Bizzare Foods

[anjinsan]

Ok ok.. Monkey and Python in Viet Nam, fried in garlic oil and served on french bread.
Raw horse in Osaka Japan, Whale in Tokyo, Raw chicken, just killed and served with sauces in Kyoto, Raw Karp and trout in Totenkyo, Southern Kyushu Japan. Rattle snake in California, along with bees, ants and wild edible plants. Survival over nighter with Charlot Clark.

[stevensc]

I have eaten lots of weird stuff travelling the 3rd world over 35 years, lots of really good food too. But Balut in the Philippines NO WAY!
Steve

[Wotname]

I really can't complete with the foods on this thread - best I can manage is barbecued prawn heads. When done properly, they just melt in your mouth with an intense prawn flavor.

[anjinsan]

Originally Posted by stevensc

I have eaten lots of weird stuff travelling the 3rd world over 35 years, lots of really good food too. But Balut in the Philippines NO WAY!
Steve

MMM I loved it, its like a lot of things. Once you get past the smell, you got it licked.

[karlhead]

Let's not forget the Cajun favorite the mudbug. You all know how to eat them. You know, eat the tails and suck the heads. Love crawdads.

[flashmutt007]

The monkey in Nam gets me...right in the chest....

I do like me some crawfish.... I went to N.O. for my honeymoon and went out for them boogers every night... big old steaming pile of em... twist and suck..twist and suck...

[olhippie]

Didn't Zimmerman eat barnacles in Chile? Or was that Bourdan? I guess you can scrap your bottom and have lunch!

[stevensc]

Karlhead, when eating crawfish you pinch the tails and suck the heads.
Pinching the tail pops the meat out, suck the head for the fat and juices.
Be careful not to OD on salt and cholesterol
Steve

[colemj]

It was his honeymoon, he gets to do it how he wants.

[hoppy]

How about a peanut and jelly sandwich... gross

[karlhead]

Originally Posted by stevensc

Karlhead, when eating crawfish you pinch the tails and suck the heads.
Pinching the tail pops the meat out, suck the head for the fat and juices.
Be careful not to OD on salt and cholesterol
Steve

Uh.....ah.....I don't think I want to go there, but to each his own.

[bewitched]

Having lived on the doorstep of China for 12 years, I've learned the chew quickly and swallow in as big a lump as possible method of eating. On one occaision however, even this tried and tested method failed me.

I was again the only non-chinese at the table and as such the centre of attention when a doughnut shaped meat thing in a bowl of murky water appeared. No matter how much I chewed I was making no headway. But I took heart as no one else around the table seemed to be making headway either. Eventually it got to the stage where it was obvious that everyone was waiting for me to do something - swallow it I thought. I couldn't - I spat it back into the bowl, apologising profusely. As soon as I had done this, everyone else spat out their doughnuts.

Aparrently cows rectum is unedible and should only be chewed for a few seconds for the flavour

[idpnd]

Originally Posted by bewitched

Aparrently cows rectum is unedible and should only be chewed for a few seconds for the flavour

Hehehe!

[sneuman]

Scorpions in Thailand. Crunchy!

[karlhead]

During my stay in Thailand with the military I witnessed a lot of wierd things and this is one of them. During the rice harvesting season there is a large insect, about the size of a palmetto bug, that the Thais find a delicacy. These bugs eat rice and their abdomens swell up. The Thais will only eat one gender of the bug however. Can't remember which one though. Anyway they pick up the bug and open its wings and smell it. If it is the wrong sex they will throw it away. If it is the right one they squeeze the rice out, directly into their mouths. It tastes kind of like burnt brown rice. Not bad if eaten with hot peppers.