I've had raccoon. Reminded me of pork chops. all in all, though, wasn't very good.

Possum is bad tasting to me, raccon is O.K. Bear is to greasy and stringy. Love grits , hominy and boiled peanuts. Ramps are great cooked with eggs, or eaten raw with a bologna sandwich.

When I was in Okinawa I had baby frozen Octopus, pulled it from the bar, then "cooked" it on the hotplate at our table, it tasted all rubbery with a gooey middle.

Scrapple, spam, grits...you guys don't know what's good. I was wondering, just how hungry was the first guy to eat a balut.?

I can still taste it 30 years later...
 

Dog ribs (past their prime) with nuoc mam (also past it's prime) and poorly prepared left-over javelina stew.....whew...can't put enough BBQ sauce/food deodorizer on that stuff. Balut (maodan) can be, em, interesting.

Here’s a delicacy from the motherland, called tiet canh. It falls in a class of food roughly translated as “drinking food,” to be eaten with rice wine, beer, liquor, etc. It’s a big hit and a must-have when the old-timers get together to reminisce about the war and the homeland.

Take one live goose. Slit its throat and drain the blood into a pan. Refrigerate the pan and let it sit as the blood congeals into a jelly. Dress the goose and boil. Boil the goose liver as well and slice into thin strips. Lay the goose liver strips on top of the congealed blood. Sprinkle the pan with crushed peanuts and squeeze a lemon or lime all over. Scoop the jelly and liver out and slurp it right off the spoon, with the goose meat on the side.

I’ve only seen this prepared once, but have seen it served several times over the years. In 1976 we were living in Houston. We refugees were relative newcomers, so there were few grocery stores or restaurants. All the good stuff was being cooked at home. One night one of my dad’s friends invited us over for dinner. I was playing with the other kids when I heard a commotion in the kitchen. I ran in to see two geese being brought in from the back yard. They were very pretty, with bright white feathers, and these guys had found a local farm which sold them. I didn’t know what was coming, and quickly ran out of the kitchen when the geese started wailing and screaming.

Balut, wife and family love it. The nieces and nephews are being trained to eat it, they are starting out on the hard yellow yolk. I just scurry to a different area of the house until they are done.

1000 year eggs, I love it. It's delicious with congee (rice porridge) and sliced pork.

vsvo:

You are hereby disqualified by reason of ethnicity.:D

And you provide way too many details for the squeamish.

TR

LOL. Yes, sir. I always like to know how my food is prepared, maybe not such a good idea in this case.:D

What dumbass started this thread???? I am going to go puke now.:D LOL

x

Can't eat possum here, too much poison in their systems. Have to watch out for rabbits and know there's no poison being used in the area you've got it from, too.

Can't say I've ever had anything out of the ordinary. There's a Wild Food festival each year down south on the West Coast, but seeing as it's A. The West Coast and B. My cousins live there, I've passed on going to it.

Ryan is the Winner
 

That was disgusting.

I missed this one somehow.
You Sir, are mistaken. They are called Prarie Oysters. They are most excellent as a snack while working. Simply whack them and throw them on the branding iron fire. Wash down with ice cold Lone Star.

I was a cowboy before Buddha Enlightened me and I got my LGH...;)

I agree, Ryan wins.

I just came in from the shop and I'm hungry! This sounds GOOD! Now I have to go see what Ryan has to offer.

Ryan, buddy,
Thanks for taking one for the Team here. I hold the regional record for longest distance shooting an elk turd out of my nose (have witnesses) but have little desire to sample the delicacy you desribe.
Bill

LOL! Mr. Harsey, it must've been an extra hard day in the shop!

Ok, undercooked squirrel or goat doesn't even come close to some of these. But what about jellyfish, sans tentacles.

goat eye

KFC chicken biscuit sandwich in the upper sickhouse @ MEDLAB, the old one, during records and reports

beef, diced, with gravy

Rhade cooked chicken head with rice and the crap sucked up through a bamboo straw during the partaking of their rice wine.

Jim

Not to contradict, just to add a regional difference, they're called Rocky Mountain Oysters out here. Absolutely delicious especially when fresh as described above! Even better if they came off of a buffalo.

