Introducing...

[sidech]

These calves are very cute!

Zazanomore, I don't know you except on this forum, but I have a feeling that if you take care of these cuties, you're going to have your heart broken when they die...

If I were you I would stay away from them !

[zazanomore]

My Dad's side of the family are all farmers. They go out hunting and fishing a lot, so I guess I'm just used to it.

My Mom's side is Italian. I've tried a lot of dishes, like rabbit, squid, eel, octopus.

As for cultural foods, I'm willing to try stuff. I once had Hundred year old egg. a Chinese delicacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg It was the single most disgusting thing I have ever tasted.

[sidech]

As for cultural foods, I'm willing to try stuff. I once had Hundred year old egg. a Chinese delicacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg It was the single most disgusting thing I have ever tasted.

You're very brave ! This thing looks absolutely disgusting (sorry for those who like it). I would have never eaten that...

[kaylayuh]

My Dad's side of the family are all farmers. They go out hunting and fishing a lot, so I guess I'm just used to it.

My Mom's side is Italian. I've tried a lot of dishes, like rabbit, squid, eel, octopus.

As for cultural foods, I'm willing to try stuff. I once had Hundred year old egg. a Chinese delicacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg It was the single most disgusting thing I have ever tasted.

You must have a very strong stomach. The idea of eating rabbit makes me nauseous. I was tricked into trying squid once and swore I nearly died. I don't eat a lot of seafood, so octupus and eel are out for me. I don't like eggs, so a hundred year old egg would be coming no where near me.

My family is mostly Eastern European (Czech, Hungarian, German) and Scottish. I'm not too in touch with the Scot side, so I've never had ethnic Scottish food. I've seen haggis from a distance, but I wouldn't get close to it for a million dollars. I think the weirdest ethnic dish I've had is halushki, which is just cabbage and dumplings, lol.

My boyfriend's family eats weird stuff like pigs feet. Apparently if you boil them for long enough, they don't even look like pigs feet. His brother-in-law is a vegetarian, and my boyfriend's mom tricks the brother-in-law into eating them. His mom tells him there's no meat in them, and he doesn't know the difference. The brother-in-law loves it, too.




Also, I have to know. Didn't that egg smell awful? How did you even get near it without gagging? I have a hard time cleaning out my refrigerator if I've forgotten something in there for too long. I think I would've passed out if I'd've seen that thing.

[zazanomore]

It actually didn't have such an over whelming rotten egg smell. The taste though, it was jelly-like and I found it tasted like blood.

You know, now that I think of it, I've actually eaten quite a bit of food that some people might be squeamish about.

I've had deep fried alligator, frogs legs, caviar, fois gras (goose liver), and escargot (snails).

I've also had all different kinds of sushi, but I guess that's pretty mainstream food.

I love trying new foods. Most of the time, it actually is really good.

[liz]

I know how terrible that is. I came home from school one day when I was 8 and Mom & Dad were killing the chickens to put in the freezer. I was tramatized. They were just plain lucky that they didn't get my favorite chicken yet (she lived to an old age). I did not eat chicken again until I was 44 and then only because that is all the hospital would feed me (damaged pancease).

When Charley (a Gernsey steer) was killed I didn't eat beef again until the freezer was empty.

Now I feel if the animal is well cared for and killed humanly - I can deal with it. My father was good. He talked to the animal and lead it to a certain tree with a pully. With one hit in the right place it would be knocked out. Only then did he slit it's throut. It never knew what happened and felt no pain. Dad talked to it the whole time to keep it calm.

I love baby cows, they are so adorable! It's a shame they'll die eventually.

On a related note.. my brother's godfather raised a pig that he called Wilbur. When we went to visit him in North Carolina, he showed us that we could ride Wilbur. He would eat whole watermelons out of our hand. Wilbur was a huge pig. I was five at the time. The next summer, we went to see my brother's godfather again. He made us bacon for dinner, and said we could go see the new piglets after dinner. When we asked where Wilbur was, he said we just ate him.

After that.. I didn't eat pork for a good 15 years. Something just weirds me out about playing with an animal and then killing it for food, lol.

[patdbunny]

zazanomore - good for you for being open minded. It's very worldly of you.

I'm Chinese, but grew up in the U.S. As kids my cousins and I would always fight for the fish eyes. The good thing about that is when I grew up I'd say to my white friends - Gimme $20 and I'll eat the fish eyes. Them not knowing I LIKE fish eyes would give me the $20. You can keep that in mind and make yourself a few bucks!

Jelly fish is yummy. Fois gras . . . mmmmm. . . .

No way I'd eat chicken feet. I had a bobcat break into my chicken pen and eat a bunch of chickens. The bobcat left the feet. What does that tell you? But I have a very, very white friend and she'll sit with my brother and eat chicken feet. Ewe. We killed a rattlesnake a few months back, but didn't know how to prepare it. When my husband I were first dating he was joking w/ me about the weird chinese foods. I said something about duck tongues and he thought I was kidding until I ordered it for him in a restaurant.

Thousand year eggs is actually not rotten egg. They're actually fermented in clay and some other stuff.

Kaylayuh - Isn't souse popular in Pennsylvania?

[liz]

Is there a Philippino in the forum who can tell you how they are there?
NOW THAT IS GROSE.

As for cultural foods, I'm willing to try stuff. I once had Hundred year old egg. a Chinese delicacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg It was the single most disgusting thing I have ever tasted.

You're very brave ! This thing looks absolutely disgusting (sorry for those who like it). I would have never eaten that...

[zazanomore]

In a lot of cultures, cheese is considered disgusting. Mostly in poorer nations. Why waste perfectly good milk?

I've seen pigs feet. They have hair. HAIR. I will try a lot of things, but hair just grosses me out.

[kaylayuh]

zazanomore - good for you for being open minded. It's very worldly of you.

I'm Chinese, but grew up in the U.S. As kids my cousins and I would always fight for the fish eyes. The good thing about that is when I grew up I'd say to my white friends - Gimme $20 and I'll eat the fish eyes. Them not knowing I LIKE fish eyes would give me the $20. You can keep that in mind and make yourself a few bucks!

Jelly fish is yummy. Fois gras . . . mmmmm. . . .

No way I'd eat chicken feet. I had a bobcat break into my chicken pen and eat a bunch of chickens. The bobcat left the feet. What does that tell you? But I have a very, very white friend and she'll sit with my brother and eat chicken feet. Ewe. We killed a rattlesnake a few months back, but didn't know how to prepare it. When my husband I were first dating he was joking w/ me about the weird chinese foods. I said something about duck tongues and he thought I was kidding until I ordered it for him in a restaurant.

Thousand year eggs is actually not rotten egg. They're actually fermented in clay and some other stuff.

Kaylayuh - Isn't souse popular in Pennsylvania?

I had to look up what souse is. Here they call it head cheese. A lady I used to work with ate it, but she was Cambodian and ate lots of funny stuff that I couldn't really look at. My grandparents used to eat liverwurst and scrapple, and that was about as weird as they got.

I will eat ethnic foods within reason. I love Mexican food if it's normal beef or chicken. I draw the line at feet or internal organs. I like Indian food, too, and the same rules apply. Mostly, I'll try anything that's not made of feet, internal organs, things that smell like you shouldn't eat them, and things that I have to actually see be killed. I'll eat lamb in gyros, but that's the only time. And if I think of the texture of the meat or where it comes from, I won't eat it. I actually used to not eat meat, so sometimes it's really hard for me to, and I've been tossing around the idea of stopping but I really really love tacos and arroz con pollo.