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Odd Foods – Real or Not?

Monday, 9 September 2019, 20:53 BFH Uncategorized 50

Well, one is obviously fake, I hope.

The french fries ice cream I saw today. In fact, that’s my hand.

But is Hostess trolling us?

What’s the oddest FOOD you’ve ever eaten?

 h/t genuine? or nightmare?

50 Comments on Odd Foods – Real or Not?

  2. Chicken feet with claws and all. I used to tell my friends jokingly that if you deep fried a breaded turd it would be good. I stopped that after the chicken feet. Because, knowing the areas that chicken walk, I was eating chicken turd.

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  3. There are chocolate and peanut butter twinkies. For real.

    Escargot, squid,
    and Octopus. Hands down, strangest things I ever ate.
    I remember ( I was a kid) the non-stop chewing. lol!

    Strange but good: Philly cream cheese with salsa as a dip.

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  4. Um well peanut butter goes with almost everything…. pickles, bananas, mayonnaise, jelly, jam, preserves, etc.. Chitterlings and mountain oysters are my humble entry.. Once! and only to state that I have.
    “Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell

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  6. Two things:

    Raw kelp – right out of Puget Sound. Very S T R O N G taste.
    Ratfish (shark family) caught in Puget Sound. Figured I try it at least once. Not recommended unless you’re starving (and I wasn’t).

    BTW, squid and octopus require hardly any cooking. Like 60 seconds. Then you don’t have to chew as long, MJA. Delicious!

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  7. I can honestly say that I never ate a baloot while in the Philippines when I was in the Navy. I wasn’t drunk enough to eat one and there wasn’t enough San Miguel Filipino beer to make me want to ever eat one, they were disgusting. Or monkey meat skewered on a stick sold on street corners in the P I. The fake Hot Pockets Aquarium gravel must be for roughage, you could literally shit bricks if you ate that.

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  8. I like sushi but not from the gas station.

    Pepper Pot soup.

    Scapple

    5 Guys vanilla and bacon milk shake

    chocolate covered bacon

    pizza with hard boiled egg on it – don’t ask

    Cracklin’ but refused to try chitlins since they smell damn musty

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  9. I don’t think it’s that odd but I’ve gotten a lot of grief with chocolate chip pancakes over the years. And just so you can try something different, instead of placing at pat of butter to melt between each pancake (at least that’s what I do) sometimes I’ll put peanut butter instead. Reese’s cakes. They’re good.

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  14. just bought one of those Burger King Impossible (Veggie) Burgers … they’re right … it was Impossible to take more than a couple of bites. took it home … the dog wouldn’t eat it either.

    bull lips are bad too … use ’em on a trot line … crabs like ’em

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  18. I normally don’t like beef liver but the liver we ate from a freshly killed cow that same day was the best liver I ever ate. And cow tongue and beef hearts are both disgusting, it’s mostly a texture thing. I’ve had both and don’t care for either. I’ve never liked head cheese either, my dad used to say when they butchered a pig on the farm when he was a kid they would use everything but the squeal.

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  20. While in China we loved all the great food. The great thing about the PNW is the Asian food influence is big here and we love it. After more than a week, however, of having been through the huge Qing Ping market in Guanzou, I could not bring myself to eat ANYTHING that had chopped meat in it. One market stall had skinned kitties, and I kicked a rat head that had been removed from it’s skinned carcass. No more chopped meat. And I passed on the bowl of pickled duck tongues. Geoff C. spent the rest of the trip quacking like a duck that had no tongue.

    While in Japan once, strolling with friends through a retail area of small food stores, I bought what looked like four small balls of vanilla ice cream on a stick covered in chocolate sauce. Don’t wear sunglasses while eating in a foreign country. I’m still not entirely sure what was on the stick, but the chocolate sauce was actually the color of pureed eggplant when I took my sunglasses off — after the first (large) bite.

    Strangest thing: I avoid strange food. I eat enough of it through sheer inattention.

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  21. Oven roasted bear. ugh. Black meat, strong wild taste.
    Squirrel spaghetti. eh, the sauce was so spicy it was hard to tell what meat it was.
    Yes, I grew up in a community of hunters.

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  23. I have eaten weird food out of ignorance — by mistake. As a young mom I cooked okra by itself as a vegetable side dish. Had no idea what it was. It looked like mini zucchini dripping in snot. My boys begged not to have to eat it and I dumped the whole lot Another time I bought what I thought was white fish. Was sort of stumped by the cooking instructions which said it needed to be soaked in water and then baked for an hour. It wasn’t white fish— it was lutefisk. Vile stuff.

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  24. The local gelato shop (yeah, in the tourist district, downtown) is currently offering Guinness Extra Stout flavor. I tink the Irish hubby and I will have to check it out, if only because most of the pubs don’t offer such a flavor…

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  25. Dipping hot Wendy’s French Fries into a cold chocolate Frosty works because it’s a contrast in hot/cold and salty/sweet. (I’m not the only one who does this, right?)

    I’m not so sure about the fries already being cold in ice cream-you’ll have to give us a report BFH!

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  26. Illustr8r – You damn right!
    Swirled Ice Cream, flavor wise, take your pick, use as a dip with some heavy salted sea salt ripple chips, um-mm
    SHAFT! Can you dig it!

