What "weird" foods do you love?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

I adore natto, Vegemite, Marmite, fish sauce and Kimchi.

You?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. Soylent Green

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. what's in that?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

5. a little of everybody

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. So "Free to be You and Me" is a Soylent Green ad?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

10. I'm not sure about that

but the foodstuff is flavoursome

[Broken_Hero]

4. .............

:spray:

[Hugin]

42. Seconded!

:spray:

:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear ChavezSpeakstheTruth!

Well, I love rhubarb!

Nobody else in my nuclear family likes it......:cry:

My dog even turned up her nose at it!

That was actually funny, though........:rofl:

I like kimchi.......the rest, darling, you can have!

:hi:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. I live for rhubarb pie

my father always grows it

You should try Marmite - yummy.

[bicentennial_baby]

20. I like it raw...with sugar on it...

:9

[av8rdave]

83. Nothing better than a good rhubarb pie

My grandmother used to grow it behind her house....delicious memories!

[Broken_Hero]

7. Calamari...

aka Squid...

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

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. What's weird about squid?

Now if you had said scungilli or conch I'd say that's a little odd. Sea urchin roe (uni) is the best thing going, however.

[Broken_Hero]

12. well, most people turn their nose

when I mention, I like Squid...:)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

14. You'll never get that from me - bring on the squid - yummy

I like it dried too
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[Broken_Hero]

15. I love calamari,

yumm...making me hungry, dammit....:) It took me about half a day, to talk my wife into trying it out, she was very skeptical, but after she tried some, she was in love with it....

I had to be talked into trying it too, and after my first piece, I never looked back....:D

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. With a little marinara sauce and lemon - oh baby!

It's real easy to make at home too. The key is cooking it for just a minute or two.

[Broken_Hero]

19. The best I had, was at an italian joint

up in Kansas, the Calamari was thick, just like what mozzarella sticks look like...it was very thinly breaded, 95% of it was pure squid...hmmm....

[LostinVA]

31. *gag* I hate scungilli

My great-grandmother always had it for the Feast of the Seven Fishes.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. That's not weird.

[Broken_Hero]

13. To me it isn't,

to a good handful of my friends/family, it is weird....:D

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. Well, I've been eating stuff like that since I was a toddler, so it's totally normal here.

I also like octopus sashimi. I won't eat non-seafood meat, but other than that, I'll try pretty much anything.

[Patiod]

64. I used to LOVE calamari

but after reading some interesting articles on squid intelligence, I feel less happy about eating them.

Damned those articles!

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

101. still love squid

I don't think they're all that smart. Since when have you seen a squid master basic calculus?

:shrug:

[Patiod]

108. Hell, I couldn't master basic calculus

But I read that they will crawl out of their tanks at night, crawl to another tank, eat fish in that tank, then go back to their own tank. So they're smart enough to be nefarious....

[dad]

17. cereal with ice in it

As far as I know I am the only person in the world to do this

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. what kind of cereal?

[dad]

22. Every kind

I just like ice!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. see now that is weird

:D

[TimeChaser]

21. Green tea flavored ice cream

Mmmm

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. now that's just delicious

nummers

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. Totally normal.

[LostinVA]

32. Yum -- I love that

[driver8]

103. That is my 5 year old daughter's favorite flavor!!

We had it at a Japanese restaurant and now she loves it.

[philosophie_en_rose]

104. Green tea mochi ice cream is especially good.

:D

[u4ic]

27. I like kimchi

I also like having cooked kidney beans as a snack; I add some hempseed or flaxseed oil and kelp flakes to them and toss and serve. (I don't think it's weird, but I don't know many - or any - that have kelp flakes in their cupboard.

It's great on popcorn, too.:9

[Bzzzz]

33. I LOVE kimchee...

my hubby detests it. :( He hates the smell. hehe
I try to eat it when he's not around, but the smell, it still lingers. Know what I mean???

[ironflange]

112. Nothing to say

Just want you to see my new avatar.

[u4ic]

127. LOL

:rofl:

[reformedrepub]

28. Bangers and Mash

nt

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

37. And how!

yum!

[T_i_B]

29. Offal

Inparticular I'm very keen on hearts at the moment. Lambs & pigs hearts are great eating, and at only £1 for three of them they are also very cheap!

The only bits I tend to stay away from at present are tripe and bone marrow.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

38. I enjoy black pudding quite a bit

[cmkramer]

44. Veal hearts

When I was a kid,, when my grandparents came to visit, my grandfarther would make his specialty - sweet and sour veal hearts with these really great dumplings that were huge and smothered in brown butter. The veal hearts were also served with ginger snaps.

