BS: Strange foodstuffs

04 Jun 09 - 01:57 PM (#2648369)
Subject: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Dave the Gnome

I have just had a piece of Stilton with pineapple, coconut and rum. A pina cheeselada I suppose. Suprisingly pleasant but I think I would rather stick eating the stilton, drinking the rum and using the pineapple and coconut in puddings.

Anyone else come across owt weird recently?

DeG

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04 Jun 09 - 02:20 PM (#2648388)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Wesley S

We frequent an eatery in Atlanta that has spicy sweet potato fries dusted with powdered sugar. Very tasty. And shrimp wrapped in very thin slices of jalapino pepper.

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04 Jun 09 - 04:24 PM (#2648490)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Alice

At the store I just saw Monterrey Jack cheese with garlic pesto mixed into it. Not ready to try that, I'm still getting used to Monterrey Jack with hot peppers mixed into it.

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04 Jun 09 - 05:07 PM (#2648528)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Sorcha

Fungus! LOL

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04 Jun 09 - 05:55 PM (#2648564)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Jack Campin

Blaand. Wine made from whey.

Forgotten for about 200 years until Humphrey Errington dug it up and marketed his "Fallachan" brand.

Well, what would you expect wine made from stale cheese by-product to taste like?

I think it'll take me another 200 years to forget.

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04 Jun 09 - 07:29 PM (#2648638)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Sandra in Sydney

baked beans in muesli!

Today's new brekkie treat - I still dunno how I managed to tip the spoonful of beans into the large muesli bowl instead of the small saucer containing my peeled boiled egg!

Anyway, the buttermilk coated the beans & I couldn't distinguish them from the fruit & nuts! Until I chewed, of course, but the tomato-ey flavour didn't dominate due to the buttermilk covering!

sandra (who had been awake for 30 mins before making brekkie)

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04 Jun 09 - 07:32 PM (#2648646)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: LilyFestre

A Brazilian friend introduced me to red (seedless) grades and green olives on a toothpick. He made them for a Christmas party appetizer and I thought he had lost his mind but you know what? The sweetness of the grape and the saltiness of the olive go together perfectly!!!

Michelle

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05 Jun 09 - 06:04 AM (#2648861)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Dave the Gnome

Beans in muesli - hmmmm. I'll give that one a go! Wine made with whey - probably wise to miss that one. Things on sticks! Yes:-) I was thinking of having 70's party with cheese and pineapple (back to the OP) on sticks stuck in half grapefruits to make a hedgehog! You have inspered me to try others - Grapes and olives is a goer - Maybe something with jalapenos? Chocolate?

DeG

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05 Jun 09 - 07:03 AM (#2648897)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Micca

No one has mentioned Fresh ground Black pepper on Strawberries? sounds Unlikelly aand disgusting, but I say "Try it"

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05 Jun 09 - 07:16 AM (#2648907)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work

Mmm... black pepper on strawberries is good. Tried them with cucumber? Or a strawberry cream sauce on roast chicken? That's surprisingly good, but not as good as a dark chocolate orange sauce on duck - only don't use anything less than 75%cocoa solid chocolate!

LTS

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05 Jun 09 - 09:56 AM (#2649037)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Dave Hanson

Cheddar cheese and Marmite, surprisingly good.

Dave H

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05 Jun 09 - 11:05 AM (#2649081)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Wesley S

I remember watching a PBS special on ice cream. There's a place in Hawaii that serves up a large cone with black beans on the bottom and ice cream on top. Several people looked at the camera and said - I know it sounds discusting but it's really delicious.

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05 Jun 09 - 11:19 AM (#2649100)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: GUEST,Neil D

I thought I already posted this but try frozen grapes. Spread them on a cookie sheet so they won't clump together and put them in the freezer. They are extremely refreshing on a hot summer day and taste somehow sweeter this way.

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05 Jun 09 - 03:39 PM (#2649307)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Neil D

My son eats peanut butter in macaroni and cheese... yuck!
                                        Christina

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05 Jun 09 - 04:04 PM (#2649332)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: GUEST,Neil D

Does anyone watch Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel. That guy Zimmern will eat anything. I think the worst was maggot cheese, cheese crawling with maggots. It is supposed to be creamier. Yuck.

Hi honey. See you in a few.

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05 Jun 09 - 05:18 PM (#2649401)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Dave the Gnome

Another cheesy one (I think I am a fromageaphile) has always been my favourite and I was thrilled to bits when I found it was popular all over Yorkshire - Cheese on fruitcake. Particularly anything sharp. Wensleydale was the first I tried but I think a good sharp Cheshire beats it.

DeG

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05 Jun 09 - 08:29 PM (#2649542)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Bill D

There used to a little restaurant near me whose sign read "Thai-Cuban cuisine". I never went in, and they weren't there very long.

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06 Jun 09 - 05:59 AM (#2649767)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Jack Campin

The maggoty cheese is casu marzu, from Sardinia. There's even a YouTube video about it.

