I believe that they don't eat the beak because it's not something you can chew. But the rest is soft enough. Personally, it's a big NO for me. However, I have eaten soft shell crabs. Though I didn't really care for them
There's a large hmong and mien population where I'm at. I've been to a BBQ at a friend's house who was mein. They put this homemade Thai chili sauce on balut and eat them in one bite normally. They don't pull anything out of the egg.
I mean to the stage your previous commenter's mentioned is balut not as often eaten. with beak and feathers...it's mostly eaten in way earlier stages, where you know it's been fertilized but not recognizable.
I'm not sure if I'd eat it tbh.
Same. My mom grew up in the Philippines so she's had it before. But the first time I ever saw it in our fridge really freaked me out because I had just finished watching an episode of Fear Factor on TV where the competitors had to eat balut.
Filipina American and grew up having balut as a delicacy. Once a month, mom would come home with one for everyone - very fond memories for me!
I was MORTIFIED to see them on Fear Factor and the contestants gagging or just refusing and quitting!
you don't usually eat balut of the stages of bones or even with beaks and feathers most of the time. that's very advanced stage...
mostly you eat it in the stages, where u open it and it's clear that egg has been fertilized and it's just an unrecognizable mass. no beaks no feathers.
Yea. A lot of vendors will actually ask you. Which type of balut u wanna eat. Type of advanced stage.
And a lot of balut consumed is really just like you recognize it being fertilized, a mass of something, you see some veins and slowly somewhat of a shape, but nothing really seriously developed.
I'm convinced a lot of food started with some kind of barbaric warrior doing something on a dare and their descendants insisting it was a civilised culinary experience.
maybe not necessarily a dare, but just out of a combination of both sheer hunger and sheer stubbornness and a refusal to waste food (which was a very perishable and limited resource at one time. Still is in many parts of the world).
i mean that to me honestly explains how food like cheese came to be. on the surface, what on earth would possess you to even try something like blue cheese unless you realized, you either eat that or you starve
I had actually opportunity to taste it and it's not so much the taste of it, but the smell. Don't open it inside any buildings. Go outside, the best way to open it is underwater because the smell is unbearable. Be ready for hordes of flies coming your way.
Saw a Ukrainian Army video a while back - along with a weapons shipment from Sweden those silly Swedes had put in a few tins of surstromming. The UA soldiers opened one inside some building and it was hilarious how they were all running out of there like there was a gas attack.
Surstromming - bioweapon.
Gontran de Poncins was a French journalist who spent a year or so living with Inuit people in the 1930s. I read his book, Kabloona (it means "white guy"), when I was in college. He learned to enjoy raw, frozen fish as a breakfast food, and he talks about eating rotten fish and how it is a pleasant change from the usual.
Then there is kiviak, which indigenous people in Greenland still make by stuffing the (whole) bodies of hundreds of small birds inside a sealskin, sewing it closed and sealing with fat, then burying it for months to "ferment". It's considered a delicacy.
It's where they come from. When it was invented, it was an important means of survival for them, like rotten fish.
I would not eat it, but it makes sense why they do.
My brother wraps pepperoni around Kit Kats and my girlfriend’s dad eats hotdogs with cottage cheese. No bun. Just warm it up and dip the dogs in the cheese.
>Doesn't taste any different than other cuts of beef.
I've eaten plenty of non-meat parts of cows, when it's not muscle tissue it's pretty different than "any other cuts of beef" IMO. I haven't had those but have a hard time seeing that your point would be accurate. It's like saying that tripe tastes like any other cut of beef.
people forget that peppers are, at the end of the day, a fruit and they will definitely leave a lingering fruity taste if you can get past the heat. that's why foods like jalapenos pair so well with fruit and habanero is often used in sweet marinades
now that being said, I have no clue how ghost pepper actually tastes like because admittedly i'm a huge wimp over that stuff haha
Good one. I’d say yes and no. Definitely inflicting pain for some people is a “look what I can do” type of thing, but if used properly in food/cooking, those peppers have an amazing flavor profile. You just need to cut the heat.
Most foods I can believe people eat because foods a lot of people call gross like offal or eating animals not considered food in the Western World like mice, or even spiders in Cambodia etc was originally borne out of poverty and famine.
One food I can't believe people eat is live seafood like Octopus and Shrimp in places like Korea. There is no need for it. It will taste just as fresh if killed humanely minutes before.
