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Harumi · 03-20-2003, 06:22 AM

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Originally posted by VonEvilstein
Liver is gross. Really, really gross. I've tried it five times in my life (experience tells me my tastes change with time - I never used to like mushrooms, and now cannot imagine cooking without them). Every time, I've puked just from the taste.

Is the liver cooked Western or Eastern?

Because I've tried western style of preparing liver, which was disgusting. The Easter style was lovely. It all depends on where you are...

After all, a good chef can make anything taste good, right?

scombrid · 03-20-2003, 06:27 AM

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Originally posted by christ-on-a-stick
Tongue
Kidneys (i.e. beef & kidney pie)

And, although I love sushi.... smelt eggs disgust me.

:shudder:

Smelt eggs and mackerel are my favorites.

A lot of people think I'm wierd for eating fried fish roe (shad, herring, seatrout, mullet, kingfish, don't matter it's all good except gar (lepisosteidae) since gar eggs are toxic).

scombrid · 03-20-2003, 06:28 AM

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Originally posted by blondegoddess
The most disgusting food I've ever eaten was mushy squash, sauteed in butter with onions. ICK! My step-father makes it at ever meal when I go over to visit. He still tries to get me to eat it and I still get repulsed watching him eat it.

Another of my favorites.

scombrid · 03-20-2003, 06:36 AM

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Originally posted by Loren Pechtel

Some part of a crab that we don't normally eat. She was given some supposedly whole crabs. She went to eat one and found what she considered the best part to be missing. Given the difficulties of translation I don't know what part it was.

I spoken with some Vietnamese guys down at the pier that dipnet sponge crabs (ie busted sooks, ie blue crabs Callinectis sapidis carrying eggs) and make soup with the sponge (eggs).

I like to get resently fertilized sooks and steam them like you'd normally steam a crab. The immature eggs look like mustard under the shell in the body cavity. Very tasty.

Harumi · 03-20-2003, 11:58 AM

It is said that Westerners...well, Americans, have weaker stomachs than everyone else in the world.

So why is that?

Harumi · 03-20-2003, 12:03 PM

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Originally posted by Monkeybot
Yeah, that makes sense. I once "shared" a host family with a Taiwanese guy (they were hosting 2 students at once) and the first time he told me "Chinese eat babies" I was sure he was joking. Or that we were miscommunicating; after all, neither of us spoke Japanese as a native tongue. But no. Dead serious. :banghead:

It bugs the hell out of me, mainly because it chillingly reminded me of the old "Jews eat Christian babies" canard -- you read history books and you're like, "How can people ever have believed such stupid shit?" Well, apparently it's more possible than you think...

Well, as seen by your link, the Chinese do the exact same thing to the Taiwanese.

There has been long emnity between the two countries, and being raised by Taiwanese parents, I've heard all the reasons.

At least the "eating babies" isn't killing them then eating them, but aborted fetuses. Actually killing babies would be very disturbing, and less believed. Guess the tale is winding down somewhat.

Arvel Joffi · 03-20-2003, 12:23 PM

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Originally posted by Harumi
You never realize how much of a role the sense of smell plays in eating utnil you eat this.

Oh, I most certainly do. If I don't like the smell of it, I won't eat it. People always tell me "You can't tell just by the smell! Eat it!"

What? It smells bad, so I should bring it closer to my nose so I can put it in my mouth? Sorry. Not gonna happen.

Harumi · 03-20-2003, 12:29 PM

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Originally posted by ArvelJoffi
Oh, I most certainly do. If I don't like the smell of it, I won't eat it. People always tell me "You can't tell just by the smell! Eat it!"

What? It smells bad, so I should bring it closer to my nose so I can put it in my mouth? Sorry. Not gonna happen.

That's why the Chinese rule regarding food:

1) Look nice

2) Smell nice

3) Taste nice

is a lovely rule. They have yet to follow it 100% of the time though.

scombrid · 03-20-2003, 01:32 PM

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Originally posted by ArvelJoffi
Oh, I most certainly do. If I don't like the smell of it, I won't eat it. People always tell me "You can't tell just by the smell! Eat it!"

What? It smells bad, so I should bring it closer to my nose so I can put it in my mouth? Sorry. Not gonna happen.

Some of the stinkiest cheeses are the best tasting though. They offend the nose but do something nice for the pallet.

scombrid · 03-20-2003, 01:38 PM

Oh I just thought of something the used to gross me out a bit. My old boss would bring a hard boiled egg to work in the morning and put it in the desk in the office (the office was a tin shack with dirt floors) and wouldn't eat it until 3oclock break. Even in the summer heat (scorching inside the office) he'd leave it in the desk for 7-8hours before eating it. You could smell it a mile away when he'd crack into it.

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Harumi Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N/A Posts: 3,184	It is said that Westerners...well, Americans, have weaker stomachs than everyone else in the world. So why is that?

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scombrid Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Central Florida Posts: 2,759	Oh I just thought of something the used to gross me out a bit. My old boss would bring a hard boiled egg to work in the morning and put it in the desk in the office (the office was a tin shack with dirt floors) and wouldn't eat it until 3oclock break. Even in the summer heat (scorching inside the office) he'd leave it in the desk for 7-8hours before eating it. You could smell it a mile away when he'd crack into it.

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