I also like pickled watermelon rind, pickled onions and pickled herring.

It probably doesn't count as "weird" but I like game such as venison, pheasant and rabbit.

[T_i_B]

46. Game?

There's a great butcher round my neck of the woods that specializes in game, and although I'm not a regular game eater by any stretch I have to say that I really like venison sausages.

[murielm99]

48. We eat game when we have it.

Several butchers here specialize in it.

I like venison stew, sausages, steaks. I like pheasant, too.

But I really like pickle juice. That is my favorite weird food. When the pickles are gone, I like to drink the juice. Sweet or dill, pickle juice is good.

[cmkramer]

98. My late dad was a hunter

He went deer hunting for many years, and we always had plenty of venison sausages and venison "hamburgers" as well as roast venison to eat.

He used to go rabbit hunting too but we only ate rabbit a few times because neither my sister nor my mother liked it much.

[youthere]

61. Sounds pretty "offal" to me.

But hey, to each his own..right?

[T_i_B]

71. "But hey, to each his own..right?"

Well I certainly don't go around telling everyone else to eat offal, although a good case can be made for doing just that. That argument is along the lines of, if you are going to kill an animal then you might as well use the whole animal and not let anything go to waste.

However, were I to start making that argument things would surely go a little bit GD-ish on here, and I don't think that I really want that sort of flame war on here, not even over whether Marmite is better the Vegemite!

[youthere]

82. lol..

besides..it would be pointless..everyone KNOWS Marmite is better.

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. Wasabi peas!

Yum. :9

[mzteris]

34. scrambled egg sandwich

with cheddar cheese

and

mustard.

(My husband thinks I'm nuts. Well - he thinks I'm nuts anyway - but he thinks this is really gross.)

[kwassa]

35. Chili Garlic Lemongrass and Basil Anything

seriously, anything cooked in that combo is a winner.

[QMPMom]

36. Peanut Butter (crunchy only) and dill pickle sandwiches on white toast.

And the sandwich *must* be cut diagonally. Cutting it any other way is a sin. I read it in the Bible. }(

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

40. I've heard that peanut butter and bacon can be good

[AwakeAtLast]

105. I watched a show (American Eats?) that said

That when peanut butter first came out, that was one of the first combinations people ate. Someone actually made bacon flavored peanut butter for awhile.

I'll pass.

[zanne]

51. Butter and ketchup sandwiches.

Had them alot growing up; it's kind of a "poverty" meal, but it's yummy!

[RebelOne]

39. Scrambled eggs and lox

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

41. Thake make a sandwich like that a few blocks away

I prefer my lox on the cooler side

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

43. Pock Hocks and Sauerkraut

German Soul Food!

[tigereye]

45. eel was pretty good

and edimame.

And corn nuts. :hide:

I guess those really aren't that exotic, though.

[deepthought42]

52. Edimame! *drools*

I'm having sushi for lunch today, so I definately getting me some edimame!!! :)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

53. My freezer is always stocked with the beans!

:thumbsup:

[tigereye]

76. they were surprisingly good

a friend of mine said her kids eat em down like they're popcorn!

[deepthought42]

92. Oh me too! The sushi can wait until I've had my edamame!

:popcorn:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

133. EdAmame

:-)

[T_i_B]

74. Would that be Jellied eel's?

gor blimey! strike a like and no mistake! Down here in Essex we have quite a few Pie n' mash shops, which of course all sell Jellied Eels.

http://www.icons.org.uk/nom/nominations/jellied-eels

When David Beckham moved to Real Madrid in 2003, what was it about England he admitted to missing the most? The clothes shops? The hairdressers? No — it was good old jellied eels. This dish — as symbolic of London’s East End as Pearly Kings and Queens — has been around since the 18th century. It consists of fresh eel slices, boiled in herbs and vinegar and served in their own jelly, usually with mashed potato and peas. East London used to boast scores of jellied eel and pie and mash shops, and although most did not survive into this century, a few are still going. Jellied eels can still be bought from fish stalls in some English seaside resorts.

[tigereye]

78. um, fortunately no

I think they were grilled. I ain't that brave. But who knows, maybe some day.

[T_i_B]

118. If you are ever in Essex or East London

then you should be able to find jellied eels. However, as it's an Essex/East London speciality then I'm not sure if you can get it anywhere else.

[southernleftylady]

47. french fries dipped in mayo.. its not strange to me because my family is from germany

but living in the U S of A and in the south...
people look at me like i have 3 heads lol

[scarpa43]

70. Nothing wrong with that

Most of the time I dip my fries in mayo, ketchup is just too boring.
If I do use ketchup I have to mix in some hot sauce.

