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Hey guys, Tonia & I were watching bizarre foods last night & started wondering what had been the weirdest thing we've eaten. Well, I can tell you that I've had bulls balls among other weird cow stuff, but the weiredest thing I've seen & had was when I went to my mom's house, Tonia takes the lid off a pot of boiling "something", & she sees a bunch of chicken feet poking out of it! (Must be a Cuban thing!) I surely had to try one, but man! EEEW!
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Well, there's beef tongue and heart. Not that strange. Mom used to roast pig tails when I was a kid. Yep, the real things. Pretty tasty too. Fished all my life and tried about everything I caught . . . at least once. Carp . . yeech, dogfish . . mushy. Turtle and crayfish, even here up north, great. Started hunting in my teens. Normal stuff here, whitetail, rabbit and squirrel. Strange stuff, porcupine, muskrat and groundhog. Muskrat is good. The other two need severe rendering to rid them of the heavy layer of fat.
The eel sounds interesting Dale.
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We ate beef tongue, chicken gizzards, hearts, crawdads, suckerfish, softshell turtle, gopher tortoise, cottontail rabbit, squirrel, alligator, fish eggs, deer etc. Folks around here still eat possum, raccoon, chicken feet, chitterlings (pronounced "chittlins")
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Potted meat. You ever read the ingredients for that stuff? It has bull balls, haggis, water roaches, beef tongue, pickled Estonian eel and eel byproducts in it.
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Lol, Sonny, I immediately thought of Rodger when I got to Wayne's post
Chicken feet? I don't know why you would want to eat something that has been treading s*%t all its life. But then those Chittlin things have...oh never mind.
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Some friends stopped in Friday for a surprise visit from South Texas. As a joke, their son brought me a bottle of Mezcal Con Gusanos from Mexico. That's mezcal with two worms in it. He had it packed in a Nike box with the words prominently displayed: "Just Do It!" I didn't.
A park naturalist at a Big Bend National Park ranger talk said that mezcal tasted "exactly like gasoline and hair oil mixed." Once, I sampled some in Mexico and "gasoline and hair oil mixed" is a fairly accurate description, although I've never actually tried that combo and don't intend to, no matter how many Nike boxes it's packed in.
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Some years ago, my mother made a wrong turn at the supermarket and came home with pig's ears and other assorted animal parts that were never meant for consumption. Even the dog refused to eat the resultant stew.
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Actually Mike, that stuff is pretty good, when its fresh. The problem roadise stands in Luquillo is that they fry the stuff early in the AM & its sitting there all day. We don't go there at all... EVER! There's a few places NOT IN LUQUILLO, that fry the stuff when you order. Moslty are in the Pińones area (the beach road right off the airport). I gotta take you there next time you come over. Actually, I haven't been that way since they opened Route 66.
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I wonder if that is where Charro says that phase "cuchi-cuchi" also isn't she from PR? I remember I got a little sick when I was in Cuba, where I had stayed at, the people made me some Yucca fritters. I never had those before, but man they were good with some honey. plus it took my stomach pains away. Weird foods I never eat anything weird, only when I was on Fear Factor.
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I grew up in Zambia and during certain times of the year the ants had wings and after heavy rains they would swarm all over. We would pull the wings of the ants and fry them and eat them with sadza (corn meal rolled into balls) and dipped in a salty fish sauce (kapenta).
Yes, you can see where I get my good taste.
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How about strange combinations of foods? Went to a class reunion a couple weeks ago and then ended up at a bar with some of the friends. One girl ordered pork rines (sp) with tobassco sauce. I have never had that before, but it was good with the beer.
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Chicken feet aren't that weird... they are the best parts to make chicken stock with. Don't actually eat the feet, just render them down and get all the collagen outta the bones. Wings are second best for this purpose...and who doesn't like chicken soup? I'd say chittlins are the grossest thing I've tried. I'm pretty adventurous (at least I thought so til this post) but I haven't tried half the weird stuff some of y'all have!
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You know Ryan, I saw that on the weird food show too, when the guy went to Ecuador. THAT, I would try.
Hey Pam, if you ever come here, you gotta ask for Chicharrón de Bayamón (Pork Rinds from Bayamon) I tried to find a photo online but didn't find any. You'll see them on the side of the road. They look like snow cone carts but instead of a block of ice, you'll see stacks of pig skins. Very different than the bagged frito lay kind!
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We were in Ecuador & they had the little fellas in one of those hot pretzel warmers spinning around and around. The hangers were run through them like a BBQ spit and their legs were sticking straight out.
Just remembering the situation is hilarious!
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After attending and graduating five "survival" schools while in the Navy, there isn't such a thing as "weird" food.....as humans are omnivores, we can eat anything grown, (entire food chain) w/o fear of something going wrong (aside of individual allergies)...only mistake humans make is in their heads, when one knows what it is, it becomes a totally different issue, usually preceded w/a EWWWWWW!!!!
Try something different sometime while blindfolded and totally lacking any intel as to what it is, it will open up some great food choices, trust me...
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One of my Mom's favorite foods was boiled chicken feet and since we raised chickens they were in the pot a lot. I never understood it. She also would crush up a hostess cupcake and mix it in her chili and add milk. Must have been something from growing up during the depression. Weirdest thing I've eaten is termites and pickeled bologna. I'll eat termites anyday over pickeled bologna!
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Nothing really weird, but I tried raw sea urchin roe, smoked eel, raw quail eggs and jellyfish.
Of course most of it was washed down with rice wine so I guess it dosen't really count since I was under the influence!
I didn't dare try the gelatinous stuff called Lutefisk that is reserved for people like Bruce in MN.
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Watching documentaries.... Saw one where these Amazonnian Indian hunters found a tarantula's nest, trapped, it, carried to their camp wrapped in a big leaf. They roasted it in an open fire, ate the thing and picked theor teeth with the fangs...mmmmmmmm mmmmm
Saw another where these Africans on the shores of Lake Victoria, were fanning the air to catch hordes of flies, which had hatched en masse from the lake and were drifting ashore. They caught masses of these flies, reached periaodically in to baskets, grabbed the flies and squeezed them together so the juice from their innards stuck the whole wad together. When they got enough of these they kneaded them into cakes or patties and cooked the "burgers" . MMMM MMMMM!!
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Hmmm....Being 1/2 Swedish I somehow never thought of Lutefisk as being a weird food. We had it every Christmas Eve...it's supposed to bring you good luck in the upcoming year or something like that. You just have to have it with potatoes and lots of mustard gravy to hide the fish.
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(Must be a Cuban thing!) I surely had to try one, but man! EEEW!
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