Recommended Regional Food Dishes to NOT try

[LynneSin]

Seriously - why do you people eat that nasty Scrapple. You want to know what Scrapple is? I've made Scrapple from SCRATCH - it's all the garbage left over from butchering the cow which sometimes includes body parts and non-cow products you normally would not ever want to eat.

And yet people suck up scrapple like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

YOU ARE ALL WHACK-A-DOO!!!

[HopeHoops]

1. No, SAUSAGE is made from scrap you can't use for anything else.

Scrapple is made from scraps you can't use for sausage.

Actually, it isn't bad if it is fried and soaked in fake maple syrup. I've been vegetarian for over 20 years, so I wouldn't touch the shit now anyway, but I ate a LOT of it as a kid (grandparents were from the south).

[Kali]

3. depends on the sausage

lots of regular meat sausage out there

for example I made some homemade hot Italian not long ago - ground pork shoulder, garlic, salt and spices - no by products whatsoever

[HopeHoops]

6. To be fair, the last sausage AND scrapple I ate was from a local butcher shop.

You could put a bunch of sausage patties in a frying pan and come up with maybe a tablespoon of grease after they were done - same with the hamburger. The patties also didn't shrink up into little dog turds. They stayed pretty close to the same size as they were when they went into the pan. The scrapple was damn good too, as was the liverwurst, slab bacon, hamburger, and beef jerky. That was shortly before I quit eating meat so I'm glad that's the majority of the last stuff I had.

[Kali]

2. isn't scrapple pork?

I'm no fan of parts - our regional dish that I would not eat is menudo. Although a good spicy bowl of posole with regular meat is the YUM.

[HopeHoops]

5. Depends. In some shops, it is basically whatever they toss in the "scrap barrel" - from whatever.

[dawg]

4. I do not recommend the chitlins.

I can't even stand to be in the same house with them.

[SCantiGOP]

11. second on the chitlins

The only time I was around them they were being cooked at an outside fish fry. I was warned not to stand downwind of the pot because of the smell. I smiled at the joke, until I realized they were NOT kidding. Don't think I want to eat something I can't stand to smell.

[Xipe Totec]

55. I Love them! nt

[femmocrat]

7. I have made my own scrapple from pork sausage and it is very good.

I wouldn't touch the stuff in the supermarket though. I didn't know it was a southern dish. I always thought it was Pennsylvania Dutch.

[geardaddy]

10. They eat it in WI too.

[geardaddy]

8. My grandma's scrapple was pig, not cow.

That said, I never ate it.

[geardaddy]

9. Lutefisk

Cod soaked in lye? Thank Dog I'm not a Scandahoovian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk

[Zephie]

20. My husband LOVES that stuff

I can't understand it myself. :shrug:

[hifiguy]

22. Oy gevalt...

My mother's family was 100% German but a couple of her sisters married Norskes - the Lake Wobegon definition of a mixed marriage - and thus had to learn how to make this horrible stuff. Lutefisk in the oven will peel the roses off the wallpaper. My late uncle Cliff, a wonderful man, would actually eat the leftover stuff COLD out of the refrigerator the next morning. double :puke:

The best story I ever heard about lutefisk is that it was invented by the Irish. After being overrun by berserker Vikings, the Irish noted that the Norsemen ate a lot of fish - specifically cod. So they figured that the best way to get rid of the Vikings was to poison with lye the fish that the Vikings ate. Much to their surprise, it not only had no effect on the Vikings but they developed an actual taste for the stuff.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

58. Evidently, modern Norwegians don't eat it

It was strictly hardship peasant food in the nineteenth century, and to a modern Norwegian, it's about as appealing as hardtack and salt pork.

[Odin2005]

67. I'm 3/4 Norwegian and I can't STAND the stuff. It's nasty.

[lutefisk]

24. I demand that you take that back!

I mean... I don't know...

I'm speechless, just speechless!

[era veteran]

12. Was your scrapple good? I have never eaten it but....

if you made it you would make it better than a 3rd party seller. At least you could control that 'scrap' . We had a few Panamanian dishes that were suspect. I worked as a chef for many years and the worst thing I ever had to cook was sweetbread, thymus glands of veal. Wrong on many levels. I only served it, in a Hotel, during racing meets when the landed gentry types were about. That was many years ago and those people are all dead now.
The worst food thing I ever saw in Kentucky was carp canned in Mason Jars.
A good read on the uses of a pig is in the book Poland by James Michner, there was even socio-economic reasons for the uses and division of the critter.

