Bizarre foods that you really enjoy - Page 3

Foie is certainly odd, if you think about it. However, I think we all know how I feel about foie.



I dated a girl from Quezon City, and her and her family were big on balut. Feathers and all. Sorry, too nasty for me. What's the fermented anchovy thing? Bunga ung? Nasty also.

I love black (read: blood) pudding, haggis can be good, tongue and sweat breads can be good too. Is poutine a bizarre food? I'm betting many non-Euro cultures would find the various blue and stinky cheeses bizarre.

There's also a humane form either in Italy or Spain. It's raised by the flock's migratory patterns. Basically, when the geese migrate, they come to this certain valley and feed on all kinds of grains, grasses, and berries. The man who owns all the land watches how they react to different things. They gorge themselves in this valley for a month or so, eating almost nonstop. He says that there comes a time when the geese start eating literally 24 hours a day. When that time comes, he has about a 6 day window to harvest as many of them as possible before they take off and keep moving south. Apparently the foie has a different taste (duh if it's fed organic foods instead of just grains), but is still pretty luxurious.



Nah. I don't think so, at least. Just fries, gravy, and cheese, right? Nothin weird about potatoes and gravy.

^ I always figured "humane" foie meant they inserted the gavage gently

I think that for the most part, you're right. I've seen the argument before that since the geese are known to run to the gavage, that means they want the food. I also know that geese have a very different neck anatomy than we have, so gavaging geese isn't the same as it would be to shove a tube down your or my neck.

Pepper Soup which is a NIgerian dish (igbo to be exact). It could only be considered bizzare when it's made with goat tripe. Which I love. Adds great texture to an incredible comfort dish.

Grew up eating that, never liked the bird fetus but I love the "soup" inside the egg. Back in freshman high some guy told me pussy tastes like the liquid inside a balut.


the minced pig face is called "sisig". its actually minced snout, cheeks and ears. the ear is important because it gives the dish the nice textured cartilage crunch. the lady who cooks for us makes a mean sisig, and she only insists on getting fresh ears and snouts. actually grilled pig's ear is also served on a stick around here- that is one food I can't picture myself doing- gnawing at a whole ear.


I've met a few people who drank the blood and felt it overrated. The snake bile on the other hand....


Overrated, imho. Then again the horse sashimi I had might not be fresh so the taste could've been different.

"bagoong" the good kind probably smells like duckbutter after being in the desert all day.

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growing up in the Philippines and being Chinese what most people call bizarre is pretty much standard fare here and around SE Asia:

duck- the webbed part of the feet, tongue
chicken - ass, heart, head
pork- pretty much everything except the sex organ
cow- pretty much everything except the female sex organ and the face

I am particularly fond of coagulated pork blood served as Dimsum, cows stomach, the aforementioned sisig, and also fresh sea urchins, sea cucumber and jellyfish.

What I can't imagine eating are those fermented fish buried in salt the Japanese eat, and also rancid shark meat and whale meat swimming in oil people near the arctic eat.

I really like fg. Once I found out where it came from, I basically refused to eat it. My wife and I have reservations on the 28th at Per Se. When I made the reservation they asked about food allergies. I told them I am allergic to shellfish and my wife is allergic to almonds. I then asked them about fg and the lady told me there is a brand from Cali that they can use that is considered humane.

Anybody up for some pig's blood?

Dog meat is rather overrated save for the whimsy of the experience.

I love the fact that FG is made the way it is. That is part of the charm.
Screw this "natural" version, it s the enslavement part that makes the texture so beautiful.

Dog can be nice, it all depends on how it's cooked. I suppose that, perhaps, it may depend on the dog, too. Basashi (horse sashimi) isn't bad but isn't outstanding. It's eaten in Kyushu, the southern island of Japan. I've also eaten a few different kinds of insects and larvae, from witchety grubs, honey ants and termites here in Australia to wasp larvae in Japan. Not bad - most of them had a strangely nutty or buttery taste.

Tried a bit of guinea pig and puffin, both of which are not worth bothering with, not much eating on a guinea pig and the puffin was oily and grim.

Had horse steak in France without really realising it, perfectly pleasant.

I remember being treated to, what I believe was, raw chicken liver in its own juices in Japan, just looked like someone blew a chicken up and scraped it onto a plate, didn't do much for me.

In HS we once dissected pig's hearts. My teacher stuck a rubber hose in one and blew in it to demonstrate how the heart pumped. When he inhaled, he got a surprise mouthful of old pig's blood. Yummy!

Foie Gras tastes like the tears of centuries of opressed and enslaved geese.

Soooo good

K

I think I'm fairly normal for this thread. I like foie gras, I like tripe, I like blood sausage (although I prefer the firmer morcilla in South America, I've had some pretty runny stuff in Germany), I like pickled herring (a type of fish), I prefer natural casing sausages, I like deep fried pieces of intestine, etc.

I've eaten jellyfish. It was ok. Not something that I'd seek out really.

I like caviar and roe.

Someone said blue cheeses would seem strange to non-Euros, so I'll add that I really really like blue cheeses.

I'd eat horse.. . I wouldn't expect many objections to eating horse on a website where many of the members have shoes made from horses.