Ever have someone say, How can you eat that, YUK

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I had to laugh Sunday, when my kids caught me chopping away on a pigs foot. And I got to thinking about the foods I like, that they and others think are gross. I like Limburger cheese, It smells really bad but put on toast and is right tasty. I like pickled herring, a cold water fish pickled with sliced onions, Everyone leaves the room when I eat that. What is some of the foods you all eat that others think is horrible, and you think is great.

-- Irene texas (tkorsborn@cs.com), April 16, 2002

Answers

Well, my DH eats Miracle Whip sandwiches - nasty old white bread slathered with Miracle Whip - and drinks dill pickle juice. I still love him though....

-- Cheryl in KS (klingonbunny@planetkc.com), April 16, 2002.

We love hog mauls around here, lots of people say"gross how can you eat that" It's right tasty the way Daddy fixes it. He cuts them up into small pieces,then pressures them in the pressure cooker for 20- 30 minutes,then he makes a onion brown gravy and puts it in the mauls. It's very good over rice or grits.In case you have no clue what mauls are it the belly of a pig.......

-- Sandy(N.E.Fl) (REDNECKGIRL32@prodigy.net), April 16, 2002.

Let's see...I love sardines with lots of mustard.Oh,and corn on the cob covered with mayo(the real mayo)and sprinkled with chili powder and salt.And of course mexican food,like barbacoa,chicharones (sp?),menudo, cabrito fajitas,etc,etc. Yum,now I'm getting hungry... chicken mole sounds good for tonight!!!

-- Johna (in central TX) (marcnjohna@aol.com), April 16, 2002.

Being polish, we have Czarnina (duck soup) and Kieshka (a type of pork sausage). Both have blood in them. It goes back to a time when you used everything when butchering your animals.

-- Karen (mountains_mama2@hotmail.com), April 16, 2002.

Irene, my great grandfather ate pickled pigs feet with a dish of vanilla ice cream every night. He followed this with a one shot of good Kentucky bourbon. He died in his sleep still living on his farm when he was 103 years old.

-- vicki in NW OH (thga76@aol.com), April 16, 2002.


Well, now, we are a part Scandinavian family (husbands side) and part Scots Irish (my side) so we are right in there with the pickeled herring and the haggis (sheep innards) though, truth be told, I don't care so much for that, LOVE the pickeled herring though.

-- Kelly (homearts2002@yahoo.com), April 16, 2002.

Fried dill pickles and cheese grits.

-- kim in CO (kimk61252@hotmail.com), April 16, 2002.

I drink pickle juice too, though not as much now as I did when I was little and my mom wasn't looking!

Here's one I bet you don't ever hear again - you know that nasty canned spaghetti made by Chef What's-his-name? Take that straight out of the can and mix it with cottage cheese!!!! My husband thinks it's gross, and really makes faces when our boys want it that way too! I started a "family" trend though, because two of my three nephews (they're 25 and 23) like it too!

-- Christine in OK (cljford@mmcable.com), April 16, 2002.


EEEWWW!!! How can y'all eat that???

-- Gayle in KY (gayleannesmith@yahoo.com), April 16, 2002.

Hey Kim, you can buy fried dill pickles at just about any Sonic in Oklahoma!

-- Christine in OK (cljford@mmcable.com), April 16, 2002.


Hubby thinks it's disgusting that I can eat blue-cheese dressing--how can anyone eat cheese after it's moldy??lol

ps-I love ya, Irene, but don't invite me over on pigs foot day;)

-- mary (mlg@mlg.com), April 16, 2002.


Octopus,

Had some canned octopus the last time we had most of the family over. My son-in-law ate some but no one else would after my other daughter made a remark about being able to recognize the suckers on the chopped bits. To each his own. I also love herring, and pork hocks.

Talk to you later.

-- Bob in WI (bjwick@hotmail.com), April 16, 2002.