[LynneSin]

14. We made it at a Butcher and trust me, even with them - they put stuff it that would make you go

:scared:

Imagine that you have a trash compactor.

Imagine that you have finished butchering the pig (or cow)

Imagine cleaning up the area and tossing in everything that is lying around on your butchering table

Imagine compacting that garbage, slicing, frying and serving with maple syrup

:puke:

[MicaelS]

13. I'm from Texas and I HATE collard greens

Nasty stuff, even with hot sauce on it. And I love veggies.

[ohiosmith]

15. Pickled pigs feet. My mother loved those nasty things. The main reason I left home at 14.

[geardaddy]

16. Wee wee wee wee! All the way home.

[ohiosmith]

17. That's a sad image. Poor little piggies running home on stumps.

:cry:

[geardaddy]

18. I know.

:cry:

"Thump, thump, thump, thump, all the way home."

[dawg]

23. A pig that smart is too valuable ...

to eat all at once. :bounce:

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Yeah, well, ponder the similar implications of chicken 'nuggets'. nt

[ohiosmith]

32. Maybe that's why they walk that way.

[Luciferous]

28. Ugh, my grandpa loves those things. He also loves sardines.

:puke:

[Zephie]

19. Rocky Mountain Oysters

They are... Uh, well... Pretty much deep fried cow testicles served with cocktail sauce. It's pretty disgusting. I'd never heard of them until I lived in Idaho. A few miles outside of Boise they have a big festival for them in early June. Apparently people really like them in the mid/northwest. Good that parts aren't going to waste, I guess, but it's still one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen.

[Ikonoklast]

26. Pssst....Cows don't have testicles.

Bulls, on the other bal...hand, do.

[alphafemale]

37. Well...Did.

I think they'd be steers nows.

[fishwax]

36. mmm ... Rocky Mountain Oysters

:)

[Countdown_3_2_1]

42. I agree with you here. Barforama.

as a guy, I leave the testicles of all species alone.

[Countdown_3_2_1]

43. Rattlesnake is OK. I've had some fried up.

I will eat cooked snake.

[davsand]

21. Have you ever had a Fish Boil?

Can't say I thought that was too much to write home about. Big old slabs of bland white fish boiled in a pot of water, onions, and potatos...

IF you get lucky it might all be served swimming in some melted margarine.




Laura

[Countdown_3_2_1]

45. Boils, Bunions, Warts...Nope. I draw the line right there! nt

[murielm99]

25. Okra.

I don't care how you cook it, I despise that stuff.

[kimi]

30. Yes

Nasty, slimy stuff. I love most other veggies, but okra is a world apart from them.

[GoCubsGo]

62. It's not slimy if fried or pickled.

Both ways are actually quite yummy, although I have had some pickled okra that is just "meh". It depends on the pickling spices one uses.

[fishwax]

57. slimy

:scared:

[Odin2005]

68. Ugh, SLIMY!

[MilesColtrane]

27. Do not order the menudo.

It smells like an abattoir.

[Xipe Totec]

53. If it smelled bad, it was probably spoiled

Say what you will about menudo, for it's own merits, but if it smells bad it's because it was bad.

PS: see post # 48.

[MilesColtrane]

60. It didn't smell rotten,...

just offal.

[Fire Walk With Me]

29. Durian.

[Xipe Totec]

52. Aw, k'mom! It's great!

Smells awful but it tastes great.

Just like... Um...

Never mind... :blush:

[struggle4progress]

33. Souris à la crème

Skin, gut and wash some fat mice without removing their heads. Cover them in a pot with ethyl alcohol and marinate 2 hours. Cut a piece of salt pork or sowbelly into small dice and cook it slowly to extract the fat. Drain the mice, dredge them thoroughly in a mixture of flour, pepper, and salt, and fry slowly in the rendered fat for about 5 minutes. Add a cup of alcohol and 6 to 8 cloves, cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Prepare a cream sauce, transfer the sautéed mice to it, and warm them in it for about 10 minutes before serving.
http://bertc.com/subfive/recipes/cookingrats.htm

[SwampG8r]

34. swamp cabbage

uck........boiled palmetto heart

[struggle4progress]

35. Stir Fried Cockroach

... 4 or 5 cockroaches (recently frozen)
1 onion
1 red pepper
1 green pepper
1 tbs salt
1 tbs corn starch
4 tbs cooking oil
2 cups rice ...
1. Remove and discard the solid wing covering flaps and all legs of the cockroach.
2. Put the whole cockroaches into a pot of boiling oil and quickly fry for 15 seconds.
3. Heat a wok until hot. Add four spoons of oil and put all vegetables into it to stir fry for three minutes.
4. Put the half cooked cockroaches in to the wok and add salt and corn starch.
5. Serve on or with a bed of white rice ...
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100415/cook/cook3.html

[jmowreader]

38. Balut is at the top of the list.

[Iggo]

39. We're Unreccing food now?

Oh, the humanity!!!

