Nascar03

Chunky peanut butter and karo syrup mixed

Garbo

Incredible Read.





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sureline

Well you must be, everyone knows they go in coke.

sureline

Squirrel brains hell , i wonder how eat the first oyster,Hey that looks like snot, less eat it.I'm glad they did i love them.

jim t

Sharp cheddar on a slice of apple pie is a New York (or northeast thing).

I eat Anchovies on pizza sometimes and add them to a Caesar Salad even though it's already part of the dressing.

My sisters and I learned early to love Clams and Oysters, but very few other young'uns would touch them. Hot "cocktail sauce" with extra horseradish...

I was born in Glen Falls, NY but moved to Indialantic, FL at age 6.

My Dad LOVES liver and onions, but we kids never caught that itch. My Mom makes a killer chicken liver dip though.

Jim

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jplvr

My grandmother lived with us until I was about 15. She would drink buttermilk straight with nothing else. I couldn't and still can't see why. I wish she was still around.

I really didn't eat anything anyone would consider weird growing up. Before I started school, turnip greens were apparently my favorite meal, but peer pressure changed that for a while. I'll dominate a plate of turnip greens these days and I double up on them at Cracker Barrell. Also, my mom would always order a seafood platter when out to eat. She didn't eat scallops or oysters, so in lieu of ordering a child's plate, that's what I ate.

I branched out around the time I reached 16. I met a friend whose family was from Satsuma. He'd bring gumbo to lunch which everyone at our school thought was weird. One taste and he then was bringing double of every kind of cajun cooking his mom made for his lunch because I wanted some. Then it was sushi. Still, I don't consider that weird for anyone, but the way I grew up, it's all strange.

I have a Filipino buddy who lived with me for a while. He never attempted to get me to eat balut, which is that partially developed egg someone mentioned earlier, and I don't know if he ever tried it himself. He did cook some wings one night. While chicken wings aren't weird, the way he cooked them was. He overcooked them to the point we could eat the whole wing, bones and all. He claimed he learned this from the poorer people who worked for his grandmother in the Phillippines as it was how they got a lot of their calcium.

Another friend of mine was in Breckenridge with me for skiing one year. He always orders octopus at a sushi bar and when we saw "baby octupus" on the menu, that was one of our selections. We were totally surprised (not sure why in retrospect) when we were served a small bowl of baby octupus, two to three of which could have fit on a dime. It was really creepy, but tasty.

Another friend of mine who posts here eats octopus, boiled and grilled. That stuff is awesome. One of these years when Greek Easter is not the same as my Easter, I'm going to request he cook a whole lamb so I can try some brains too.

Here's a pic of the octopus I requested he cook a while back. While I love it, I agree with his wife who stated this was a little too creepy:



My stepsisters put ketchup on everything, including steaks. That's the strange thing to me.

welldoya

My grandfather was the one that ate strange things.
He had a big garden and he used to peel a bunch of small sized tomatoes and fill up a cooking bowl. Then he would put so much salt on them that they were white and he would eat them.
He would fill biscuits with butter and sugar. I loved that when I was a kid.
He used to have a pigeon coop in the backyard and he would go out there most mornings, wring a couple of pigeons's necks and fry them up with eggs (usually with brains mixed in).
At least once a week he would fix pancakes and bream........for supper.
And of course, he never let a turtle go.



Conventional wisdom would say he should have died young but he made it to 84.

Starlifter

I won't touch the stuff, but fish brains and fish eyeballs. Filipinos are crazy in jacked-up seafood delicacies! My Americanized taste buds from my dad overrides funk!

HisName

I was raised by my grand fathers so I ate what they did
loved Souse until later in life I learned what was in it.
we ate a lot of turtles , rabbit ,raccoon and possum , boiled cow tongue ,Fat back and chitlins ,Robin breast or dove, frog legs
Squirrel and dumplings was one I my favorite meals along with fried Quail.
Tomato gravy was fantastic with sage and beacon grease
Poke salad
sassafras tea with sugar was great
boiled "yellow root " for any stomach pain. that was nasty tasting


I had "poor man gravy" tonight with Deer meat in it.
I use 1/2 olive oil and 1/2 real butter now , burn some pepper in it , add flour and cook till brown then add milk and stir till thicken.
sauteed 2 tubs of mushrooms and added an onion , then added the deer that had already been browned. was good stuff.

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tonyj815

Chicken Gizzards.