Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: lamarca Date: 08 Dec 00 - 06:15 PM Then there's a few of my favorite books on exotic cuisines... and this scholarly treatise (with recipes) Alas, I've not actually tried any of these recipes, so cannot recommend my favorite... I do like scrapple, though - does that count? |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Rick Fielding Date: 07 Dec 00 - 09:49 PM I wouldn't have believed it, but the ten little cans of Haggis that I asked Heather to bring back from Scotland were confiscated by Canadian customs when she got off the plane. However I have seen frozen PEMICAN for sale here! Worst thing I've ever eaten? ONIONS ONIONS ONIONS! Rick |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Haruo Date: 07 Dec 00 - 06:21 PM But Mrrzy sp?, Niamey's in Mali, not Burkina Faso (Mali's where Tombouctou aka Timbuktu is, too); BF's main town is Ouagadougou. I think. Liland |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: CamiSu Date: 07 Dec 00 - 04:54 PM Raw beef. I raise my own so I know it is safe, BUT if you absolutely must, and cannot be sure of what you get, buy a chuck roast (it tastes best) and cut off the very outside and chop up the rest. E Coli only lives on the outside. I fed a very rare roast to a friend once and when his mother was horrified about it, he said "But MOM! I knew its name!" Tried brains, nope. Oh well. But Chorizo is wonderful. As is Yorkshire pudding cooked in suet. Bat Goddess, Can I come to your house sometime? (Actually you can come here if you want and we can cook. Dave is awfully good at it, and if inspired, I'm not half bad. And now that Wavestar is quite proficient at cutting up dead things, I guess I'll have to send her out to kill chickens! CamiSu |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bert Date: 07 Dec 00 - 02:27 PM Mmmmm, refried doughnuts, yummy!!! And people say that Lardy cake sounds bad;-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Mrrzy Date: 07 Dec 00 - 02:21 PM OK - this is a true Charlottesville dish - called Grillswith. Take 2 Krispy Kreme (the softer raised kind, not the cakey kind) doughnuts, fry in butter, stack and top with vanilla ice cream. You get salty (from the butter) and sweet (from the rest), hot and cold, and it is just wonderful. Most people gross out on the description, though! |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bert Date: 07 Dec 00 - 12:35 PM It does sound awful I know, but you have to try it before you say you don't like it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 07 Dec 00 - 11:59 AM Mmmm, it's not cake it's bread - ahhh, that makes it better!!*BG* ;-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bert Date: 07 Dec 00 - 11:56 AM Lardy cake is GREAT stuff. Absolutely delicious. But firstly, it's not cake it's bread, and secondly, the lard is spread on it BEFORE it's cooked so it gets this nice crispy crust on it. Like a really fresh doughnut but better. Cholesterol? Mmmmmm yes, but sometimes things are worth it. You have to have 'some' cholesterol in your diet and there is no better way of getting it. Cut out hamburgers for a while. Bert. |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 07 Dec 00 - 11:32 AM It may be mild to many but I am repulsed by pork scratchings. Let's see... you get some pig fat, fry it in, er, more animal fat, then put some salt on it and sell it in pubs as an accompaniment to beer. Loooooovely. I'd never tried them til I moved to Bristol - and never will again. And lardy cake? Cake with lard on it???!!! Yeeeeeuuuuuchhhhhhh. And I thought Ulster fries raised your cholesterol (they're good though!). |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Mrrzy Date: 07 Dec 00 - 11:17 AM Hysterical! Which, lest we forget is the word coined I believe by Freud to mean that the uterus is traveling all over the body and creating mental symptoms... Speaking of which, I was at a zoo in Niamey, then Upper Volta now Burkina Fasso, when they fed the hyenas - and there were little ungulate fetuses in whatever they were feeding them. Way gross, but not MY dinner... |
Subject: Lyr Add: CAT'S IN THE KETTLE From: Jeri Date: 07 Dec 00 - 11:10 AM Swiped lyrics from here. They don't give the author's name.