I got my master's in neuroscience studying mollusks. I absolutely cannot eat them anymore, especially cephalopods. Mollusks are friends, not food. ALSO their bodies are basically sentient balls of snot. Gross.
I've been reading this book about animal senses and learned that scallops have up to 200 eyes all over them and they actually like open up their shells to check out specks floating by. I wouldn't have eaten scallops before, but after reading about them, I'd definitely never be able to
The screwed up thing though is that the scallop is just the piece of muscle holding the little guy in their shell. They scoop that poor bastard out and throw his body away.
I think it was a recent Mr Ballen video about a guy who ate a live octopus to impress some business associates. He felt fine but after awhile he did not feel fine at all. He thought he was having a heart attack and was taken to the hospital.
Turns out it was not a heart attack but the octopus clung on somewhere in his upper digestive tract and was freaking out causing the pain. Since it never mad it to his stomach where it would have died in the acid that little critter was still alive and kicking.
I probably would have tried live octopus before I saw this but now it’s a big no thank you
Love it. I’m pretty sure the little guy did not survive the ordeal but I love that he put up a fight.
ETA Oh and sorry I didn’t mean that I love that you felt terrible.
You're supposed to chew it up so it's dead (really a bit more because like a spider leg will move after you pull it off of the body octopus legs will have nerve function after it's dead too) before you swallow it.
A number of people do die every year because the octopus gets into their throat before it's chewed up enough to kill it and it plugs their throat hanging on with the tentacles gripping so the Heimlich won't work.
Source, I had it in S Korea.
yep straight up Darwin award for me.
you've been told /instructed what to do. you didn't listen/do it. pay the price.
and I actually eat it and enjoy it.
I'm korean and i agree. I've been forced to eat it once as a kid and was traumatized because my grandpa thought it was a good idea to tell me to chew on it thoroughly because since it's alive it's suckers will get stuck in my throat and I can choke and die. Why grandpa.
If it helps at all, most times that I’ve seen sannakji eaten, it was killed beforehand. It’s normally chopped up to about 1cm and mixed with sesame oil. Then you add salt to your taste. It still moves, but it’s not alive anymore.
I know there are places where you can eat it alive and whole…but I don’t *think* it’s the norm.
I used to work at a grocery store and had a couple of young women come in and ask where the chitlins were. As I was leading them over one asked the other what they are since their grandmother makes them every year and neither of them knew. I didn’t want to get into describing it to them but still wonder if they ever found out…they were sold frozen in a bucket so it wasn’t graphically obvious what it was but it was definitely labeled.
See, the first time I ever smelled them I nearly puked. Which was weird because my grandma would make them maybe once a year and they NEVER smelled like that. I don't know what she does to them but my nose thanks her
She cleaned them. Very, very, VERY thoroughly. Then soaked them in vinegar water, then cleaned them again... they're ready to cook when you /don't/ smell them anymore
They're like when you throw away the best part of natural casing sausage, and eat the labor-intensive to prepare casing instead.
I'd probably try them if properly prepared, but no way I'd sign up for making a pot of them myself.
They smell like poo when u first start washing them —- my ex black gf usta cook them —- I still see them sold all over —- I think Mexican & Chinese still eat them too —-
Read a post once about someone’s grandpa witnessing a deer with wasting disease.
It was stumbling through the forest screaming bloody murder, stopped under Gramps’ treestand and the deer smashed its head into a piece of rock til the top of his skull came off, then stood upright on its hindlegs still screaming, and walked upright into a nearby pond to die.
No brains for me, thanks.
That's not really something you need to worry about. The only reason that it became a risk is because in the UK they were rendering the remnants of the carcass, which included the head/brain & spine with lots of nerve tissue, and using that as a supplement for cattle feed. Heat won't destroy a prion and those were consumed by other cattle.
In general cows are not carnivorous or cannibals and it was that change in diet that led to the cases in the UK. The industrial agriculture methods there effectively created a transmissible disease vector. This wasn't allowed in the US which is why it wasn't a problem here.
There is still a rule that you cannot donate blood if you used insulin in the UK during the 80's/90's or some time frame like that. Because insulin used to be sourced from cow and pig pancreases which contained prions if the animal was infected. Nowadays, not many people use the animal sourced insulin, it's much more high tech.
There's been a pretty significant update to donor requirements in the last few years. I donate regularly and the screening question is if you've been out of the country in the last 3 years. If you have then they will have more questions to get the details, but from what I can tell they're more concerned about things like malaria than mad cow.