    The Hot Pockets Aquarium Gravel, not sure about being fake. Kinda explains ‘actors’ like Bill Pullman and Jason Beige always sounding like they are needing to pull their voice up out from a damaged trachea.

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  27. …pro tip: do NOT eat Phillipinian aso stew if you ever want to look your dog in the eye again, and avoid the batok too unless you enjoy crunchy duck fetus snacks…

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  28. I have some nice hard liquor from Viet Nam with pickled cobra and radishes inside.

    A friend votes for the whole roasted goat’s eyeballs that he was honored with at a dinner in Kajikistan.

    (Actually, the mustard ice cream sounds intriguing…)

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  30. There was a British cooking show on PBS about 15-20 years ago called Two fat ladies. One of the episodes showed them making a cow tongue sandwich, it was strangely disgusting. One of the hefty ladies died from a massive heart attack because of all the disgusting fatty food they ate. It seems to unanimous with those of us to have been to the Philippines that the food there is quite different but they had great fried rice.

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  31. This is a tough question for me – from several previous comments some of you know I’ve eaten a lot of strange foods.

    OK. Here goes.
    The strangest food I’ve ever eaten is sea slug. And I can’t blame anybody else for sneaking it onto my plate. I caught the thing (they’re pretty ease to catch but hard to find), cleaned and prepped it, and sauteed it myself.

    It’s hard to go wrong by sauteing just about anything in butter, olive oil, and garlic. But not impossible.

    (edit) p.s. The prep for sea slug includes keeping them alive and eating fresh greens for a few days so they can excrete any poisons they’ve ingested from their native foods. Yum!

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  32. Had what could only be described as a smashed asshole. It was presented as Salisbury steak but even with a very sharp knife, you couldn’t cut in any direction due to the veins and tendon like bands, and it was not cooked past rare. But the army said it was Salisbury steak….

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  33. The best steak that I ever ate was in Singapore, I believe it came from a water buffalo. And the best Chinese food was at a restaurant in Hong Kong where they had an aquarium that you could choose your fish from, it was very good. A whole bunch of guys from my squadron had an incredible meal there.

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  34. I had lunch at some dear Indians (.) home years ago, I discovered they like curry on everything and in everything. The one thing that was out there they had was a dark blackish Brown smashed fried something or other that tasted like licorice had very small prickly things on it like cactus that stayed on your tongue it was horrible. For some reason they wanted to give us seconds and then some more.

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  37. I like peanut butter and (dill) pickle sandwiches. I have a friend who likes peanut butter, Miracle Whip and lettuce sandwiches. I’ve tried one – not too bad. Just about anything goes with peanut butter.

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  38. I was in Spain many years ago went to a restaurant saw a guy eating huge meatballs they looked pretty good so I asked the waiter about them. The waiter, who spoke english, told me it was bullfighting season and that they had a limited number of bull testicals, and that they were a great “male enhancer” (this was in the days before viagra).
    The next day I had screwed up the courage to try them when my order came they were considerable smaller then the ones I had seen the day before, when I inquired as to why he responded “Well senor sometimes the Bull wins”

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  41. I love chicken feet, but they re a biotch to clean and cleaver the off the claw ends. Don’t want to do that in a spanking clean kitchen because they fly pretty far if you don’t hit the right spot. They make the best broth, loaded with collagen but you have to simmer them with garlic and onions until your entire neighborhood stinks. They are nearly impossible to get, unless you want a 50 lb frozen bag from Tyner Farms, they sell organic meat and free range chickens in Indiana.

    I grew up eating gorgonzola when other kids were eating american cheese. Love it to this day.

    Love calamari if it’s barely cooked, because I don’t like rubber bands. Love alligator. Love beef tongue. (Cooks fast in the Instant Pot.)

    Escargot is impossible to find here, and the available canned ones taste like poop.

    BTW, chicken dupas are awesome.

    Hate, hate brains.

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  47. @Truckbuddy, tongue, oxtails, two meats that were once cheap, really cheap.
    Oxtail : $7 a pound now, for mostly bones.
    Tongue: $12 a pound now, I love it but really, love sirloin more, it’s way easier to cook.
    Growing up, we ate a lot of heart, tongue and liver, sometimes tripe.
    Mom would buy what she called bones, giant beef rib bones, a dog would have a hard time finding meat on them.
    After serving them to us, she would take the gnawed bones, cover them in tomato sauce, bake them again and then make soup.
    Chitlins, nope, cannot get past the pervasive poop smell.
    Have eaten chicken “feets”, you use a pair of garden shears to take the toenails off.
    “Feets”, of all kinds, common in the South and south of the border.
    Cow foot soup is pretty good, super collagen rich, good for your joints.

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  48. At a wedding reception I was being polite and tried everything. The thick, grayish spaghetti looking dish was especially challenging to chew and swallow. The bride wouldn’t give me a straight answer when I asked about it, she even pretended not to know if it was a plant or animal. The waiter told me I had eaten jellyfish tentacles.

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  50. Once in Colombia I had breaded and deep fried cow intestines, cut like you cut onion rings. They were served with ranch dressing. Once I got past the organ meat flavor, they were pretty good.

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