mcwalker, you have failed to follow the simple instructions here.

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If I were you, I would read and heed the stickies and intros, quickly.

Tempus fugit.

TR

Outdone!
 

:D Until I read about Ufu:eek: , I thought the following must be the worst dish on earth, but Ryan has outdone me.:( Here was my entry anyway, just in case any of you desire to cook an authentic Arabic dish.

Ingredients:
1 X baby goat
1 X bag of course grain flower

Directions: Boil goat all day in a large 10 gallon alluminum pot until dissolved (Don't worry about the bones as they will mostly dissolve or add crunch) Pour in flour and stir until the consistency of white lithium grease.

Serving Suggestions: Serve in original 10 gallon pot, sit around on the ground with 20 other blokes, dip your right hand in and scoop out healthy portions of the miasma (don't mind the 1 inch layer of grease on the top, but do be prepared to burn your hand in it). Enjoy!:confused:

Hint: While eating remember "Hearts and minds;hearts and minds!" (And all the other organs as well!)

De Oppresso Liber

Heh, My Cousin Vinnie.. they missed an opportunity there, but then again it's harder to make fun of us Southerners eating grits if the Italians actually had enough brains to recognize that GRITS = POLENTA.

Of course I'll take mine with a pinch of salt, a bit more pepper and a proper dose of McIlheny's Tabasco (red).

As far as weird, stomach turning, nasty looking foods.. well..

at home:

Headcheese/souse, can't stand it.

Possum, tasts like sh!t.

Squirrel, not too bad.

Rabbit, damn fine eating, especially with proper BBQ sauce.

Racoon, ok, but not as good as squirrel, and too much effort to run down, kill and dress. AND I'm not going out in the woods at night with a bunch of armed, moonshine fuelled 'hunters' ever again.

Chitlins, smell like sh!t while cooking, smell like sh!t while cooling on my plate, still smell like sh!t in the garbage where I'll dump 'em, because they taste like Possum ;) .

Pickled Pigs Feet, tastes pretty much like pickled bacon dipped in pig sh!t.

not so far away from home:

Rattlesnake, not to bad, not exactly chicken.

Rat, not to different from squirrel.

Grubs, had to try it. Kind of like stale popcorn.

Ants, had to try it. Not a fan.

Chocolate covered ants, barely even noticed they were there.

Chocolate covered grasshopper, nasty surprize inside.

Korea:

Kimchee - 'rotten' (fermented) cabbage, red pepper and vinegar, some people think is smells foul, I personally love it. Actually, there are MANY types of kimchee, this is just the one most likely to be found at an American grocery, if you have a local asian market, I'd recommend trying every kimchee they have. Almost all are universally excellent (at least as far as I'm concerned).

Dog (Rottie or Dobie) - hair singed off with blow torch, roasted over spit. Similar to squirrel, took a long while to find a place that had it, and would trust an American enough to serve it.

Dog (small unknown mutt) - in a "health stew" tasted like someone smuggled in a truckload of chitlins.

Kimchee Soup ('Rotten' Cabbage Soup) - will clean your sinuses from across the room, melt your face 5 feet from the bowl, make your eyes burn from the fumes, and singe the hair off your ass on the way out the next moring, but well worth it for those who love hot food with interesting flavors.

Hong Kong:

100 and/or 1000 'year' Tofu - AWFUL AWFUL SMELL, really rough to take unless properly 'seasoned.' Wish I had my tabasco with me.

Negative,

Thats like calling tater tots, mashed potatoes. There's a distinct taste and texture difference between the two. I'm thinking if you served a hardcore Southerner a bowl of polenta for breakfast you'd better be running for the door after he took the first bite.

TS

Polenta is a boiled, slow-cooked cornmeal "mush" -- typically made with coarsely ground yellow corn meal. In some regions of Italy (especially in the north), it's a beloved everyday dish and is topped with meat, fish, pasta sauce, cheese, or vegetables. Cooled and hardened, polenta can be sliced, sautéed, or grilled, and served sweet or savory. Or you can create a layered polenta torta, reminiscent of a lasagne.

