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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
[Re: ShinerInTx]
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03/14/24 05:41 PM
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
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03/14/24 06:17 PM
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Here's my list...I pride myself on trying foods at least once. Some of these, you couldn't pay me to eat again.
1) Balut...baby duck egg. Bit into it, got soft bones and feathers. Instantly turned green and ran for a bush. 2) 1000 year old egg...tasted like sulfur, smelled like septic system. Nope not again. 3) Durian...smelled like feet, tasted way too sweet, and sticky. 4) Chitlins...no matter how much you clean them, they held poop! 5) Chili crickets...MX delight. I actually enjoyed these with Corona and lime. 6) Dinuguan...Filipino blood stew. This is amazing w/ rice! Id love the hear the story behind the 1000 year old egg- Here's the story...We lived in Chicago (Glenview, IL) on the now decommissioned Navy Base. Our church friends were from Thailand and they had Chinese parents. Every Chinese New Year, they would celebrate with customary foods. One of those being 1000 year old eggs, they aren't really that old. It's a process of storage / fermenting them which is 1000+ years old. They cracked them outside, as the fumes were raunchy! My dad dared me to try it since I'm the brave one. My mom also attempted it, but couldn't get it close to her mouth without gagging. I grabbed by sliver of the egg, dropped in it, and chewed exactly twice. Those 2 seconds of h$ll in my mouth I wish I would have rethunk it. The taste burned into my tongue for the night. I teared up as I swallowed. I tried rice, water, milk, everything I could to remove the sulphuric funk that plastered my mouth. Their family laughed but gave me very high praise for taking it down. NEVER AGAIN!!!
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
[Re: ShinerInTx]
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03/14/24 06:44 PM
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Pickled northern pike. Thanks, Lorne.
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
[Re: ShinerInTx]
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03/14/24 06:48 PM
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In the AF I was briefly assigned to support a Singapore squadron conducting operations on our base. They were doing night ops, and all the ground personnel invited me to supper with them as soon as their planes launched. I didn't bring my dinner, so I bought a cup of noodles from their snack bar and sat down to one of the most interesting meals I've ever had. They all brought out their tuppeware dishes and started eating. Even though everyone brought their own, every dish was considered family style, so they would just reach across and grab food off of everyone's plate. Being the only white eye in the room, everyone was coming up to me wanting me to try their stuff. They'd just scoop a piece of whatever into my cup of noodles and smile at me while I ate it.
At the time I was a 20 year old west Texas boy raised on meat and potatoes. To me seafood was fried catfish on a Friday night, and anything raw was considered bait. Singapore is an interesting country made up of a mix of cultures from India, Thailand, China, Malaysia, and many others. This was my first introduction to sushi, curry, fish head soup, fish eyeballs, octopus and no telling what else. Fairly sure there were some calf fries in there, but I'll never be certain what that fried ball was.
I've eaten lots of more exotic foods in the years since then, but that was by far the most shocking meal I'd had at that point in my life. It was a cool experience.
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
[Re: ShinerInTx]
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03/14/24 06:50 PM
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
[Re: ShinerInTx]
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03/14/24 06:58 PM
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I guess I am pretty sheltered. Armadillo and camel toe is the only thing out of the ordinary that I have ever eaten.
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
[Re: ShinerInTx]
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03/14/24 07:48 PM
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avid_basser
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I've even had live / well sort of live / baby octopus. It's skewered on a stick after removing it's beak, internals, etc. then handed to you moving. You pour soy sauce over it and enjoy. It's probably the craziest thing to see eaten, because they can fight their way out. AHAHHAHA
PS: I should have added, I live in Japan for several years as kid, so I got accustomed to eating raw food.
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
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03/14/24 07:57 PM
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I've even had live / well sort of live / baby octopus. It's skewered on a stick after removing it's beak, internals, etc. then handed to you moving. You pour soy sauce over it and enjoy. It's probably the craziest thing to see eaten, because they can fight their way out. AHAHHAHA
PS: I should have added, I live in Japan for several years as kid, so I got accustomed to eating raw food. I’m sorry that happened to you sir
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
[Re: avid_basser]
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03/14/24 07:58 PM
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Here's my list...I pride myself on trying foods at least once. Some of these, you couldn't pay me to eat again.
1) Balut...baby duck egg. Bit into it, got soft bones and feathers. Instantly turned green and ran for a bush. 2) 1000 year old egg...tasted like sulfur, smelled like septic system. Nope not again. 3) Durian...smelled like feet, tasted way too sweet, and sticky. 4) Chitlins...no matter how much you clean them, they held poop! 5) Chili crickets...MX delight. I actually enjoyed these with Corona and lime. 6) Dinuguan...Filipino blood stew. This is amazing w/ rice! Id love the hear the story behind the 1000 year old egg- Here's the story...We lived in Chicago (Glenview, IL) on the now decommissioned Navy Base. Our church friends were from Thailand and they had Chinese parents. Every Chinese New Year, they would celebrate with customary foods. One of those being 1000 year old eggs, they aren't really that old. It's a process of storage / fermenting them which is 1000+ years old. They cracked them outside, as the fumes were raunchy! My dad dared me to try it since I'm the brave one. My mom also attempted it, but couldn't get it close to her mouth without gagging. I grabbed by sliver of the egg, dropped in it, and chewed exactly twice. Those 2 seconds of h$ll in my mouth I wish I would have rethunk it. The taste burned into my tongue for the night. I teared up as I swallowed. I tried rice, water, milk, everything I could to remove the sulphuric funk that plastered my mouth. Their family laughed but gave me very high praise for taking it down. NEVER AGAIN!!! Awesome man! Thankd!
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
[Re: ShinerInTx]
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03/14/24 08:03 PM
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Sea Urchin...freaking yuk.
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
[Re: The Searchers]
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03/14/24 10:25 PM
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I've even had live / well sort of live / baby octopus. It's skewered on a stick after removing it's beak, internals, etc. then handed to you moving. You pour soy sauce over it and enjoy. It's probably the craziest thing to see eaten, because they can fight their way out. AHAHHAHA
PS: I should have added, I live in Japan for several years as kid, so I got accustomed to eating raw food. I’m sorry that happened to you sir Fight their way out? of your stomach?
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
[Re: ShinerInTx]
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03/14/24 10:50 PM
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Octopus or mountain lion hotdog.
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
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03/14/24 11:02 PM
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Yeah, my ex-wife was pizzeria at me going fishing one day. Got home and she had me a “tuna fish” sandwich made for my lunch. NOT, after one bite I found the cat food can in the trash. We didn’t have a cat
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Re: Weirdest "food" you've eaten
[Re: Wylie Jeff]
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03/14/24 11:27 PM
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Yeah, my ex-wife was pizzeria at me going fishing one day. Got home and she had me a “tuna fish” sandwich made for my lunch. NOT, after one bite I found the cat food can in the trash. We didn’t have a cat Thats pure evil. Mine was just dumber than dirt and listened to her bitter friends too much.
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