Ohhhhh...I don't like any of the things Irene mentioned. And I really hate liver, I honestly can hardly swallow it and keep it down, however it's cooked. But I do like the moldy rind of brie cheese!

-- Rebekah (daniel1@itss.net), April 17, 2002.

After all these other answers, my insignificant answer of tofu is totally benign!

-- melina b. (goatgalmjb1@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.

I like cold pork chops for breakfast, pickled pigs feet and chicken gizzards. DH just shudders. Oh, and he can't see how anyone can eat cold pizza for brekafast.

-- Ardie/WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.


Brains, we used to fight over them, fry em up with scrambled eggs, man that's good eatin. Lutifisk. Kidneys. My wife used to know some people who ate chicken feet. I'd take hocks over chicken feet any day. Blood sausage and head cheese, oh man I feel like I'm ten again.

-- John in Mn. (nospam@mywork.com), April 17, 2002.

Pickled turkey gizzards. They sound wierder than they taste. I like octopus, squid and escargo. Oh yea, and pickled pigs feet, and I love crawdads. My youngest daughter will eat crawdads and squid now. I snuk them in on her when she didn't know what the were, and now she's a big fan.

John, the chicken feet aren't that bad, they just look awful, first you boil and skin them, then batter and deep fry. There isn't much to munch on, but they are tasty. Best wishes!

-- cowgirlone in ok (cowgirlone47@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.


Vell, since Yawn already mentioned lutefisk and head cheese, the only other delicacy I can add is cow tongue.

-- Cabin Fever (cabinfever_MN@yahoo.com), April 17, 2002.

I'm not a real picky eater - I like a lot of things that most people hate - when I was a kid, I loved lima beans, brussels sprouts and spinach (still do). I like tripe, if its cooked right. I love pickled herring, sardines, all those smelly fish (I've never tried lutefisk, but I would). I love raw fish - sushi is fine with me, and steak tartare isn't too bad. I like all the smelly cheeses and things like that.

-- Sharon in NY (astyk@brandeis.edu), April 17, 2002.

My kids, DH and I love fried squid (fried calamari), have no qualms about eating venison, rabbit, squirrel and such. I've used chicken feet to make one of the best pots of chicken soup ever! My DH eats all sorts of internal parts of critters (raised in an old-country type Italian home), I prefer to sit out the tripe, etc. Not quite that brave ;-)

-- Judi (ddecaro@snet.net), April 17, 2002.

My SO thinks that I'm strange because I like cold lasagne. He puts grape jelly on scrambled eggs. Which one of us is the strange one?

-- Sherri C in Central Indiana (CeltiaSkye@xaol.com), April 17, 2002.

Sherri, Your husband is the strange one! LOL!

-- cowgirlone in ok (cowgirlone47@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.

And I thought eating pea soup mixed with saurkraut was strange!!

-- Jean in No. WI (jat@ncis.net), April 17, 2002.

Sherri, an egg on jelly toast is delicious, especially grape jelly. When we were kids, my brother and I ate Miracle Whip sandwiches. I know people that eat onion sandwiches. Bread, butter, onions and salt.

-- Cindy (S.E.IN) (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), April 17, 2002.

Cindy, that's exactly how he eats his eggs! I wonder if it's an Indiana thing? He's a native Hoosier, I'm just a Michigan transplant.

-- Sherri C in Central Indiana (CeltiaSkye@xaol.com), April 17, 2002.

Ostrich makes good barbecue. Marques used to eat chittlins but I can't stand them. I love cold gumbo.

-- Melinda (speciallady104@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.

My sister-in-law eats ketchup on baked potatoes (yuk!), and my kids and I like ketchup on scrambled eggs - I also like salsa with them. One of my best friends growing up - her stepdad used to put mustard on his scrambled eggs - wasn't too bad!

I'll pass on the internal organs of any sort, including head cheese - the one exception is giblet gravy!

-- Christine in OK (cljford@mmcable.com), April 17, 2002.