[Blue_Roses]

75. I have a friend who is from Holland and she taught me to eat these

I love 'em!

[YankeyMCC]

49. Kimchi is on my list too

also pickled garlic
Grilled chicken hearts
cashew butter - not sure if that's weird enough
pickle sandwiches

[Lady Effingbroke]

50. Beer and Tabasco.

Liquid food! :D

1. Pour Tabasco in beer

2. Drink :9

Gives the beer a nice, spicy flavor.

[Courtesy Flush]

54. You can also mix beer with bloody mary mix

It's called a michilada (spelling?). Not bad.

And before you say it... I know that a REAL michilada doesn't use bloody mary mix, but it's close enough for a white boy like me.

[GenDem]

68. Brown beer and lemonade

I believe it is called a Shandy. Had them in Ireland. Simply delicious!!!!:9

[jpak]

80. They drink Beer and Clamato in Quebec - surprisingly good

another Canadian fave - Newfoundland Fish 'n Brews

(reconstituted salt cod and boiled hardtack covered with fried salt pork "scrunchions" - mmmm - good!)

And there's always Poutine...

:)

[kedrys]

106. My mom drinks Clamato

My favorite take on Clamato is from Richard Jeni:

"Tomato juice and clam juice together - and you drink it. Notice I said YOU drink it. It's disgusting! What's next, apple juice and fish juice?? No, it's not fishy enough - why don't you swizzle a herring in there, you sick psychopath???"

I'll drink V8 at any temperature, but I won't go near Clamato. :rofl:

[cwydro]

55. Anchovies

[kwassa]

56. Tongue

It is like fine-grained roast beef.

[youthere]

62. My grandmother made the best tongue in the world...

it was seasoned like sauerbraten and she served it (sliced thin) over dumplings with sauteed onions.

[QMPMom]

95. Tongue is yummy! I serve it with a mushroom sauce.

[ganeshji]

57. durian fruit

It stinks (not to me) but it tastes delicious.

I also like tater tots but I will only eat them dipped in vanilla ice cream, which I'm told is weird. It's a perfect stoner snack though, good combination of sweet and salty and hot and cold.

[smtpgirl]

58. Scrapple

UMM, scrapple fried to crispy goodness with brown rice

[Patiod]

65. with brown rice? brown rice?

Now THAT'S weird.

I love scrapple on a Saturday morning with eggs and hash browns - crispy on the outside and still a little mushy inside. MMMMmmmmm.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

97. Mmm, scrapple.

Scrapple, fried egg, cheddar cheese and ketchup on toast.

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

131. That's the best brand!!!

Do you know that Rapa isn't sold in Georgia? My cousin always gets her sister to bring it with her when she drives down to see her.

[youthere]

59. pickled herring..

Not the creamed stuff in the jar. You have to buy the stuff in the vinegar brine, drain it THEN add your own fresh cream or sour cream. Douse liberally with cracked pepper and serve on toasted french bread.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

60. oh baby - that sounds good

[youthere]

63. It's awesome..

It's like food porn.

[Bjornsdotter]

87. I love pickled herring

...and my aunt make the best recipe.

Cheers

[Patiod]

66. Pepper pot soup -- Mmmmm.....tripe

One of my favorites! Vegetables, a little meat, and tripe in a tomato-based spicy base - you can actually buy it as a Campbell's canned soup around here.

[swag]

67. I like to drink a little buttermilk now and again.

I also like a liverwurst and onion sandwich with mustard.

[noonwitch]

69. Lox or sushi

It freaks my mom (a retired nurse) out if I tell her I've eaten sushi recently-I then get a lecture about the health risks of consuming uncooked fish that make me wish it was yet another anti-smoking lecture. I'm 42, after all.

Lox is one of my favorite things to eat when I crave salt.

[Merrick]

72. polar bear paw casserole

their paws are delicious. The rest I toss out.

[Burma Jones]

73. Wheaties with Bailey's Irish Cream, Life Cereal with Tomato Soup

My wife thinks Fluffernutters are weird, but she's wrong on that one....

I do like Kimchi. I also like Shad Roe. Ostrich Steak is also pretty good

[datasuspect]

77. the other other white meat

[ceile]

79. Black pudding (white, too)

Fried sausage with curry sauce.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

81. yeah

:thumbsup:

[av8rdave]

84. escargot is great..also venison, if properly prepared

[mainegreen]

109. escargot is just an excuse to eat garlicky butter.

Thats what makes it good!

