I am adventurous, I like food, so I am fairly open to trying new foods. While I was visiting in Hawai’i I tried a lot of really yummy foods, I even ate poi with no problem. I heard about crack seed. “Crack seed?” I asked myself. “Hmm, better check it out.” So my mom and I went to an asian market and bought a bunch of different “crack seed” which is, apparently, slang for “nasty snacks”. There were a couple of varieties which were tasty, but most of it was really really nasty.
Properly prepared jambalaya is heaven in a bowl. I also use shrimp in my version. The key is to not stir too often, as that is what causes the okra to go slimy.
I like some British dishes – e.g., shepherd’s pie and Cornish pasty – so sometimes I drop in on “British pubs.” Once I was feeling adventurous and ordered the steak and kidney pie. Big mistake! The “steak” wasn’t bad, but the kidneys tasted like liver to the tenth power! I was still tasting it the next day!
Jeff Lichtman and BrainGlutton you are most assuredly correct, I am such a Northerner! My paternal family ties come from The South, and so there are recipies which have been passed down, with untold alterations, so what I call jambalaya probably in no way resembles yours!
As for using fresh okra…we don’t have access to that sort of exotic produce on this Big Rock I live on! Mine comes from a can or frozen. Blasphemy, I am certain, to the purists!
That’s the regular packaged British kind. For the really evil stuff, you want Fry’s Turkish Delight (allegedly full of Eastern promise) which is a fine blend of vaseline, sugar and purple dye. Covered in chocolate.
Proper Turkish Delight is pretty good, IMO. It’s not nougat, which is quite different. And it’s only hypnotic if you add magic potion, which you’d know if you’d seen the cartoon.
What’s wrong with liver and kidneys you infidel ?!?
BTW, the only Turkish Delight worth eating is Fry’s Turkish Delight. I don’t know whether you can get it in the USA, but it’s common in the UK. My neighbour went to Turkey when I was small and brought me back some “authentic” stuff. It was disgusting and not at all like Fry’s.
I know this will make me unpopular, but my scary food experience was with escargot.
I love any and all kinds of food. Which is why at a French restaurant several years ago I was all about trying snails for the first time. They smelled delightful, simmering gently in garlic and olive oil. I scooped one out and popped it in my mouth. All I tasted was little snail feelers and little snail eyes and slimy snail skin.
My dad went to Turkey once and brought back Turkish Delight. It was wonderful. I can, however, imagine how a cheap knock-off could go horribly, horribly wrong.
Yeah, that’s terrible. I’ve had some other nations’ salted licorice, and been very pleased - I don’t know why the zout and dubbel zout are so hideous. Don’t let the taste of that stuff fool you - some salt licorice is great, not like sucking on Michael Jordan’s sweatsock…
We and some friends went up to Sylvia’s in Harlem years ago. I can’t remember what I had but I sure remember the Chitlins (or chitterlings to be proper about it) I tasted. The second I put them in mouth my whole body went “CLEAR!! CLEAR!! CLEAR!!”. Of course I was a good diner and didn’t projectile vomit across the room, but damn.
my wife and I tried jackfruit. Once.
We also choked down a cup each of Butter Tea at a Tibetan festival.
In the ‘you don’t see certain combinations of food for a reason’ category I once made spaghetti and eggs.
