IS THIS GROSS OR WHAT?

[ilovelucy]

A thread dedicated to some of our more obnoxious eating habits from around the world and Canada....

Japan: raw chicken sashimi--I actually ate this (after becoming severely snockered, mind you) many years ago.

China: little baby mice poached in a bamboo tube--saw it, but had the good sense not to try it.....

more to come...

YUCK!

[Persephone]

Nobody holds a candle to the Scottish. If you'll eat sheep guts, you'll eat anything.

[ponygurl]

Cat.. the other white meat..
;D

Monkey brains from a live monkey. Special table that had a hole in the center and underneath the table was kind of like a garage bay for changing your oil for your car and the restaurant workers would pop up a screaming monkey when notified, the chef would take a very sharp knife and cut the top of the skull off and dip out the brain and put it in boiling water. Kaoshiung, Taiwan (circa 1960)

On a more pleasant note, bird nest soup is made from the nests of cliff swallows that vomit to make their nests.

Happy eating.

[Persephone]

Monkey brains from a live monkey. Special table that had a hole in the center and underneath the table was kind of like a garage bay for changing your oil for your car and the restaurant workers would pop up a screaming monkey when notified, the chef would take a very sharp knife and cut the top of the skull off and dip out the brain and put it in boiling water. Kaoshiung, Taiwan (circa 1960)

On a more pleasant note, bird nest soup is made from the nests of cliff swallows that vomit to make their nests.

Happy eating.



You are no longer allowed to participate in this thread. You have unfair advantage.

[ilovelucy]

Japan has some great ones...

Just saw the movie TAMPOPO again (a must see, by the way) ---guy talks about eating the cooked , at least, wild boar intestines filled with yams the little piggies live on.....

The grossest thing I ever ate? My first wife. <circa 1974>

Addendum: CASE CLOSED!!

[ilovelucy]

Monkey brains from a live monkey. Special table that had a hole in the center and underneath the table was kind of like a garage bay for changing your oil for your car and the restaurant workers would pop up a screaming monkey when notified, the chef would take a very sharp knife and cut the top of the skull off and dip out the brain and put it in boiling water. Kaoshiung, Taiwan (circa 1960)

On a more pleasant note, bird nest soup is made from the nests of cliff swallows that vomit to make their nests.

Happy eating.





You are no longer allowed to participate in this thread. You have unfair advantage.


;D


(did you actually eat that, bad?)

;D


(did you actually eat that, bad?)


Yup. Wasn't bad. Needed garlic.

[ilovelucy]

aghhhhh!

Suth, I don't know about the unfair advantage--do y'all eat pickled pigs feet over there? My father kept of jar of them in the icebox--it was gross. So, one day I got the idea to dry the little darlings off and paint their toenails red...he was not amused.....

[kathleen]

Yup. Wasn't bad. Needed garlic.


Gross. What ever possessed you to do it? ???

[kathleen]

do y'all eat pickled pigs feet over there?

Yep, my parents were into that crap too.

You know what was even worse - pickled herring. Even the smell of it can make me vomit.

But then, each to their own. :)

Gross. What ever possessed you to do it? ???




My father was assigned to start up the Chinese Marine Corps in Taiwan. He was an "advisor" and at the time the Taiwanese thought white people were Gods. They'd never been exposed to whites before. We were constantly being ogled and touched and stroked. They thought just by touching us they'd get "good luck." If I had a nickel for every State Affair I'd been to...well, you know the story. These State dinners would be elaborate beyond belief...30 course dinners, sometimes taking as much as 10 to 12 hours. If it flew, swam, walked, crawled, slithered, hopped...I've eaten it.

[Persephone]

aghhhhh!

Suth, I don't know about the unfair advantage--do y'all eat pickled pigs feet over there? My father kept of jar of them in the icebox--it was gross. So, one day I got the idea to dry the little darlings off and paint their toenails red...he was not amused.....



People eat a lot of things around here that I don't eat. And they eat pig brains. I guess I shouldn't find monkey brains so disgusting.

[ponygurl]

Monkey brains from a live monkey. Special table that had a hole in the center and underneath the table was kind of like a garage bay for changing your oil for your car and the restaurant workers would pop up a screaming monkey when notified, the chef would take a very sharp knife and cut the top of the skull off and dip out the brain and put it in boiling water. Kaoshiung, Taiwan (circa 1960)

On a more pleasant note, bird nest soup is made from the nests of cliff swallows that vomit to make their nests.

Happy eating.
get outta here.. you aren't serious?? I need a barfing smiley..

[ilovelucy]

Bad.

You need to write a cookbook interspersed with food stories and such.....

get outta here.. you aren't serious?? I need a barfing smiley..


