How many seconds do I have to keep it down before projectile vomit happens?
To count as an eat?
Ewww
I will try just about anything once.
And I was such an impossible to be around picky eater when I was younger.
I am really almost guilty at how much I loved Foie Gras.
How does cruelty taste so good?
Foie Gras is good.
Foie Gras is not necessarily cruel. I watched a PBS program on a goose farm where the geese freely, even eagerly came up to the woman to be overfed with the tube they use to give them their feed. Very much like chicks eagerly seeking out food from mothers who put their beaks down the throats to regurgitate food for the babies. They followed her all over the yard and jockeyed for position to be fed.
@Leelu How often do you think that happens?
@BufftonBeotch I don't know, how many Foie Gras farms do you think there are?
@Leelu I highly doubt I will eat it again. It was purchased for me and set in front of me that one time.
Haggis, truffles, pig ears, quail egg, chicken feet, razor clam, century egg, blood sausage, and I may have had squirrel on one of the camping trips I took with my hunter uncle when I was young. He used to feed us all kinds of stuff.
Not necessarily because I wouldn't try them, but more because I haven't been presented with the opportunity to decide.
Jeff I was trying to think of an iconic Ohio food. I thought of Amish grub, buckeye bars and Goetta from Cincinnati. Any thoughts?
@barjoe Haven't heard of the first or third. One source likened it to Hanky Panky, which I've had, made, and love. I don't mess with Buckeye bars because I just make Buckeyes and destroy them.
I'm surprised you didn't ask about Skyline Chili.
@JeffMurray I was asking you. Goetta is like scrapple. I don't know what skyline chili is so I guess I'm asking.
25 but I've also eaten lots of other things than is on this list.
Alligator, kangaroo, elk, bear, ants, grasshoppers, buffalo, cat (not by choice) and horse.
Wouldn't eat any insect, psychological. Never had kangaroo or cat.
@barjoe My best friend and I found a jar of chocolate covered ants and a jar of fried grasshoppers for $2 each in a weird little market when we were teens. On a dare we tried them both. Ants were just crunchy chocolate but the grasshoppers were kind of yucky weird grassy taste,
The cat incident was at a Chinese restaurant in KC. I didn't know about until after, the place was shut down because the health dept had gotten notice lots of cats in the area had been reported missing. They investigated and found 52 cat carcasses in the bins behind the restaurant. I remembered two weeks before... commenting on the chicken in my cashew chicken tasted different, different texture. kind of slick like frog legs or alligator. Was probably cat.
Did Joe just admit he's had crabs?
My part of the country we eat hard shells, you can buy a bushel live, months without an "r" from Maryland and Delaware. Thankfully I've never "had crabs" lol
@barjoe I have watched a person eat alive crab;
They really just pulled the legs off a flailing animal and sucked.
@BufftonBeotch Softshell are sometimes eaten alive. I wouldn't do that.
@barjoe I would have to give something the dignity of death before I started munching.
I will never forget the look on a chickens face as my dog had already eaten off its hind parts.
@BufftonBeotch What about the stuff that gets cooked alive like mussels?
@JeffMurray Every animal has to be killed in some manner. I could not eat something still moving. Just a preference.
@JeffMurray Mussels and clams are mollusks a fairly lowly form of life. Crabs and lobster much higher life forms, moving creatures, they are boiled alive, much more disturbing. I've thrown a whole bushel of crabs in a boiling pot, I don't like to think about it.
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I've yet to have St Louis pork steak.
@barjoe Depends what part of Ohio. Cincinnati is famous for Skyline Chili, Toledo for Tony Packo's (those pickles are WONDERFUL as are the hungarian hot dogs), Dayton has Marion's Pizza, Columbus has Schmidt's (german), and Cleveland has a well known assortment of ethnicities. It's the only place I ever heard of Cassata Cake which is Sicilian, but there are places making homemade pierogi, and greek places, etc. Cleveland has a WIDE variety.
I have eaten anchovies, duck (it's amazing!!!), liver, sauerkraut, oysters, tripe (traditional in Porto), haggis (love it), steak tartare (lovely!!!), oxtail soup, crabs, sardines (I'm Portuguese, c'mon!!!), octopus (can't eat anymore), snails (lov'em!!!), frog legs (taste like chicken), blue cheese, rabbit (very tasty), razor clams, scallops and venison. Eels never tasted them but are quite popular in my native Portugal.
Rabbit isn't I the list. It's good. Squirrel is gamier and very little meat, it's okay. I've only had eel in sushi restaurants. It's good. Unagi.
@barjoe, rabbit is in this list but it's okay. Not arguing about such small things. However, I miss having a good dash of snails with a good beer.