[JackBeck]

85. Did you ever have reindeer?

It's really good. I had it when I visited Sweden. The Swede's like to make fun of Americans because we so closely associate the animal with Rudolph.

[Bjornsdotter]

88. Yes

Many times...I love it. I really like smoked reindeer on a sandwich.

Cheers

[derby378]

86. Chicken feet, Chinese-style

I can only get it at those Chinese restaurants that are so oldschool that they serve you vinegar instead of soy sauce. But I'm good with the vinegar, too. Yum.

[QMPMom]

96. Do you like to go for Dim Sum? That is where we

get chicken feet. They also serve duck feet and duck tongue.

The only way I could get my Dad to go to Dim Sum was to promise him he didn'thave to eat chicken feet. To him, chicken feet was something you only ate if you were poor during the US Depression. He's been to Dim Sum several times with us now and we just politely wave on the chicken feet.

[Bjornsdotter]

89. Blood Sausage

...fried with lingonberry sauce on it. Just thinking about it is making me hungry.

Cheers

[CTyankee]

90. Boiled okra. I eat it whole, hairy and slimy. Cornbread with potlikker.

Grew up on the stuff in Texas. My CT friends think I'm nuts.

[Z_I_Peevey]

115. Me too!

We are very, very weird.

[otherlander]

91. green iced tea

:P

[redqueen]

93. beef tongue

it's good!

i used to like cow's feet but it's been a while, dunno if i still do. i've tried brains & eggs sandwiches... wasn't bad but i wouldn't say i loved it.

[pdx_prog]

125. I used to make tongue sandwiches

That weren't too bad......gotta cut the thingy out though....

[Crabby Appleton]

94. peeps, well cured

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

99. Haggis.

Just kidding.
:puke:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

111. I was gonna say

*phew*

[T_i_B]

119. Re: Haggis

I tend to leave the tripe part of it myself, but the offal n' oats stuffing of a haggis is great, especially with Henderson's Relish!

http://www.hendersonsrelish.com/

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

120. Well - I've vowed to try anything once.

I wonder where in New York City I can try some

[femmocrat]

100. jellied pigs' feet

It's an Eastern European dish, also known as "studinina". I haven't had it in years, though.

[CactusJock]

102. tripe and onions

i never ate it but I remember my granma always seemed to cooking it when I stayed over. i've always been a picky eater and borderline vegetarian but it used to smell INSANELY good.

[CTyankee]

121. I ate tripe ("trippa") in Rome last fall

It was cooked in a tomato sauce and served over pasta. It was okay if you could get past the rubbery consistency, but it won't ever be my favorite Italian dish.

They also have pig cheek in Rome. It's great, but of course it is just a variation of pancetta (bacon).

[graywarrior]

107. Natto. LOVE natto.

With scallions & mustard.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

110. YUmmy yummy yummy

My friend Tomomi had me try it with a raw egg - it was splendid

Gotta have an extremely fresh egg though

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

123. Ahh, the food of my youth (mom was Japanese)!

We ate plenty of raw eggs in our days and never got sick. Admittedly, I haven't eaten any lately and I'm not sure if I'm brave enough to try it now.

Just seeing that word makes me miss my mom!

QDM

[ironflange]

113. Spotted Owl

It's better than bald eagle, those guys tend to taste kinda fishy.

[flamingyouth]

114. Hearts of palm.

I can eat a whole jar in one sitting - easily.

I also love natto. Yum! :9

Other things: korv (Swedish potato sausage), ikura (salmon caviar), pickled herring, and a variety of Japanese candy. :D

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

116. I love any type of roe - hell I like anything from the sea

but this korv sounds interesting to me

Ever been to a real japanese ramen shop?

[flamingyouth]

117. Yeah - there are a few here - I love them

As a side note, Bon Odori is one of my favorite festivals. I never miss it and have been going since I was a little girl. I guess I've always loved Japanese culture. :hi:

[_testify_]

122. Liverwurst! Olive loaf!

Anything with nitrates!

[sakabatou]

124. Natto

[Lyric]

126. Poutine

Who wouldn't love poutine? Mmmmmm.

[JVS]

134. Poutine is the official food of GOD!

[NewWaveChick1981]

128. Artichoke hearts, hearts of palm, asparagus, neeps and tatties,

mushrooms, bubble and squeak, and Yorkshire pudding. :P

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

129. Chitterlings!!!

or as some people say it: Chittlins!!!

My mom and I had some for New Years Eve. :9

[KitchenWitch]

130. Deep fried alligator on a stick!

Tastes like chicken!

[prole_for_peace]

132. gherkins with ketchup

also, miracle whip and american cheese sandwiches