Hey, with enough garlic, anything can taste good!
was the first person to eat a snail starving or
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PH: 1. they have a car commercial about it
2. I'm sure that it was mentioned in a class about the Indians leaching them before they made acorn meal, then cooking them (forgot how)but they mentioned that there were grounding stones all over California, I'm sure that me & my cuz saw some around Lake Tahoe, right off the lake after you leave Incline Village, theres a Nevada State park lookout, that has them all over by the water
3. as I said, starving & experimenters
From when man first foraged for berries its been trial and error but there must have been some luck as well , Never met a hungry cook..and if in doubt let the guest eat first
The toxins in the blowfish/pufferfish swimbladder are extremely deadly - they are considered a sushi delicacy in Japan and only most skilled sushi chefs can prepare them properly - even so quite a few people die every year from consuming it.
I often wonder at the wierd shit people eat - like soup made from bat vomit, shark fin soup (tasteless, full of heavy metals, and with the consistency of thin mucus), Eggs which have been buried for 100 years.
How hungry must the first guy to try this stuff have been?
100 year old eggs are convered for 3 months in lime and ash I'M going to have to wiki the exact process..you used to be able to buy them but i've not been able to get any love to try them though
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg
I think that was part of 'Imperial cuisine' when the emperor of the sun had 1000's or so different dishes served in a multitude of courses each a masterpeice..(talk about pressure)
Quote"The menu in the Ming Palace changed daily and dishes were not repeated. Light refreshments also changed daily. This variation in the daily diets continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty."
Source...http://www.china.org.cn/english/imperial/25792.htm
You can pickle your own quails eggs (with shells on) and the shell dissolves leaving a solid yolk and the albumen is jellified but is a translucent pearlessent blue quite nice.
PH: remind me to turn you down, if I ever get invited to dinner at your house, I'm eating out of cans, yes its Campbell's for me
LOL... gee thanks...
When I worked at 'Woburn Abbey, Sculpture Gallery' we used to exeriment with different combinations of foods and I was reading a book on traditional chinese foods (for celebrations) and it had a picture of a 100 year old egg, as we couldn't buy it I tried to make it, so I took 10 raw quails eggs, placed them in 10 seperate ramekins and tried different concoctions of 'Pickling' a couple just vinegar, the rest variations with soy,sake,I think brandy was one but not sure labeled them all and waited...
It's was interesting to watch the shell dissolve and the colouring take place (as I didn't know what to expect)....only 2 or 3 were ok,had stability when cut, and tasted ok...But did spend the next day or so expecting a large dose of the squits, luckily was ok....When we found out how they did it none of us had guessed even close to the technique, yet the result was suprisingly close with just a picture to go on...(even though it was a different colour)
Have you tried a 'Durian friut', It tasted to me like "Mouldy Onion Custard strained through a Tramp's Sweaty Sock"....It smells even worse....
http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/kitchen/2002fa_durian.html
Who comes across something that smells and taste so bad and decide its food....oh I know the 'French' with their 'Epoisses cheese' this also taste's as bad as it smells,
http://www.cheese-france.com/cheese/epoisses.htm
yet it's probably a sign of manhood as its generally the older people who eat it... watching people eat it and your hear the odd "mmmm" a bit of eye contact and a couple of nods and you can tell everyone knows its vile.....
Which do you prefer
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1. I had a laughing fit when I read your post LOL, followed by a coughing fit, got a cold thats going around
2. that reminds me of an other idea for a post, its gross
3. not interested, why would anyone eat it then?
4. sounds more like a rite of passage, (say the following with a fake French accent), "Pierre, you can not be officially French until you trick that gullible American to eat this leftover rotten spoiled cheese"
5. "yes, Pierre, make him think it is the king of the French creamy cheeses, yuk! it so runny! & charge him double!!"
6. Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup, M'MMM good
Think you got it spot on lol
one number 6 cicken noodle soup coming right up..............bon appetit
Enmos
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I got sick right after eating some dish (I can't be bothered to look it's English name) as a kid. I still won't eat it, although the food and the sickness were unrelated.
Same thing with milkshakes, although I have those now. Took a while though.. around 6 or 7 years lol
Creeptology
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I don't eat meat but if those human snails from uzumaki graphic novels existed I would eat one live! 100 year old eggs aren't 100 years old, they are duck eggs buried in lime/wheat ash/salt mix for 100 days approx (also called dragon eyes). I used to love them but can't stand them now. Preserved salt eggs are good though (not very old, look normal when break but hard clear yolk).
People would still eat them, who ate habaneros and thought that must be good for you, I will eat those again. I like them but if they had never bean eaten before (to my knowledge) and I chanced across them and ate one I would SHIT myself.
Same with really sharp tasting mould ripened blue cheese and strong brie. Who ate them and thought they tasted good? I used to eat a lot as a kid but only blue cheese I like now is roquefort and maybe gorgonzola and mild blue stilton, and that's in small amounts. I couldn't eat danish blue for the life off me but was my fav cheese when I was 10, yeah I had problems.
People would still eat them, who ate habaneros and thought that must be good for you, I will eat those again. I like them but if they had never bean eaten before (to my knowledge) and I chanced across them and ate one I would SHIT myself.
Same with really sharp tasting mould ripened blue cheese and strong brie. Who ate them and thought they tasted good? I used to eat a lot as a kid but only blue cheese I like now is roquefort and maybe gorgonzola and mild blue stilton, and that's in small amounts. I couldn't eat danish blue for the life off me but was my fav cheese when I was 10, yeah I had problems.
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C:
1. its a form of self-inflicted punishment, the more your nose runs, tongue burns, the more you love it? it must be a double dare macho thing?
2. there are slow-burners, I had some Szechuan veggie/beef dish, it had oils, what looked like tamarind pods, meat, it was good for about a few mouthfulls, until my mouth lit on fire 5 minutes later, I drank all the water on the table, then asked for more, it was bad, real bad
3. someone once told me, to hold my nose closed & sneak the cheese into my mouth, that that way the taste receptors on our tongue get the flavors, so my guess is the first people that tried smelly cheeses had colds or flus?
4. do you think its because you aged?
In answer to the OP, no. He was a Frenchman. They eat anything.
J: thats funny
no really, then how they get Americans to try them too?
charge them double, say its an "acquired" taste?
LOL...what about Mountain Oysters...
uke: truely an american dishJust remember the testicles should be crispy on the outside and tender on the inside