Strangest Food Experience?

[Infelice]

First kitties, now PUPPIES!!!!!

[variol son]

u can call filipino dogs many things infelice, but definately NOT puppies.

sum sui generis

[[Syl]]

hush puppies

[The Leper Fairy]

One time at DQ when I was about 9 I had to pull the onion of an onion ring out of my throat. It was disgusting. Haven't touched onion rings since.

And once when I was...er...11ish, I was at the restaraunt that my friend's parents owned with him and his dad. I choked on a hot dog and had to get the 'ol hiemlich maneuver. Not fun, but boy is it effective.

[Dromond]

Leper Fairy; You should try chewing sometime!

[Infelice]

You're a riot Dromond.

[Vain]

Silkworms when I was way younger

[Infelice]

Silkworms when I was way younger

Some kind of South African delicacy were they??

[Reisheiruhime]

Ok, the kiwi-fruit pie incedent is now on the top of my list.

[Skyweir]

lol

the worst food experience i ever had was when i was in new zealand .. lol ..

well there were 2 really .. first i was asked to put something in the freezer .. and i opened the door .. to find a pigs head looking back at me ..

lol .. oh another bad experience was in australia with some Chilean friends who invited me to dinner .. and they served up another whole pigs head and offered me the eyes!!!!!!! .. and then a piece of the brain!!!!!

well .. back to new zealand .. the source of most of my eating horrors lol .. i visited with a maori family with friends .. and being pakihah (sp?) it was insisted i eat kine (sp?) .. spiny raw sea urchin ..

and refusing was not on their agenda .. the thing was not that i had to eat it .. but that i had to have eaten it at sometime in my years stay in new zealand ..

so i lied .. i said i had already tried it .. lol .. before then .. and was let off .. chucking the gizzardy wriggling live tongues down my throat ..

*shudders*

i do like pork bones and pooh hah!!! yum!! but not the kine .. at all

[variol son]

i wouldnt worry sky, i no a lot of maori who wont touch kina with a 50 foot pole, so its not just pakeha who shudder @ the thought. ive never tried puha & pork, but nuthin goes past the old hangi, unless of course its paua steaks or toheroa fritters (which i havent had since the last toheroa season 12 years ago).

sum sui generis

[Skyweir]

cool!! i'm with them .. the not touching kina with a 50 ft pole crew

and i love hangi!! ... there's nothing like a maori feed .. unless it includes kina guzzling lol

and i have met some maoris who have promised to make me puha and pork bones .. but am still waiting lol ..

so are u maori variole?? i have never ever met a more beautiful bunch of people .. maori and polyneisan both ..

oh haha lol .. but when i was in nz .. there was a Fiji vs Samoa or Tongan basketball game .. in which a player lost an ear .. bit it right off!!! LOL ..

now there's a love of sport for ya!!! *you take this ball and i'll have ur ear!!!* never mess with a Tongan or Fijian .. and come to think of it .. watching all them Hakka's (sp?) never mess with a maori

[variol son]

im a little bit of everything sky, but i do have maori in there somewhere. my iwi (tribe) is kai tahu & we cover most of the south island. we r quiet & reserved until u get 2 no us, & fiercely loyal once u do.

i also have fijian in me, & they can b very interesting @ times, & i lived with a samoan, he was such a laugh. we polynesians r pretty kewl, rnt we?

sum sui generis

[Skyweir]

u got that right variole .. you polynesian dudes pretty much are THE ... kewl-est

[Worm of Despite]

My grandfather's had snakes, monkey brains, and goat's blood. It was all courtesy of South Vietnamese hospitality. Ha.

If you're not squeamish and you want more info (heh, why?), then check the spoiler. Don’t say I didn't warn you!

Spoiler

The Vietnamese would hogtie a dead pig and suspend it from bamboo sticks. Then, they'd wait five days. Come five days, they'd cut the throat, and let it bleed into a pan. The reason they waited five days was so that the blood would come out in really thick lumps. Of course, the blood wouldn’t run freely at all, so they had to literally pull it out. Then, they'd cook the lumps, and eat 'em like chicken livers. Yum!

[The Leper Fairy]

How would one even come up with that idea?!

[Worm of Despite]

Centuries of only hunting, gathering, and farming causes strange eating rituals in some countries. Plus, they had no McDonald’s! Honestly, though, I've no idea.

[Kinslaughterer]

I suspect after 5 days and coagulation, the trichinosis would die and make the pig ,ahem, less likely to infect the eater. Cultures always have a reason for doing things despite how bizarre or seeming repugnant.

[Worm of Despite]

I respect it, really. I'd never be able to do that, unless I grew up in their locale and had to live like them. It's just them making a living, as best they can. I'd probably do it too if I had to survive. Might even get used to it! Eh . . .

[Kinslaughterer]

I'd have to be awful hungry...
The Netsilik, a group living near Victoria Island Canada, will hunt caribou in the summer and take as many as they can. Before they butcher them, the kids rush in and pop out the eyeballs with their thumbs and eat 'em. They treat them like candy. The kids also love the parasitic grubs that live just under the caribou skin too.
The men sit down butcher them and eat first. They don't bother to cook the meat just eat it raw. If they have alot they'll eat it all up to 20 or 25 lbs. of raw meat!
I'd have to be awful hungry...