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London Zoo: Let's educate one another about gross exotic foods.
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@Jacen - It's fish SPAM... My roommate LOVES the stuff... every time he opens the jar, my whole house smells like a fishing trawler. *shudders* *burns incense*
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CommentAuthororwellseyes
- CommentTimeMay 9th 2008
How can we have gotten to 21 posts with no mention of the finest food of all? The only one I know of with a poem addressed to it.
I speak, of course, of the Haggis.
Split open...ready to "eat".
Actually, I had haggis before I knew it's contents and found it pretty tasty.
Knowledge can hurt. -
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Here's a fun one.
A traditional Chinese remedy consisting of powder made from the penises of dogs, deer, and seal mixed into wine. This noxious mixture is reputed to provide a number of health benefits, not the least of which is enhancing the libido. A seal pizzle can sell for as much as $650, so this cocktail can be quite expensive, even if the contents are often fraudulent: A Canadian sampling of the DNA of seal penises in Toronto shops found that all but one were from other animals, mostly dogs, and that many of them weren’t even penises! For the more daring — or desperate — five-penis and nine-penis variations are available.
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I've been meaning to join Whitechapel for some time now, but this was just too topical to pass up. Just last night I was debating the merits of civet coffee with a coffee-fiend friend.
And I agree that durian is just disgusting, but it's actually really sweet. I just can't get past the smell. -
Oh now you mention it, I have had Weasel Coffee before, although on the packet I think it said it was regurgitated by weasels. It was actually very good coffee.
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CommentAuthorderfla3101980
- CommentTimeMay 9th 2008 edited
To All Whitechapel i present to you, Balut
From Wikipedia.
"A balut (Tr?ng v?t l?n or H?t v?t l?n in Vietnamese, Pong tea khon in Cambodian) is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell. They are common, everyday food in some countries in Asia, such as in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Popularly believed to be an aphrodisiac and considered a high-protein, hearty snack, balut are mostly sold by street vendors at night in the regions where they are available. They are often served with beer. The Filipino and Malay word balut (balot) means "wrapped" – depending on pronunciation. This food however is uncommon in Malaysia"
The broth from this is pretty good, just when you get to the underdeveloped head part, that kinda freaks you out. Man, my parents and other older relatives whent nucking futs over this dish. Pounding beers and and slurping these things down.
They once had this on Fear Factor, i was laughing my balls off watching all of the contestants winch at the sheer sight of it. My little brother can wolf these down, but for me i'll stick to the broth. -
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CommentAuthorKitsuneCaligari
- CommentTimeMay 9th 2008
They are often served with beer.
That, I believe, is the key to a great many offerings here.
And I like haggis.... -
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CommentAuthorCaleb Monroe
- CommentTimeMay 9th 2008
Both weasel and civet coffee, as well as other unusual edibles, available here. -
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man. the weirdest thing I've ever had with beer was a pig's foot. it would've been too fatty to eat by itself, but with the beer, it was perfect.
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Yeah, Gefilte fish is pretty disgusting, although it's not too bad if fried. The wordt part of it is its sickly-sweetness, which just doesn't work with fish. Similarly disgusting is schmaltz herring, which is basically just minced, smoked herring fillets, which may sound okay, but is incredibly salty.
Perhaps considered disgusting by those without the taste for offal is that old Jewish standby, chopped liver. This is a minced mixture of grilled chicken livers, hardboiled eggs, fried onions and salt and pepper. Sounds gross, tastes fantastic. -
Don't know what the fuck this is, but...
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CommentAuthororwellseyes
- CommentTimeMay 10th 2008
In Russia, food eats you!
(God, I'm sorry for that one) -
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@ taphead:
Yup, I'm from Oulu originally, and yes, there's loads of Ervastis living there and in Pudasjärvi and in Kuusamo... Ah feck it, I think we've populated most of northern Ostrobothnia...
One of the most disgusting foods, tastewise, that I've encountered is the Japanese delicacy natto:
Natto is fermented beans, and are hailed as health food by some. I, however, think that nothing healthy should taste that bloody awful. -
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CommentAuthorManolis Vamvounis
- CommentTimeMay 10th 2008
some Greek delicacies:
-whole lamb spitroast for easter. now that may sound kinda ok, but i do mean whole lamb. I have odd childhood memories from family feasts with my mom nibbling at a roast lamb's head, eating out its cheeks (and eyes? not sure). the most special treats were considered the tongue and the fried testicles.
fried frogs from ioannina
snail soup (i quite love that actually)
raw sea urchin (break them open in the middle with a special tool and scoop up the meat inside with bread and oil)
kokoretsi/kontosouvli: basically animal entrails/intestines, wrapped around a skewer and barbequed -
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heh, let's see how many more times we can cover natto, balut and lamb's head...
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CommentAuthoragentarsenic
- CommentTimeMay 10th 2008 edited
From what I've read this is possibly the grossest of the gross.
It's called Hákarl and is a delicacy in Iceland. I'll never understand why "delicacy" usually means "horrible fucking food that will make you take a bathroom plunger to your mouth". When I think of a delicacy, I think of a nice cake. People in Iceland think of fermented, rotten shark.
Food aficionados even have a hard time with it,Chef Gordon Ramsay, after challenging journalist James May to sample three "delicacies" (Laotian snake whiskey, bull penis, and hakarl), finally vomited after eating hakarl.
Wikipedia on it's preparation :The shark itself is poisonous when fresh due to a high content of uric acid and trimethylamine oxide, but may be consumed after being processed (see below). It has a particular ammonia smell, not too dissimilar from many cleaning products .... Hákarl is prepared by gutting and beheading a Greenland or Basking shark and placing it in a shallow hole dug in gravelly-sand, with the now-cleaned cavity resting on a slight hill. The shark is then covered with sand and gravel, and stones are then placed on top of the sand in order to press the shark. The fluids from the shark are in this way pressed out of the body. The shark ferments for 6-12 weeks depending on the season in this fashion.
Ray Winstone (of Indy and Beowulf fame) has a funny story about it that involves Nick Cave...
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CommentAuthorAlan Tyson
- CommentTimeMay 11th 2008
@Owrellseyes
In Russia, food eats you!
(God, I'm sorry for that one)
I'm not! I seriously want to know what the fuck comes in a can with teefs ready to leap out and latch onto your trachea!
I wasn't surprised a bit to find out the writing on the can was in cyrillic, though. If anyone has the balls to eat something that scary-looking, it'd be the Russians. -
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CommentAuthorofftandiscord
- CommentTimeMay 11th 2008
While in Tibet i was taken to dinner by a local artist, and he ordered all the food not telling us what it was. so i had the suprisingly tasty dish of Yak Lung. -
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CommentAuthorsynthsapien
- CommentTimeMay 11th 2008
Apparently the fish in the can is a variety of Carpet Shark. Mmmmmyum.
How about caterpillar fungus? Cordyceps militaris to be exact. It's a parasitic fungus that kills the host and grows a shoot from the body. Apparently a delicacy in China where they serve it as a snack or in soup.
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Carpet Shark sounds like a euphemism or something... dunno what, though...
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