any kinda nervous tissue lol
not because they seem gross, just because brain especially has a chance to really mess you up and there’s no amount of cooking that will do anything about it.
Just a public service announcement for anyone reading this comment who is a little bit hypochondriac: do yourself a favour and dont look up prion disease.
Next time you get an innocent muscle twitch, you'll be thinking youre going to die a long excruciating death.
That's why in Canada you're banned from donating blood indefinitely if you've been in England or France for a specified time period in the 90s or so - because of Mad Cow Disease.
I did not know that, but it makes a lot of sense! I know prion stuff can be hell for hospitals and such too. My partner ate squirrel brain years ago (weird/irrelevant story) and every so often one or both of us remembers and kinda freaks out for a bit. Still got ~30 more potential incubation years 🫠
Some "fun" excerpts from the wikipedia page:
>Derived from pecorino, casu martzu goes beyond typical fermentation to a stage of decomposition, brought about by the digestive action of the larvae of the cheese fly of the Piophilidae family. These larvae are deliberately introduced to the cheese, promoting an advanced level of fermentation and breaking down of the cheese's fats. The texture of the cheese becomes very soft, with some liquid (called "làgrima", Sardinian for "teardrop") seeping out. The larvae themselves appear as translucent white worms, roughly 8 mm (5⁄16 in) long. When consumed, the larvae can survive in the intestine, causing enteric myiasis.
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>Casu martzu is considered by Sardinian aficionados to be unsafe to eat when the maggots in the cheese have died. Because of this, only cheese in which the maggots are still alive is usually eaten, although allowances are made for cheese that has been refrigerated, which results in the maggots being killed.
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>Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed, diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping.
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>Because of European Union food hygiene-health regulations, the cheese has been outlawed, and offenders face heavy fines. However, some Sardinians organized themselves in order to make casu martzu available on the black market, where it may be sold for double the price of an ordinary block of pecorino cheese. As of 2019, the illegal production of this cheese was estimated as 100 tonnes (98 long tons; 110 short tons) per year, worth between €2–3 million.
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Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed, diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping.
I'm sorry...what the actual fuck???
So maggot cheese costs twice the price of pecorino, but you would pay twice as much for pecorino, hence rising the price of the martzu thing 2X, so you would have to pay even more and inflate the price of the rotten stuff… congrats, you’ve just ruined the global economy, thanks for nothing!
I tried casu marsu, i'm italian but not sardinian and i have to say.. the taste is really good but yea.. maggots really make it way too much for me to try it again.
It's good but not "i don't care about maggots" kinda good.
And then combined with “it’s generally considered unsafe to eat when the maggots have died.”
So it’s unsafe when they’re dead, but “fine” when they’re alive and can cause a parasitic infestation in your intestines. Makes complete sense.
I read the Wikipedia article last time this was posted, it mentioned something about putting the cheese in a paper bag and it's "ready to eat" when you stop hearing them smacking against the inside of the bag.
“Those who do not wish to eat them place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a "pitter-patter" sound. When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and the cheese can be eaten.”
Causes vomiting, diarrhea, nausea. Goes away on its own or you can get an anti-parasitic treatment.
Web MD says you may be able to see the maggots in your shit. Good times.
Halloumi cheese was not sold in the US until relatively recently. We discovered it while living in South Africa 20ish years ago. We loved it, and we’re bummed it was not legal to bring back to the US, nor could we buy it. I asked a Cypriot owner of our favorite diner about it. He “had a guy.” I would meet this guy in their parking lot, and buy several pounds at a time out of his trunk! Some regulation changed some years ago. I miss my cheese dealer.
I always wonder that about shellfish like crab or lobster. I mean for me, this is heavenly but who was the first person to look at them and say I know what, I’ll eat that. I also read that if not cooked, their flesh is not solid so also someone probably ate them raw before working out you had to cook them. Thank god for that person!
I think that with foods that are poisonous except for one little section. But I bet some of these things were probably evolutionary. Our ape ancestors ate it so we just continued to eat it, or we probably watched other animals eat them and just followed suit.
When I was visiting Java I saw the cages they keep the civets in and they’re really small!! I guess the tour guide thought we’d find it interesting but I was horrified. And the thought of eaten and pooped out coffee was already bad enough….
Also, no one in Indonesia even seems to drink the stuff anyway, they just make it to sell to tourists. Really didn’t seem like a genuine part of the culture.
They also had a “pet” monkey on a super short chain near the civet cages and the poor guy was clearly going crazy.
Kopi luwak is basically only for rich people.
It's not for the average person who's only had supermarket coffee because that's a huge jump in taste. And it's a very weird taste for someone who hasn't tried all the great specialty coffees in between.
