BS: Fried Chicken Heads: Yummy1

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Burke
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 06:03 PM

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: 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: 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

Did you ever think when you eat Chinese
It ain't pork or chicken but a fat Siamese
Yet the food tastes great, so you don't complain
But that's not chicken in your Chicken Chow Mien
Seems to me I ordered Sweet and Sour Pork
But Garfield's on my fork......
He's purrin' here on my fork....

There's a cat in the kettle at The Peking Moon
The place that I ate every day at noon
They can feed you cat and you'll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough, boys....
They fry it real crisp in dough

Chow Lin asked if, I wanted more
As he was dialin' up his buddy at the old pet store
I said not today, I lost my appetite
There's two cats in my belly and they want to fight
I was suckin' on a Rolaid and a Tums or two
When I swear I heard it mew, boys.....
And that is when I knew......

There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I gotta stop eatin' there at noon
They say that it's beef or fish or pork
But it's purrin' there on my fork.....
There's a hairball on my fork.......

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: 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: 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 - 11:59 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 - 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: 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 - 02:27 PM

Mmmmm, refried doughnuts, yummy!!! And people say that Lardy cake sounds bad;-)

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: 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: 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: lamarca
Date: 08 Dec 00 - 06:15 PM

Then there's a few of my favorite books on exotic cuisines...

this one scared my co-workers

and this scholarly treatise (with recipes)

such as this one for puppy

Alas, I've not actually tried any of these recipes, so cannot recommend my favorite...

I do like scrapple, though - does that count?