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02 Dec 00 - 06:43 PM (#350394) Subject: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: GUEST,khandu Anyone for lunch? The fried chicken head the lady got from McDonalds has caused me to wonder; do any of us catters eat strange foods? Actually, here in Mississippi, there is a delicacy many of us enjoy which turns the stomach of many others. Pork brains scrambled with eggs. MMMM-MMMM GOOD! Of course, chitlins (chitterlings) are enjoyed by many; however, I find them repugnant, especially the odor during cooking. I am sure Mudcat houses many Vegans who think that we carnivores are heathens, and I fully understand. But I will enjoy my meat as long as I can. How about it? any of you admit to dining on "gross" foods? khandu |
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02 Dec 00 - 06:53 PM (#350401) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Ebbie In Michigan where I once lived, they ate chicken feet. The legs stood in tall dishes on the table like so many yellow asparagus. Tasted a lot like chicken. Ebbie |
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02 Dec 00 - 08:14 PM (#350452) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bat Goddess I'm rather fond of chicken hearts sauteed and served over pilaf. Being a Midwestern Kraut, I like blood sausage with beef tongue in it. Come to think of it, I love smoked beef tongue instead of brisket or ham in a boiled dinner (which isn't just a New England thing). Bat Goddess |
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02 Dec 00 - 10:43 PM (#350541) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Gypsy On second thought, maybe mississippi DID sink into the ocean! Ugh! |
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03 Dec 00 - 07:20 PM (#350843) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: paddymac Most folks eat those wierd things, albeit unknowingly. My Granny used to say the only thing that didn't go into a hotdog was the squeal. Nowadays, with "all beef", "all pork", "all chicken" and "all turkey" dogs, it really makes me wonder what the hell's left that goes into the "other" kinds of hotdogs. Ah, well, we're really only picky when we're not really hungry. |
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03 Dec 00 - 08:10 PM (#350866) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Wavestar Well, paddymac, Illinois has a law that only allows 5% sawdust in hotdogs... does that help? I eat haggis, here. My family shudders, but it's really quite good. Just don't think about what's in it. I've never been squeamish (I'm always the one who gets summoned to chop the feet off the turkey, remove the giblets, saw the 12 lb. roast in half, etc... I'm a farm girl. It's dead.) but I must say that I regard tripe (have you looked at that stuff?), eyeballs, and feet, (oh, and heads) aren't food. Nope. I'd boil the feet and heads, though. Broth. -J |
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03 Dec 00 - 09:44 PM (#350901) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Troll Brains and eggs is good. Did you ever try cold boiled shrimp, marinated in vinegar, and grits for breakfast? Scrumptious! Sardines and grits is good too. Deep-fat fried 'gator tail is pretty good. A little "chewy" though and pickled pigs feet can really hit the spot with a schooner of Lager after a long hot day. But you'll usually only find them in a working mans tavern. These fancy, upscale places that pretend to be real taverns sell fried cheese sticks and nachos. troll |
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04 Dec 00 - 11:12 AM (#351082) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C I LOVE SUSHI. I would eat it every day if my wallet would let me. I am especially fond of eel sushi. I also love a good plate of liver & onions. I like to drink shandies too - it's funny when you tell people, it's beer and lemonade - they make a face but when they try it, they always want more! |
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04 Dec 00 - 11:19 AM (#351085) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Troll Shandy is a waste of lemonade AND beer! troll |
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04 Dec 00 - 12:23 PM (#351128) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Melani I seem to recall hearing somewhere that true haggis is illegal in the U.S. because it includes parts of the sheep that aren't considered food. |
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04 Dec 00 - 12:37 PM (#351141) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Lepus Rex Kimchi isn't weird, but it's something I love that most people seem to hate. I really want to try haggis... is it hard to make? ---Lepus Rex |
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04 Dec 00 - 12:45 PM (#351149) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: annamill We could really get gross here, but I won't. I have friends from China who have told me about really gross eating. I won't go there though. I one ate canaries when on a trip the San Miguel in the Azores. The roasted the little darlings in a delicious sauce. Hmmm Good! There they sat side-by-side, a golden brown with everything but the head (thank goodness). Love, annamill |
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04 Dec 00 - 12:49 PM (#351151) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: MMario raw eggs. or better yet, steak tartare with raw eggyolk. "cannibal sandwichs"=1/2 lb raw ground round on dark rye bread (with caraway seeds) plus sliced onion. baked stuffed beef heart. (yummy) the green stuff you find in lobsters....(heavenly) fried clams -WITH BELLIES!!!! |
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04 Dec 00 - 12:53 PM (#351156) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: MMario as far as I know the only part of the sheep not considered food would be the wool. |
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04 Dec 00 - 12:55 PM (#351157) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bert Things I like are.... Steak and kidney pie. Black pudding. Jellied eels. Herring roe. Scrapple (when Tree makes it). Donbalon, which is barbecued sheep balls. I tasted tripe when I was in France but didn't like it, it tasted as though it wasn't cleaned properly. I tried it again when someone foisted some Menudo on me in Southern Colorado; it tasted pretty much the same. Haggis is little more than a sausage with LOTS of oatmeal in it. Well at least the one I tasted was. When I was a kid it took me a long time to pluck up the courage to eat blue cheese, but now I love the stuff. |
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04 Dec 00 - 12:55 PM (#351158) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: mousethief Can't imagine eating raw ground beef in these days of factory slaughterhouses. I heard there's a recall of ground beef in the Wisconsin area this week because of E. Coli. Maybe when they start irradiating the stuff.... I love kim chi. Nobody in my house can stand the stuff, except me and my daughter. We're also the only ones who will eat sauerkraut. That's about the extent of my weird gustatory habits, I think. Alex |
