Eating gross stuff...

Hey Guys...

Being a Scout Leader that the kids actually like,, it's pretty easy to get them to eat stuff they normally wouldn't.. :)

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It can be Great fun sitting around the campfire passing around roasted insects..

Just getting back into Scouting after a 2 year break...
Alot of new kids have yet to try these things...Can't wait!!!

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Eric
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i ate a bacon wrapped hotdog from a stand outside the auditorio de tijuana and didnt get sick, iron stomach!
 
In the outdoors, nothing really that bad. My wife is filipino, so, as has been stated, those potlucks can get interesting. And yes, I have tried balut.

Whenever someone tells me that they would never eat a particular animal, I tell them that if they are hungry enough, all barriers would go down. And that includes things like cannibalism (as in the Donner party, or the Soccer team that went down in the Andes about 30 years ago). If you haven't eaten anything in a week, that cockroach starts looking tasty.

And with mammals, I don't understand the squeamishness. I'll try just about anything once. If it is prepared properly, why is a rat different from a cow? Once you cross the line of eating a dead animal, why are you so picky?
 
coyotesniper69 said:
Squid Jerky (Korea). Fish Taco (Baja Mexico), Marmot, Worms, Various bugs. Looking forward to snakes, Grubs and anything else that might be edible. What is really weird is I am very picky in what I eat normally.
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Squid Jerky as weird...sorry i'm of chinese desent! but i just wanted to said i like the stuff :)
 
Squid jerky is not bad, the body was a little fishy but the tentacles were really good. Remember, I was touring with a bus load of americans here in Korea and only 1 other person even tried it. To everyone else it was to gross to even consider trying. Especially after they smelled it.
 
The Chef said:
Hey VEE3.
I keep hearing about all those creepy crawlers up here in the desert and have yet to see a single one. I live right on the 138 so you'd expect something, right? I wish we had a few of those mojave greens up here, the only thing we have are imported PackRats from New Mexico, they do a good job of eating out the wiring in cars though.

Gross stuff eaten-
Fish Sauce straight from the bottle
Veal Sweetbreads
Cabesa )cow brains)
Spiders and a Beetle
Chocolate covered ants
Balut-Nasty Egg thing
Pig Oysters (pretty tasty)
Rattler, Cottonmouth, Copperhead
Red Ants
Turtle
Frog


Various crap in Culinary School - Raw Eggs, Pig Brain, Feet, Cheek (actually the best pork)

My list is pretty long, I am not scared to eat much or at least try it!
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Chef,

The pic of the Mojave Green and the Scorpion were both taken near Black Butte and Three Sisters last summer. The snake was on Black Butte Basin Rd near the RR tracks, just across 138 from you (So it was actually closer to Llano than Palmdale). I'm surprised you haven't seen any of the rattlers - My wife, son and I passed three while hiking the night I took the pic of the one eating the rat on the road. In fact, my wife commented - "You've led us into a rattlesnake minefield. Isn't that nice." Here's one of them, right at the base of Black Butte on the south side...

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Go down thataway at night in the spring or summer and you can pretty much be assured to see either a Mojave Green, Sidewinder or Mojave Glossy Snake (non-poisonous). I've seen very few Scorpions or Tarantulas out there in the last 40 years though.

This sucker (I've eaten them, BTW) jumped right out in front of us that night and my wife nearly had a heart attack. Night hiking in the desert is fun...

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Fish intestine soup for me and one grub.

But, I noticed on recent travels to see relatives, that the people of Asia eat just about everything.
 
Snake is good. I had to eat locusts on a survival course in Scouts. They could have done with cooking.

In the middle of the night Small cockroaches mixed in with the raisins (crunchy raisins). Only found out the reason for their crunchyness the next morning when wifey was throwing out the remaining raisins in their pack.
 
In my younger years, I have eaten the Balugs (chased with several bottles of San Migil), 100 year old eggs from Singapore, 'gator, shark, snakes. Now I prefer to take my chances at Micky Dee's or Burger King. Been known to go out on a limb once in a while at KFC's. Later, Bob
 
Never eaten anything too strange out in the wild, but last year went to my first ever sushi restaurant (in Chicago). I figured if I'm going to do it, to go all-out with some weird stuff. Had raw octopus, squid, various fish, and eel. Most were tolerable, but the eel was as slimy and nasty as it sounds - never again (unless it's a real survival situation :) )
 
Lambertiana, I agree with you completely. I experiment with eating a lot of wild game right now. My wife won't eat venison right now, but I know that if push came to shove, she would eat a rat. She's a sensible woman. And eating people?...the other pork?...I can see that happening in a crisis. If we get hungry enough, we'll start eating shoe leather and bark. It's been done before.
 
a large fruit bat at the ESA hotel on the island of Yap in the south pacific.

they boil the bat, pull it apart and you eat it off the bones

The dozen tanqueray and pinapple juices before helped a lot. ;)
 
pete's cooking...

i was waiting for you to sound off on the bat, pete. that can't be grosser than the cedar key oysters, though.
 
You know, I say anything that can be gotten easily in restaurants in America shouldn't be THAT strange for Americans. Frog legs, gator, rattlesnake, mountain oysters, rooster fries, pickled pigs' feet... they're so well established here that I always wonder why some people find them so exotic.

So I think of that as a sort of boundary line. If you're eating something like squirrels, you can start to say, yeah, this is out of the ordinary. (I happen to be a big fan of squirrel).

And I'm with lambertiana on mammals- what's the real difference between 'em?
 
BBQ goat is a treat. And so is raccoon. Some fish are so boney they are tedious to eat, but the flesh is good once you get to it. I've eaten raw fish (not talking prepared sushi here), and it isn't bad if you are hungry enough. In fact, live minnows can make a meal if need be. Chew if you want, but I swallowed them whole. Leeches are unapitizing, but you can skewer and roast them so they are chewey, and less likely to harbor parisites.
 
Ants, Lizard, grasshopper, chicken feet, duck feet, sea cucumber, octopus, squid, paca, alligator, capibara, blood sausage, boa constrictor, frogs, snails, crawfish (yum)...

The only one I wouldn't repeat is the sea cucumber, if you've ever smelled a jellifish you can imagine the taste.

Down in Brazil we have a species of ant that look more like wasps. They snap off the back section and fry them. I haven't had the chance to try them yet as there is a certain stygma that goes with it. It is considered a food of last resort for poor people and nobody wants to admit to having done it. Mac
 
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