Nastiest I've ever eaten, puppy stew.

Ugly but delicious - baby squid, raw marinated. and buffalo tongue.

Excellent thread!

LL

I bit into a chicken salad sandwich that started foaming in my mouth one time. I purchased it off a roach coach back when I was doing construction... lets just say that the pink stuff was my friend.

One of the old-timers at my deer camp quickly scurries up the testicles off any bucks that get shot. He par-boils them, then fries em up. I'm not a big fan of the process (if you've ever cleaned and dressed them you know what I'm talking about), or the ritual. I refused to try them on GP for the longest time, but then Jack Daniels twisted my arm one night. Can't say I'll be putting them on the grocery list, but they *were* pretty tasty.

I love mountain oysters. When I was in CO we used to have a couple of big nut fries a year. What a feast. They do have to be cleaned and prepared right though.

The nastiest, to think about anyway, was Sooya. (however it is spelled). It was bite size chunks of meat, on a skewer, cooked over a small open fire (frequently pieces of old tires mixed in with the wood). Then the street vendor wood remove it from the fire and scrape it into a piece of newspaper to wrap it up. This was in Calibar, Nigera (formerly Biafra). It tasted good, looked pretty good, but you were better off not knowing where the animal came from, what the critter was and ignore the newspaper. It was from differant animals. We all loved it, ate it frequently and went to the local bar afterwards. None of us ever had to be de-wormed. Must have been because of the burning Goodyear and sterile meat wrapping.

Worst:
Two lobster tails that had gone bad. Ridiculous story but I finished them. Then I wished I hadn't. I also hated the only batch of rattlesnake I've ever eaten. Maybe I just got a bad portion or something but it tasted....copperish, like I had a penny in my mouth or something.

Best:
Fried gator tail is the food of the gods.
Ostrich (emu is not as good.)
I think buffalo is scrumptious, but never tried the testicles.


S

I ate a Mopane worm (cooked) in Namibia and I have to be honest, I didn't care for it. I smiled as I ate it though-- didn't want to insult the people who were feeding me. If you're interested there's a picture of some Mopane worms here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:H...ed_Mopanes.jpg

I remember Rocky Mountain Oysters being on the menu at The Fort. I can't remember if I tried some (I probably did); I was with my project/engagement team, and the beer was flowing. I do remember the buffalo marrow bones, simply delicious. That and smoking cigars out by the teepee and fire after dinner.

The Fort, in Morrison, CO is fantastic. The menu is great, the food is great, the only thing not so great is the bill.

Never had oysters in a restaurant. LOL

Marrow bones are awesome, you just throw 'em in the fire, and when the bones start cracking, it's a rather distinctive pop, rake 'em out of the fire, hit 'em with a hammer and then spoon out the marrow.

LL

Rocky Mountain Oysters do not come from bulls. Deer or elk (and now buffalo).

Well, after you're done 'harvesting' they're no longer bulls (bull elk, bull deer, bull cattle, or bull buffalo) anymore anyway. What's that old DI line, "Only 2 things come from Texas....."

Dog ribs that were past their prime in Taiwan. That was over 30 years ago and still gives me the shivers.....:eek:

NDD you need to participate in a good size branding on some ranches in CO. You can even harvest the mountain oysters yourself and witness first hand where they come from. Its a pretty big deal out west, quite a differance from the east coast. You cut, clean em, batter em and fry em. Ad a few beers in there and it just does not get any better than that.

Here's a picture of Balut moments before a good buddy of mine devoured it. I thought you were supposed to eat disgusting things in SERE, but definitely not in language school?!

I have never had the.... pleasure(?) of eating Balut, but the most disgusting concoction I've ever put into this body had to have been during Sage. Here's the recipe:

1 ea. - O'Doul's that had been sitting in the sun for 3 days
1 ea. - liquid charcoal
1 ea. - sour milk
4 ea. - raw eggs

And OF COURSE, this was their "Holy Drink" that we would offend the G's if we couldn't manage to keep it down. All we were thinking is, "If this is such a delicacy how come we're the only one's drinking it!?"