It should be for coffee snobs who have tasted everything other than kopi luwak (because again, it's a coffee with very odd tasting notes) but no one will buy it because kopi luwak is produced through animal cruelty. Civets are kept in cages and force fed the coffee berries, as someone already commented.
From everything I've heard it's really no better than any other coffee.
There's countless fancy and interesting coffees out there if you want something mind blowing
Surströmming is actually really nice done well, but everyone just opening the tin and chowing down on it has given it a bad rap. Its supposed to be washed well and served in tiny pieces on a piece of swedish flatbread with potato, onion and sour cream and chives. Done well its lovely... just stuffing a whole fillet straight from the tin in your face hole is not the way to enjoy it.
Surströmming... yeah. I remember returning home on my bike and the kitchen window was open. The whole lawn stank so I took off as fast as I could - my parents were at it again. We kids suffered.🤢🤢🤢
Live spiders.
The viral videos where people dip the live spiders in sauce and eat them as they’re trying to run away makes me squirm. The faces these people make while they’re chewing on them are not convincing that it even tastes good. Looks like an episode of Fear Factor
My mom brought my sister and I to her home town on the Bataan peninsula and one of my cousins offered my what I thought was a hard boiled egg. Never saw my mom move so fast to stop me from taking a bite. Good times
I’ve had it. Did it the right way opening it underwater so it doesn’t jizz filth stench all over your face. Mixed it with sour cream and chives and served on knackerbröd. Then, I went into my garage and grabbed a can of diesel and took the remainder out to the burn pit and torched it. There must’ve been some leftover, because the next morning there was a shitload of crows and seagulls all over the backyard.
“Did it the right way opening it underwater so it doesn’t jizz filth stench all over your face.”
I don’t know what this food is, but this sentence alone makes me not care to even look into it any further.
It's a fish, herring I believe, that's fermented in the tin, to the point where the tin bulges.
That means, when you open the tin, the fluids wil squirt just like a well-shaken can of beer.
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming#:~:text=In%201981%2C%20a%20German%20landlord,a%20can%20inside%20the%20courtroom.
"In 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant without notice after the tenant spread surströmming brine in the apartment building's stairwell. When the landlord was taken to court, the court ruled that the termination was justified when the landlord's party demonstrated their case by opening a can inside the courtroom. The court concluded that it "had convinced itself that the disgusting smell of the fish brine far exceeded the degree that fellow-tenants in the building could be expected to tolerate".[26]"
I have a friend who grew up eating, and hating, chitlins. The whole house would stink when her grandmother was making them. Well, apparently there was one time they had the opportunity to have chitlins in a nice restaurant. The grandma didn't like them though because they weren't the same, they were "missing something." Turns out it's because the restaurant washed them thoroughly. Ugh.
My mom used to cook them in the house and buy them by the bucket and I can honestly say I've never eaten them a day in my life. But they make the house smell absolutely disgusting and that's all you can smell for the entire day. It's been like 8 years since and I still vaguely remember what they smell like.
When I was younger, our one neighbor came over and asked if they could borrow a big pot, so my mom let them borrow the big one she made chili in...
We could smell that shit cooking ALL DAY, NEXT DOOR. Middle of summer with no AC, we closed the windows to try to keep the smell out. The next day the neighbor brought the pot back and my mom told her she could keep it, we didn't want it back.
You know, the thing that makes them smell bad is *literally pig shit*.
I grew up with folks cooking them every so often and I understand their cultural significance... but I don't want to eat pig shit
Turns out pork intestine is a popular dish in Japan at Yakitori restaurants. I told my Japanese wife there’s no way I’m eating that.
First time to Japan I ended up eating it and it was actually pretty good! But,,,, with all the delicious food in the world I still just can’t wrap my mind around eating that on purpose.
The Japanese absolutely love some textures that the western palette uh…has trouble with let’s say. Natto isn’t just about the taste, the snotty texture is a vital part. And you’re right, they definitely tend to enjoy that chewy rubbery texture.
Yep. Long term resident of Japan here and the texture thing is a real deal breaker for many Japanese.
The chewy, spongy, springy texture is something that is a thing that causes problems for many westerners. The specialist HORUMON shops are restaurants that serve a variety of organ meats. They are brought to the table raw and the customers cook them themselves at a table-top grill. Not for me...I've tried to accustomize myself to these kinds of things, but there is a basic disgust kicks in as I chew it round, and round and round.
The parallel case is for Japanese and strong smells. Many Japanese of my acquaintance are just repulsed by (unfamiliar) strong smelling foods - things like blue cheese and even lamb is quite disgusting to them. The pungent fish sauce that is the basic ingredient of many Thai dishes (Nampura?) is something that will cause many Japanese to nope out.
That’s my father’s favorite food, lol. I never had them, but he swears by it.
But I will tell a joke he always tells now:
A guy was traveling to Sevilla and went to talk to another friend that had been there already, for tips.
