Eating gross stuff...

After repairing cooking & cooling equipment in resturaunts for the past several years and seeing the crap I've seen, a rotten buzzard in the wild would be a delicacy !
 
1whitefoot said:
Seen a documentary on TV once.
Down in South America.
They would go out and catch these Giant Tarantulas, big as dinner plates,
They'd bring them back and roast them over the fire and the kids would sit around eating the legs like french fries.
They was a' smacking their lips and looked pretty happy.
Then they would break off hunks of the body and eat them.
Looked to be good eating from the way they went after them:thumbup:
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I think I saw that show. The comment made was that the giant tarantula, a distant cousin of the crab or shrimp, tasted like...crab or shrimp. Go figure.

Roasting the tarantula over the fire was necessary to burn off the irritating body hairs that tarantulas use as a defense mechanism. It was also said that all parts of the spider were consumed (like a soft shell crab), except for the fangs, which were used as toothpicks.

I've had squid jerky. Weird smell, but good with beer. I also had "sea cucumber" at a local Chinese restaurant once in the Philippines. For me it had the taste and texture of semi-hardened snot. I had a second bite only because the host, my older brother's boss, insisted.

On another trip to the P.I., I was offerred what was called "dancing shrimp." Close inspection of said shrimp showed those suckers were still alive!
 
Mmm rattlesnake chili sounds delish! So does the roasted spider... I saw something similar on tv. Ya I'm part Filipino myself and I happen to love a dish called "Chocolate Meat" aka Dinuguan. Dinuguan is cooked and spiced pork blood. It coagulates as it cooks and is very thick and flavorful. Great over rice, no joke. If you've ever eaten Chorizo the ingredients of that contains blood and sometimes even lymph nodes... I won't eat Balut tho yuck even I have my limits lol! I've had Shark Fin soup but it wasn't good, I'd like to give it another try from a reputable establishment. I went to Tahoe once and stayed in a cabin. While there, I saw Giant Ants. These things were bigger than my hand.... and FAT! I bet they taste great in soup or roasted with spices/sauce... but they were poisonous if they bit you. Lol.
 
I guess joining the Navy and sailing all over the Pacific and Middle East was good for my soul after all. We used to have eating dares, some well known, such as eating Balut in the Phillipines, to getting introduced to various raw and cooked delicacies of other cultures.

Food is an expression of culture. From there it is all mind over matter.

I have had the aforementioned balut and its culinary cousin penoy.
Fragrant Meat (Dog) in Hong Kong. Dog is actually pretty good.
Sauteed frog's legs in Singapore. It's sort of like chicken.
Various seaweeds, bottom feeders, tidal pool creatures, etc., in Japan and Korea.
Caught, clubbed, and ate aboard ship sashimi style a skipjack tuna off of Indonesia. Prep was done by my Polynesian boss.
Peppery dishes in Thailand so tear jerking that they turned spicy Mexican food into training wheels as a frame of reference.
Roasted ants in Mombasa Kenya. Some sort of large meal grub too. Ants were prefered.
Roast camel in Oman.

In another thread on survival luxuries, I detailed carrying mini bottles of Tobasco just for this type of occasion. I am sure a little sauce could make even cannibalism a lot more palatable.
 
1whitefoot said:
Seen a documentary on TV once.
Down in South America.
They would go out and catch these Giant Tarantulas, big as dinner plates,
They'd bring them back and roast them over the fire and the kids would sit around eating the legs like french fries.
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yeah, I think I saw that too; was it called 'tribe' (or in the US, 'going tribal')?
 
408serrada said:
Mmm rattlesnake chili sounds delish! So does the roasted spider... I saw something similar on tv. Ya I'm part Filipino myself and I happen to love a dish called "Chocolate Meat" aka Dinuguan. Dinuguan is cooked and spiced pork blood. It coagulates as it cooks and is very thick and flavorful. Great over rice, no joke. If you've ever eaten Chorizo the ingredients of that contains blood and sometimes even lymph nodes... I won't eat Balut tho yuck even I have my limits lol! I've had Shark Fin soup but it wasn't good, I'd like to give it another try from a reputable establishment. I went to Tahoe once and stayed in a cabin. While there, I saw Giant Ants. These things were bigger than my hand.... and FAT! I bet they taste great in soup or roasted with spices/sauce... but they were poisonous if they bit you. Lol.
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Funny how tastes differ. I didn't mind the taste of balut, but the mental issue is hard. I do not care for chocolate meat, though, the flavor just doesn't do anything for me.
 
Fonly said:
this isnt really gross, but for thouse who haven't had shark, its actually pretty good. But two things I wouldn't but did eat, were frogs and ants.
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Growing up in Long Beach California, Thresher shark was a common thing. We had it at least once a week. That or Swordfish.

Probably the wildest thing I've eaten is Alligator. Had it at a wild game resturant up in Post Falls Idaho while visiting and capturing a friend (was moving back to Portland.) That or horse meat, which is yummy.

The grossest... BBQ sauce on peaches, or strawberry ice cream sauce on a burrito... Or maybe hot sauce on vanilla ice cream....
 
Fonly said:
haha, and in some cases anything becomes acceptable, eesh.
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There was this girl in high school.................:D

Yup I think you can eat almost anything if you can disguise the smell and taste with some type of spice or sauce. I was in the bush once and all I could catch in the little creek was a sucker fish. I baked it in tin foil on my fire. I thought it was done and cooled off a bit so I opened the foil, pulled off the skin and bit. As my teeth were sunk into the sucker its tail at the corner of my mouth did a long quiver as I must have hit a nerve in the semi cooked fish. I did not care much for that one. Other than that, porcupine was about the stinkiest critter that I have eaten and I have had a lot of diff. animals. Buffalo, porcupine, prairrie gopher, Elk, Caribou, White tail and Mule deer, moose (the best),rabbits, wild birds..ducks,geese,grouse, pigeon. Pretty much every North American fish including Carp. I will eat damn near anything as long as it has a spice or two with it, as some of it is rank with gaminess.
 
hahahaa, ohh, yeah, hey,.... wait a minute, thats what she told me. Uhno, Ok one of us got fooled.
 
caught a big wahoo (hawaiian: ono) once, carved up a piece of the belly on the boat and ate it raw. very tasty.

thats about it.
 
Cat, dog, grasshopper, red ants, black ants, fire ants and a really big texas cockroach. Nothing too exciting.
 
never eatin snakes though I'd like to try it I've eatin mostly game animals squirrels rabbits and up, but I've eatin a few turtles and a couple of small birds like wrens sparrows and swallows that I nabbed with a slingshot while in the woods and recently a couple of pidgeons takin up residence in an abandon farm also gator shark crawdads, and a few small lizards
 
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