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dunadan · 03-15-2003, 12:39 PM

While I was living in China, I visited Changsha in Hunan province. The Chinese have some . . . interestnig culinary delectibles by western standards, but this one even grossed out the locals I was with: Stir Fried Cockroaches

Putney Swope · 03-15-2003, 12:41 PM

I saw a "Gut Buster Bowl" on the sat. These guys were trying to gobble down the most sticks of butter in x minutes. Or drink down mayonnaise. Very disgusting.

Yuk!

Sakpo · 03-15-2003, 12:48 PM

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Originally posted by Loren Pechtel
I've long ago learned not to pay too close attention to what my wife eats when she has access to authentic Chinese food.

Among the things I am aware of:

Duck brain. When we are in California we always pick up some soy sauce ducks. (There's only one source locally, high $, low quality.) She happily sucks the brain out of the head. Once the person in front of us didn't want the head, she happily accepted it when I suggested it, all the food was gone off it by a block away.

Duck tongue. Over in China you can get a plate of it at a dim sum place.

Fish heads. I know she eats the eyes, I think she eats the brain.

Catfish whiskers. She thinks they are very good.

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.

Gristle. She loves to chew on it, she thinks it's much tastier than the filets. More than once she's argued with the meat-carver in a buffet to get some bit he was about to discard.
The normal handling of meat with us is that I get it first and take what I consider to be the good parts. I give her what's left--and she feels she's getting the good parts.

One she won't touch: Durian. It's considered a delicacy in Singapore and Malaysia. It's supposedly quite tasty. I know it's in season when I first enter the Chinese market here, though--it stinks up the whole store. It smells rather like someone didn't flush.

That's all stuff my girlfriend eats too (well, not gristle actually, though I like gristle and fat). She eats the fish brain in addition to the eyes and whatever else. She also likes Durian (so do I actually, but you're right, it's very smelly). She also loves tripe.

Arvel Joffi · 03-15-2003, 01:30 PM

Um...I thought I had a disgusting one. Well, it is disgusting, but most of what was listed above is vile and repugnant. A friend of mine in high school ate (and loved) what might only be weird, but that repulses me: Mac & cheese with Spam was a special treat, but his favorite was tuna, ketchup, and (fake) bacon bits sandwiches. Ew.

I was eating some octopus once (carved to the point that I couldn't tell it was a tentacle) at another friend's behest. He was eating a whole squid tentacle with half of it hanging of his mouth. Since the sight didn't make me want to find out for myself, I asked him what was different squid and octopi. He thought for a moment and then said, mouth full, "Um...more rubbery and less flavor."

And this was his choice?

I stopped eating at KFC about ten years ago when I found what could only be tumor under the skin. In fact, I stopped eating KFC that very moment. I have never been the type of person to have my appetite ruined by visuals, they're completely separate things for me, but that did it. (It was this weird little, black, brain shaped growth.) Sorry.

Arvel Joffi · 03-15-2003, 01:33 PM

And okra! Jesus H. Roosevelt Motherfucking Christ what the hell is up with even calling that crap edible!

Putney Swope · 03-15-2003, 01:50 PM

They like to eat mullet down south of here. Slick, slimy mullet. If you ate mullet with a side of okra, you wouldn't be able to keep your pants up without suspenders.

And for some real slime, try jellyfish.
"If you want to be Chinese, you have to eat the nasty stuff." ~Chow Yun Fat in "The Corrupter"

oriecat · 03-15-2003, 02:19 PM

Mullet?! Durian?! Smelt eggs?! What the heck is all this weird stuff?

Arvel Joffi · 03-15-2003, 02:24 PM

I wouldn't eat any hair, much less any hair cut that way.

Utnapishtim · 03-15-2003, 03:44 PM

My apologies to all the aussies on the board, but Vegemite takes the cake for me. There was an aussie exchange student in the dorms a few years back who had a huge case in his room and brought jars of it to the cafeteria. He would put it on sandwiches and stuff like that. One time I asked if I could taste some; never again!

Loren Pechtel · 03-15-2003, 03:45 PM

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Originally posted by Sakpo
That's all stuff my girlfriend eats too (well, not gristle actually, though I like gristle and fat). She eats the fish brain in addition to the eyes and whatever else. She also likes Durian (so do I actually, but you're right, it's very smelly). She also loves tripe.

What I listed was the mild stuff--things that I knew what they were. Most of the time I don't know.

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03-15-2003, 12:39 PM	#11
dunadan Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: St Louis, MO Posts: 499	While I was living in China, I visited Changsha in Hunan province. The Chinese have some . . . interestnig culinary delectibles by western standards, but this one even grossed out the locals I was with: Stir Fried Cockroaches

03-15-2003, 12:41 PM	#12
Putney Swope Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Statosphere, baby. I'm stacked over LaGuardia & I'm not coming down fo no body Posts: 614	I saw a "Gut Buster Bowl" on the sat. These guys were trying to gobble down the most sticks of butter in x minutes. Or drink down mayonnaise. Very disgusting. Yuk!

03-15-2003, 01:30 PM	#14
Arvel Joffi Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 3,359	Um...I thought I had a disgusting one. Well, it is disgusting, but most of what was listed above is vile and repugnant. A friend of mine in high school ate (and loved) what might only be weird, but that repulses me: Mac & cheese with Spam was a special treat, but his favorite was tuna, ketchup, and (fake) bacon bits sandwiches. Ew. I was eating some octopus once (carved to the point that I couldn't tell it was a tentacle) at another friend's behest. He was eating a whole squid tentacle with half of it hanging of his mouth. Since the sight didn't make me want to find out for myself, I asked him what was different squid and octopi. He thought for a moment and then said, mouth full, "Um...more rubbery and less flavor." And this was his choice? I stopped eating at KFC about ten years ago when I found what could only be tumor under the skin. In fact, I stopped eating KFC that very moment. I have never been the type of person to have my appetite ruined by visuals, they're completely separate things for me, but that did it. (It was this weird little, black, brain shaped growth.) Sorry.

03-15-2003, 01:33 PM	#15
Arvel Joffi Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 3,359	And okra! Jesus H. Roosevelt Motherfucking Christ what the hell is up with even calling that crap edible!

03-15-2003, 01:50 PM	#16
Putney Swope Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Statosphere, baby. I'm stacked over LaGuardia & I'm not coming down fo no body Posts: 614	They like to eat mullet down south of here. Slick, slimy mullet. If you ate mullet with a side of okra, you wouldn't be able to keep your pants up without suspenders. And for some real slime, try jellyfish. "If you want to be Chinese, you have to eat the nasty stuff." ~Chow Yun Fat in "The Corrupter"

03-15-2003, 02:19 PM	#17
oriecat Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Portland OR USA Posts: 1,098	Mullet?! Durian?! Smelt eggs?! What the heck is all this weird stuff?

03-15-2003, 02:24 PM	#18
Arvel Joffi Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 3,359	I wouldn't eat any hair, much less any hair cut that way.

03-15-2003, 03:44 PM	#19
Utnapishtim Regular Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 330	My apologies to all the aussies on the board, but Vegemite takes the cake for me. There was an aussie exchange student in the dorms a few years back who had a huge case in his room and brought jars of it to the cafeteria. He would put it on sandwiches and stuff like that. One time I asked if I could taste some; never again!

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