CAT'S IN THE KETTLE |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bat Goddess Date: 07 Dec 00 - 09:46 AM I like sea urchin roe; don't get it often enough. (In Mainee they've started harvesting it to send to Japan.) I love the taste of raw shrimp, but don't like the texture so I give it a miss. I was lucky enough once to have scallops so fresh I could eat the whole scallop instead of just the aductor muscle. I also like moon snails (just the foot -- is more tender if you freeze them first) and periwinkles (in fritters -- clean up the operculums all over the kitchen later) as well as conventional snails drenched in too much garlic. (Is there such a thing?) Actually, I like most strong flavored foods including limberger cheese. A lot of the sushi and maki I make is a vehicle for pickled plums, pickled ginger and wasabi. I have an adventurous palate and will give just about anything a shot. Bat Goddess |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Margo Date: 06 Dec 00 - 07:03 PM Tongue is very good. Looks wierd cooking, though. My mom used to make tongue, and it looked funny sitting in the pot with the water boiling, sticking itself out at me. Very rich and dense meat. Yum! Margo PS Welcome "home" 'Spaw. |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Burke Date: 06 Dec 00 - 06:03 PM |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Dec 00 - 05:06 PM Not having been around much in the past few days, I finally got a chance to sit and read this one. Ya' know what's really pathetic? I like almost everything mentioned here and I've tried most of it. So many foods, so little time! One of the nicest things about having this prize winning butcher shop in the little town where I live is that Karen and I still eat a lot of raw or rare cooked burger. They make fantastic jerky there and the trail bologna is heaven. He also gets me my scrapple fix from my favorite maker because he knows the guy and Martin will drop off some at Kenny's every time he's in the area. NEver had cat or dog to my knowledge though......and where's the link to the "Cat's in the kettle at the Peking Moon?" Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C Date: 06 Dec 00 - 04:50 PM Liland, I am in lovely Nashville, TN. Believe it or not we actually have REAL sushi places here. Good ones, even! Chicken wings are new on the menu at McD's. Just saw them the other day when I picked up a yummy sausage biskit for breakfast. But I say, what's the big deal? Just throw the head away and go on. A chicken's head isn't going to kill anyone. Yeah, it's a little disgusting, but so what. I have three pets, and long hair, and am always finding it in my food. What am I going to do, sue myself for trauma? Right. I once had a fly in my hashbrown wrapper from a fast-food place - I guess he had fallen into the fryer. Big woop. He was dead. I threw him out the window. And I didn't die from eating the taters either. Besides that, you know that Chicken McNuggets, being pieces parts and all that, probably has beaks & eyeballs in 'em anyhow. Some people are just too picky about their food. :) I haven't ever eaten brains or tongue. Would probably be willing to try it, though. I did get some chorizo from the grocery a few weeks ago, and you should have seen the ingredient list on that package. Dis-GUSting. Let's make the sausage scrapings into more sausage. I put it in a pot of chili and it was damn tasty. |
Subject: Whale From: Haruo Date: 06 Dec 00 - 04:43 PM When I was a kid in Japan we ate a lot of whale meat (very much like beef bottom round, only cheaper, which given Japanese beef prices made it highly desirable). Can't find whale hereabouts in the markets, though I suppose if I went out and hung around in Neah Bay I might score some. A sushi variety that I am not particularly fond of (though many swear by it, and if the guy behind the counter brags about it I'll try one to be polite) is uni, i.e. sea urchin. Raw scallop temaki (handroll sushi) on the other hand, while slippery-slimy, is good (if the scallop's fresh and cold and it's artfully wrapped). Somebody mentioned raw eggs. In Japan a favorite breakfast was a steaming bowl of rice with a raw egg cracked over it and stirred in, then eaten in an ad hoc makizushi style with nori (seaweed sheets) dipped in soy sauce. MMMMM!! Liland aka haruo |
Subject: Lutefisk From: Haruo Date: 06 Dec 00 - 04:42 PM Nobody's mentioned lutefisk, so I don't think I will, either. ;-) Liland I've never actually eaten it, though I did ingest a minute quantity once just to be able say I'd had it. The next neighborhood over, Ballard, has an annual lutefisk-eating contest which I have watched. That's really gross (probably worse than participating!). |
