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10/25/2005 06:38:17 PM · #76 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Now, I have yet to find the intestinal fortitude to try Sesos (Cow Brains) or Cabeza (Basically boiled beef head), but those were available at the same places. |
Spazmo ... lived with a Mexican for 5 years. Ate sesos (brains), lengua (tongue), tripas (milk intestines), cabeza (cow head - cooked 3 myself), and made fresh cheese. I tell you what, that homemade cottage cheese was the best! Also made fresh tamales from pig head. I'm pretty Mexican for a white chick!:) |
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10/25/2005 06:39:59 PM · #77 |
Originally posted by PhilipDyer:
The worst food I've ever eaten was "natto" in Japan. It's basically soy beans that are fermented to the point where they become really slimy and smell like vomit. It's actually really healthy and my daughters love it, but I have to leave the room when they eat it.
At one Japanese party, the people I was with apparently wanted to play "let's gross out the foreigner," so they ordered the most freakish food they could find. It consisted of:
*Raw horse meat - not bad with sesame sauce
*Boiled chicken stomachs - bad
*Barbecued shrimp shells - bad
*The still-moving tentacle of an octopus - yummy, but gross. It suctions onto your mouth.
*A bunch of little white fish that you pour live into soy sauce then drink - gross, very salty
*A whole sea bream that is carved live on the table and flayed out to eat while still squirming - yummy, but gross.
*And for dessert, bees and grasshoppers soaked in syrup - Sweet, but disturbing.
In conclusion, only go out to eat in Japan with people you trust. |
I've had chocolate covered grasshoppers and ants before. It's pretty good.
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10/25/2005 06:44:39 PM · #78 |
Originally posted by SJCarter:
Then again, we used to eat fried squirrel with buttermilk gravy for breakfast too... Not bad except when you bite down on a piece of gunshot. |
Squirrels and dumplings are pretty tasty, got to admit biting down on a piece of shot is pretty discouraging though.
Raccoon, prepared like a roast, is quite delicious also.
Message edited by author 2005-10-25 18:46:51.
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10/25/2005 06:49:59 PM · #79 |
| Horse meat sandwich....not bad. Tasted kind of like beef jerky. Felt really bad after a couple of days when I went for a horse ride. :( |
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10/25/2005 07:18:39 PM · #80 |
Originally posted by PhilipDyer:
The worst food I've ever eaten was "natto" in Japan. |
I'll have to agree with you on this one. Natto or Rotten beans as they call it, is just plain nasty. |
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10/25/2005 07:59:15 PM · #81 |
At Bull's Tavern in San Luis Obispo, they have a drink called the "Bullsweat". One shot Bacardi 151, One shot Tabasco, One shot Worchestershire sauce. They'll even serve it in a dirty ashtray if you ask nicely.
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10/25/2005 08:18:01 PM · #82 |
Durian!! King of Fruit! My kingdom for some fresh durian...Durian ice cream also rules.
Originally posted by tryals15:
durian fruit is pretty potent, but then that just tastes bad.... |
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10/25/2005 10:17:06 PM · #83 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
At Bull's Tavern in San Luis Obispo, they have a drink called the "Bullsweat". One shot Bacardi 151, One shot Tabasco, One shot Worchestershire sauce. They'll even serve it in a dirty ashtray if you ask nicely. |
Oh yeah! I "vaguely" remember this fine establishment :) |
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10/25/2005 10:19:47 PM · #84 |
The flies off of a no pest strip.
(In college on a bet) |
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10/25/2005 10:39:10 PM · #85 |
| My little brother is keeping his dead hamster in the freezer (our basement freezer) until we get around to burying it. Should I slice it up and serve it for dinner tommorow?? |
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10/25/2005 10:45:36 PM · #86 |
I find Durian to taste unpleasant, but it's really not much worse than eating boiled onions.
I had this one fruit in Costa Rica that I can't remember the name of. It was very odd because it was like a very long bean pod and the pod was already dry. There were what resembled very moldy beans inside the fruit. They weren't moldy. That was the fruit membrane around the bean pod. Felt weird peeling it off and eating it. Wasn't really gross though, it was sweet and entirely pleasant. A little like overgrown peach skin.
We have a variant of natto here as well called stinky tofu. It can be boiled (which removes most of the smell) or deep-fried (which greatly accentuates the smell) and like many other stinky foods here, isn't nearly as bad as it smells.
A friend of mine tried the live (freshly butchered before your eyes) turtle in Snake Alley (they don't butcher snakes for display anymore, no real difference, they are doing it in the back) which I couldn't handle.
Another friend had a bowl of chicken soup in the mountains and came up with a cat's paw at the end of the soup. Made her cry.
It is funny because there is an annual (?) AXN channel "Challenge" show on TV here based on Fear Factor. They gather like 50 contestants and usually a small handful of foreigners (to laugh at?) and do various odd things like climbing around on platforms raised up cranes and swimming in nasty pools. What was totally hilarious though was the eating portions of their challenges.
There wasn't anything they were afraid of! The locals tucked in with delight as they ate things like lungs, stomach and a few other things I can't recall. A couple less seasoned foreigners couldn't manage and one said she was a vegetarian! A vegetarian entering a Fear Factor knockoff... heh.
I can imagine that if they had a bunch of live worms or something they would be put off. I don't think that would be allowed on TV though...
Incidentally, the endgame challenge was enough to make most people squirm just watching. They put the person in a 3 section plexiglass box, put dozens of snakes in one, dozens of scorpions in another and dozens of tarantulas in with the face section and then CLOSED THE BOX.
Then they put one of those "skill-testing" type math questions face down on the plexi and started the timer.
yehoyeeyee. Gotta love snakes in the shorts! |
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