As serious as a heart attack...I don't think that was the worst, though. I'm still trying to recall. I think the horror of what I put in my mouth has been stored in the darkest parts of my mind.

[ponygurl]

The grossest thing I ever ate? My first wife. <circa 1974>

Addendum: CASE CLOSED!!
:o :o :o ;D

I remember going to gas stations that had those big glass jars of pickled pigs' feet and pickled eggs. You could smell the old men who ate that stuff from 10-feet away.

I've heard that in Scotland they eat deep fried candy bars. Can't you just feel your arteries clogging?

[Satan]

I think the horror of what I put in my mouth has been stored in the darkest parts of my mind.


There's a 'darkest part'?

There's a 'darkest part'?


Oh, yeah. Just consider me "Night Gallery" on legs.

I think the horror of what I put in my mouth has been stored in the darkest parts of my mind.


There's a 'darkest part'?


Scary thought alert!

[Persephone]

I think any cookbook he wrote would be incredibly popular....especially with instructions like "1/2 teaspoon ginger. Yeah, fucking right. You can't get too much. Don't get shy on me."

I think any cookbook he wrote would be incredibly popular....especially with instructions like "1/2 teaspoon ginger. Yeah, fucking right. You can't get too much. Don't get shy on me."




Mine would read like: "1-20 cloves of garlic. I can't imagine only using 1 clove of garlic, but whatever makes you wimps happy."

[jeny]

I think any cookbook he wrote would be incredibly popular....especially with instructions like "1/2 teaspoon ginger. Yeah, fucking right. You can't get too much. Don't get shy on me."




Mine would read like: "1-20 cloves of garlic. I can't imagine only using 1 clove of garlic, but whatever makes you wimps happy."


My mom got a garlic cookbook one year, and we had a big joke, my Dad and I. SHe would say stuff like "I hope you like this, the recipe called for 3 cloves, but I used 15" So my Dad and I would joke around "The recipe called for 6 cloves, so I used 654, mmmmmmm"

I have a recipe for a pork roast that calls for 20 HEADS (not cloves) of garlic.

I've made it only one time and wished I had cooked it outdoors.

I have a recipe for a pork roast that calls for 20 HEADS (not cloves) of garlic.

I've made it only one time and wished I had cooked it outdoors.


Ye Gods that's too much garlic. Y'all have to understand that when I say "too much" garlic it's really saying something.

[ilovelucy]

Actually, you can slightly crush the heads and not chop them up on the garlic when you do a roast and the garlic is more pungent/intense, but not overpowering--especially with venison or lamb...garlic tenderizes meat somewhat as well....

[sodaknomad]

I think any cookbook he wrote would be incredibly popular....especially with instructions like "1/2 teaspoon ginger. Yeah, fucking right. You can't get too much. Don't get shy on me."




Mine would read like: "1-20 cloves of garlic. I can't imagine only using 1 clove of garlic, but whatever makes you wimps happy."


A couple of weeks ago I had to work with a guy who's idea to cure strep throat was to gargle with garlic...http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/Gif/WBMarv.gif

[Persephone]

I think any cookbook he wrote would be incredibly popular....especially with instructions like "1/2 teaspoon ginger. Yeah, fucking right. You can't get too much. Don't get shy on me."




Mine would read like: "1-20 cloves of garlic. I can't imagine only using 1 clove of garlic, but whatever makes you wimps happy."


A couple of weeks ago I had to work with a guy who's idea to cure strep throat was to gargle with garlic...http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/Gif/WBMarv.gif



I think that might actually do it. It is said to be an antibacterial.

[jeny]

I think any cookbook he wrote would be incredibly popular....especially with instructions like "1/2 teaspoon ginger. Yeah, fucking right. You can't get too much. Don't get shy on me."




Mine would read like: "1-20 cloves of garlic. I can't imagine only using 1 clove of garlic, but whatever makes you wimps happy."


A couple of weeks ago I had to work with a guy who's idea to cure strep throat was to gargle with garlic...http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/Gif/WBMarv.gif



I think that might actually do it. It is said to be an antibacterial.

Take a wild guess as to what I gargled with to get rid of a sore throat a few weeks ago. I bet you can guess.

[Persephone]

Take a wild guess as to what I gargled with to get rid of a sore throat a few weeks ago. I bet you can guess.


I dunno. I usually just gargle salt water. But I bet if you added some garlic and cayenne, you could get rid of the infection faster.

[sodaknomad]

I think any cookbook he wrote would be incredibly popular....especially with instructions like "1/2 teaspoon ginger. Yeah, fucking right. You can't get too much. Don't get shy on me."




Mine would read like: "1-20 cloves of garlic. I can't imagine only using 1 clove of garlic, but whatever makes you wimps happy."


