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Korean Kimchi. It's basically cabbage, spices, and horseraddish buried in the ground and allowed to rot...err...ferment for a season or two. Then you dig it up out of the ground and eat it. Oh Yummy!

I worked in a military town in Texas for some time, and it had a high Korean population. You could always tell when a Korean person was a fan of this stuff. Not only was their breath capable of knocking you over from 30 paces, but those that ate the stuff on a continuous basis actually reaked of rotting cabbage from their skin. It was literally part of their 'natural' body odor.


Oh yeah, and Kish. I was forced to eat it until I vomited by my mom's fundie friend who may be pray for thankfullness at being able to eat the stuff. Now I can't eat Omlettes, scrambled eggs with cheese in them, etc. I know this is psychological, but that doesn't make a bit of difference.

Harumi

The newest cuisine in China is:

Unborn aborted human fetuses!

Now try that for size. Some of what they eat look like babies. Oh shit shit shit. That is scary.



Now, I'm Taiwanese, so I like lots of lovely foods:

Pig liver- those who say that it's bad have never tasted it cooked Chinese style. At a bit of sesame oil and fry it up and mmmm....!!

Pig heart- With medicinal herbs, they're lovely in soup.

Crab brains- Now these I cannot do without.

Pigeon- I have yet to see the head. It just takes like a tiny chicken

Squid/octopus- I like the tentacles

All that you guys have mentioned I wouldn't be surprised if I have eaten it. My mom just doesn't tell me. She thinks I'd be terrified. But hopefully she'll tell me now that she knows I'm more adventurous.

Monkeybot

Harumi, are you being serious with this claim? I ask because I've had several Taiwanese people tell me the same thing in perfect seriousness. However, it appears to be an urban legend that actually originated as a rumour about Taiwan.

Loren Pechtel

Note, also, that the eating of human flesh is not neccessarily cannibalism or a crime. There's one human organ that's occasionally eaten: Placenta.

Thanatoast

Loren Pechtel said:Well, it's not an "organ", but I chew on my nails a lot

The food that really sickens me is sauerkraut. Cooked sauerkraut. The stench grabs my nose, reaches into my nostrils, cracks my skull open, and liquifies my brain. Then procedes to empty the contents of my gut.

ex-idaho

Funny you should mention sauerkraut. I have had a craving for it for the last couple of weeks.

HaysooChreesto!

I thought I was the only who'd seen that movie... I don't think the actress had to fake the part where she vomits after seeing the eels.

Tiger Eye; Salmon Roe sushi w/ a raw quail egg cracked on top of it. That's the worst thing I've ever had. That and pigs blood soup that I tried due to the urgings of a Philipino girl I once dated.

My sister and her husband travel to the far east every year and last year they "vacationed" in Vietnam. Our entire family likes to drink and so one day while drinking heavily in 'The Nam", my brother in law decided that he wanted to "eat a fuckin' snake". Not just any snake, he wanted a "big ass fuckin' cobra". So they got directions from someone on where to find a "fuckin' cobra" to munch on.
They stagger down the street a few blocks and come to this place full of cages of snakes where there's snake meat laid out and whatnot and they tell the guy working there what they want-"a fuckin' big ass cobra". So the guy motions and says something to this boy who walks to the back of the place and comes back with a box. The owner (?) of the place then reaches into the box and pulls out a "big ass fuckin' cobra". He then slathered some gooey stuff on the snake and had the boy hold the tail while he held the head. He then picks up some stick thing and starts hitting the snake with it. Obviously the snake is pissed off and hissing like hell.
Then, the guy takes a knife while he's still holding the head and the boy is holding the tail and cuts the snake open right down the belly. He puts down the knife and picks up some tool, cuts the snakes heart out, drops it into some filthy glass and then catches some flowing blood in the glass.
He then hands the glass to my brother in law, urging him to "drink now!" So he downs the whole thing...
He said he could feel that snakes heart beating as it slid down his throat and that it beat in his stomach for a good 10 minutes.
Bon Apetite!
Of course Dave didn't even bat an eye. They walked back to the bar and drank some more.

Loren Pechtel

I can't stand any member of the cabbage family cooked.

philechat

Dramatic.

I had one experience with "bat soup", where our entire group were served some clear chicken-broth like thingy first in bowls. They put the bat on the table for us to admire its beautiful black figure, its mousy head with large eyes, and its smooth belly. As we all drained our bowls empty (it taste like chicken soup anyways), the bats were taken away from the table...only to be cut into pieces later and placed on two plates.

And my sister and I quickly grabbed the hairiest part of the bats and gnawed on them. You can guess which part it is.

Nickle

Okra, mmmm, fried with cormeal until burnt. My grandmother grew her own okra. Note: wear gloves when picking okra. Those little hairs actually stick in your skin and hurt like little splinters all over your hands.

I don't think I eat unusual food, but I almost made a girlfriend vomit when she saw me eating cornbread out of a glass of buttermilk. You can't go wrong with good cornbread.

Any arthropods gross me out. I don't mind trying new foods, but I've vomited after trying shrimp, crab, lobster and crayfish. Hey, at least I tried it.

Bell Peppers gross me out. All others I love.

Ranch dressing isn't bad (isn't good), but people here will dip anything into it. It's pretty gross to watch.