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04 Dec 00 - 01:04 PM (#351167) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Jimmy C I used to like pigs trotters, also tripe. I still eat dulce from New Brunswick when I see it in the stores. Have eaten a lot of game since moving to Canada, but the very best meat I have ever tasted is black bear, it is far superior to regular steak any day of the week. In the summer We usually have barbeques for the family and friends, with Bambi burgers and yogi steaks, we also have the regular steak and hot dogs and burgers for the uninitiated. While travelling in the southern states I even tried grits ONCE! |
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04 Dec 00 - 01:08 PM (#351169) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Margo I thought this thread was going to be about this story and I was quite surprised that it hasn't been mentioned. Bon appetit! Margo |
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04 Dec 00 - 01:12 PM (#351174) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: mousethief Only bear I ever had was burnt, so it tasted like burnt food, which is categorically awful. Willing to give it another try... I've eaten a clam chowder that had sea cucumber in it, but I couldn't have told you which bits were clams, and which were sea cucumbers. I don't particularly care for the taste of venison. Abalone is too rubbery for my taste, as is tripe. I've never had brains but I'm told it's very good. Organ meats in general I find distasteful. I used to like oysters a lot more until I ate a huge one, raw, on a beach on South Pender (or is it Pinder?) Island, B.C. Haven't cared for them much since. I had alligator once, but it had squishy bits (I imagine it was the fat?) that I found disgusting. But the non-squishy bits were okay (nothing to shout about). In general I'm willing to try just about anything (if it seems safe --i.e. disease-free). Alex |
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04 Dec 00 - 01:25 PM (#351182) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Margo Venison liver is THE BEST!!! Margo |
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04 Dec 00 - 01:31 PM (#351192) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bat Goddess Lungs are illegal in the US, so that can't be in haggis. I love haggis. Hey, all it is is meatloaf made with oatmeal instead of bread crumbs. Add pickled pigs feet and hog hocks to my likes, as well as stuffed beef heart, sushi, and eels in any form except jellied. (Prefer smoked.) I like tripe, too. (My husband thinks I'm nuts) And liver and onions (especially in bacon fat). Oh, yeah, kimchee, too. Have a friend who makes his own and gives me a jar every so often. Or else I have to buy it at the local Korean market. Bat Goddess |
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04 Dec 00 - 03:51 PM (#351271) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C Oh, troll.......... You have to admit it's better than Jagermeister. Melani, the Scottish Lion catalog sells canned haggis. Maybe it just doesn't have any lungs in it. It sounds disgusting to a lot of us - and I've never eaten it but would try it, given the opportunity - but looking at the ingredients, it really IS a kind of sausage. And I love sausage. I'll eat anything once. I figure if I don't like it, I don't have to eat it ever again. Don't care for octopus much. Too much like rubber. |
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04 Dec 00 - 04:21 PM (#351288) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Cara I spent the last week in Ireland, riding around and doing the B&B thing. They serve big, yummy, greasy breakfasts that always include black and white pudding. The first morning I woke up not feeling "gentle", having behaved myself the night before, I was ready to try the puddings (puddings being such lovely things here in the U.S.) when my host launched into a truly graphic tale of how black pudding gets its flavor; it involved a lot of urine and blood and I won't get more specific for the sake of you readers. I suspect he was partly joking, but that thaere was a kernel of truth in there (it is made with blood, is it not?). He finished his story and with an evil grin, popped a black pudding in his mouth and suddenly I was feeling "gentle" all over again. I never did try them. |
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04 Dec 00 - 05:48 PM (#351328) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C Boudin has blood in it. Doesn't all meat? |
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04 Dec 00 - 05:53 PM (#351331) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: mousethief 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 |
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04 Dec 00 - 06:04 PM (#351344) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: mousethief 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 |
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04 Dec 00 - 07:25 PM (#351417) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Melani 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. |
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05 Dec 00 - 12:17 AM (#351553) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bat Goddess 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 |
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05 Dec 00 - 12:34 AM (#351559) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: alison 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 |
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05 Dec 00 - 11:52 AM (#351751) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: GUEST,LDB CATS - The other white meat! |
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05 Dec 00 - 12:02 PM (#351756) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bert Ah Retsina!!! guaranteed to make 'anything' taste good. |
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05 Dec 00 - 12:58 PM (#351791) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C 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... |
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05 Dec 00 - 01:28 PM (#351821) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: guinnesschik 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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05 Dec 00 - 04:34 PM (#351941) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C 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. |
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05 Dec 00 - 06:30 PM (#352009) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: GUEST,Lepus_Rex, cookieless, grr... 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 |
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05 Dec 00 - 06:42 PM (#352015) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: bflat 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!" |
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05 Dec 00 - 06:55 PM (#352025) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: guinnesschik Um, I later discovered that "goat fries" were indeed the little goat testicles. Made me feel a little "teste." Sorry, couldn't resist. |