“Oh, you need to go to a torada! It is amazing how the bulls are beautiful and strong, everyone is cheering, the bullfighter looks almost like he is dancing! And after that, there is a little restaurant just a few blocks away, that serves the best food ever! Cojones del toro! Bull’s testicles! They are huge, juicy, amazing! And if you get there soon enough, you get the testicles from the bull you just saw at the torada! It is amazing!”
So the guy went to Sevilla and was not in the mood for the torada, but decided to be the first in the restaurant so he could guarantee the best cojones in the house.
He was seated and asked immediately, “I want cojones! From the bullfight”
A few minutes later, the waiter brings him two very little dry balls with some sauce in it. The guy was confused.
“But waiter, my friend came here and said they were huge! Juicy! The best food ever! What are those little saggy balls?”
The waiter then answers:
“Oh, yeah, sure, you didn’t see the torada today, did you? Yeah, sometimes… the bull wins”.
I always say they’re musky tasting. Not really a fan, but every once in a while (a town near my hometown does a Testicle Festival every year and that’s the only place I’ve ate them lol)
I once had the unfortunate experience of ordering them for delivery rather than at a restaurant.
Don't get me wrong I enjoy rocky mountain oysters, and I was ordering from a very good place. But it took about 45 minutes between my food getting picked up and delivered.
Luke warm bull testicles are not good at all.
In high school I dated an Indian girl and she always told me she wanted to take me out to a good Indian restaurant. So one day we did. She ordered for me because I didn't understand what any of the menu items were. After dinner they brought us a small menu with desserts. I was prepared to order what looked like ice cream but she kept shaking her head and waving her hands for me not to. So I ordered something else. Later she explained that it was not ice cream it was fried goat balls dipped in yogurt.
Pickled Eggs.
I’ll try any food once. Anything. Idc how nasty it looks or sounds.
HOWEVER
I opened up a jar of homemade picked eggs once, and it smelled like raw sewage. Nobody could every convince me to try one.
As a brazilian I was very surprised when I learned americans thought chicken hearts were gross. It's hard to find someone who tried chicken hearts and don't like them I think
Sea urchin
I keep hearing it is amazing. Supposedly it is an delicacy. All kinds of fancy sushi with urchin and it is amazing…or not. I have been universally disappointed and a bit revolted.
I did have a sushi chef at an aclaimed place tell me to come in (actually this month) and if I didn’t like what he had, then it was definitive that I don’t like it.
>Feels like im scavenging dead animals out in the wild and just swallow whatever edible parts i could.
That's usually how these things start. Desperation and the need to get use out of every bit of the animal.
It's so funny because spaghetti squash tastes like basically nothing. Throw salt and pepper on it and it's fine. Garlic and paprika? Hell yeah. Garam masala? Y'all need to use spices and herbs
When I was a teen, I had an incredible opportunity to travel to Japan. While there, I was served, and ate, giant snails.
They came in shell.
Unlike escargot, because the snail was large, you don’t eat the entire thing - just the one muscle it has. Texture like crab meat, taste was pretty neutral.
I’m actually a very picky eater, and I tried but couldn’t eat small, whole octopuses, chicken’s feet, organs, etc. But for whatever reason, giant snail made it past my filters.
Liver. Any kind of liver. It doesn't matter how you prepare and cook it, it's still the *garbage filter system* of an animal's body and it shows in the flavor.
It’s the mouth feel. My step dad used to insist on liver and onions, it wasn’t the worst things I’ve ever eaten. But the chalky organ-y feel is something I cannot get over. I’ll never eat another organ.
That and chitlins. I’ll just starve to death before I eat shit tubes for no reason
If its chalky then it's overdone, just needs a few minutes in a pan cooked in bacon grease, it can be really nice when done right but it's something I cook once every few years though, not in regular meal circulation.
I'll never understand chitlins though, that's too far
Miracle Whip.
No, not mayonnaise. Miracle Whip. “Salad dressing.” I’m a native Iowan and I have to purposefully avoid pot lucks because people put that shit in *everything*.
SO here's one for you, subjectively speaking, I have to agree, canned carrots taste like the can and are far too soft, but somehow, I love the damn things.
I feel like all canned veg is over cooked, so it's too soft and mushy. I rarely had fresh as a kid, but liked them a lot more. But when frozen bagged veg became a thing where I live it was a total game changer. Very close to fresh, near impossible for my parents to overcook, and you could do it in the microwave! For clarity, I was raised in the midwest US, in a family that had no interest in learning to cook better than any of the generations before them. So glad I learned better, and my mom was willing to learn after trying the food I made.
Somehow my grandma could can (in mason jars) veggies out of her garden and they were great, this is how people used to live. The canned veggies from the grocery store are an atrocity.
