Weird Foods you Enjoy

[rotor]

Saw on here earlier about sweetbreads (had to look it up) and beef tongue.
Both were in HEB this morning.

Closest is 93 miles. Damn.

 

[bigtex10mm]

At one time we could barely afford hamburger meat but sweetbreads were almost given away at the local butcher shop. I used to fry them up like chicken fried steak and top them with a homemade cream gravy......my family loved it and there was never any left over for seconds.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

While 'calf fries' are good, 'turkey fries' are even better.

A quick story about calf fries: About 40 years ago, my bil and sil, my wife (at the time) and I were all at a country music dance hall where they also served food.

I quietly ordered a big plate of calf fries for all of us to help ourselves to.

In the midst of chowing down on these delicious chopped, battered and fried goodies, my sil claimed she just loved this stuff and then with a puzzled look on face, asked as an afterthought, "what is this stuff"?

So I calmly told her whereupon she burst out crying.

Such an odd reaction and she was a 'farm girl'...to this day, I never understood her reaction.

She never ate another bite, but we all scarfed up the rest of them

 

[mroper]

Fried Pork Roll on an egg and cheese sandwich or as we called it Taylor Ham. Also my Mom would fry up the left over breading and egg after she made Chicken or EggPlant Parmigiana, and give them to us a snacks.

 

[baboon]

Fried Pork Roll on an egg and cheese sandwich or as we called it Taylor Ham. Also my Mom would fry up the left over breading and egg after she made Chicken or EggPlant Parmigiana, and give them to us a snacks.

I remeber Taylor for Roll as an apprentice while working the deli 30 years ago. I also watch the youtube video of some place serving Pork Roll breakfast sammiches.

 

[oldag]

Don't think this is too uncommon, but it turns grosses my family out - grab a Jar of PB & box of Animal Crackers or Nilla Wafers, park it in the easy chair...then holler for a glass of water just before I choke. :-)

Nilla wafers, peanut butter and banana.

 

[oldag]

While 'calf fries' are good, 'turkey fries' are even better.

A quick story about calf fries: About 40 years ago, my bil and sil, my wife (at the time) and I were all at a country music dance hall where they also served food.

I quietly ordered a big plate of calf fries for all of us to help ourselves to.

In the midst of chowing down on these delicious chopped, battered and fried goodies, my sil claimed she just loved this stuff and then with a puzzled look on face, asked as an afterthought, "what is this stuff"?

So I calmly told her whereupon she burst out crying.

Such an odd reaction and she was a 'farm girl'...to this day, I never understood her reaction.

She never ate another bite, but we all scarfed up the rest of them

I was surprised no one mentioned mountain oysters until I go to your post.

 

[oldag]

Reading many of these posts will certain curb the appetite.

 

[General Zod]

Reading many of these posts will certain curb the appetite.

You kidding? I'm taking notes on stuff I need to try.

 

[TX oddball]

It has been a couple of years, but I like a peanut butter sandwich on dense wheat toast, with bacon, BBQ Fritos and black pepper.

Popcorn drizzled with soy sauce and sprinkled with nutritional yeast. Once in a blue moon, I will mix a little wasabi into the sauce if it's around.

When I was a kid, one of my culinary obsessions was canned corn and ketchup.

 

[Moonpie]

Sushi s about as far out as I go.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Well, no one has admitted to having pica: In medicine, a vitiated craving for what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, or coal.

They forgot to mention clay like dirt...no, I'm not kidding...some people have a craving for such...

Once, while on a business trip to Monterrey, Mexico and then on down to a more southern town (whose name I don't remember)...it was an obscure town though they had a big steel mill we were to visit and see if they were up to snuff as a supplier.

Our Mexican national host (great guy) treated us to a restaurant meal that as their specialty served...cabrito...i.e., baby goat.

They served the entire thing on a gigantic platter, head and all. Very old time Roman...I loved it, but then I'm a practicing barbarian...

It was cooked to perfection and was the best cabrito I've ever eaten.

At one point, our host, asked our metallurgist (an Icabod Crane look alike and a good guy) if he'd like one of the eyeballs.