Subject: Kim C: Amaebi & Other Sushi From: Haruo Date: 06 Dec 00 - 04:39 PM Kim C - where are you? I LOVE SUSHI too. (I © SUSHI is the name of a pretty good sushi place with Seattle and Bellevue locations.) But for financial reasons I prefer The Eating Factory in Bellevue, with all-you-can-eat sushi (and other Japanese food) at lunch for twelve buck$ ($eventeen at suppertime), try to hit it every payday. Because in a normal sushi place I have no difficulty eating a hundred dollars' worth at a sitting. Eel is good (both anago and unagi) but my favorite is amaebi, large raw sweet shrimp with the head deep-fried on the side. (The Eating Factory doesn't do amaebi, alackaday; for that I have to go to Tommy's or "I © Sushi" or someplace.) I like the Korean rendition of the Italian pronunciation of your name, too, Kimchi (serious hot pickled "Chinese" cabbage). Liland |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: kimmers Date: 06 Dec 00 - 02:37 PM And besides (regarding the picture) since when are chicken wings a McDonald's menu item? I smell urban myth... |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: kimmers Date: 06 Dec 00 - 02:12 PM Great picture. Is this a true story or an urban myth? It has all of the makings of an UM. And did you visit this guy's main page? Hoo, boy... |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Mrrzy Date: 06 Dec 00 - 02:12 PM Having grown up in Africa, I'm willing to try things and wait till my taste buds react to decide if I hate it or not... so I know that I don't like pigs' or chicken feet, or brains, or kidneys, or lungs, but I do like liver, head cheese, marrow from marrowbones, squid, snails (only the squeamish call them Escargots!) - big and little, and almost anything from the sea. I've eaten something called Violet in French, which I think are a type of barnacle, but I can't find a dictionary translation (my theory being that nobody anglophone would eat these things anyway). When I tried pigeon soup and it came with a little half (sliced sagitally) pigeon head in it, I just took the head out and put it where I couldn't see it anymore and kept eating. I like to suck shrimp heads and crawdad heads - and I too like that green stuff inside lobsters. Don't like tofu one bit; do like tempe. Like sushi, like raw beef (and I still do pick at it, I can't help it, someday my e. coli will revolt). When in North Africa, failed to try sheep's or goat's eyes... and still cannot stand ANYTHING that tastes of liquorice. If that's how it's spelled. |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Margo Date: 06 Dec 00 - 12:34 PM So when you look at the picture on this page does your mouth water or your stomache turn? Margo |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: GUEST,Alliekatt Date: 06 Dec 00 - 12:17 PM Jaysus, I come from the Southern US and just visited Ireland, there's no disgusting tasty pork product that hasn't passed my palate at least once, except the brains thing. The only people who eat a similar quantity of disgusting meat who AREN'T Chinese or Pygmies are us purulent whiteys who came from the Isles. The first time I ate black pudding was two months ago in some breakfasteria in Dublin. Nobody was impolite enough to stare at me staring down the pud on my fork for five minutes straight. I shoved the whole slice into my mouth. I never ate a gross meat product that was so rich and tasty. I promptly went up and got three more and dipped them in my egg yolks. But I swear I will never eat souse again. THAT was some gross stuff. I could see the cross sections of snout and intestine suspended in this foul and sour gel...I tried it, I yakked. Never again. |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C Date: 06 Dec 00 - 12:03 PM Mister don't like eggplant. I like it but it's a pain to prepare and cook. I like tofu also. The trick with tofu is to cook it up with something else so it will absorb the flavors. It's a good source of protein for people who don't eat meat. Soy is good for everyone, even an avowed meat-eater like myself. :) |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Troll Date: 05 Dec 00 - 10:26 PM I happen to like boiled okra with butter. Eggplant is where I draw the line. Wife loves mousaka and I'll cook it for her but I will not eat it. troll |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 05 Dec 00 - 10:03 PM I had muktuk (blubber) in Alaska a few years back. Rocky mountain oysters in Colorado, tripe and onions in Belfast, octopus sushi in Hawaii. Calve's brains are good too. Can't stomach boiled okra, though. It's like eating fresh slug