yendi

Bubble and squeak sounds pretty good, actually... and I wouldn't mind trying brains if I were in france. Horse, though, I'd have trouble with that but of the moral kind... I think horses are a bit too intelligent to eat. Tendons as well... seems it would be chewy, but it's all cow anyways.

I want to eventually have haggis.

Dog... falls under the same category as horse. If someone is serving it to me, if I've ordered it by accident, sure, but I won't request it.

Jellied eels?
Escargot I'd like to try.

I would figure that the British at least would appreciate grits...

You must remember though, I'm one of the ones who knows exactly what's in a hot dog and still eats the cheap ones, and has made a week's worth of lunches on "potted meat food product" (the actual name on the can) spread on white bread with mustard... ahh, the wonders of eating on $5 a week :)

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"potted meat food product"

not only is this stuff not illegal, but people still eat it.

whatswrongwithyoupeople!!!!

sorry.

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Haggis is yummy, eel is fun (great texture), liver and lights made me gag, have had horse and it was stringy, but the horse was old. can't recall to much off that list, but I am kinda picky with food.
Oh, yeah, black and white pudding are great.

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I told my teacher I would try chou doufu (stinky tofu) but after 2 1/2 months of nearly gagging every time I walk by a chou doufu stall, I dunno.

Was durian on the list? Should have been.

Oh, and yak butter tea is an extremely misleading name. It's melted yak 'butter', i. e. yak oil, and if there's any tea in it I'm damned if I could tell through the fricking OIL.

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actually, yeah, I like some of the stuff on the list, including potted meat, and bubble and squeak...and Clint loves scrapple, I think.

I've seen more weird food here than I care to think about.

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heh, Durian wasn't only on the page, it had about 70 lines devoted to it.

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"...and Clint loves scrapple, I think."-this worries me. Alot. You think. man, i would know if someone like that stuff. :-P

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oh, missed it. I haven't gotten to taste that yet either.

My favorite weird thing here has to be the rooster's comb on a stick.

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Dude, I've never been anywhere it was even being served, so...

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oh...come to think of it, i have no clue what it is....heh....sorrry...

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Hehehe, PMFP... nothing more than heavily peppered meat leftover puree.

I actually like PMFP more than those little weenies armour sells in a can. That one of the only real things that gives me the shudders when I taste it, it cold chicken fat, and those little 'dogs are covered in it, jelled.

Would you put PMFP up there with, say, canned tamales?

I also eat and like:
Canned fish (sardines, fish steaks, etc)
Penrose hot sausages (pickled sausages, essentially)
Boiled cabbage, in any shape
Brussel sprouts
"kilt" (killed) lettuce ... ask if you don't know

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i like sardines and anchovies, and adore corn beef and cabbage. brussel sprouts are ok.

so, ya got me...
"kilt"?

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alright, "kilt" lettuce ("Kilt" is a perjuration of "killed", welcome to East Tennessee)

Take a pound or so of bacon, fry it up, pour the grease into a pot. Bring to a boil the grease with several cups of vinegar. Chop up the bacon in the meantime. If I remember correctly, because I wasn't the one making it, you end up steeping lettuce and onions in the boiling vinegar/grease, and adding the bacon.

It kinda/sorta ends up as a cooked salad, albeit an artery-clogging one. It's actually VERY good...

I'm tempted to look up an actual recipe now.

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thanks. you can go wrong with vinegar and bacon grease. i bet the lettuce is just and excuse to eat them both.

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Personally, I'd consider the onions the excuse, but I digress.

(The Author has been caught before in the kitchen cooking and eating raw onion, a raw clove of garlic, chewing on a bouillon cube, etc...)

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I know there's already been a number of comments on scrapple, but as a Pennsylvania girl, I had to add my two cents. Somehow I managed to never have the stuff, but I shopped in a farmer's market and saw my share of disgusting things. Scrapple is the most disgusting color, texture, whatever, on the planet, seriously, especially before it's cooked, and it's in this processed loaf shape. I'm serious. And people I know-- people I like and respsect-- eat this stuff. With maple syrup or powdered sugar on it! Ew! For breakfast!

Mind you, I'm vegetarian now, so I'm even more EWed out by this than I used to be.

But out towards Easton (about 40 minutes from where I grew up) there's evidently a placed called the Scrapple Hut. I think it's a PA Dutch answer to Waffle House. Ucka-puck!

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you are a supertaster my friend. you like stuff with TONS of flavour. do you smoke?

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Nope, I don't smoke.

What's this about supertaster? Because even though I do that I can still detect hints of things in food...

And flood my Taco Bell with 4, 5 packets of Fire sauce at a time :)

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yendi

If I ever find a Scrapple Hut, I am so eating there.

Of course, I'm theoretically vegetarian again, anyway, but I'd make an exception for an unusual food.

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yendi

Yeah, but how much real hot sauce would you put on a burrito?

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Yeah, I know the feeling. I made an exception about a year ago, and ate haggis. Eck. But a promise is a promise.

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When I have homemade tacos, they're generally soaked dripping in Louisiana brand hot sauce.

I've gone through a regular bottle of tabasco in a month.. or less.

Thanks to my little bro, there are a few bottles of habanero mixes around...

Questions? :p

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If it's any consolation, isn't haggis mostly oatmeal?

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Honestly, I don't know. That's not what I was given to understand, but I like that definition better. :)

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http://www.smart.net/~tak/haggis.html

Seems most of it's 2:1 oatmeal by weight dry.

Whether or not this helps with your decision depends on your reasons for being a vegetarian, but Haggis is essentially making sure what was remaining of an animal already killed for meat didn't simply go in the garbage. That (seems, anyways) is almost a redeeming quality....

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Yeah, I agree with that, I mean, I'm not beating myself up over this moment in guilt or anything. And yes, if one's going to eat meat, there are good ways of doing so and there bad ways, if you know what I mean. (Not that I preach. I have nothing against omniverous/carniverous people!!) But with that same standard, hot dogs and scrapple are also "good" but I still think they're disgusting... Everyone else can eat them to their heart's content, if they like.

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Whee! more hot dogs for me!

I've never seen scrapple before, though... I suppose I'm too far south.

Ever hear of Treet, though?

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