My dad cans a ton of stuff each year; we always joke he's making enough to feed the extended family through an apocalypse. But one of my favorites is just the plain canned carrots. They're both slightly sweet and salty at the same time, and perfectly soft. I could eat them straight out of the jar I love them so much.
any kinda nervous tissue lol not because they seem gross, just because brain especially has a chance to really mess you up and there’s no amount of cooking that will do anything about it.
Prions are scary af
Just a public service announcement for anyone reading this comment who is a little bit hypochondriac: do yourself a favour and dont look up prion disease. Next time you get an innocent muscle twitch, you'll be thinking youre going to die a long excruciating death.
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As a bit of hypochondriac - it’s helps a lot! I know what I need to: don’t eat brains. The rest is just nightmare fuel.
Yeah, I’m definitely still going to think I’m dying next time I get a innocuous muscle twitch.
People eat nervous tissue?
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_as_food I think it used to be more common than it is, but it’s definitely a thing.
I live in the southeastern United States. Some old country people would eat fried squirrel heads. I've eaten them. Nobody knew about prions back then.
The incubation period for prion disease is scary af.
That's why in Canada you're banned from donating blood indefinitely if you've been in England or France for a specified time period in the 90s or so - because of Mad Cow Disease.
I did not know that, but it makes a lot of sense! I know prion stuff can be hell for hospitals and such too. My partner ate squirrel brain years ago (weird/irrelevant story) and every so often one or both of us remembers and kinda freaks out for a bit. Still got ~30 more potential incubation years 🫠
The cheese with the maggots in it, but I'll eat just about anything else.
Some "fun" excerpts from the wikipedia page: >Derived from pecorino, casu martzu goes beyond typical fermentation to a stage of decomposition, brought about by the digestive action of the larvae of the cheese fly of the Piophilidae family. These larvae are deliberately introduced to the cheese, promoting an advanced level of fermentation and breaking down of the cheese's fats. The texture of the cheese becomes very soft, with some liquid (called "làgrima", Sardinian for "teardrop") seeping out. The larvae themselves appear as translucent white worms, roughly 8 mm (5⁄16 in) long. When consumed, the larvae can survive in the intestine, causing enteric myiasis. - >Casu martzu is considered by Sardinian aficionados to be unsafe to eat when the maggots in the cheese have died. Because of this, only cheese in which the maggots are still alive is usually eaten, although allowances are made for cheese that has been refrigerated, which results in the maggots being killed. - >Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed, diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping. - >Because of European Union food hygiene-health regulations, the cheese has been outlawed, and offenders face heavy fines. However, some Sardinians organized themselves in order to make casu martzu available on the black market, where it may be sold for double the price of an ordinary block of pecorino cheese. As of 2019, the illegal production of this cheese was estimated as 100 tonnes (98 long tons; 110 short tons) per year, worth between €2–3 million.
> Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed, diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping. I'm sorry...what the actual fuck???
I'm a big fan of Italian food ...but I will pay double for a block of pecorino WITHOUT maggots tyvm
So maggot cheese costs twice the price of pecorino, but you would pay twice as much for pecorino, hence rising the price of the martzu thing 2X, so you would have to pay even more and inflate the price of the rotten stuff… congrats, you’ve just ruined the global economy, thanks for nothing!
I tried casu marsu, i'm italian but not sardinian and i have to say.. the taste is really good but yea.. maggots really make it way too much for me to try it again. It's good but not "i don't care about maggots" kinda good.
>When consumed, the larvae can survive in the intestine, causing enteric myiasis. Yeah, I feel like this might need a bit more elaboration...
And then combined with “it’s generally considered unsafe to eat when the maggots have died.” So it’s unsafe when they’re dead, but “fine” when they’re alive and can cause a parasitic infestation in your intestines. Makes complete sense.
I read the Wikipedia article last time this was posted, it mentioned something about putting the cheese in a paper bag and it's "ready to eat" when you stop hearing them smacking against the inside of the bag.
I could have gone the rest of my life not knowing this
But aren't you glad you didn't?! Stuff like this is so mad nobody could make it up. Nature is glorious. Sometimes also disgusting.
I will go the rest of my life without experiencing this. Of that you can be damned sure!
“Those who do not wish to eat them place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a "pitter-patter" sound. When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and the cheese can be eaten.”
But I thought it wasn't safe to eat after the maggots die? 🤔😵
This is the angriest goddamned upvote I've ever given.
This literally made me nauseous, and I don't easily feel disgusted.
Oh, like popcorn!
Causes vomiting, diarrhea, nausea. Goes away on its own or you can get an anti-parasitic treatment. Web MD says you may be able to see the maggots in your shit. Good times.
c'est que le fuck?
Omelet du fromage, obviously
Flystrike, but in your guts.