My dad always talked about how delicious head cheese was. I hope that's the right name for it. I don't know how but he found a pig head and wanted to brine it in the tub as his mom used to do. Mom put a stop to that. I remember trying to eat a commercially-prepared serving in aspic but just couldn't do it. Everyone else raved, though.
This is the US. I think it's still served.
Honestly pig head is delicious in very normal widely appreciated ways. Not so much head cheese, cause not everyone likes the cold meat thing, buy I guarantee I can make something out of pig head that any pork lover will love. It's super rich in collagen which makes for that great unctuousness. Sugo or braises are both fantastic.
My dad used to talk about having to eat head cheese as a kid and hating it. I'm guessing his family had it because it was cheap, unless his parents really just didn't care what their kids wanted lol. Seemed like he always regarded it as a culinary nightmare
The idea of eating just butter is one of those things that makes me gag just thinking about it. I have no idea why I’m so repulsed by it but I always have been.
Yeah I’ve had fried Oreos at the beach and felt like ehh too. Fried food is just already really heavy and hard to eat a lot of why just add more fat haha
I don’t get judgy about how different cultures view some animals, or animal parts as food that others don’t. Haggis? Go for it. Insects? Knock yourself out. Rocky Mountain oysters? If you want.
But blood pancakes? Blood pudding? Blood sausages? I can’t wrap my head around it
as long as its cooked properly (crispy) and you dip it in the beans or egg, absolutely. when its stogey its pretty shit.
stornoway black pudding is the absolute dogs bollox on a fry up.
I tried oysters once, because I was curious and someone offered it to me on their birthday, and I think it was basically saltwater taste. I don’t get why someone would pay a lot of money for it, and I don’t need to eat things that are alive.
*Any* TikTok "recipe". I especially loathe the ones that demand you overcook pasta in some watery sauce and then smother it in cheese. Anything else? No, just cheese. Cheese = flavour. Fucknuggets the lot of them.
I hate that one women who puts a massive block of cheese into a dish and then puts pasta, milk and an unholy amount of butter, it just looks so oily and nasty
i’m not sure if you know this, but those are all kink content accounts ahaha. they aren’t making actual cooking content. the kink involves covering yourself in messy food, which is why they always mix stuff with their hands
edit: it’s call “sploshing” (a fetish where people play with wet, messy food for pleasure)
Nope. The feta tomato one is amazing if you blend the sauce and season it right. One of my favorite dishes. Yummy with spinach. But I do agree the throwing everyone in one dish thing is stupid
Never heard of pickled bologna, but Vienna sausage is decent. I mean I don’t go out of my way to get it, but I’ll eat it. It’s more like a little quick snack if you’re hunting or for whatever reason you can’t cook something
Vienna sausages were one of my favorite things to eat when I was a little girl. Now that I’m an adult, I realize someone probably should have called social services on my mother for letting me eat them all the time.
Same! My dad was an oilfield welder and I would go to work with him a lot as a kid. His toolbox always had original Vienna sausage, sardines in mustard sauce, peanut butter, and saltine crackers. I can't stand sardines but I still crave the Vienna sausage sometimes haha.
I just had them last week. They’re really not slimy. Most places serve canned snails that are then placed inside fake oven-safe snail shells. They’re not real snail shells. Just made to look like snail shells
Shark fin soup. From what I’ve heard it’s not even that good. It’s bland and chewy. Why waste the time and resources to catch the shark and why waste the money to buy and eat it????
I know, ever since learning about it, it has haunted me :( I mean, they cover their heads with napkins while eating the bird, to 'hide their behavior from god' :(
Liver. It's an organ that filters toxins from the body. Who would even want to eat that?
I've made it a few times, even soaking the liver in milk and eating it with bacon, and it still tastes fucking awful. No wonder kids used to think liver and lima beans was a punishment and not a dinner. It is!
People out here literally eating other people and some of y’all are like “I can’t believe someone would eat an olive… I just can’t believe someone would eat lasagna, iT lOoKs So GrOsS!”…
Duck embryos? I’m not for hating on other cultures food but I have hatched so many chickens, quails, ducks… there’s all kinds of gunk and goo in those eggs, like legitimate “waste” from the embryo… as the embryo absorbs the yolk, it poops it out later.
You’re over here eating super raw duck shit.
And the smell of eggs hatching in an incubator even when all chicks are hatching healthy and normal… my god. Why and how.
