Radio question of the day: 01/17/05

Chocolate covered insects.

Calamari is good. I love Peanut Butter and Butter sandwiches. When I was a toddler I ate my mom's deordorant... LOL

When I was a kid.... I tasted rabbit . It tasted just like chicken

Goat is good too. So is Venison. And Elk.

I've eaten frog's legs and snails -- snails definitely don't taste like chicken!

Oh, and tripe in the Mexican soup, Menudo.

I forgot -- I cooked the frog's legs, too. They were caught in the Everglades by the man next door.

I ate ostrich before, looks like beef and kind of tastes like it, if I remember correctly, but is similar to chicken in nutrition.
I've also had fried calamari, but I didn't like it because of the chewiness.

I used to make peanut butter and cheese sandwiches. It was a certain kind of cheese, thick pieces of sharp cheddar. Don't ask how I started, I have no idea! Oh, and I love peanut butter and molasses. My dad started me on that.

Anyone else put chips in their bologna sandwiches? Or fries on your burger? My husband does the fries thing, and we both eat chips with bologna.

Hmm, I've eaten a bunch of things that have been mentioned so far, without ever thinking they were weird (snails, calamari, deer, gator...)

The weirdest thing I've ever eaten I think was this summer while on vacation in Hawaii. Someone told us about this out of the way beach that was basically just visited by locals. We went there and this one local guy that was there swam out to a rock and started scraping these mollusky things off it with a pocket knife. He and his buddies were eating them and he came over and offered some to us. They were incredibly gross looking when you took them out of the shell, but they tasted okay--sort of like a cross between a raw clam and a snail. Which I realize is still kinda gross for some people...

Not sure at the moment,, but maybe alligator or frog legs....if I remember something weirder I will repost!
-stevie

I really haven't eaten anything that strange, I do eat weird food combinations like french fries and maple syrup though.

I've just thought of another one!, TRIPE! Years ago my old next door neighbour used to eat it covered with salt and pepper so i tried a bit.

I can't even remember what it tasted like and i didn't even chew it because of what it was!.

Originally Posted by rosiemac

I've just thought of another one!, TRIPE!

Years ago my old next door neighbour used to eat it covered with salt and pepper so i tried a bit.

I can't even remember what it tasted like and i didn't even chew it because of what it was!.

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I ate tripe--or should I say I tasted tripe--by accident when I visited Paris in 2003. It was our first night there and the menu was in French and English. I relied too much on the English, which turned out not to be accurate. I know lots of people eat tripe but I thought it tasted really...icky.

Squirrel..Pretty good, actually

Tripe soup.. but it's sort of a creamy tripe soup, Still disgusting. It's served after heavy drinking to the turkish men in the household.. because you don't get a hang over apparently.. Either way.. YUCK

Snake Pizza...Not that good

And for all of you that go, yuck sushi.. I LOVE sushi- I suggest though, starting out withthe inside out rolls filled with something cooked.. they're easier to eat, and yummy I love the spider rolls.. I was always afraid of them, but their good. Fried soft shell crab, avocado, wrapped inside out and rolled in orange roe

I was given the eyes of a Salmon (or was it Red Snapper) to eat. It was considered a delicacy .....

I tried not to look at it as I cut into it (too late, some of the "eye fluid" dripped onto my fork). I just opened my mouth and closed my eyes ...

It DID NOT taste like chicken, it was sorta .... chewy !

I gotta ask.....what is tripe?

Originally Posted by kittylover4ever

I gotta ask.....what is tripe?

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It is most DEEE-LICIOUS ! (OK, that was no help)

It is the lining of a cow's stomach and small intestine. Comes in all sorts of varieties. There is Honeycomb tripe (looks like one), another variety called "Toalla" - looks like a terry cloth towel, another kind called "librillo" - looks like the fringe hanging down from a scarf.

I'm getting hungry

If it comes from a pig, it is called "Maws" instead of "tripe."

Tripe is the stomach lining of a sheep or cow and is a delicacy in France, Spain and some parts of the UK. My grandfather used to love it cooked in milk and onions. I think it is disgusting, though I love haggis, a Scottish delicacy made from all kinds of unmentionable bits of sheep, mixed with suet and barley and cooked in a sheep stomach bag. I have eaten (and liked) many other things mentioned so far, including chocolate covered ants. But I was once offered a sheep's eyeball, and that I could not eat. And although I really like calamari I cannot eat octpus, having once had to cook one from live.