This shouldn't even be edible/on a menu/or sold in the grocery store/meat market

I Phi 1963 · #1 01-30-2013, 05:01 PM

I did a search and I found a lot of threads on here about food, from nasty to good. But, what about food that folks like that you think shouldn't even be edible. Not food that folks like, but you don't like, but food folks like that you think shouldn't even be sold. I'm talking where you say, why in the hell would that even be sold in stores or on a menu in a restaurant? Or who decided to even make this food?

Back in the day, my mom had this thing for chicken gizzards. Nasty as hell. She liked cow tongue too. WTF? Why that shit is even sold in the stores, I will never understand.

What about y'all?

KillarneyRose · #2 01-30-2013, 05:33 PM

Living in Maryland, blue crabs are an important part of our culture. But when I look at one I have to think, "Who in the world decided they'd try EATING this???"

I Phi, I have something that I like but I don't think anyone else would. Underwood Deviled Ham. It's...how can I put this...smooshed up meat and fat and who knows what else and put into a can. I'm sure it's terrible for me but every once in awhile I treat myself to some of it on Wonder Bread slathered in mayonnaise. Yumm!

cheerfulgreek · #3 01-30-2013, 05:48 PM

Haggis
Pig Intestines (aka "chitlins") and/or stomachs of any kind
Cow tongue
Pig tongue
Pig snout
Pig feet
Pig brains
Liver of any kind
Tripe --I don't even know what it is, but I saw it at the grocery store once, and it looked disgusting like Who would think of this as food?. Really?

Yuck!

I'm sure there are more, but some things probably exist for eating that I've never heard of, yet.

cheerfulgreek · #4 01-30-2013, 05:49 PM

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Wonder Bread slathered in mayonnaise. Yumm!

Ewwww....

KillarneyRose · #5 01-30-2013, 06:04 PM

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Ewwww....

I never said it was haute cuisine but I think it's yummy. So there

maconmagnolia · #6 01-30-2013, 06:05 PM

I have a friend who loves cow brain. I find it repulsive.

MysticCat · #7 01-30-2013, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by I Phi 1963

Or who decided to even make this food?

People who couldn't afford to waste any part of an animal.

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I Phi, I have something that I like but I don't think anyone else would. Underwood Deviled Ham. It's...how can I put this...smooshed up meat and fat and who knows what else and put into a can.

Oh, I know someone else who likes it -- though I like homemade deviled ham better.

As for folks who think tongue, intestines and other offal and organs would fall into this category, I suggest that they not look too closely into how sausage or the casing it's in are made.

I can't say I love heart or tongue, though I've eaten both, but the line's not there for me. The line for me probably is blood, a la black pudding.

adpiucf · #8 01-30-2013, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by I Phi 1963

Back in the day, my mom had this thing for chicken gizzards. Nasty as hell. She liked cow tongue too. WTF? Why that shit is even sold in the stores, I will never understand.

What about y'all?

I loved when my grandmother made cow tongue as a kid. I didn't even think twice. As an adult, I won't prepare it or eat it because I realized it is a cow tongue which is just too close to making think about the cute furry animal it used to be attached to. I have no problem eating meat; I just don't want to think about it.

Ok, I take that back. I might consider ordering a cow tongue sandwich at a deli where it is disguised as lunch meat.

My mom used to love chicken feet in chicken soup. She kept chicken feet in the freezer.

If it LOOKS like part of the animal that I could have petted or touched, as opposed to indiscriminate meat, I probably won't eat it. Not so much for the taste appeal, but the look of it.

carnation · #9 01-30-2013, 06:25 PM

Geoducks.

Tulip86 · #10 01-30-2013, 06:38 PM

Century Egg.

Yuk.

Tulip86 · #11 01-30-2013, 07:09 PM

I get the "snout to tail" approach, and why those dishes came to be: people ate what they could, because the alternative was not to eat at all.

I do eat things others would think are "gross" like haggis, insects, organs, weird spices and exotic meats, and other local dishes when travelling. I'll try most foods (except the ones I'm allergic to obviously).

The foods that gross me out most are the ones that take foods and turn it into something truly vile for no obvious purpose. I get the pickling of veggies, salting or drying of fish and meat to keep them edible, but some things are just really taking it one step too far.

I Phi 1963 · #12 01-30-2013, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

I Phi, I have something that I like but I don't think anyone else would. Underwood Deviled Ham. It's...how can I put this...smooshed up meat and fat and who knows what else and put into a can. I'm sure it's terrible for me but every once in awhile I treat myself to some of it on Wonder Bread slathered in mayonnaise. Yumm!

I could see this, though. It's still ham and I would consider that to be "normal" food no matter how it's prepared. I was talking about things that don't even sound normal. Brains, assholes, shit like that LOL.

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People who couldn't afford to waste any part of an animal.

I feel you. This makes sense. But how it got spread like it did is what I'm trippin off of.

I Phi 1963 · #13 01-30-2013, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by adpiucf

I loved when my grandmother made cow tongue as a kid. I didn't even think twice. As an adult, I won't prepare it or eat it because I realized it is a cow tongue which is just too close to making think about the cute furry animal it used to be attached to. I have no problem eating meat; I just don't want to think about it.

I think that's what a lot of it is, though. We might taste something, like it, but when we find out what it is, we automatically think it's nasty as hell. That happened to me with raccoon. My mom made it and at first, I was eating it like it was steak. I thought it was roast beef, but when she told me what it was, I was mad as hell, and didn't want to finish it.

AGDee · #14 01-30-2013, 07:50 PM

Pigs feet

groovypq · #15 01-30-2013, 08:08 PM

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Living in Maryland, blue crabs are an important part of our culture. But when I look at one I have to think, "Who in the world decided they'd try EATING this???"

This makes me chuckle. I'm a Pennsylvanian married to a Baltimorean and I just DO. NOT. GET. the fascination with picking crabs. So much work for just a little meat. I sort of dread the times we're visiting the in-laws and they get steamed crabs, because they all go to town and I always forget how to do it. Plus the Old Bay all over the place makes my hands itch.

Sad thing is, though, I LOVE crabmeat. I'm just lazy, I guess.