@Paddypereira It is. My bad lol
Haggis...there was a reason the 1-gallon pump vat of spicy BBQ sauce was stationed Right There.
Those eggs....could not get past the smell!!
Frog Legs...Yummy!
Chicken feet, okay If they remove the toenais....(they didn't)
Fried Spam on white bread with mustard & crunchy lettuce, a childhood favorite!
Eel in or on anything!
Etc.
Tried raw fish, liver, frog legs, crabs, sauerkraut, sardines, blue cheese, octopus, kim chi, tofu, spam, gizzards venison, rattlesnake, and eels. And duck.
Those items except for rattlesnake, seen pretty normal to me. The most disgusting thing you mentioned is spam, for my palate.
Hmm.... had pickled jellyfish and roasted fish head in Shanghai. Huge fish head that fed 12 of us. The head Chinese offered me the eyes because I was the oldest at the table. I declined, he chuckled and said it was tradition the the prettiest girl at the table got the eyes. I then watched this beautiful young lady dig out and eat the eyes....
Never been to China, I would eat the head but I certainly wouldn't order it. I have eaten fish eyes, they are nasty with an extreme fishy flavor.
Not to answer the question but,
The 100 year old egg is not actually one hundred years old. But I wouldn't eat it. Hard boiled fetus?
Haggis is what one consumes when there is nothing else left. Never waste a scrap.
Frogs legs is inhumane along with foie gras
Tripe is chitlins
Durian is for teaching the neighbor a lesson.
Venison is bush meat which could contain chronic wasting disease.
Chitterlings are small intestine of a pig. Tripe is the lining of cow stomach. They are different. Tripe is good stuff. It's an ingredient in Pepper Pot soup, a vegetable and tripe red "chowder" popular in Philadelphia. Venison is deer meat, it's a very healthy and delicious meat CWD can't transmit to humans. Bear and boar meat can have trichinosis though. I've had frog legs, they taste like chicken wings, no more inhumane than eating any animal protein.
Tripe is Not chitlins...tripe is the stomach lining of a cow. Chitlins is pig intestines. Have cooked both......
@AnneWimsey You are correct.
@AnneWimsey Thanks
I've got 24 from the list, but do I get points for raw frozen yak (it was domesticated, not wild) and sheep lung? I had those in Ladakh, India. Home-made sauerkraut and kimchee are staples. Haggis and 100-year-old eggs are on my list; I'm not anxious to make either a regular habit.
Haggis is a sheep stomach stuffed with grain and organ meat, one of which is lungs. It's illegal to import into the United States. I'm not sure what century eggs are, I think they're buried.
Everything except haggis and squirrel.
Squirrel doesn't have much meat on it, it's like rabbit.
Squurrels are delicious, but rabbits are even better
I have eaten everything on the list EXCEPT sea urchin, haggis, crickets,durtan, chicken feet, and razor clams. I think hat gives me 33 points. ,
Durian smells like ass, I wouldn't try it twice. Crickets just ain't happening. Razor Clams are like mussels, they're hard to get on the east coast. When I was a kid I ate at my friends house, they often served chitterlings, oxtails and always made soup with chicken feet. Good. Sea urchin is an acquired taste called Uni in Japan.
@barjoe How did you manage the durian? It's the first time I've EVER spit out a mouthful of food, right onto the table, because I couldn't stop myself from doing it! That's really awful stuff!
@LucyLoohoo it's the smell.
Only 18 points, but at least 5 of these are happily part of my diet; just not often as cutting down on meat again (have had haggis but not crickets or the egg).
Can't get Haggis I the United States. Lungs are considered unfit for human consumption. If I ever get over to Scotland, I'll eat that. I heard they have great food there, Scottish salmon. Unfortunately I don't drink anymore, I would've sampled lots of whisky as well.
@barjoe here’s a brand that make it:
Bet it tastes very similar, they’re quite spicy yummy. Better than oat cakes lol.
I'm certain only of liver, sauerkraut, sardines, tofu, spam, bleu cheese, kimchi, and venison. I might have had anchovies and crab meat, too, but I'm not certain. I've had clams, but not razor clams as far as I know.
So, only eight points for certain. I no longer consume meat, so I think the only other items on the list I'd still be able to eat are truffles and century eggs, but I'm not really interested in either.
I don't even know what some of those are. Chitlins, Kim Chi ??. I would never eat brains. Remember mad cow disease. I only scored 26. Must have led a sheltered life.
Chittlins are boiled pig intestines. They taste just like their original contents.
Kim Chi is fermented Chinese cabbage, Korean pickled cabbage. It's spicy and delicious imho. Calves brains are delicious, Sweetbreads, they are actually the hypothalamus gland.