tracks. I'd sooner gargle my own vomit than eat okra again. All the best. Seamus |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Lepus Rex Date: 05 Dec 00 - 09:57 PM My roomate just looked at the haggis recipe, and said she'd make it, but wouldn't eat it. Huh. Now, all I need is a sheep... ---Lepus Rex |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Troll Date: 05 Dec 00 - 09:51 PM My Wife loved squid as a child. After college (!965) she took off for Europe and traveled. She finally landed in Munich flat broke and a friend got her a job working in the kitchen of a Greek restaurant. Her main job seemed to consist of cleaning squid. For two months -until she learned enough German to work as a waitress- she cleaned squid. She can't look at calamari without getting queasy. troll |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Burke Date: 05 Dec 00 - 07:55 PM Hog's head cheese. Raw beef. My mother fed it to me. With all the E coli problems, it's been a while since I've even picked at the ground meat from the store before I cooked it. I'm another liver & onions fan. My mother used to do a thick brown gravy with it as well. I hated grits, but with that gravy all over it, it was actually bearable. Brains? Let's hope the mad cow virus doesn't just the pond or there's one dish that's out the window. |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: CarolC Date: 05 Dec 00 - 07:20 PM I think I'm beginning to sound like flattop. Is there hope for me? (But it's so much fun.) I'll try harder to be good from now on. (d*mn!) |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: CarolC Date: 05 Dec 00 - 07:20 PM I think I'm beginnig to sound like flattop. Is there hope for me? (But it's so much fun.) I'll try harder to be good from now on. (d*mn!) |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: bflat Date: 05 Dec 00 - 07:09 PM Good one, CarolC....hehehehehahahahaHA! I am not sure actually. Most folks keep such things confidential I would think. |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: guinnesschik Date: 05 Dec 00 - 07:06 PM |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: CarolC Date: 05 Dec 00 - 07:02 PM I like tofu. A lot of people think that's pretty gross. My dad thinks it has a texture like slimey buggers. (Don't ask me how he knows that. I don't even want to know.) Lepus Rex, check here for haggis instructions. Don't forget to leave the trachea hanging over the side of the pot so the lungs don't explode. bflat, do all of your friends have hemorroids? |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: guinnesschik Date: 05 Dec 00 - 06:55 PM Um, I later discovered that "goat fries" were indeed the little goat testicles. Made me feel a little "teste." Sorry, couldn't resist. |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: bflat Date: 05 Dec 00 - 06:42 PM My friends, who will remain nameless, like their food very hot and spicey, as LepusRex says,"painfully." Well, they follow these firebreathing meals with vanilla ice cream. The reason being is they have hemorroids which don't like spicy foods. In this way they can chant when appropriate, "come on, ice cream!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: GUEST,Lepus_Rex, cookieless, grr... Date: 05 Dec 00 - 06:30 PM All this cephalopod talk reminds me of a dish I had at a Korean restaurant a few years ago. I don't remember what it was called in Korean, but the English description read 'Cuttlefish Casserole,' which sounded interesting. I ordered it, and the waitress asked if I'd like the 'mild' version, as it is a very spicy dish. I chuckled and said something about how I'm sure I could handle it. They brought me out a platter of something that looked like what I imagine shark vomit to look like, with cute little tentacles poking out, which didn't really bother me. But it was REALLY spicy. Unpleasantly, painfully spicy. My eyes teared up and my mouth was on fire, but I choked down the whole mess it was a very large platter...). Probably should have taken the 'mild' version, eh? ---Lepus Rex |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C Date: 05 Dec 00 - 04:34 PM Would that be goat fries? I've eaten calf fries before. Sorta like Chicken McNuggets. At least there wasn't a fried calf's head in there. |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: guinnesschik Date: 05 Dec 00 - 01:28 PM I'll eat anything that doesn't bite me first. I had an uncle who thought roadkill was dinner. We've eaten possum, armadillo, squirrel, venison, and lots of cabrito, mutton, and turkey (eggs included). The latest "disgusting" thing I've had was "machitos cabritos." Deep fried. MMmmmm......