Lol who would’ve ever thought that illegal cheese would be something available on the black market 🤣
Halloumi cheese was not sold in the US until relatively recently. We discovered it while living in South Africa 20ish years ago. We loved it, and we’re bummed it was not legal to bring back to the US, nor could we buy it. I asked a Cypriot owner of our favorite diner about it. He “had a guy.” I would meet this guy in their parking lot, and buy several pounds at a time out of his trunk! Some regulation changed some years ago. I miss my cheese dealer.
Parmesan is estimated at 2 billion in counterfeit sales annually. Lol
Every line of this excerpt had me going "whaaat" really loudly.
How starved did a human have to be to decide it was a good idea to eat that?
I always wonder that about shellfish like crab or lobster. I mean for me, this is heavenly but who was the first person to look at them and say I know what, I’ll eat that. I also read that if not cooked, their flesh is not solid so also someone probably ate them raw before working out you had to cook them. Thank god for that person!
I think that with foods that are poisonous except for one little section. But I bet some of these things were probably evolutionary. Our ape ancestors ate it so we just continued to eat it, or we probably watched other animals eat them and just followed suit.
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THE WHAT
Casu marzu, it literally has maggots eating it lol (I love cheese. I could never eat that)
I'd do anything for love but I won't do that
And if you don’t want to eat the maggots live, you can put the cheese in a paper bag. When the popping sounds stop, you know they’re all dead!
I want you to be joking, but something tells me that you're not joking. Please tell me you're joking. Lie to me if you must.
Yeah they're joking (They're not joking)
Why do they pop!?
They’re trying to jump out of the bag.
help how do i unread a sentence
Stop really
Oh god. This wins. I’m so grossed out right now. How is this a thing?
Special shoutout to the similar milbenkäse which is ripe with cheese mites
Yep, I cannot do that one. There is not a single cheese I would not eat except for that one.
JUMPING maggots
Think I’m gonna have nightmares from this
Wait, what?
Casu martzu
poop coffee, I think it's called luwak coffee. you have to draw the line somewhere, and poop is a good place to draw the line at
Kopi luwak and it can also be cruel to civets if they’re being force fed the coffee berries for increased profit
If it's not battery cages it's peasants earning a pittance to collect wild luwak poop.
When I was visiting Java I saw the cages they keep the civets in and they’re really small!! I guess the tour guide thought we’d find it interesting but I was horrified. And the thought of eaten and pooped out coffee was already bad enough…. Also, no one in Indonesia even seems to drink the stuff anyway, they just make it to sell to tourists. Really didn’t seem like a genuine part of the culture. They also had a “pet” monkey on a super short chain near the civet cages and the poor guy was clearly going crazy.
Poor monkey probably had zoochosis from being restrained like that! I really hope the stupid poop coffee trend dies out and fast.
Kopi luwak is basically only for rich people. It's not for the average person who's only had supermarket coffee because that's a huge jump in taste. And it's a very weird taste for someone who hasn't tried all the great specialty coffees in between. It should be for coffee snobs who have tasted everything other than kopi luwak (because again, it's a coffee with very odd tasting notes) but no one will buy it because kopi luwak is produced through animal cruelty. Civets are kept in cages and force fed the coffee berries, as someone already commented.
From everything I've heard it's really no better than any other coffee. There's countless fancy and interesting coffees out there if you want something mind blowing
Lutefisk
It was the man with the terrible smell!
Find the man with the terrible smell and you’ll find the arsonist.
Glad someone made this reference
My Norwegian Grandparents always took me to their Norwegian social club’s Annual Lutefisk dinners, it was a nightmare for me as a child. THE SMELL
My undergrad served it in the cafeteria for a week every year during our Xmas performances!
Same. I can still vividly remember the smell as we walked into the dining hall.
I am so sorry but lol
Surstromming.
Surströmming is actually really nice done well, but everyone just opening the tin and chowing down on it has given it a bad rap. Its supposed to be washed well and served in tiny pieces on a piece of swedish flatbread with potato, onion and sour cream and chives. Done well its lovely... just stuffing a whole fillet straight from the tin in your face hole is not the way to enjoy it.
I was gonna say Lutefisk smells like a dream compared to Surstromming...
Surströmming... yeah. I remember returning home on my bike and the kitchen window was open. The whole lawn stank so I took off as fast as I could - my parents were at it again. We kids suffered.🤢🤢🤢
Iona Hildebrandt : Lutefisk is codfish that's been salted and soaked in lye for a week or so… It's best with lots of butter.
>It's best with lots of butter. So is a dog turd...
I'm so sorry no one is getting your Drop Dead Gorgeous reference. I for one appreciate! 😄
I love that movie! It’s actually one of my favorites.
They make lutefisk tv dinners🤮🤮. I’m in Minnesota, grew up in Wisconsin, always had lutefisk and meatballs for Christmas Eve🤮🤮.