[struggle4progress]

40. Feces burger

Japanese scientist makes a 'delicious' burger out of... human EXCREMENT
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:30 PM on 17th June 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2004791/Japanese-scientist-makes-delicious-burger--human-EXCREMENT.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[struggle4progress]

41. Mud Cookies

... Salt
Margarine
Dirt
Water
... Take one part salt to one part margarine and mix with 10 parts dirt and 5 parts water. Mix by hand until you have a firm density ... Place in preheated oven at 180 degrees celsius for 20 minutes until firm ...
http://polosbastards.com/pb/recipe-haitian-mudcakes/

[Countdown_3_2_1]

44. In Texas...don't eat Armadillo meat.

They are one of the few animals that can suffer from leprosy.
Sorry, I don't trust whoever is butchering up the meat to ID the early signs of the disease.

No thank you, I will not ingest such an animal.

[Xipe Totec]

51. It's delicious! Tastes like lean pork nt

[Mopar151]

46. Blood Sausage

Fried pickled tripe. Bosnian meat pie (don't know the right name). Cretons (french-canadian pork spread). "Country ham" - (like burnt leather with extra salt). Limberger cheese (smell would gag a maggot...)

[Xipe Totec]

50. I Love morcilla! Spanish, or Portuguese style nt

[GoCubsGo]

61. I love the Polish blood sausage.

Mmmmmm...kiszka! How I miss it! And, that despite the fact that I know what goes into it.

[Mopar151]

63. My Dad loved the Polish one too

Mom would only cook it for him when she could put the electric frypan on the back steps, 'cuz of the smell....

[Odin2005]

69. I love blood sausage, my Norskie family calls it blodpolsa.

[Spider Jerusalem]

70. Black pudding is quite tasty, actually.

[DBoon]

47. In Iceland, do not eat Hákarl

"Hákarl or kæstur hákarl (Icelandic pronunciation: <ˈhauːkʰartl̥>) (Icelandic for "fermented shark") is a food from Iceland. It is a Greenland or basking shark which has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months. Hákarl is an acquired taste and has a very particular ammonia-rich smell and fishy taste, similar to very strong cheese slathered in ammonia."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl

"citation needed" for why this is an acquired taste?

[Xipe Totec]

49. Like eating pink erasers soaked in amonia nt

[Xipe Totec]

48. Raspado. Ever hear of Menudo? This is worse

Menudo is cow's stomach soup.

Raspado is the green scrapings from the inside of a cow's stomach. Fried and served in tacos.

[nolabear]

54. Chit'lins.

Nosiree Bob. The smell alone would knock a buzzard off a sh*t wagon. (I miss George Carlin.)

[Xipe Totec]

56. I love goat's head

I love to suck the eyes.

The tongue and palate are very tasty.

And I love to crack the skull open with a hammer.

But then again, it's a regional dish and an acquired taste.


:evilgrin:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

59. In Japan, I recommend against

1. Natto: Don't be fooled by the fact that it looks like baked beans. It's fermented soybeans, fermented in this case being a euphemism for "rotten." No, it's not the same as miso. Miso is soybean paste cured with salt and actually tastes good. This is soybeans rotted until they're sticky.

2. Shiokara: Fish gut concoction used as a relish

3. Niboshi: Tiny, silvery dried fish, eaten whole. They're sold in plastic bags in convenience stores. People put them in bowls and eat them like peanuts while drinking.

[WildEyedLiberal]

64. Not really regional but I can't deal with Tom Yum soup

I love pretty much everything else Thai and am a big fan of Asian food in general, but I can't do Tom Yum soup. I've tried at several different places and even bought a can at an Asian grocer once, but it didn't matter where I got it. The broth smells and tastes exactly like warm bile to me I can't make myself eat it.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

65. anything with tomatoes of death.

I'm allergic to tomatoes and bell peppers, red peppers, yellow peppers, all of 'em.

black pepper is a different plant.

[Odin2005]

66. Lutefisk! YUCK!!!