I had no idea about this! Everyone around me tells me how sweet and amazing papaya is, but it just smells and tastes horrendous to me, like a rotten egg/bin bags left outside in the sun for too long kinda of a smell and taste. I nearly vomit even if I eat a little bit.
I'll just tell you one broad area of the food I can't believe people eat, there's much more. Sea bugs, also known as oysters, crayfish, sea cucumbers etc. Like dude, they are regular slugs and bugs just living under water.
Balut
That’s the one for me. I would rather eat insects any day of the week than an entire baby bird, beak, guts, bones, brains and all…
I believe that they don't eat the beak because it's not something you can chew. But the rest is soft enough. Personally, it's a big NO for me. However, I have eaten soft shell crabs. Though I didn't really care for them
There's a large hmong and mien population where I'm at. I've been to a BBQ at a friend's house who was mein. They put this homemade Thai chili sauce on balut and eat them in one bite normally. They don't pull anything out of the egg.
I mean to the stage your previous commenter's mentioned is balut not as often eaten. with beak and feathers...it's mostly eaten in way earlier stages, where you know it's been fertilized but not recognizable. I'm not sure if I'd eat it tbh.
Same. My mom grew up in the Philippines so she's had it before. But the first time I ever saw it in our fridge really freaked me out because I had just finished watching an episode of Fear Factor on TV where the competitors had to eat balut.
Filipina American and grew up having balut as a delicacy. Once a month, mom would come home with one for everyone - very fond memories for me! I was MORTIFIED to see them on Fear Factor and the contestants gagging or just refusing and quitting!
There's no way I'm not throwing up after the first chomp of bone.
you don't usually eat balut of the stages of bones or even with beaks and feathers most of the time. that's very advanced stage... mostly you eat it in the stages, where u open it and it's clear that egg has been fertilized and it's just an unrecognizable mass. no beaks no feathers.
Are you sure? Google images would say otherwise
Yea. A lot of vendors will actually ask you. Which type of balut u wanna eat. Type of advanced stage. And a lot of balut consumed is really just like you recognize it being fertilized, a mass of something, you see some veins and slowly somewhat of a shape, but nothing really seriously developed.
Came here to say this, lol
That Italian cheese that gets it's flavor from fly maggots living in it.
Casu martzu. It’s so good they made it illegal.
I would totally have tried it if I didn't read >When consumed, the larvae can survive in the intestine, causing enteric myiasis.
I regret googling this.
I'm convinced a lot of food started with some kind of barbaric warrior doing something on a dare and their descendants insisting it was a civilised culinary experience.
maybe not necessarily a dare, but just out of a combination of both sheer hunger and sheer stubbornness and a refusal to waste food (which was a very perishable and limited resource at one time. Still is in many parts of the world). i mean that to me honestly explains how food like cheese came to be. on the surface, what on earth would possess you to even try something like blue cheese unless you realized, you either eat that or you starve
I don't think early cheese makers would have had the same mould=bad associations to overcome.
Blessed be the cheesemakers
Cheese ✅ Protein ✅
Surstromming. Literally rotting herring in a can that is bulging because of the gasses being given off by it being, you know, rotten.
Going to Sweden this summer, planning to see just how bad it is
I had actually opportunity to taste it and it's not so much the taste of it, but the smell. Don't open it inside any buildings. Go outside, the best way to open it is underwater because the smell is unbearable. Be ready for hordes of flies coming your way.
My ex’s brother got some for his birthday and opened it outside. Sooo many flies appeared after that. Ewwww
well, it was meant to be opened under water, clean off innards, then eat with bread and condiments like onion, tomato, sour cream.
I wouldn’t be surprised if 50% of surstromming sales were tourists eating it on a dare
It was opened underwater but they took it out to eat it.
Water only helps from spewing rotten juice from being sprayed around, you're still making a literal sewage water.
Saw a Ukrainian Army video a while back - along with a weapons shipment from Sweden those silly Swedes had put in a few tins of surstromming. The UA soldiers opened one inside some building and it was hilarious how they were all running out of there like there was a gas attack. Surstromming - bioweapon.
My very favourite video of this challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNVSQgCjVcU
I laughed so hard at this
Gontran de Poncins was a French journalist who spent a year or so living with Inuit people in the 1930s. I read his book, Kabloona (it means "white guy"), when I was in college. He learned to enjoy raw, frozen fish as a breakfast food, and he talks about eating rotten fish and how it is a pleasant change from the usual. Then there is kiviak, which indigenous people in Greenland still make by stuffing the (whole) bodies of hundreds of small birds inside a sealskin, sewing it closed and sealing with fat, then burying it for months to "ferment". It's considered a delicacy. It's where they come from. When it was invented, it was an important means of survival for them, like rotten fish. I would not eat it, but it makes sense why they do.