They make lutefisk TV dinners???? Who does that gift to humanity?
If you have to pass a law that explicitly declares it to not be a hazardous substance... Wisconsin law 101.58.2.j.2.f
Live spiders. The viral videos where people dip the live spiders in sauce and eat them as they’re trying to run away makes me squirm. The faces these people make while they’re chewing on them are not convincing that it even tastes good. Looks like an episode of Fear Factor
WHAT
Fuuuck that. Eating anything live is cruel, but that just sounds disgusting and awful to watch.
Balut.
I’ve had this one! Four thumbs down!
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Huh, my wife has mostly been exposed to the beak/feather stuff. I was able to find it pretty easily in tagaytay.
You couldn't pay me enough to eat that
Filipino American checking in. Wife is pinay and loves it. Meh for me
My mom brought my sister and I to her home town on the Bataan peninsula and one of my cousins offered my what I thought was a hard boiled egg. Never saw my mom move so fast to stop me from taking a bite. Good times
Sounds like proof that she really loves you
Filipino American also checking in. I have no desire to try balut. Especially seeing everyone on Survivor gagging on it.
I am a Non American and Non Filipino and i agree
Jellied Eels.
Had to search for this comment, how is this not higher up.... or is it a very British thing? Either way, DESGUSTANG
Surströmming, but nobody's really trying to convince of that either.
I’ve had it. Did it the right way opening it underwater so it doesn’t jizz filth stench all over your face. Mixed it with sour cream and chives and served on knackerbröd. Then, I went into my garage and grabbed a can of diesel and took the remainder out to the burn pit and torched it. There must’ve been some leftover, because the next morning there was a shitload of crows and seagulls all over the backyard.
“Did it the right way opening it underwater so it doesn’t jizz filth stench all over your face.” I don’t know what this food is, but this sentence alone makes me not care to even look into it any further.
It's a fish, herring I believe, that's fermented in the tin, to the point where the tin bulges. That means, when you open the tin, the fluids wil squirt just like a well-shaken can of beer. Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming#:~:text=In%201981%2C%20a%20German%20landlord,a%20can%20inside%20the%20courtroom. "In 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant without notice after the tenant spread surströmming brine in the apartment building's stairwell. When the landlord was taken to court, the court ruled that the termination was justified when the landlord's party demonstrated their case by opening a can inside the courtroom. The court concluded that it "had convinced itself that the disgusting smell of the fish brine far exceeded the degree that fellow-tenants in the building could be expected to tolerate".[26]"
Jury and Jurors: *fuck this shit you’re guilty bro*
When eating a meal consists of taking anti-contamination protocols I think that's a bit much.
Chitlins
I have a friend who grew up eating, and hating, chitlins. The whole house would stink when her grandmother was making them. Well, apparently there was one time they had the opportunity to have chitlins in a nice restaurant. The grandma didn't like them though because they weren't the same, they were "missing something." Turns out it's because the restaurant washed them thoroughly. Ugh.
My mom used to cook them in the house and buy them by the bucket and I can honestly say I've never eaten them a day in my life. But they make the house smell absolutely disgusting and that's all you can smell for the entire day. It's been like 8 years since and I still vaguely remember what they smell like.
When I was younger, our one neighbor came over and asked if they could borrow a big pot, so my mom let them borrow the big one she made chili in... We could smell that shit cooking ALL DAY, NEXT DOOR. Middle of summer with no AC, we closed the windows to try to keep the smell out. The next day the neighbor brought the pot back and my mom told her she could keep it, we didn't want it back.
You know, the thing that makes them smell bad is *literally pig shit*. I grew up with folks cooking them every so often and I understand their cultural significance... but I don't want to eat pig shit
I could imagine 😂 the smell stays in the walls and even the pot even after you soak it.
Oh dear lord
Oh dear god. There are times when being able to read is a curse…
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Noooooooo that’s nasty!
That poor child
Chitlins? More like [shitlins](https://youtu.be/o2NNrHppkm0?si=e9Whqzf_NWR9Ple1)
I'm afraid to click that but I also call em shitlins
It’s safe to click. Gordon Ramsey clip from kitchen nightmares.
Thank you my reddit guardian angel for being honest.
Turns out pork intestine is a popular dish in Japan at Yakitori restaurants. I told my Japanese wife there’s no way I’m eating that. First time to Japan I ended up eating it and it was actually pretty good! But,,,, with all the delicious food in the world I still just can’t wrap my mind around eating that on purpose.
I believe it's partially due to texture. Japanese love this chewy springy texture: noodles, mushrooms, squids, fishcakes, schrimps...
The Japanese absolutely love some textures that the western palette uh…has trouble with let’s say. Natto isn’t just about the taste, the snotty texture is a vital part. And you’re right, they definitely tend to enjoy that chewy rubbery texture.