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06 Jun 09 - 06:14 AM (#2649773)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: GUEST, topsie

I bought some 'moving cheese' in Spain once by mistake - didn't eat it though.

What IS that balut? It appears to have eyes and whiskers.

A surprisingly refreshing drink I had in Trinidad was a half 'n' half mix of beer and milk.

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06 Jun 09 - 06:19 AM (#2649779)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: GUEST, topsie

Also in Trinidad - pieces of chicken in rice, including the feet.

Also on the subject of feet - I tried making home-made stock and bought a pig's trotter. But I made the mistake of smelling between its toes - UNBELIEVABLE.

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06 Jun 09 - 09:27 AM (#2649872)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Darowyn

"Apple pie without some cheese
Is like a kiss without a squeeze"

Yorkshire saying, assumed to be traditional in my family.
Cheers
Dave

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06 Jun 09 - 09:37 AM (#2649879)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: McGrath of Harlow

Jam and cheese sandwiches. Lovely.

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06 Jun 09 - 10:03 AM (#2649893)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Leadfingers

Having been brought up on English Fish and Chips with salt and vinegar , the Mayonaise on chips in Germany and Holland was a bit of a worry at first !!

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06 Jun 09 - 03:01 PM (#2650084)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: RangerSteve

In Manhattan there was a place called the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory. Don't know if it's still there. Their flavors included: Green Tea, Black Tea, Red Bean and Black Bean. They were all really good. I recently bought a half gallon of Japanese green tea ice cream an an Asian grocery store near my house. It tasted like dirt.
And on the subject of Japanese ice cream, there was a website devoted to Japanese oddities (I forget the URL), and they had a section on ice cream. No fruit flavors, but meat, fish and vegetable flavors, like horse meat, potato and spinach.

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06 Jun 09 - 03:12 PM (#2650098)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: GUEST, topsie

I used to think it would be nice if milkshakes came in savoury flavours like tomato and basil or garlic mushroom - then I realised I'd just invented chilled soup.

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06 Jun 09 - 10:17 PM (#2650334)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Joe_F

A combination that the vast majority of my fellow humans delight in, but that I find absurd: chocolate & nuts. As a child, I used to read the fine print on the wrapper of a candy bar to make sure I was not about to be confronted with that.

I read, several years ago, that some standards commission of the EU had caused outrage in Italy by banning maggoty cheese. My immediate thought was that the idea of eating maggoty cheese did not appeal to me, but I would be happy to chew up a whole mouthful if I might thereupon spit it in the face of a bureaucrat who couldn't mind his business.

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07 Jun 09 - 09:00 PM (#2650950)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: frogprince

When I was in the Navy in the '60s, Baluts were a standard item in Navy lore. Supposedly (And probably with some truth) it was common practice, when in the Phillipines, to get a shipmate drunk enough to eat a Balut. I never saw one, let alone eat one.

The ultimate Zimmer food moment for me was just a few weeks ago. He sat down to breakfast in North Africa to a plate featuring what he described as unidentified, reeking, decomposing meat. He noted that it was drawing flys enmasse, and that the stuff frightened him. He then proceeded to eat some. Just a couple of bites, but...dear gawd, why would anyone do that to himself?

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07 Jun 09 - 09:37 PM (#2650972)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Leadfingers

I served on a Multi National (NATO) base in Germany . I remember seeing one of our allies at breakfast - Got his assorted cereals and milk , then collected his Full English (Fried Egg , bacon , sausage , beans and tomato) and proceded to tip them all together on one plate and tuck in !

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08 Jun 09 - 09:48 AM (#2651292)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Sandra in Sydney

at least my baked beans in muesli was an accident!

Dave H's Cheddar cheese and Marmite, is similar to our vegemite & cheese. My variation to that is lotsa' butter, a scrape of vegemite with peanut butter on top! yum, I had some for brekkie today, along with a bowl of muesli (without baked beans).

sandra, whose freezer always contains yummy frozen grapes

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08 Jun 09 - 11:23 AM (#2651346)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: Maryrrf

I've eaten that rotten Moroccan meat - K'fia. I'd almost (mercifully) forgotten that experience. I was staying with a family in Kenitra, Morocco. As they were preparing dinner, I noticed a stench. When it was served, I realized it was dinner that I could smell. I asked what it was and they replied "This is a special type of meat. We leave it in the sun until it's strong.". I didn't want to offend and I actually choked it down somehow without retching. Other than the usual "Montezuma's Revenge" symptoms which I had already anyway, I suffered no ill effects. I don't think I could manage to eat that nowadays though, no matter how much I wanted to be polite to my hosts.

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09 Jun 09 - 11:32 AM (#2652268)
Subject: RE: BS: Strange foodstuffs
From: bubblyrat

We had all sorts of exotic food in the Navy----Babies'Heads---Spithead Pheasants----Train Smash---Chicken-on-a-Raft---Turds -in-a-Blanket---Figgy Duff----and,of course,lots of lovely Bubbly !!

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