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Weird Foods we like « Thread Started on Sept 23, 2007, 3:29pm »
Some strange foods and food combinations I like:
Pickled herring (in wine or sour cream) Horseradish and peanut butter sandwich Cantaloupe and ice cream Pork & beans,hard boiled eggs, pickles, tomatoes, green onions (yes, all mixed together) Cottage cheese and orange marmalade
I have other strange combinations but maybe not as "strange" as those on my list.
So, anyone else have any strange but wonderful foods they like? RA
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Re: Weird Foods we like « Reply #1 on Jul 27, 2008, 5:52pm »
Avocado and vegemite sandwiches... Cottage Cheese and vegemite on rice crackers Banana topped with milo (well that is not so strange I guess!) Potato chips - plain flavour (crisps for the USA people...) with icecream. That's more when I'm pregnant though
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Re: Weird Foods we like « Reply #2 on Jul 28, 2008, 1:45am »
Oh common girls!!! Just combinations? Ummmm, how about:
USA and native American
Raw oysters snails Rocky Mountain oysters Dill pickle and peanut butter sandwiches Rattlesnake Fish Roe coyote smoked fish, creme cheese and bagels.
Japanese
sushi sashimi cucumber and octopus in seasoned rice vinegar Wasabi peas and dishes served with wasabi
Thai
Mussels in hot garlic sauce Sea cucumber spring rolls with sauce Fish head soup (with eyes) Smoked shellfish in oil
Vietnamese
Snake on a stick Rooster head on rice Grubs deep-fried grasshoppers and other insects. Hot & spicy bean curd soup
Seshuan
Kung Pao chicken with red hot peppers Seafood in oyster and garlic sauce over crispy rice noodles
Cajun (all with hot sauce, Tobasco and hotter)
Gumbo Alligator Crayfish
Mexican
Barbequed goat fajitas Hot garlic carnitas Lamb shank in sweet pepper sauce with hot peppers
Indian
Vegetable garlic curry (and every other curry!)
Swedish
hardtack & pickled fish (usually herring) Johnsson's Frestelse (scalloped potatoes with anchovies and onions in cream cream sauce) Roast pork stuffed with prunes
German
Sauerkraut and pigs feet Sauerbraaten
Italian
Calmarii !
Turkish
pressed lamb kabobs in pita bread
Oh my, I could go on and on! Once I got over the idea of eating Rocky Mountain oysters and octopi tenacles while still in college it became easier and easier to try most everything else, and enjoy ethnic foods of other cultures.
We were quite surprised to discoveer how good fish head soup (we call it chowder) really is. The eyes are a little hard to get past the eyes for the first time! No we don't serve it to company unless they really sit up and beg! LOL!
We lived for a few years in Iceland. Thats a place for weird foods, though we found only one that was a problem..
Rams testicles pickled in whey Dried fishheads lamb, smoked and hung for months. Greenland shark, having been buried underground for at least 6 months. (poisonous if not buried, with excessive uric acid) Singed sheepsheads. (You eat the eyes last, so that they can watch you until the end). and so on...
edit. Can't figure out how to move this to the food section where it should be. Apologies. Can't even figure out how it got here, as I had replied from within that section (I thought)
Ok have posted in the right thread so let's hope this works!
So Geoff.. which one was it that you had a problem with??
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Re: Weird Foods we like « Reply #4 on Jul 30, 2008, 2:55pm »
Thanks for sorting out my messy posting admin.
Aussiegal, the Hakarl (pronounced how-cutl) or Greenland shark is quite nice tasting, but has a pungent odour of ammonia. My first try was at work for morning tea. I was given a small piece about 1cm cubed. (1/2 inch for Americans). It tasted nice, but I didn't realise it had made my breath so nad I could knock out a wrestler at 50 paces. That evening, I walked in the door to be greeted with "Whew, what did you eat?"
My favourite strange food there was whale meat. My first try was a blind test. I didn't know what it was. A stew sort of affair, I thought it was beef. When we lived there you could buy whale in the supermarket.
Another bad experience was with horsemeat sausages. Bought this big sausage soon after moving there, and not yet having learned the language. Got the impression to boil it, so did so. On cutting it, found it was under pressure inside the skin and got squirted with this oily juice that stained my shirt and smelled bad enough to put me off eating the thing.
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Re: Weird Foods we like « Reply #5 on Jul 30, 2008, 5:48pm »
Hmm... that sounds appetising... not!!
I think the weirdest thing I've eaten is a cow's eye... that was not an experience I'll be repeating! I have eaten some french cuisine too... and didn't find it so bad Cuisses de grenouille which means "Frogs Legs" I found to be quite nice and then Escargot meaning "Snails"... although I found them to be a little rubbery (maybe overcooked?).
But I've found kangaroo meat isn't too bad when cooked right too. It can be really "gamey" if over cooked... but nice and tender in a stew.
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Cuisses de grenouille which means "Frogs Legs" I found to be quite nice and then Escargot meaning "Snails"... although I found them to be a little rubbery (maybe overcooked?).![[avatar]](http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l7/Samuroo/groo.gif)