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I love smoked oysters. they come in a can similar to sardines. Everyone else I know thinks they are gross!

Dog meat. Actually, I'm not the biggest fan but certainly better than snake.

If you know Vietnamese food, "Nem Chua". It's a pinkish-greyish pork wrapped in banana leaves. It's sort of the hot dog of Vietnam. No one really knows what it is. But it's a very good beer snack.

what is scrapple?

Puffy: Good for you! I still have some scrapple in the freezer, made last year by our neighbor. There are a *few* benefits to living on an old farm in the middle of nowhere!

ThatGirl: Scrapple is just good, and a PA Dutch standard. It's pork scraps, cornmeal, and spices formed into a loaf, which is then sliced and fried. But don't let that scare you -- it's worth a try.

Steamers, smoked oysters (a can sitting on the counter right now).

ok, I am going to share two of my favorite smoked oyster appetizers with my fellow SO lovers.

Simply wrap a third strip of bacon around a smoked oyster and a whole water chestnut, secure with toothpick and bake til crispy. To die for!

Take a triscuit, smear with cream cheese. Push a smoked oyster and a green pimento stuffed olive into the cream cheese and eat with divine pleasure.

Steamers, raw oysters, cherrystones (raw clams), any kind of liver (from liverwurst to foie gras), marrow, any kind of braised cheeks, and sweetbreads. I'm sure I've forgotten something!

Offal, menudo, mayonnaise straight from the jar and pickle juice.

Uni, natto, Spam, White Castle. Chicken McNuggetized McD's cheeseburgers. Ro-Tel/Velveeta cheesedip. Chicken-skin and chicken-cartilage yakitori.

Ketchup and hot sauce on Mac and Cheese. Love it!

Tripe, Goat, braunschwager (especially between two slices of toast w/ scrambled egg while camping).

Horse meat

Tongue, oysters raw or smoked, eggs basted with bacon grease, vension tartare, pickled herring, tripe, liver

REALLY salty french fries on a plain cheeseburger.

Lamb kidneys and/or liver

Durian, scrapple, fried grasshoppers, naam,

canned sardines, either straight from the can or fried until they're almost crisp.

turkey tush
raw oysters
live scallop
sweetbreads

I recently went to Seoul and had grilled intestines and beef heart. Although they look a bit gross, they are soooo good!

I also tried dog meat (i) braised and (ii) spicy soup - it was tender (tasted like lamb), but I didn't enjoy it at all.

i love canned corned beef hash...

Phoebe Lawless, I am with you. My fave is corned beef hash fried with egg and eaten on sweet San Francisco sourdough. (

Also, I suppose I should ammend my love of liver to specify: liverwurst, from a can.

yeah Lia, SPAM!
tripe, chicken feet, pig stomach, dried squid....

A number of my friends are thoroughly horrified and digusted by the notion of cooking in rendered duck fat. I love alligator and conch (Floridian, can you tell?), and have finally been converted to eating tinned anchovies, at least sometimes. Brussels sprouts.

Fruitcake! Anyone say chitlings yet? And ditto with SPAM, uni, smoked oysters.

Ooh not just duck fat thepictsie, goose fat too! I knew I forgot something. And of course, Brussels sprouts. Mmmmmmm!

Lobster tomalley--even Alton Brown doesn't like that. Chicken feet, although I only use them to make soup. Even people who love my soup don't want to know that. And when I cook with bacon fat, people act as if I just told them i like char-broiled baby human. Folks are too judgemental these days.

Hey, I eat ketchup on my mac and cheese too.

And to those who aren't still quote clear on what scrapple is, we have a saying here in Philly, where it is very popular: Scrapple is... what it sounds like.
I've never seen it homemade but commercial scrapple looks grey in the package. Yum, grey meat!

I can't believe there are people who don't know the glory of smoked oysters.

I too love peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches.

But the top "gross" thing I eat is anchovies.

wow! (almost) all of the above & chittlins ( only my own recipe,delecious, & non gross at all), brains 'n eggs...better than green eggs 'n ham-lol !
By the way, what is natto?

Scrapple for me, too! It is basically a mix of all the unused pig parts, flattened and fried like sausage for breakfast. If you don't think about what you are eating, you are bound to love it.

A grilled cheese sandwich dipped in a mixture of half ketchup and half pickle juice. (Or Menudo)

Okay, the last one sounds like something a pregnant woman would crave.

Wait, kiwis eaten whole? You can eat the skin, Meg? I didn't know that. Interesting.

By the way, what is natto?

joturtle, here's a post on natto from the other day. I try not to be too judgmental about food, but to me it's pretty nasty stuff.

UNI(SEA URCHIN)! MMM,MMM! AND FOIE GRAS

Broccoli or string beans with barbecue sauce, sweet breads, kangaroo, a few rank cheeses,

I'm with Puffy, EJ, and HFike. Scrapple it is. Everyone gives me a look of disgust when I admit my secret, but really there's nothing like it. Crispy on the outside with a delicate creaminess to the pork inside. Mmm. On Sunday mornings, when we were young, my father always liked to fire up the skillet, take a bite and say, "Everything but the oink!" Rapa would do, but he gets his from a local farmer friend. He'd also make fried green tomatoes while he was at it. Breakfast of champions!

just posed this question to my boyfriend, who comes from the Lofoten archipelago (Northern Norway), and this is what he said:
lutefisk
reindeer with brown cheese
whale steak
blood pudding
'plane crash' - that's mackrel in tomato

Um, gross.

flash-fried baby crabs - like popcorn! I even ate a live one once (the sushi chef said he'd buy me a beer if I did, one of those big Kirin Ichibans). He served it in a martini glass and it got out and went all over the sushi bar before I could catch it and put it in my mouth. Everyone thinks that's REALLY gross! I'd have to say I prefer the flash-fried ones, but if you dare me I'll eat a live one again.

Also I've only had this once, in Spain, but squid in its own ink. It comes out on the plate looking like tar. But it was good, and once I got used to the sauce I was mopping it up with the rest of my bread!

"squishdines" sandwich: tinned sardines with bones & skin mashed with malt vinegar, salt & white pepper on buttered brown bread

holysh*t NYminknit!!!!!
you did say fried eggs...right?
I've got to have rye toast saturated with butter instead of sourdough...and lotsandlots of ketchup...cold ketchup to be exact

and liverwurst???my mom used to make me sandwiches with wurst, mayo and onions...heaven!!

Who can eat spinach without ketchup?

I know i can't.

www.forgotten-ny.com

Stuffed pig trotters are quite a treat, and I'll eat them whenever I see them on a menu. I also adore ama ebi (sweet raw shrimp and a deep-fried fish head, crispy and creamy) and salt-and-pepper prawns. Tripe, sweetbreads, kidneys (steak and kidney pie), and foie are all good, as is any form of raw fish.

My father lives to hunt. Instead of chicken, pork, and beef in the deep-freeze, my family was well stocked with game—pheasant, duck, elk, deer, grouse, quail, and mourning doves (there is exactly one bite of meat on each side of the breastbone).

And one of my favorite sandwiches: salami, cheddar, and raspberry jelly.

Femmebot: I asolutely adore balut. Growing up in Jersey City, NJ, it was a great midnight snack with a bowl of rice, eaten kamayan (with your hands.)
Wow! You ARE a serious eater! I like balut too -- just without the fetal chick. I also like the red salted pickled eggs. Yum!

stay tuned for kimchi w/hot dogs recipe.