Grits are "coarsely ground pieces of dried corn moistened into a mealy paste" that have a mythic role in Southern culinary culture. Historians suggest that grits played an important role in early Southern agriculture, providing food for the first English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia, and later helping Southerners survive the Great Depression.
http://ask.yahoo.com/20021007.html

For some reason, adventurous eating isn't a trait common to fire houses. Beef, potatoes and bread are revered, at least in my department. Vegetables (if you HAVE to have them) should be corn, so as not to offend any of the other firemen. (green=gross to many firemen?!?!?) I am known throughout our department as "he who will eat anything" , and it's mostly true.....except...... Herring! I was so completely grossed out when I was in the the Baltics, northern Germany, Holland, Scandanavia and all those other Herring eating countries.

I like fish....love sushi.... I CAN'T STAND HERRING!

Most disconcerting: live octopus in Korea.

Lifelong bad karma: the live monkey brain thing in Indonesia, gack.

Sickest I've ever been: Kimchee home made by a ROK roomate in college. He was in ESL language school and was seriously jonzing for kimchee. He fermented it on top of our radiator. I prayed for death for two days - ended up in the hospital.

I may be taking this thread in a different direction, but .....

weirdest : beggin strips (like tough and chewy burned......bacon of all things:) )

fish food flakes ( like bits of newspaper soaked in dirty dishwater,
then dipped in salt)

Dude, you got it all wrong, You're supposed to feed those things to the Pets BEFORE you eat them (the pets that is)

Accepted TS.

I should not have taken the shortcut and used "=".

However, I am compelled to beg to differ on said difference.

Grits and polenta are much closer than tater tots and mashed. Grits are common to many cultures by different names, and almost assuredly Polenta's Daddy.

I'd say more like the difference between country mashed potatoes with a lot of skin left in (grits) and creamed potatoes (polenta). Or possibly, the difference between a M1911A1 and a Colt Lightweight Commander.

Just because the Italians sissify it by screening out the little bit of 'grit' left in grits, doesn't mean it changed that much. As far as toppings and 'refined' treatment of grits, cheese grits are nothing new, and neither are grits cakes, grits 'spoonbread', fried grits, chicken and cheese grits, shrimp and grits (even if Forrest forgot them), pork chili hominy, baked garlic cheese grits, and grits casseroles with whatever you like in them. Anything that has been done with Polenta, was probably done with grits first, just "grittier", without the uppity Italian chef attitude.

Many southern wives will switch to polenta when grits get a bit uncomfortable for the old dentures. Pappy will know his gums don't take as much flak, but he won't ask, and Mammy won't tell. Momma's with grit eater family history to uphold will sometimes use the same substitution with stubborn kids till they get past being so picky.

Me? As long as I can put my hotsauce on it if it needs it, I don't care a whit.

It was a metaphor used to make a point, thats all.:rolleyes:

I've used polenta in recipes, and even to my under-educated palate there's a definite difference.

TS

Hell TS, if I still lived in grits country, I'd probably drive over with a case or three of your favorite beers, a few bottles of my favorite single malt, and a couple of bags of grits and polenta to cook and compare until we were on the same wavelength.

Dang it! That was mine! lol.

I didn't think ANYONE else would know about Balut.

Should have known Sir Reaper would.

m1

While living in Japan, I tried a concoction of squid gut-sacks, raw squid chunks, and sake, that was fermented for one week. I discovered that the only thing that tastes worse than squid shit is rotten squid shit.

P.I. Balut, dryed chicken feet (the claws make great toothpicks), puppy.

The worse I've ever seen anyone else eat was in Pataya Beach....young drunk Marine...very busy girl...stage....slimey banana slices. You get the picture.

Worst thing I have eaten.... ever.
 

My mom's Tuna Casserole. Would rather swish balut around my mouth.

You know you're going to burn in Hell for that one. LOL