My husband must leave the room when I eat cottage cheese on toast with cinnamon..some people! My DIL and I just discovered that both of us are the only sane ones in the entire family,,we LOVE chicken livers, calf liver and onions, YUM!!!!!..anybody ever had "blood pudding"???..it's a Yankee thing eaten mostly by Black folks in Boston..apparently made of beef blood in a sausage casing with herbs, you fry it..I tried it and liked it very much until I was told what it was called and what it was, then my brain kicked in. LOL...The only thing other folks eat that makes me want to run away and cover my mouth is are those horrible purple pickeled eggs..oh my goodness they are disgusting things..cannot stand to be around them..triple YUCK!

-- lesley (martchas@bellsouth.net), April 17, 2002.

I put sugar on cottage cheese... as did my father and as does his brother... and their father before them. Years ago at a restaurant I frequented there was a waitress who literally couldn't stand to look at me either putting the sugar on or eating it afterwards. I've seen someone put ketchup on it, too.

-- Gary in Indiana (gk6854@aol.com), April 17, 2002.

I didn't see anyone mention heart. Venison heart rolled up with stuffing and wrapped in bacon. YUM!

-- malinda (teneniel_80@yahoo.com), April 17, 2002.

Well, I just love oysters. And before anyone gets the wrong idea; I eat them because I love the TASTE and for no other reason. They have no effect on me. I like them raw, smoked, in oyster stew or any other way. I also like chicken and turkey necks along with the gizzards and hearts.

-- Jodie in TX (stanchnmotion@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

SUSHI!!! Bring it on!!! People get grossed out by it -- I took it to a potluck once and NOBODY has bugged us about going to potluck since!!! I also love calimari -- and there is an asian dish called Salt and Pepper Squid -- delicious!!!

Growing up we ate whatever didn't get away too quick -- I've eaten everything from turtle to rattlesnake -- my sisters still squirm when I mention some of the things Dad would bring home for dinner! I never minded though. My favorite as a kid was fried smelt (the whole fish, battered and fried) and frog's legs.

I think it's all in what you're used to. We used to have a big garden every year, and Dad would try one new thing to see how it grew in our area. One year he tried brussels sprouts and we got a BUMPER crop. We had brussels sprouts every day for about a month solid -- to this day I can't stomach them! My brother and I used to call them "monster heads" -- disgusting stuff!!! And don't even get me started on Swiss Chard!!!

-- Tracy (trimmer31@hotmail.com), April 18, 2002.


I had to laugh at Gary with the sugared cottage cheese--that is a common ingredient in cheese blintzes (along with egg as a binder)! Cinnamon is good in cottage cheese too!

-- GT (nospam@nospam.com), April 18, 2002.

Sherrie, that sandwich is also good with alfalfa sprouts on it. In Israel they eat eggs cooked with whole tomatoes, yuck. I think of all the things I've read on here is, blood pudding, yuck Lesley, how could you eat that?:~} but I love those pickled eggs. And I can't see how people eat green beans cooked with jowl bacon/etc. Sardine- in oil-salad is good, add a little egg and worchestershire sauce and garlic powder. yum

-- Cindy (S.E.IN) (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

When I was a kid growing up in Alabama, there was a group of entrepreneurs/farmers among people who thought they could grow possums and have people eat them----in fact you would see bumper stickers once in a while that said EAT MORE POSSUM. Never really caught on. The folks who have eaten it say that it's good when cooked with sweet potatoes. Never had it, though.

-- Jeff (lorianandjeff@aol.com), April 18, 2002.

Possum is good, alittle greasy though.

-- Jodie in TX (stanchnmotion@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

My nephews, raised in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, LOVE grubs fried in butter. Last summer they taught their American cousins to catch, boil and eat crayfish. My boys have added a new summertime favourite to their menu.

-- Cathy N. (eastern Ontario) (homekeeper86@sympatico.ca), April 21, 2002.

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