interesting food stories

these stories have to by you or someone you know

1. when a friend of mine was 7. he went with his parents to the tokyo zoo. according to the story [which he was always trying to keep hush hush, but his roomates kept letting people know] he had panda dung at the zoo. it was supposedly a menu item and its basically just undigested bamboo but still makes you wonder about the first person that thought of having that delicacy. if you're that hungry, wouldn't you skip the dung and eat the panda?


2. another friend is a hindu and decided when we were in high school to try meat. he had kentucky fried chicken and thought it was disgusting and threw it up. he couldn't see why people would eat meat. of all the meats to try, why he had to scrape the bottom of the barrel is beyond me. i'm not a vegetarian but kentucky fried chicken just makes me naseous.

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As a youngster, I remember eating hillbilly delicacies at my great uncle's house. Things like raccoon, woodchuck, squirrel, carp, turtles & frogs were quite common on his menu; when one has lived and raised a family (such as he did) during the Great Depression you learned to develop a taste for such fare. For some strange reason my mother rarely attended these meals. However, I ate them with all the gusto of a 10 year old who was always hungry.

While stationed in the Philippines in the late 1970's we tried and ate all kinds of native delicacies, "bushmeat" as they called it. Everything from dog to monkey to snake. One of the grossest looking was this pickled snake in a jar at a local watering hole we used to frequent. I managed to choke down my share without puking to win a bet, but I drew the line on the pickled pig's testicles. ~D

Speaking to what westerners would call "unusual" In the reptile kingdom, I've had snapping turtle, alligator tail (it gets bigger as you chew, better just to swallow it) copperhead, and eastern rattler. In the fish family, live octopus and some sort of dried sardine type fish (in Korea of course). Mammals? Lets see, squirrel, possum, deer (not really too exotic), and beaver (worst meat you can put in your mouth). I've only tasted one insect, a roasted silk worm. It wasn't too bad with salt. But I'd prefer a cow any day to any of that shit that past through my digestive track!!! MMMMMMMMMMM steak.... ~:cheers:

Fried Calamari and Scungelli for me.
Nothin beats the taste of friend squid.

Though I admit, beef is God.
A medium-rare t-bone with all the blood and juices still on the plate so I can lap it up....
Now I'm hungry.

KFC is REALLY good dude, but I gave up chicken, pork, cannoli, pretzles and pizza for lent.

-Capo

I had guinea pig once, when I went to Peru. It was pretty poor to be honest, didn't taste of much, and was mostly rubbery skin. Not something I'd bother with again.

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I had guinea pig once, when I went to Peru. It was pretty poor to be honest, didn't taste of much, and was mostly rubbery skin. Not something I'd bother with again.

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I try not to eat anything that I've ever owned as a pet (with the exception of snapping turtles). I've had many guinea pigs in my life, great pets, don't think I could eat one. I also draw the line when it comes to dog meat. I hear its very good, but I just can't bring myself to eat one.