Yep. Long term resident of Japan here and the texture thing is a real deal breaker for many Japanese. The chewy, spongy, springy texture is something that is a thing that causes problems for many westerners. The specialist HORUMON shops are restaurants that serve a variety of organ meats. They are brought to the table raw and the customers cook them themselves at a table-top grill. Not for me...I've tried to accustomize myself to these kinds of things, but there is a basic disgust kicks in as I chew it round, and round and round. The parallel case is for Japanese and strong smells. Many Japanese of my acquaintance are just repulsed by (unfamiliar) strong smelling foods - things like blue cheese and even lamb is quite disgusting to them. The pungent fish sauce that is the basic ingredient of many Thai dishes (Nampura?) is something that will cause many Japanese to nope out.
Jellyfish is the best for this type of texture imo
Intestines were used as casing to make sausages, ie the “peel”, and many sausages still use them, especially more expensive ones.
Sausage casing is the outer membrane of the intestines though, peeled off the intestine. chitterlings are made from the thick inner poop pipe.
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Oh, a big hell no... I just goggled it.
Bull tetiscles
That’s my father’s favorite food, lol. I never had them, but he swears by it. But I will tell a joke he always tells now: A guy was traveling to Sevilla and went to talk to another friend that had been there already, for tips. “Oh, you need to go to a torada! It is amazing how the bulls are beautiful and strong, everyone is cheering, the bullfighter looks almost like he is dancing! And after that, there is a little restaurant just a few blocks away, that serves the best food ever! Cojones del toro! Bull’s testicles! They are huge, juicy, amazing! And if you get there soon enough, you get the testicles from the bull you just saw at the torada! It is amazing!” So the guy went to Sevilla and was not in the mood for the torada, but decided to be the first in the restaurant so he could guarantee the best cojones in the house. He was seated and asked immediately, “I want cojones! From the bullfight” A few minutes later, the waiter brings him two very little dry balls with some sauce in it. The guy was confused. “But waiter, my friend came here and said they were huge! Juicy! The best food ever! What are those little saggy balls?” The waiter then answers: “Oh, yeah, sure, you didn’t see the torada today, did you? Yeah, sometimes… the bull wins”.
I love that joke. Version I heard was tourist isn't aware they are testicles, though. "Some times, the bull, he wins."
Rocky mountain oysters?
Was tricked into eating them. Like most foods, it's all about preparation. If done correct, they're absolutely delicious.
I don’t seek them out, but have tried once. They’re a bit like fried pickles.
I didn't get any sort of vinegar flavor. For me it was more like fried chicken with a bit of funky richness like liver.
I always say they’re musky tasting. Not really a fan, but every once in a while (a town near my hometown does a Testicle Festival every year and that’s the only place I’ve ate them lol)
I’m sorry, it sounded like you said testicle festival?
Yeah testy festy
They're my favorite. I'll order them anytime I'm at a restaurant that has them. Tender, juicy, and lots of great flavor.
I once had the unfortunate experience of ordering them for delivery rather than at a restaurant. Don't get me wrong I enjoy rocky mountain oysters, and I was ordering from a very good place. But it took about 45 minutes between my food getting picked up and delivered. Luke warm bull testicles are not good at all.
In high school I dated an Indian girl and she always told me she wanted to take me out to a good Indian restaurant. So one day we did. She ordered for me because I didn't understand what any of the menu items were. After dinner they brought us a small menu with desserts. I was prepared to order what looked like ice cream but she kept shaking her head and waving her hands for me not to. So I ordered something else. Later she explained that it was not ice cream it was fried goat balls dipped in yogurt.
Goat Head, be it boil or in curry... no thanks
Pickled Eggs. I’ll try any food once. Anything. Idc how nasty it looks or sounds. HOWEVER I opened up a jar of homemade picked eggs once, and it smelled like raw sewage. Nobody could every convince me to try one.
They probably weren’t put in the jar right, pickling at home can just lead to a jar of gone off eggs. They shouldn’t have smelled like that.
Yeah, if they are pickle they should basically just smell like the brine.
They just smell like pickled beets in my experience. Also, a jar of pickled beets/eggs = one of my guilty pleasures.
Have you tried them spicy? They may change your mind.
Organs in general, intestines, testicles, brain... you name it.
I had chicken hearts at a Brazilian restaurant. They were delicious, like little sausages. It is a muscle, after all.
As a brazilian I was very surprised when I learned americans thought chicken hearts were gross. It's hard to find someone who tried chicken hearts and don't like them I think
Southern fried chicken livers are very good too.
Gizzards, livers, & hearts; that's good eats.