Initially, he thought our host was kidding...he was not...

After much failed cajoling and earnest entreaties our host gave up on convincing 'Smitty' to eat an eyeball and commenced to pluck one out of the skull and with a little fanfare...ate the eyeball with gusto...proving, at least I thought, maybe I should've had the courage to step in an eat one...but, I chickened out.

I didn't have the imagination to think 'aqueous humor or vitreous humor being a taste delight...but what do I know...?

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

How many of us have eaten exotic wildlife?

No, not the pricey imported critters from India or Africa, that cost $5000.00 (or more) a head to shoot in a canned hunt here in Texas, but something a lot of folks would think exotic like: Rattlesnake, Alligator, Gar, Turtles of all kinds or even Squirrels, which I think some don't have an appetite for...

I've eaten all of them and liked them all.

What've you eaten others might think 'outre'?

 

[deemus]

How many of us have eaten exotic wildlife?

No, not the pricey imported critters from India or Africa, that cost $5000.00 (or more) a head to shoot in a canned hunt here in Texas, but something a lot of folks would think exotic like: Rattlesnake, Alligator, Gar, Turtles of all kinds or even Squirrels, which I think some don't have an appetite for...

I've eaten all of them and liked them all.

What've you eaten others might think 'outre'?

Armadillo (prefer it bbq'd) 2 times
Coon (prefer it chicken fried) once
Gator (prefer it fried) many times
squirrels (prefer it fried) many times
rabbit (prefer it fried) many times
fried frog legs several times

 

[PinnedandRecessed]

Can you even say you're a country boy if you've never had squirrel?

 

[oldag]

Well, no one has admitted to having pica: In medicine, a vitiated craving for what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, or coal.

They forgot to mention clay like dirt...no, I'm not kidding...some people have a craving for such...

Once, while on a business trip to Monterrey, Mexico and then on down to a more southern town (whose name I don't remember)...it was an obscure town though they had a big steel mill we were to visit and see if they were up to snuff as a supplier.

Our Mexican national host (great guy) treated us to a restaurant meal that as their specialty served...cabrito...i.e., baby goat.

They served the entire thing on a gigantic platter, head and all. Very old time Roman...I loved it, but then I'm a practicing barbarian...

It was cooked to perfection and was the best cabrito I've ever eaten.

At one point, our host, asked our metallurgist (an Icabod Crane look alike and a good guy) if he'd like one of the eyeballs.

Initially, he thought our host was kidding...he was not...

After much failed cajoling and earnest entreaties our host gave up on convincing 'Smitty' to eat an eyeball and commenced to pluck one out of the skull and with a little fanfare...ate the eyeball with gusto...proving, at least I thought, maybe I should've had the courage to step in an eat one...but, I chickened out.

I didn't have the imagination to think 'aqueous humor or vitreous humor being a taste delight...but what do I know...?

Some of the cabrito in Matamoros barked...

 

[FireInTheWire]

Had mayo on a hot dog the other day.... can't say I liked it but wasn't terrible either.

I like oysters on half shell. I like grilled frog legs.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Oldag,

"Some of the cabrito in Matamoros barked..."

Thanks for my first laugh out loud moment of the day!

Hey, Andrew Zimmern of "Bizarre Foods" motto is: If it tastes good, eat it!

Deemus,

My retired dermatologist told me folks who're susceptible to leprosy have been known to get it from eating Armadillo...as they are vectors of this disease.

No not all, but quite a few...

 

[baboon]

How many of us have eaten exotic wildlife?

No, not the pricey imported critters from India or Africa, that cost $5000.00 (or more) a head to shoot in a canned hunt here in Texas, but something a lot of folks would think exotic like: Rattlesnake, Alligator, Gar, Turtles of all kinds or even Squirrels, which I think some don't have an appetite for...

I've eaten all of them and liked them all.

What've you eaten others might think 'outre'?

We made Carroll Shelby's Chili in Africa using a rhino sirloin.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Peter Hathaway Capstick (I've read all his books) ate all sorts of African critters, like the back strap on a hippo...and other carnivore delights.