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What Is The Most Disgusting Thing You've Ever Ate?
Marina:
Wow, some of these food items are really something.
I don't eat anything I find disgusting. If I don't like the looks of something, I don't eat it. Otherwise, I'll make myself sick thinking of it too much. Cottage cheese once did that to me. :)
I no longer eat red meat, but I do still eat chicken and fish, and I have cheated and had bacon on occasion (bad semi-vegetarian that I am). I did that number I mentioned above on my mind so that I could give up eating meat. I loooooooove oysters, Louisiana deep-fried especially, crawfish, and I love mint - it's a beautiful plant and I can't wait to have it come up in my garden this year. Maybe the most exotic things I have ever eaten, for me, are fish eggs of some sort, salmon I think and I like unagi (Japanese-style soy sauce-grilled [kabayaki] or smoked eel sushi, wrapped in nori [seaweed] - delish!), in fact seaweed is delicious; I tried alligator once (blech!), and I am curious about rattlesnake. :)
louisev:
--- Quote from: southendmd on March 10, 2011, 11:52:55 pm ---Actually, wintergreen, as the name implies, is an evergreen shrub of the genus Gaultheria in the heath(!) family (Ericaceae) and not a mint at all . Its oil, methyl salicylate, is related to aspirin.
I'm sure that my interest goes back to the memory that my father always had a roll of wint-o-green Lifesavers in his pocket.
Mint is in the family Lamiaceae and includes basil, sage and oregano. Most mint grows like a weed, and is gross.
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exactly right. I can't stand mint, and I love wintergreen. I used to buy only Wint O Green lifesavers too!!!
milomorris:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 11, 2011, 10:38:07 am ---Chicken livers are divine the way they prepare them in Italy.
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That sounds interesting. I had no idea Italians ate them.
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 11, 2011, 10:38:07 am ---Later addition: Annie also raves about turbot cheeks!
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What's that?? I've never heard of it.
louisev:
turbot is a fish.
Marina:
--- Quote ---Later addition: Annie also raves about turbot cheeks!
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That brings back memories - I remember walking with my grandmother as a child, past the local fishmarket - and you'd see a carboard sign in the window advertising cod cheeks (and tongues) when they were available, at $x.xx/lb. I would read the sign aloud to her and laugh, thinking of a fish having cheeks. lol This is the fleshy part of the "cheek" or jaw muscle of a fish, like a scallop. I've never tried them, but I think my grandmother had. For anyone who's interested, my husband says they are stringy. :)
That's another thing I love about our grandparents and forebears; if they did eat a living creature, whether due to economics, necessity, or what, they ate everything, wasted nothing. Nowadays, fish cheeks, tripe, chicken feet ... IDK. :) I haven't tried chicken livers and I would love to.
Speaking of Annie P., I loved her book The Shipping News. Her description of fried bologna curling up in the pan gave me a chuckle. :laugh: I think she may have mentioned cod cheeks too. What a great book.
Sorry to drift off topic a bit. ;)
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