I killed this thread? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/4 "2006-09-02T11:46:52Z")
I have never fed them. I guess I missed an opportunity. I once gave a Dr Pepper to one of those irritating, Hell-spawn, magazine salesmen after he wasted half an hour of my time _refusing_ to get off my front step. It was worth it to get him to leave, though I’m ashamed to say that I sicced him on my perfectly innocent neighbors so he’s go away. ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/5 "2006-09-02T11:56:29Z")
Were we supposed to feed those guys? Damn, I’m inconsiderate. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/6 "2006-09-02T14:08:09Z")
I just pull out the marketing materials from my local Presbyterian church and invite them to join the one TRUE religion. They usually do not stay for dinner for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/7 "2006-09-03T17:08:29Z")
I offered to kill and grill the cat, but the said they had already eaten. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/8 "2006-09-03T17:18:00Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] The grossest thing ever fed \*to me \* when I was a Mormon missionary would have to be bull cock. And I’m not talking about a hamburger patty made of ground cock, or diced cock in broth, where you wouldn’t be able to tell what it was. No, no, no. It was an eight inch, veiny bullrod, steaming and glistening on a small mound of rice. At the stump end, where it had been cut away from the body, you could see the cross section of the inside, complete with arteries, veins and this weird spongy erectile tissue. How did it taste, you ask? Why, it was awful. Thanks for asking. Have I killed this thread? 🆒 [/QUOTE] :mad: :mad: …And you ate it? What country was this in? ---
**Author:** ![giddyaunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/67e7ee/32.png) [@giddyaunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/giddyaunt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/9 "2006-09-04T09:49:43Z")
cooked up some popcorn one saturday afternoon when the lads arrived. but that was for me and my daughter to enjoy while watching the classic thunderbird series that was on tv at the time. so they werent staying and we werent sharing that day. gotta say i love their accents though! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/10 "2006-09-04T13:39:57Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] The grossest thing ever fed \*to me \* when I was a Mormon missionary would have to be bull cock. And I’m not talking about a hamburger patty made of ground cock, or diced cock in broth, where you wouldn’t be able to tell what it was. No, no, no. It was an eight inch, veiny bullrod, steaming and glistening on a small mound of rice. At the stump end, where it had been cut away from the body, you could see the cross section of the inside, complete with arteries, veins and this weird spongy erectile tissue. How did it taste, you ask? Why, it was awful. Thanks for asking. Have I killed this thread? 🆒 [/QUOTE] My very creepy Gramps loves eating the balls of any animal at hand. When we get rabbit and it was female, he whines that he can’t eat its balls because “whatever you’re eating, that’s what you’re growing” (_lo que se come se cría_). Between that and the post-war recipes I’ve heard, the weirdest thing to me about your post was the missing balls. Wonder who got 'em. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/11 "2006-09-04T14:24:10Z")
[QUOTE=Rodgers01] :mad: :mad: …And you ate it? What country was this in? [/QUOTE] Ecuador. And while it was the most disturbing and most difficult to force myself to eat, it was actually not the worst tasting body part I had in Ecuador. That would be a two way tie between hoof and udder. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/12 "2006-09-04T14:26:04Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] My very creepy Gramps loves eating the balls of any animal at hand. When we get rabbit and it was female, he whines that he can’t eat its balls because “whatever you’re eating, that’s what you’re growing” (_lo que se come se cría_). [/quote] God, that sounds like an Ecuadorian. :smack: > [@](#): > > Between that and the post-war recipes I’ve heard, the weirdest thing to me about your post was the missing balls. Wonder who got 'em. Wonder no more. My companion, sitting next to me at the table, had one of them. Our hostess, a very nice and kind lady in her sixties, had the other. I’m not sure whether this meant I was the guest of honor, or she knew my birthday was coming up, or what. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/13 "2006-09-04T22:42:54Z")
I’ve fed turkey lo-mein to turtles, but I’ve never fed anything to Mormons. ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/14 "2006-09-05T00:08:14Z")
Why would you feed anything coming to your door and peddling religion?? Although I did have a friend who’s Dad consistently asked them to come in and he made them tea or coffee - he was very bored after retiring at an early age. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/15 "2006-09-05T00:27:41Z")
As a rule of thumb, never feed any stray, or it may become a regular guest. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/16 "2006-09-05T01:02:36Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] And while it was the most disturbing and most difficult to force myself to eat, it was actually not the worst tasting body part I had in Ecuador. That would be a two way tie between hoof and udder. [/QUOTE] Were they going to kill you if you didn’t eat it? Did you eat it all, or take one courtesy bite? Was that the only food you were going to get all day? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/17 "2006-09-05T12:31:16Z")
Folks, you’re welcome to open a Mormon-bashing thread someplace else. Please knock it off in this one though. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/18 "2006-09-05T12:39:52Z")
I discourage univited visitors and don’t bother to open the door to strangers soliciting anything. But I’ve watched “Arsenic and Old Lace” and waiting to be old and dotty enough to actually poison their sherry after inviting them in for a chat. Mormons, firewood sellers, campaigning politicians… all will be welcomed in for a little chat and cheer. 😃 mwahahahaha… ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bizarre-dishes-have-you-fed-to/371128/19 "2006-09-05T18:49:30Z")
Speaking as a former Mormon and a former missionary, virtually all of the weird food experiences I’ve been privy to involved people who were already members of the Church. Missionaries don’t generally go door to door asking for food, and if they did, they’d deserve all the abuse everyone here seems to eager to hep upon them. 🙂