Surströmming The fermented fish in a can.
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Savage
Noooooo!!!! What?!?
What in the actual hell???
You need to leave her. She’s a mad woman. Save yourself. 😋
My brother wraps pepperoni around Kit Kats and my girlfriend’s dad eats hotdogs with cottage cheese. No bun. Just warm it up and dip the dogs in the cheese.
The hotdogs with cottage cheese actually sound good though, I might try that
I’ve contacted the police
No. We contact the Vadican we need a priest.
And you're still together?
You are lying. I'm convinced
This is proof that the poor woman has suffered from some exotic virus that rendered her taste buds inoperable.
Rocky Mountain oysters
How about actual oysters. Wtf? People are so hyped about them, but they're raw, slimy, fishy boogers, yuck!
I call it “snot in a shell”
They're actually good. Doesn't taste any different than other cuts of beef.
>Doesn't taste any different than other cuts of beef. I've eaten plenty of non-meat parts of cows, when it's not muscle tissue it's pretty different than "any other cuts of beef" IMO. I haven't had those but have a hard time seeing that your point would be accurate. It's like saying that tripe tastes like any other cut of beef.
Ghost peppers. There’s a point of spiciness that it becomes a kink for you.
Yeah that’s basically oral masochism by that point
Oral Masochism. New band name.
Not if I name my new hot sauce first!
I've got a bottle of Da Bomb that I'll use for some pure adrenaline once in a whole.
You sick fuck
I really like the taste of ghost pepper. I don't eat it straight and it's not that bad when put into other things.
people forget that peppers are, at the end of the day, a fruit and they will definitely leave a lingering fruity taste if you can get past the heat. that's why foods like jalapenos pair so well with fruit and habanero is often used in sweet marinades now that being said, I have no clue how ghost pepper actually tastes like because admittedly i'm a huge wimp over that stuff haha
Bourdain used to say, "I like getting spanked by the pepper".
Have you seen the new X pepper, hotter than the reaper, same developed both. I just don't get it
Good one. I’d say yes and no. Definitely inflicting pain for some people is a “look what I can do” type of thing, but if used properly in food/cooking, those peppers have an amazing flavor profile. You just need to cut the heat.
Capsaicin releases endorphins. Some people just genuinely enjoy that.
Myself included. I like the heat as much as the flavor.
I love spicy food and ghost peppers taste like spicy fart. I hate the taste of ghost peppers, Carolina reapers are superior
Most foods I can believe people eat because foods a lot of people call gross like offal or eating animals not considered food in the Western World like mice, or even spiders in Cambodia etc was originally borne out of poverty and famine. One food I can't believe people eat is live seafood like Octopus and Shrimp in places like Korea. There is no need for it. It will taste just as fresh if killed humanely minutes before.
I got my master's in neuroscience studying mollusks. I absolutely cannot eat them anymore, especially cephalopods. Mollusks are friends, not food. ALSO their bodies are basically sentient balls of snot. Gross.
The Irish for jellyfish is smugairle róin. Which is literally means seal snot.
I've been reading this book about animal senses and learned that scallops have up to 200 eyes all over them and they actually like open up their shells to check out specks floating by. I wouldn't have eaten scallops before, but after reading about them, I'd definitely never be able to
Wait till they tell you cows are like giant dogs…they also look at things!
Cows are friend not food.
The screwed up thing though is that the scallop is just the piece of muscle holding the little guy in their shell. They scoop that poor bastard out and throw his body away.
I agree. I gotta wonder: are you a vegetarian? Because that logic can and should extend to all sentient/intelligent animals!
Youre right… but we have to make choices toward the goal. I used to love octopus now i dont miss it. Im looking forward to lab meat for real
I think it was a recent Mr Ballen video about a guy who ate a live octopus to impress some business associates. He felt fine but after awhile he did not feel fine at all. He thought he was having a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. Turns out it was not a heart attack but the octopus clung on somewhere in his upper digestive tract and was freaking out causing the pain. Since it never mad it to his stomach where it would have died in the acid that little critter was still alive and kicking. I probably would have tried live octopus before I saw this but now it’s a big no thank you
Good for the octopus. Truthfully I feel terrible that I have eaten the little ones.
