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Dude, I just ate a pickled rose
Posted: 6:30 pm, May 4th, 2009 in Miscellaneous
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This makes me wonder - what's the strangest or craziest thing people have eaten? For me, I ate a hotdog off of a local mexican street cart at 3 am once when even my BF of the time, who was born and raised there, refused to. I've also eaten barracuda that we caught, sliced and grilled. AND! I ate the Walgreen's sandwich!!!
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Where did you get the pickled rose?
So far, brain. That's the "weirdest" thing I've eaten... but I don't count all the "weird" things I've eaten that are Asian cuz I'm Asian so I don't feel they count (ie, grew up eating chicken feet and still don't consider them weird)
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Shoot--- I was thinking Chicken Feet is the strangest thing I have eaten... Then I read Yvo's comment. I have (and love) sauteed sweet breads, I love a chopped liver sandwich on a club roll with sliced Bermuda onion... I have eaten grilled skewers of chicken hearts... Does that count?
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Now are we talking strangest as in thing that will make somebody say ewwww, or strangest tasting? Because eating brains and sweetbreads are certainly strange- but usually taste great.
Sea urchin, on the other hand, is no stranger than eating an oyster or mussel... and yet the taste is far stranger!
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my friend came back from china with it. i thought it was beef jerky. wish i had taken a picture. it was meatier than i thought it would be. nom
i've eaten bone marrow. braised some veal shanks in balsamic vinegar (didn't have any wine) and remembered something about tony bourdain's deathrow meal and decided to dig out some marrow. it was really tasty good but the texture was ... it was like eating veal jello.
i don't think offals count as strange anymore. they've moved up to 'gourmet' status.
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Sea urchin (genitalia really) doesn't taste strange! It tastes creamy and briny and delicious! And I think most Americans still consider that super weird/strange... mm creamy delicious. With hot pasta, gently melting into the strands of spaghetti... or on a panini (obligatory grumble about how expensive it is here but it's still delicious)... or with soba... or... or... damn you Zach it's 9:20a and now I'm thinking where can I get (good) uni downtown. :P
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Sorry forgot to add:
chicken feet
intestines
brain (lamb)
sweetbreads
liver (chicken, duck, I think beef)
heart (cow)
tongue
turtle
snake
shark's fin
gator
rabbitI plan on adding guinea pig to that list shortly (when I'm in Macchu Picchu).
But to go back to Zach's question, what's the scale of weird? Is it weird tasting or weird to other people? Weird tasting for me would be oatmeal.
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I would think weird in this context would be "not commonly thought of as food". Candied roses certainly falls into that category. Of yvo's list, perhaps chicken feet (since on a given chicken foot, there's not much to provide any sustinance, so I guess you have to make up for that in quantity). I agree that "offal" has elevated to "gourmet" status, which is annoying since there isn't a lot of organ meat in a given animal, so all of a sudden the prices have shot up for those parts (I love chicken liver). Man, I remember when wings were the least expensive part of the chicken, now they're the most expensive.
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Pig's ears? I haven't eaten those (to my memory)... but I give them to my dog sometimes. Seeing the bristly hairs on them really bothers me... but I assume it's delicious because she loves it, and I know other people do as well. I've always wondered about the appeal of pig's feet too... aren't they hoof-like? Cloven? Or something?
PS I'm really amazed there isn't more activity on the forums
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oh and ew. everyone of my friends raves about uni so i tried it. maybe i tried it in the wrong place but it had a really funky, musky taste to it that reminded me of sex. not very pleasant when you have that sort of reservation ( i felt like i was eating some congealed bodily fluid ) will give it another shot when i hit up some higher-end sushi joint.
yea i'm going to have to agree with chicken feet. or any kind of feet feels weird to me. i love chicken feet at dim sum but the fact that we're eating skin and cartilage has me wondering why I even have to pay for it.
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Dean, chicken feet are dirt cheap (or used to be) but I'm way too lazy to figure out how to cook them myself. I have a very set opinion in my head of what's restaurant food and what I will/can make at home. But I've been annoyed lately with how few chicken feet I've been receiving at dim sum, considering it should be cheap so why are they skimping on, of all things, chicken feet?!
As for uni, for a beginner, I don't recommend eating it as sushi/sashimi. Go to Sobakoh http://feistyfoodie.blogspot.com/2006/12/soba-koh.html for the uni soba, it melts/mixes into the noodles and gives it a nice creamy salty (please, no jokes) taste to the noodles - and they have excellent soba there. And uni shouldn't taste or smell funky... and I am not even going to begin to comment on what it reminded you of because that is just wrong on so many levels.
Let me know if you wind up trying that and how you like it! I definitely had reservations about uni initially so I didn't try it until I was absolutely positive I was ready for it. :)
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Eyeballs are probably the weirdest I've eaten... I've had many different species of fish eyeballs (growing up in Florida, it was almost a mandatory initiation on fishing trips). I've also had pig's eyes after a long night of drinking at my Cuban friend's pig roasts. Talk about some interesting textures.
I've also eaten virtually every part of a pig, from brain to ears to tail, but that doesn't seem weird to me because I've been eating it my whole life.
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urghhhhhhhhhhhhh I think I'd have to draw the line at the eyeballs.
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Or is it candied.. rose? either way it was preserved in like sugar and something that made it sour. it's delicious and isn't as perfumy as I thought it would be.
i signed in with my name as DeaNlO to see if case matters. it doesn't. let's see if that applies to tags