Hungry anyone?

[NJmaverick]

Anyone ever try any of these things?


Black pudding- (sausage made of congealed blood)
Sweetbread- (stomach sweetbread is pancreas and throat sweetbread is thymus gland)
Lutefisk- (whitefish that’s been dried and treated with lye)
Balut- (duck or chicken eggs with almost-developed embryos inside)
Chitterlings- (pig intestines that are stewed or fried)
Haggis- (sheep organs mixed with grains, spices, and soup stock)
Dormouse Stew- (this hearty soup consists of dormice or sometimes rats)
Vegemite- (extracted from yeast and is used in the way we use peanut butter)
Ti?t Canh- (duck blood and innards, chopped nuts, and herbs mixed together and cooled so that it congeals)
Head Cheese- Head cheese is a more appetizing way of saying “meat jelly,” which is various animal (usually a cow or pig) head bits set in gelatin with herbs and spices. In Europe, it’s used as sandwich filling.

[cwydro]

1. I've had vegemite.

No intention of trying any of the others.

[NJmaverick]

2. What does it taste like?

[cwydro]

6. Tastes like metal to me.

Ugh. But my sister and father love it.

Apparently it is very high in B vitamins, but I just couldn't develop a taste for it.

[auntAgonist]

3. A traditional breakfast when I was growing up was

fried eggs
black pudding
bacon or sausage
fried tomatoes
fried bread

haggis is wonderful served with mashed potatoes and turnips.

I was born and raised in Scotland. I still love those aforementioned foods.

aA

[hippywife]

4. Wow! I did not know that!

So how be you this fine day, lass?

[auntAgonist]

9. och, y'ken I'm ai'ways guid!

Heading off to Ohio in a little while with hubby to meet Tobin for dinner n' politalk. It's been so long since we've gotten together with him. I'm truly looking forward to it.

hippywife. You put a smile on my face.



aA

[hippywife]

14. If I can put a smile on your face, darlin'

then it's a treat for me.

I feel silly this morning.

Have a great trip and a wonderful time with Tobin.

[cwydro]

7. We used to have fried bread too, with bacon and fried eggs.

My parents still love fried tomatoes. Mom is Welsh and Dad is English.

[NJmaverick]

12. What was that line Mike Myer had about Scottish cooking?

something about it was mostly based on a dare

[hobbit709]

5. 7 out of 10

Balut, Dormouse stew and Ti?t Canh-nope.
some of the others were a one time only, some I'll eat again.

And you left out pickled sparrow, a delicacy in southern Italy.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. I have tried chitlins....

the front of mouth liked them. the back of my mouth refused to let them go any farther...........

[auntAgonist]

10. omg .. perfect description of gagging!!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. I was all prepared to like them.

They smelled wonderful, looked kind of like calamari, front of my mouth was so happy..............

throat said: No FUCKING way!

[Curtland1015]

13. Only black pudding and head cheese.

Black pudding just tasted like metal. The head cheese was part of a Mexican dish.

[NJmaverick]

22. Head cheese just sounds so gross

I think they would have done better with meat jello

[azmouse]

15. Never had any of those.

Not sure I want to.

[sarge43]

16. When properly made, haggis is better than it reads.

It is, after all, a sausage.

If you eat ham and eggs for breakfast, you can eat anything. For the record that's a pig's backside and chicken ova.

[auntAgonist]

17. ....

Haggis is really good. Spicy and mealy. Great for any meal really.

[sarge43]

19. It is.

Especially good with the traditional potato and turnip mash.

Scotland is not prime farm land. People had to make do with what was available -- hardy animals and hardier grains.

In his dictionary Samuel Johnson defined oats as a grain that the English fed to their horses and Scots to their men. A Scot slammed dunked with, "That's why England is proud of its horses and Scotland, its men."

Rim shot.

[NJmaverick]

20. Now you two have got me wanting to try it

[sarge43]

21. Just make sure it's properly made.

There's some canned bloody Sassennach crap that make you knock back the whiskey until you reach oblivion.

[auntAgonist]

23. do not buy the canned haggis! you'll hate it and think we

lied to you

Find the real deal. I would be willing to bet you will thoroughly enjoy it.

aA
kesha

[SKKY]

18. I'm not gay or anything, but I would seriously...

...consider smoking pole for a bag of White Castles right now.

[newcriminal]

28. White Castles are by far the best thing anyone has ever eaten.

It should be a law that no one should be more than 30 minutes away from a White Castle restaurant. The frozen crap in the grocery stores do not do them justice.

[Kali]

24. eww

of your list about the only one I might be able to choke down is head cheese, and choke is probably accurate

[msanthrope]

25. I've had:

Black pudding- in the UK, for breakfast. It was good, but then I was told what it was and I couldn't eat any more.
Sweetbread-this is quite good, done properly.
Lutefisk- A bite. It did not agree with me.
Balut- No, although a store nearby me sells it.....the eggs are marked with a 'B' and then wither a 'D' for duck, or 'C' for chicken.
Chitterlings- These can be excellent, but you MUST have a cook who knows what they are doing.
Haggis- Had this one Christmas Eve in Preston Pans. Canned is disgusting, but good if done correctly.
Dormouse Stew- No.
Vegemite- Yes. Vaguely metal-tasting, not appetizing.
Ti?t Canh- Sound like old-fashioned mince. I'd try it.
Head Cheese- Had it on wonderbread. Never again.

[Dogtown]

26. Casu Marzu, there's one for your list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

[GCP]

27. Black pudding's pretty tasty

You fry it.