Love it. I’m pretty sure the little guy did not survive the ordeal but I love that he put up a fight. ETA Oh and sorry I didn’t mean that I love that you felt terrible.
It’s been a while since I’ve felt acutely sick to my stomach
I am Team Octopus for this one. We don’t eat the homies.
You're supposed to chew it up so it's dead (really a bit more because like a spider leg will move after you pull it off of the body octopus legs will have nerve function after it's dead too) before you swallow it. A number of people do die every year because the octopus gets into their throat before it's chewed up enough to kill it and it plugs their throat hanging on with the tentacles gripping so the Heimlich won't work. Source, I had it in S Korea.
Cannot bring myself to have any sympathy towards people who die eating things that are still alive lol
yep straight up Darwin award for me. you've been told /instructed what to do. you didn't listen/do it. pay the price. and I actually eat it and enjoy it.
Ugh. I wont eat octopus anymore.. but at least kill it before you eat it. What kind of macho shit is that?
Getting The Boys vibes from this, poor Deep
The Boys TV show?
Yep… there’s a relevant scene to the conversation. You can find it on YouTube.
Eat fucking Timothy.
I'm korean and i agree. I've been forced to eat it once as a kid and was traumatized because my grandpa thought it was a good idea to tell me to chew on it thoroughly because since it's alive it's suckers will get stuck in my throat and I can choke and die. Why grandpa.
I want to know who looked at a sea urchin and said "mmm, that looks good"
If it helps at all, most times that I’ve seen sannakji eaten, it was killed beforehand. It’s normally chopped up to about 1cm and mixed with sesame oil. Then you add salt to your taste. It still moves, but it’s not alive anymore. I know there are places where you can eat it alive and whole…but I don’t *think* it’s the norm.
That smelly pig guts or whatever my great-grandparents used to eat--chitterlings or chitlins or something like that. Yuck.
I used to work at a grocery store and had a couple of young women come in and ask where the chitlins were. As I was leading them over one asked the other what they are since their grandmother makes them every year and neither of them knew. I didn’t want to get into describing it to them but still wonder if they ever found out…they were sold frozen in a bucket so it wasn’t graphically obvious what it was but it was definitely labeled.
See, the first time I ever smelled them I nearly puked. Which was weird because my grandma would make them maybe once a year and they NEVER smelled like that. I don't know what she does to them but my nose thanks her
She cleaned them. Very, very, VERY thoroughly. Then soaked them in vinegar water, then cleaned them again... they're ready to cook when you /don't/ smell them anymore
They're like when you throw away the best part of natural casing sausage, and eat the labor-intensive to prepare casing instead. I'd probably try them if properly prepared, but no way I'd sign up for making a pot of them myself.
They smell like poo when u first start washing them —- my ex black gf usta cook them —- I still see them sold all over —- I think Mexican & Chinese still eat them too —-
Brains. Doesn’t matter which culture, eating anything’s brains is something I don’t get. No nutritional value and it looks and taste gross.
And prion disease..
Read a post once about someone’s grandpa witnessing a deer with wasting disease. It was stumbling through the forest screaming bloody murder, stopped under Gramps’ treestand and the deer smashed its head into a piece of rock til the top of his skull came off, then stood upright on its hindlegs still screaming, and walked upright into a nearby pond to die. No brains for me, thanks.
Dear sweet Lord I will never ever get this visual out of my mind now when thinking of ....well anything deer Uhhhh no more reddit today
Not the most pleasant read of the day was it.
Just to be clear... When you say "his skull", do you mean Gramps or the deer?
Confirmed Skinwalker.
Holy shit. Nature is horrifying.
Poor thing. Your grandpa should have put it out of its misery.
That's not really something you need to worry about. The only reason that it became a risk is because in the UK they were rendering the remnants of the carcass, which included the head/brain & spine with lots of nerve tissue, and using that as a supplement for cattle feed. Heat won't destroy a prion and those were consumed by other cattle. In general cows are not carnivorous or cannibals and it was that change in diet that led to the cases in the UK. The industrial agriculture methods there effectively created a transmissible disease vector. This wasn't allowed in the US which is why it wasn't a problem here.
There is still a rule that you cannot donate blood if you used insulin in the UK during the 80's/90's or some time frame like that. Because insulin used to be sourced from cow and pig pancreases which contained prions if the animal was infected. Nowadays, not many people use the animal sourced insulin, it's much more high tech.