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05 Dec 00 - 07:02 PM (#352032) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: CarolC 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? |
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05 Dec 00 - 07:06 PM (#352035) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: guinnesschik |
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05 Dec 00 - 07:09 PM (#352037) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: bflat Good one, CarolC....hehehehehahahahaHA! I am not sure actually. Most folks keep such things confidential I would think. |
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05 Dec 00 - 07:20 PM (#352047) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: CarolC 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!) |
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05 Dec 00 - 07:20 PM (#352048) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: CarolC 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!) |
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05 Dec 00 - 07:55 PM (#352074) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Burke 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. |
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05 Dec 00 - 09:51 PM (#352125) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Troll 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 |
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05 Dec 00 - 09:57 PM (#352126) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Lepus Rex 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 |
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05 Dec 00 - 10:03 PM (#352129) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Seamus Kennedy 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 |
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05 Dec 00 - 10:26 PM (#352144) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Troll 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 |
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06 Dec 00 - 12:03 PM (#352410) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C 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. :) |
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06 Dec 00 - 12:17 PM (#352415) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: GUEST,Alliekatt 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. |
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06 Dec 00 - 12:34 PM (#352432) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Margo So when you look at the picture on this page does your mouth water or your stomache turn? Margo |
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06 Dec 00 - 02:12 PM (#352487) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Mrrzy 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. |
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06 Dec 00 - 02:12 PM (#352488) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: kimmers 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... |
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06 Dec 00 - 02:37 PM (#352496) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: kimmers And besides (regarding the picture) since when are chicken wings a McDonald's menu item? I smell urban myth... |
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06 Dec 00 - 04:39 PM (#352563) Subject: Kim C: Amaebi & Other Sushi From: Haruo 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 |
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06 Dec 00 - 04:42 PM (#352565) Subject: Lutefisk From: Haruo 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!). |
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06 Dec 00 - 04:43 PM (#352571) Subject: Whale From: Haruo 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 |
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06 Dec 00 - 04:50 PM (#352576) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Kim C 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. |
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06 Dec 00 - 05:06 PM (#352590) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: catspaw49 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 |
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06 Dec 00 - 06:03 PM (#352622) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Burke |
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06 Dec 00 - 07:03 PM (#352670) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Margo 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. |
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07 Dec 00 - 09:46 AM (#353025) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bat Goddess 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 |
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07 Dec 00 - 11:10 AM (#353072) Subject: Lyr Add: CAT'S IN THE KETTLE From: Jeri Swiped lyrics from here. They don't give the author's name.
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07 Dec 00 - 11:17 AM (#353077) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Mrrzy 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... |
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07 Dec 00 - 11:32 AM (#353089) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock 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!). |
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07 Dec 00 - 11:56 AM (#353105) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bert 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. |
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07 Dec 00 - 11:59 AM (#353107) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Mmmm, it's not cake it's bread - ahhh, that makes it better!!*BG* ;-) |
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07 Dec 00 - 12:35 PM (#353128) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bert It does sound awful I know, but you have to try it before you say you don't like it. |
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07 Dec 00 - 02:21 PM (#353176) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Mrrzy 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! |
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07 Dec 00 - 02:27 PM (#353179) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Bert Mmmmm, refried doughnuts, yummy!!! And people say that Lardy cake sounds bad;-) |
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07 Dec 00 - 04:54 PM (#353240) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: CamiSu 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 |
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07 Dec 00 - 06:21 PM (#353282) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Haruo 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 |
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07 Dec 00 - 09:49 PM (#353408) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: Rick Fielding 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 |
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08 Dec 00 - 06:15 PM (#353913) Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1 From: lamarca 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? |