BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Cara
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 04:21 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Kim C
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 03:51 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 01:31 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Margo
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 01:25 PM

Venison liver is THE BEST!!! Margo

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: mousethief
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 01:12 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Margo
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 01:08 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Jimmy C
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 01:04 PM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: mousethief
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 12:55 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Bert
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 12:55 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: MMario
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 12:53 PM

as far as I know the only part of the sheep not considered food would be the wool.

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: MMario
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 12:49 PM

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!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: annamill
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 12:45 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 12:37 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Melani
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 12:23 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Troll
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 11:19 AM

Shandy is a waste of lemonade AND beer!

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Kim C
Date: 04 Dec 00 - 11:12 AM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Troll
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 09:44 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Wavestar
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 08:10 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: paddymac
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 07:20 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Gypsy
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 10:43 PM

On second thought, maybe mississippi DID sink into the ocean! Ugh!

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 08:14 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 06:53 PM

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

Subject: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 06:43 PM

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