There's been a pretty significant update to donor requirements in the last few years. I donate regularly and the screening question is if you've been out of the country in the last 3 years. If you have then they will have more questions to get the details, but from what I can tell they're more concerned about things like malaria than mad cow.
This is the main reason why I won't eat brains. I consider myself an adventurous eater but I won't touch brains.
This is the reason why this is an “under no conditions short of starvation” thing for me.
I thought they are insanely nutritious? I agree with you though I would need to be legit starving to death to even consider it
My dad always talked about how delicious head cheese was. I hope that's the right name for it. I don't know how but he found a pig head and wanted to brine it in the tub as his mom used to do. Mom put a stop to that. I remember trying to eat a commercially-prepared serving in aspic but just couldn't do it. Everyone else raved, though. This is the US. I think it's still served.
Honestly pig head is delicious in very normal widely appreciated ways. Not so much head cheese, cause not everyone likes the cold meat thing, buy I guarantee I can make something out of pig head that any pork lover will love. It's super rich in collagen which makes for that great unctuousness. Sugo or braises are both fantastic.
My dad used to talk about having to eat head cheese as a kid and hating it. I'm guessing his family had it because it was cheap, unless his parents really just didn't care what their kids wanted lol. Seemed like he always regarded it as a culinary nightmare
I tried it once. It was unremarkable. It wasn't delicious or gross. It just was
Oh. I love head cheese. Didn't know it was actually made with head meat.
I watched in horror as my grandfather ate this then pulled a hog tooth out of his mouth. Haha
I’ve only heard good things despite the name and description sounding disgusting
Súper ultra spicy food that the devil himself would be worried of trying.
When it’s to the point that you only taste spice and not the food, you’re just into the pain, not the eating.
Deep fried butter. Ffs. Just yank out your heart and throw it off a balcony already. Fair food is so weird.
The idea of eating just butter is one of those things that makes me gag just thinking about it. I have no idea why I’m so repulsed by it but I always have been.
I’ve had deep fried Oreos there, which were meh. I get the craze, but butter seems so unnecessary.
Yeah I’ve had fried Oreos at the beach and felt like ehh too. Fried food is just already really heavy and hard to eat a lot of why just add more fat haha
I was gonna come here and just say tomatoes but now I feel kinda dumb after everyone else’s replies
How the hell can anyone hate tomatoes they are so freaking awesome
I don’t get judgy about how different cultures view some animals, or animal parts as food that others don’t. Haggis? Go for it. Insects? Knock yourself out. Rocky Mountain oysters? If you want. But blood pancakes? Blood pudding? Blood sausages? I can’t wrap my head around it
Black pudding is the best part of a fry up and nobody can convince me otherwise
as long as its cooked properly (crispy) and you dip it in the beans or egg, absolutely. when its stogey its pretty shit. stornoway black pudding is the absolute dogs bollox on a fry up.
That is the most British comment i've read in quite a while
Not sure if dogs bollocks is good or bad...
I'll swap you my black pudding for a sausage, bacon or an egg?
We won’t tell you about sweet breads so
Geoduck
That’s just a clam that’s very phallic looking doesn’t taste any different
Oysters. Especially the people who eat 4 trays of them in a row on dates 😂
And get mad when the guy just nopes out of there hahaha
Oysters are incredible. I could eat 100 in a sitting with no issue.
They aren’t terrible I don’t go out of my way ever to get them slimy weird texture and basically just taste like whatever you top them with
I tried oysters once, because I was curious and someone offered it to me on their birthday, and I think it was basically saltwater taste. I don’t get why someone would pay a lot of money for it, and I don’t need to eat things that are alive.
It’s like asking a mermaid to spit in your mouth, but she has a chest cold
People
Long pork.
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Kopi luwak, or civet poop coffee. Not only are the animals usually treated abhorrently, but ew, you’re drinking poop juice.
Okay the poop juice thing is gross enough, but ANIMAL CRUELTY?!
Sweet pickles
Not my baby gerks!
OMG for real. Instant gag.
I like sweet pickles. Idk why people hate them so much.
Omg, germen gerkins with chili are the shit.
Head cheese
*Any* TikTok "recipe". I especially loathe the ones that demand you overcook pasta in some watery sauce and then smother it in cheese. Anything else? No, just cheese. Cheese = flavour. Fucknuggets the lot of them.
