Weird food from your homeplace/country

[Opivy]

Wow Yen, most those foods sound like the smell terrible!

Anyone watch the show bizarre foods by chance?

Wish I could be like you Peter, it sounds so fun. I'm such a coward when it comes to weird foods though =(.

Ooh, BTW Conway - How about the "Special Quesedilla?"

 

[Rick]

Ate dog when I lived in Korea. Just skinned up some rabbits we got today. Wouldn't consider that unusual though.

 

[TanteEdgar]

I think someone has spent too much time with his mantids...

 

[Opivy]

Ooh, I had rabbit with cranberry sauce at a german restaurant once.. Forget what they call it - hausenpepher(sp?)

 

[PhilinYuma]

Ooh, I had rabbit with cranberry sauce at a german restaurant once.. Forget what they call it - hausenpepher(sp?)

Close enough. Hasenpfeffer is German rabbit stew. I've known chicken to be used instead of rabbit, but never with a cranberry sauce! It would have been imported from the US, and I understand that the cranberry growers are promoting sales of their fruit in Europe. Gott in Himmel!

 

[C.way]

how about frying birds, durian fruits, and wild fern being cooked with chili and shrimps?

 

[TanteEdgar]

How about the Holocaust?

 

[Katnapper]

How about the Holocaust?

I thought we were talking about food.

 

[ismart]

I thought we were talking about food.

I think he might mean people cannibalizing each other?

 

[TanteEdgar]

Yes, I just didn't really express myself very well.... So again: how about people eating each other? Seriously, everyone has eaten human at some point, none of you guys had kebab before?

 

[batsofchaos]

Mmmm, long pig.

Rocky Mountain Oysters are the only strange thing I can think of in regards to Denver. I've never had them, and kind of boring when it comes to the foods I'm willing to eat. The strangest I've ever had would be shark, and that's hardly strange at all.

 

[ZoeRipper]

Once on a dare I ate "Squid Salad" at the local "Chinese" buffet. (I highly doubt that most of the food is actually authentic Chinese.)

Squid salad includes some unidentified red-orange sauce and whole squids.

I SWEAR TO JESUS THE DAMN SQUID MOVED.

 

[sbugir]

Once on a dare I ate "Squid Salad" at the local "Chinese" buffet. (I highly doubt that most of the food is actually authentic Chinese.) Squid salad includes some unidentified red-orange sauce and whole squids.

I SWEAR TO JESUS THE DAMN SQUID MOVED.

At a buffet? Ew... I wouldn't trust it

 

[TanteEdgar]

Someone told me a story once:

A family with husband, wife and kids is at a restaurant in China (which obviously makes it a China restaurant) and the waiter keeps pointing at their dog and yabbling his ping-pong words. They want to be polite and smiles and cheers at him. Then he takes the dog with him and disappears. They think that he maybe took the dog to the kitchen to feed it or something. They wait for a loooong time and finally the dinner is served. Guess what's on the plate....

http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/wp-content.../dog_meat_8.jpg

Yup, that's the one.....

 

[PhilinYuma]

Once on a dare I ate "Squid Salad" at the local "Chinese" buffet. (I highly doubt that most of the food is actually authentic Chinese.) Squid salad includes some unidentified red-orange sauce and whole squids.

I SWEAR TO JESUS THE DAMN SQUID MOVED.

I think that you probably got a Thai dish, Zoe. Yum pla muk ("yum" means salad, so I guess that they like it a lot!). The "unidentified red-orange sauce" (you have a good visual memory!) was fish sauce. If the squid did move, at least you know that it was fresh!

 

[ZoeRipper]

OH wonderful!

Fresh squids!

They looked like baby octopi, actually..

Ugh.

That was the only thing I've ever eaten that directly made me vomit.

 

[Peter Clausen]

From Hawaii:Spam musubi...well just about spam anything

Funny...I saw this for the first time on Monday. A woman at work, from Hawaii, was eating it. She got it at a local restaurant named Aiei that I'll have to try. I thought it was some kind of sushi sandwich roll, but it was spam musubi!

 

[TanteEdgar]

We have something called "komle".

You take potatoes, mash them into nothing and then you... make some kind of potato balls! ######, can't you just eat the potatoes right away instead of squashing them and then "rebuild" them and THEN after a day of work, eat them?

We also had a turkish restaurant. The food was like ######, luckily it burned to the ground about a week ago...

 

[JoeCapricorn]

Scrapple is awesome! It's one of my favorites, although I haven't gotten to enjoy it lately.

There is a particular secret to cooking Scrapple - cut it just the right thickness and brown both sides, so it forms a crispy shell and a moist interior. So good...

The only food to make me nearly vomit (aside from the occasional gristle in pork BBQ or the bad tasting stuff sometimes occurring in Chicken products, yeuuugh) was a dried apricot. It was part of a Halloween game where we were all blindfolded and then given various snacks and told they were human body parts. A skinned grape was someone's eye ball. The dried apricot was an ear. It literally made me believe I was going all Mike Tyson!

There is a dish that I seem to only see around here called Black Diamond Steak. It is my favorite food ever. I have no idea how it is made, but I think it might be marinated and aged a bit before cooking - something makes it extremely tender and very juicy and full of flavor.

 

[mantisfart2]

black pudding is local to me made in bury about 10 miles from me, its great with a fry up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding

and further up north in scotland they have haggis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis