Gross stuff to eat...

[Eve]

we drink cow-milk and dont think a thing about it

I bought a new brand of yogurt the other day without really looking at it - I thought "water buffalo" was the brand. Turns out it was the milk source. And it was really darn good yogurt too.

I'm somewhat adventurous, but I think I'd draw the line at eating anything that was still wiggling.

[wendy]

ok it was my understanding that sushi just means wrapped in rice

shashimi is the raw fish stuff

There is alot of "sushi' that i like and is actually cooked like anything wtih shrimp is usually cooked and spider rolls (fried soft shell crab wrapped in rice)

I had to stop watching fear factor cuz of the nasty stuff that they eat

I can't think of anything weird that i have eaten, escargo is good.

[Nico]

R A T T L E S N A K E,

All I can say about that is I FREAKIN LOVE IT!!! (yes with capital letters) its the best meat ever, at least for me.

As for raw food I like raw salmon, when I was 7 ate an ant taco after readin that people in south Mexico eat grasshoppers and what not.. fried ants werent that bad at all with salsa, they're kinda crunchy.

[cavedoc]

R A T T L E S N A K E,

All I can say about that is I FREAKIN LOVE IT!!!

I tried snake in China (no rattles on it). It was pretty bland unless you got the skin with the fat under it. Then it tasted like salmon. Too bony to be worthwhile.

But it was better than the dog we ate later. That was just kinda weird. Hardest part was not humming "How much is the doggy in the window" at the dinner table.

[fuzzy-hair-man]

Not gross, actually very good:
Kangaroo, and wallaby

Kangaroo is also very healthy for you and Australia has heaps of them, in fact I think we should be farming kangaroo instead of cows because it's better meat, is heathier, Australia can grow kangaroos better and easier than cows and kangaroos are better suited to our droughts, they are also very disease resistant. Oh they also cause ALOT less environmental damage.

It's just some people have a problem with eating roo but will eat cows, sheep, ....

[wendy]

Oh I have had gator, I guess that's weird for some people who don't have gators where they live. And I tried ostrich once, it was pretty good too.

[Squirrel Girl]

I went on a cave diving trip to the Yucatan with a mixed group. One girl was a "vegetarian." Well, it turns out it was OK to eat shrimp. It turns out she only wouldn't eat chicken, beef or pork (basically "cute" food).

At our final dinner, the guys wanted steaks. She had beans or shrimp or something. She also loved to pet the dogs that wander around Mexico (which I think of as a rabies threat). As we lingered around the dinner table after we'd had our fill, she fed the mens' table scraps to the dogs. I voiced the logical disconnect, "You mean it's OK to feed steak to the dogs?"

"I'm on vacation and I don't have to justify myself to you!" and we didn't speak after that.

I could care less what a person chooses to eat, no matter how illogical, but the scientist in me just couldn't help marvelling at the silliness at it. Oops!

[hewhocaves]

If I could, I would eat sushi every meal for every day of the rest of my life.
It's that delicious.

It's simply the cost (and finding a decent restaurant) which makes it prohibitive. Although I've managed to find a decent place even out in the boonies of Morgantown, so there is hope. In fact I'm going there tonight.

My personal favorite is anything with squid or eel.

Btw, sushi has about as consistent *taste* as, say chicken, only less so. The massive variety of ingredients and spices which go into it mean that you could try the stuff your entire life and still find new variations to try. While the eel and squid are (for example) cooked - there's salmon and tuna which is raw - and things like cucumber rolls for vegetarians. A Philadelphia roll, for example, has cream cheese in it, a mexican roll will actually taste like mexican food, and I had something awhile back which had mango.

For someone wanting to try sushi for the frst time, their best bet would be to go with someone who already knows the ropes and share a wide variety.

Oh, and just this week, I cracked open my first coconut. Now there's a high work to reward ratio for food.

John

[Squirrel Girl]

Oh, and just this week, I cracked open my first coconut. Now there's a high work to reward ratio for food.

IMHO, crab is worse. What else? Lemme thing about that.

[Phil Winkler]

When I was first in country in Vietnam I marveled at how many stray dogs there, but never saw any stray cats. Then I visited a local outdoor meat market and saw why.

SG, once you learn how to clean/pick crabs it is quite easy to get large lumps of meat out of them. We had some delicious large ones at Watermen's in Rock Hall just a week ago.

[Squirrel Girl]

SG, once you learn how to clean/pick crabs it is quite easy to get large lumps of meat out of them. We had some delicious large ones at Watermen's in Rock Hall just a week ago.

It's true. I sure don't eat crabs often.

Wah. Eating pussy kitties. Wah. I don't wanna go there.

Edit: Hey! I got auto edited on a feline reference!!!!!!!

[hewhocaves]

yeah, crab's another high cost to reward one.

kitty cats, i think, would be delicous. and quite proper to eat - those darnned aloof b***ards.

serves em' right - and there is a right way to serve em'. LOL

[Wayne Harrison]

South American forest people eat tarantulas and dont think a thing about it.

Just think of tarantulas as small soft-shell crabs.

[Tlaloc]

I have to say that one of those items on that website is really good- huitlacoche(or cuitlacohe, as the Goya can indicates). If I remember right, it is the Aztec word for "little owl"...

There is no such language as "Aztec". The language of the Mexicans is called Nahuatl.

The Nahuatl word for owl is tecolotl.

[Squirrel Girl]

South American forest people eat tarantulas and dont think a thing about it.

Just think of tarantulas as small soft-shell crabs.

There was something in the news a year or so ago. Vietnam was famous for it's tarantula cuisine. When the Khmer rogue (SP?) were in power, and people were desperate and living in the forest, they were forced to eat things like tarantulas. But it turned out that the spiders were TASTY! So now they're a delicacy and people especially seek them out.

Thanks but no thanks. I'd rather eat sushi. Blech.