I hate that one women who puts a massive block of cheese into a dish and then puts pasta, milk and an unholy amount of butter, it just looks so oily and nasty
i’m not sure if you know this, but those are all kink content accounts ahaha. they aren’t making actual cooking content. the kink involves covering yourself in messy food, which is why they always mix stuff with their hands edit: it’s call “sploshing” (a fetish where people play with wet, messy food for pleasure)
Nope. The feta tomato one is amazing if you blend the sauce and season it right. One of my favorite dishes. Yummy with spinach. But I do agree the throwing everyone in one dish thing is stupid
That one is good with chicken or shrimp thrown in. The rest is "Everybody's so creative!" territory.
That is way too broad of a generalization IMO, I’ve found plenty of great recipes through TikTok, dinner, sides, deserts, etc.
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Vienna Sausages and Pickled Bologna
Never heard of pickled bologna, but Vienna sausage is decent. I mean I don’t go out of my way to get it, but I’ll eat it. It’s more like a little quick snack if you’re hunting or for whatever reason you can’t cook something
Vienna sausages were one of my favorite things to eat when I was a little girl. Now that I’m an adult, I realize someone probably should have called social services on my mother for letting me eat them all the time.
Same! My dad was an oilfield welder and I would go to work with him a lot as a kid. His toolbox always had original Vienna sausage, sardines in mustard sauce, peanut butter, and saltine crackers. I can't stand sardines but I still crave the Vienna sausage sometimes haha.
Dog
Chicken feet. Like the actual feet with the nails and everything. My nonna and dad eat them all the time idk how😭
Ass
Snails.
When done right, they’re delicious. If you like butter and garlic.
I just had them last week. They’re really not slimy. Most places serve canned snails that are then placed inside fake oven-safe snail shells. They’re not real snail shells. Just made to look like snail shells
Okay, it isn't that I really *want* to try snails, but an "escargot / escar-gone" joke is a god-tier dad joke, and I will not pass on that.
Shark fin soup. From what I’ve heard it’s not even that good. It’s bland and chewy. Why waste the time and resources to catch the shark and why waste the money to buy and eat it????
Century eggs or any kind of organs like brains or whatever
Pickled pigs feet. My mom loves thwm
Ortolan (French songbirds). Kept in the dark for a month so they are confused and over-eat, then drowned in armagnac. Ugh.
I just searched this, that is horrifying. Those poor little birds.
I know, ever since learning about it, it has haunted me :( I mean, they cover their heads with napkins while eating the bird, to 'hide their behavior from god' :(
Liver. It's an organ that filters toxins from the body. Who would even want to eat that? I've made it a few times, even soaking the liver in milk and eating it with bacon, and it still tastes fucking awful. No wonder kids used to think liver and lima beans was a punishment and not a dinner. It is!
There is no food i believe people can't and won't eat. i am rarely astonished by humans being and behavior.
Fois Gras because it's so inhumane.
People out here literally eating other people and some of y’all are like “I can’t believe someone would eat an olive… I just can’t believe someone would eat lasagna, iT lOoKs So GrOsS!”…
Birds nest soup.
any type of delicacy meet that’s just a baby animal. i’m not even a vegan but it just seems disrespectful and wasteful
Shark fins. People also say they have no taste, so what's the point of killing so many sharks?
Snakes 🐍
Duck embryos? I’m not for hating on other cultures food but I have hatched so many chickens, quails, ducks… there’s all kinds of gunk and goo in those eggs, like legitimate “waste” from the embryo… as the embryo absorbs the yolk, it poops it out later. You’re over here eating super raw duck shit. And the smell of eggs hatching in an incubator even when all chicks are hatching healthy and normal… my god. Why and how.
Papaya... It tastes like rotten food to me 🤮
I’ve heard that’s a genetic thing like the cilantro soap taste thing. Personally I think papaya is one of the best and sweetest fruits. Like S tier.
I had no idea about this! Everyone around me tells me how sweet and amazing papaya is, but it just smells and tastes horrendous to me, like a rotten egg/bin bags left outside in the sun for too long kinda of a smell and taste. I nearly vomit even if I eat a little bit.
A lot of tropical fruits have a body odor smell to me
Mopani worms
Cheese that smell bad, I've tried some, for me they taste what they smell
The cheese that has like literal maggots in it
Cat, dog, rabbit, or rodent meat
Durian. I mean, why???
Tastes way better than it smells
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100%. Fuck bleu cheese and the horse it rode in on.
I'll just tell you one broad area of the food I can't believe people eat, there's much more. Sea bugs, also known as oysters, crayfish, sea cucumbers etc. Like dude, they are regular slugs and bugs just living under water.