A couple of weeks ago I had to work with a guy who's idea to cure strep throat was to gargle with garlic...http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/Gif/WBMarv.gif



I think that might actually do it. It is said to be an antibacterial.

Take a wild guess as to what I gargled with to get rid of a sore throat a few weeks ago. I bet you can guess.


This ???

http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/Gif/WBMarv.gif

[jeny]

Take a wild guess as to what I gargled with to get rid of a sore throat a few weeks ago. I bet you can guess.


I dunno. I usually just gargle salt water. But I bet if you added some garlic and cayenne, you could get rid of the infection faster.


Breastmilk, it has virus and bacterial specific antibacterial qualities, which is why breastfed babies hardly ever get the same cold or flu her mother has, unless the baby got it first. Even then, the baby is cured in a matter of one or two days rather than 10 days, which is what it normally takes. ;D

[Persephone]

Breastmilk, it has virus and bacterial specific antibacterial qualities, which is why breastfed babies hardly ever get the same cold or flu her mother has, unless the baby got it first. Even then, the baby is cured in a matter of one or two days rather than 10 days, which is what it normally takes. ;D



I did wonder, but I didn't want to say...

[jeny]

Breastmilk, it has virus and bacterial specific antibacterial qualities, which is why breastfed babies hardly ever get the same cold or flu her mother has, unless the baby got it first. Even then, the baby is cured in a matter of one or two days rather than 10 days, which is what it normally takes. ;D



I did wonder, but I didn't want to say...

;D

[truelies]

Take a wild guess as to what I gargled with to get rid of a sore throat a few weeks ago. I bet you can guess.


I dunno. I usually just gargle salt water. But I bet if you added some garlic and cayenne, you could get rid of the infection faster.


Breastmilk, it has virus and bacterial specific antibacterial qualities, which is why breastfed babies hardly ever get the same cold or flu her mother has, unless the baby got it first. Even then, the baby is cured in a matter of one or two days rather than 10 days, which is what it normally takes. ;D


Breastmilk is the long sought CURE for the common cold????????????

Take a wild guess as to what I gargled with to get rid of a sore throat a few weeks ago. I bet you can guess.


I dunno. I usually just gargle salt water. But I bet if you added some garlic and cayenne, you could get rid of the infection faster.


Breastmilk, it has virus and bacterial specific antibacterial qualities, which is why breastfed babies hardly ever get the same cold or flu her mother has, unless the baby got it first. Even then, the baby is cured in a matter of one or two days rather than 10 days, which is what it normally takes. ;D


Breastmilk is the long sought CURE for the common cold????????????


And men everywhere rejoice.

[truelies]

Not that I would ever drink the stuff myself, BUT I do enjoy watching other smaller people drink straight from the spigot.

Not that I would ever drink the stuff myself, BUT I do enjoy watching other smaller people drink straight from the spigot.


I suppose you could always just pretend to be drinking it.

[jeny]

Take a wild guess as to what I gargled with to get rid of a sore throat a few weeks ago. I bet you can guess.


I dunno. I usually just gargle salt water. But I bet if you added some garlic and cayenne, you could get rid of the infection faster.


Breastmilk, it has virus and bacterial specific antibacterial qualities, which is why breastfed babies hardly ever get the same cold or flu her mother has, unless the baby got it first. Even then, the baby is cured in a matter of one or two days rather than 10 days, which is what it normally takes. ;D


Breastmilk is the long sought CURE for the common cold????????????


Funny thing is, they cannot duplicate it, or figure out how to keep the antibacterial agents alive for very long, or else it just might be. ;)

[ilovelucy]

I knew I should have frozen some when I had a chance! ;D

[tileman]

Chug down a bottle of Verner's ginger ale and THEN gargle with the garlic concoction.........it really works.. :)

Jeny...Let's hook your ass up to a milking machine.... dry it and slap it in capsules........you'd be rich wheter it worked or not... ;D.......

[ilovelucy]

A lady whose Cuban grandfather made her do this suggested I gargle with kerosene when I told her I had a cold.....

Dare to smoke after that, lucy!

[jeny]

I knew I should have frozen some when I had a chance! ;D


Wouldn;t matter, the antibacterial qualities don't survive freezing.

I can turn any topic into a lactation topic. It's a gift.

[jeny]

Chug down a bottle of Verner's ginger ale and THEN gargle with the garlic concoction.........it really works.. :)

Jeny...Let's hook your ass up to a milking machine.... dry it and slap it in capsules........you'd be rich wheter it worked or not... ;D.......


ROFLMAO!!!!

Not that I would ever drink the stuff myself, BUT I do enjoy watching other smaller people drink straight from the spigot.


Ok so you don't want the milk; you just want to admire the containers.

[ilovelucy]

:)