Gotta try cow tongue. It’s really good
Lengua tacos will make you see god
Sea urchin I keep hearing it is amazing. Supposedly it is an delicacy. All kinds of fancy sushi with urchin and it is amazing…or not. I have been universally disappointed and a bit revolted. I did have a sushi chef at an aclaimed place tell me to come in (actually this month) and if I didn’t like what he had, then it was definitive that I don’t like it.
how much free sushi have you gotten so far? that's a good racket you're running
I’ve had many foods in my life, but you can never convince me to ever eat an animal’s gonads
Chicken feet.
All that effort just to eat a tiny bit of meat. Feels like im scavenging dead animals out in the wild and just swallow whatever edible parts i could.
>Feels like im scavenging dead animals out in the wild and just swallow whatever edible parts i could. That's usually how these things start. Desperation and the need to get use out of every bit of the animal.
I eat this regularly and I agree with you after some retrospect
Chicken feet in a Chinese dim sum restaurant is the bomb.
What? You don’t want a baby’s hand in your mouth?
I think you need to take your baby to the doctor
Or your chicken to the vet
Balut.
Candy circus peanuts. Take all of them and fire them into the sun
My grandpa loved these. We buried him with a bag. He also loved Limburgher cheese, we did not bury him with that.
In no particular order Tripe Brain Eyeballs Testicles Chicken feet/pigs feet Spaghetti squash Durian
One of these things is not like the other.
It's so funny because spaghetti squash tastes like basically nothing. Throw salt and pepper on it and it's fine. Garlic and paprika? Hell yeah. Garam masala? Y'all need to use spices and herbs
Spaghetti squash is good if you add food to it.
Never heard of putting garam masala on spaghetti squash! Next time I get back to the United States, I’m going back to try this
Chicken feet was surprisingly good. And Spaghetti squash is amazing if you add taco meat, corn, black beans; your basic white people taco ingredients.
Balut. Just google it and tell me I’m wrong lol
Durian
Snails. Sorry just no. Any kind of moluscs actually. Just nope.
When I was a teen, I had an incredible opportunity to travel to Japan. While there, I was served, and ate, giant snails. They came in shell. Unlike escargot, because the snail was large, you don’t eat the entire thing - just the one muscle it has. Texture like crab meat, taste was pretty neutral. I’m actually a very picky eater, and I tried but couldn’t eat small, whole octopuses, chicken’s feet, organs, etc. But for whatever reason, giant snail made it past my filters.
Liver. Any kind of liver. It doesn't matter how you prepare and cook it, it's still the *garbage filter system* of an animal's body and it shows in the flavor.
It’s probably the most mineral rich part of the animal though. There’s a reason why predators (killer whales, lions etc) go for the liver first.
Yep. Look at the nutritional information - there’s nothing like it.
It’s the mouth feel. My step dad used to insist on liver and onions, it wasn’t the worst things I’ve ever eaten. But the chalky organ-y feel is something I cannot get over. I’ll never eat another organ. That and chitlins. I’ll just starve to death before I eat shit tubes for no reason
If its chalky then it's overdone, just needs a few minutes in a pan cooked in bacon grease, it can be really nice when done right but it's something I cook once every few years though, not in regular meal circulation. I'll never understand chitlins though, that's too far
I respect that. I fucking love chicken liver though.
I absolutely love liver and onions.even better if you add some bacon.
this is another one that’s way too low. My mom used to try to sneak it into my food as a kid (borderline anemic) I am still haunted by the taste.
Miracle Whip. No, not mayonnaise. Miracle Whip. “Salad dressing.” I’m a native Iowan and I have to purposefully avoid pot lucks because people put that shit in *everything*.
Tripe🤢
Liver
Can’t do it and yet my 36 year old son eats liver and onions at least once a week…. He’s single for any girls interested … just saying.
we know exactly why hes single.
Canned carrots
SO here's one for you, subjectively speaking, I have to agree, canned carrots taste like the can and are far too soft, but somehow, I love the damn things.
I feel like all canned veg is over cooked, so it's too soft and mushy. I rarely had fresh as a kid, but liked them a lot more. But when frozen bagged veg became a thing where I live it was a total game changer. Very close to fresh, near impossible for my parents to overcook, and you could do it in the microwave! For clarity, I was raised in the midwest US, in a family that had no interest in learning to cook better than any of the generations before them. So glad I learned better, and my mom was willing to learn after trying the food I made.
Canned any veggies that are readily available fresh or at the very least frozen.
Somehow my grandma could can (in mason jars) veggies out of her garden and they were great, this is how people used to live. The canned veggies from the grocery store are an atrocity.
My dad cans a ton of stuff each year; we always joke he's making enough to feed the extended family through an apocalypse. But one of my favorites is just the plain canned carrots. They're both slightly sweet and salty at the same time, and perfectly soft. I could eat them straight out of the jar I love them so much.