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Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C Date: 05 Dec 00 - 12:58 PM Alison, I'm coming over to your house to eat. I like squid. I had a really nice squid salad at a Thai restaurant here in town. Quite tasty! The octopus in question was sushified and I believe it was tentacles. Man, I'm getting hungry... |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bert Date: 05 Dec 00 - 12:02 PM Ah Retsina!!! guaranteed to make 'anything' taste good. |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: GUEST,LDB Date: 05 Dec 00 - 11:52 AM CATS - The other white meat! |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: alison Date: 05 Dec 00 - 12:34 AM Black pudding is great... but not on its own.. it needs all the other flavours of fried cholesterol to make it wonderful..... Haggis is nice (what you haven't said yet... is that its bassically sausage inside a sheeps stomach!!!) and I love liver braised with leeks and onions in a rich gravy..... yum tripe is vile!!!! slainte alison |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bat Goddess Date: 05 Dec 00 - 12:17 AM And squid. I adore squid. (Only the squeamish call it calamari!!) Especially Greek style, rings dipped in seasoned flour and fried in olive oil. Served with retsina and a big salad. But marinated in a salad or stewed in its own ink is good, too. As an aside, I also have the largest collection of rubber squid in the state of New Hampshire. Actually, it may be the ONLY collection of rubber squid in the state of New Hampshire. (And only three of them glow in the dark...) Bat Goddess |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Melani Date: 04 Dec 00 - 07:25 PM I've never had authentic haggis, but we once made a vegetarian haggis for a veggie friend who was leaving for a job in Scotland. (Just do a net search on "Haggis", that's how we found it.) Unfortunately, we nearly poisoned his girlfriend with it. It contained ground nuts, and she is one of those people with a deadly nut allergy, and for some reason did't inquire about ingredients before taking a big bite. We fed her a lot of Benadryl and she survived, but I've been leaving the nuts out ever since. The veggie version is very tasty. I tried black pudding. Once. Tastes like blood. |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: mousethief Date: 04 Dec 00 - 06:04 PM I posted this to the "regionalized" thread but it's probably more appropriate here: Dog: I'm learning to cook, and I want to make a dish everybody can enjoy. So tell me what your favorite food is. Aardvark: Ants! Horse: Oats! Wolf: Sheep intestines! [[[later]]] Dog: Well, what do you think? Aardvark: Hmmm... Horse: Hmmm... Wolf: Hmmm... Scotsman: Och! Bonnie haggis! And I love the wee black crunchy bits! ----- Alex |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: mousethief Date: 04 Dec 00 - 05:53 PM Meat is usually drained of as much blood as possible before it is sliced up for cooking. The juice that oozes out of the meat you buy at the supermarket is not blood, which you can verify by comparing it to your own blood next time you cut yourself: the juice is clear; mammal blood is opaque. If the only octopus you've ever had is rubbery, you've had the bad stuff. I've had octopus that melted in my mouth. Partly it's the part of the beast you fix (the tentacles will ALWAYS be rubbery; the head meat is much tenderer) and how you fix it (the best octopus I've ever had was in a stew, which was presumably cooked a good, long time). (It was at a Greek restaurant in Chicago, by the way.) Alex |
Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C Date: 04 Dec 00 - 05:48 PM Boudin has blood in it. Doesn't all meat? |