What's the worst thing a date's gotten you to eat?
 

Guess I'm on a food fixation tonight...

Last summer I was dating a Vietnamese gal. She and I and a few friends went and ate at a Chinese restaurant.

Before the lunch was over, I had eaten both a boiled chicken foot and a boiled duck foot. :pukeface: You stick them in your mouth and then spit out the bones. It was all I could do to prevent myself from vomiting on the table in front of us! No offense to those that eat this kind of food on a regular basis, just not something I'm used to eating myself. But I saw it as a challenge and met the task.

Or I'm just a dork. :P

PS My current gal's Italian, so I think I'm safe....

you talkin food?

It's definitely not date food but I am of Chinese decent and I hate chicken feet. There isn't much grosser than watching a bowl of chicken feet spin around on a lazy susan. Except for a bowl of jiggly cow tripe :eek:

I just stick to the lobster, crab and shrimp :D

Damn glad to read your post!

But we Italians eat cow stomach. :pukeface:

Never tried the cow stomach....it looks too much like a shoe insole :) I also try to stay away from the turtles, snakes, and the screaming salamanders (as was described to me) :eek:

Had an ex-girlfriend who was intelligent and attractive, but she cooked like Ellie Mae Clampett on the "Beverly Hillbillies"...didn't matter what. She made a steak for me once...I think Birkenstock bought the patent later...

:pukeface: I had that....ONCE...I almost spewed and I certainly could not finish it.....this was while I was living in Italy.

Her ;)

Must have had a personal Hygene problem? Huh?

What about bitter melon soup, did anyone try to force that stuff down your throat when you were a kid? How about that stuff you had to drink when you were sick?

While it might be a delicacy-

I just don't like parts. I'm boring- leave the brains, tongue, hoof etc to someone else. Strange texture.. can still remember watching someone carve off pieces of a boiled cow tongue for dinner. The mealie texture...not for me.

My chinese friends when I asked them about the chicken feet-they claim it's just the familar sauce that they like.

When I'm in doubt if far parts of the world. I can claim veggie status or ask for chicken soup=0) Just tell them your stomach doesn't feel well avoiding their offers for pills.

Michael

Many years ago my then new girlfriend made me a sumptuous breakfast of English muffins, scrambled eggs and ham with a hint of Lysol. We both got sick and spent the day in bed. Dang the bad luck!

Also as an aside i'm not sure but pretty sure that anyone who has ever had a hot dog has probably eaten stomach tissue, likely bowels, too. Mmmmmmm

Had crispy fried chicken feet in South America. Not too bad, actually. I don't care for most of the animal innards by themselves, but if they're in an intimate relationship with strongly flavored and spiced food, I do okay with them. For example, haggis would be a hell of a lot better if it had some flavor. Spices, Scottish people, do it for the rest of us.

I have the most problems with bland flavors combined with extraordinary textures. Hog parts tend to be greasy and musty smelling so I don't much enjoy hog parts unless their smoked or boiled somehow in preparation with the grease skimmed off. It's why I don't much care for sushi or sushimi unless liberally doped with that green paste and with ginger. Heck, just give me the ginger and the green paste and keep the other stuff for bait.

It took a while for me to appreciate boiled crayfish. Now I can down them by the dozens. Again, not a pleasing flavor on their own but when liberally spiced and chased with tankards of cold beer, man dats good, yeah.

Enough Turbo dog and you'll love the'm crayfish!

What is it about Abita's brewing process. I always have a headach the next morning after a beer-even if it's only one beer!


M

It's the recycled water and cigarette butts they use to make Turbodog.

Ever see "Good Morning Vietnam...?

Its For-mal-dee-hide....just a touch for flavor... :eek:

did they taste like chicken?

Nope never had bitter melon soup. My grandmother made it a few times but nobody ate it so she stopped making it :)

The stuff that had to drink when I was sick....yes the Robitussin was disgusting ;) What did you have to take? Then again there was the whiskey concoction which seemed to work well on bruises and cuts. Did you have that?

.............ouch..........and I thought $150. was bad................ :o

Not a date ('twas a business function at which I was the lucky guest of honor) so not sure it "counts" for this thread ;).

Live baby octopus. I swear I could feel the little bugger moving for a good 20 minutes.......

We
 

All ate a donkey one time in China. Hopefully, you are what you eat doesn't apply here...

Could she rot the leather seat off a Harley too?

That's wild. A slow burning death in a pool of acid.

Phooey that's good.

The other day I was watching Travel channel and it had documentary about weird food people around the world eat. South Koreans enjoy swallow LIVE octopus, Papua New Ginea eat both cooked and raw bat meat, these are huge bats, about the size of a small cat! :)

I was given some foul smelling black stuff, don't know what it was. It was pretty rank. Never did that stuff with bruises and cuts.

All you need to do is eat here.

I delivered 20 tons cow hooves and entrails to a factory in Gt Yarmouth...UK,
called Bird' Eye.

I was the first of 5 truck loads that day and every day.
I asked the dock checker if they made dog food....."No'. he said..."All that goes into bulking ! "

You eaten Bird's Eye lately ? :eek:

There was another company there called Matthews Turkey's.
They use a flailing machine to beat every bit of flesh/sinue/tendon etc from the birds to make their famous shredded packed turkey meat.

All their packaging says....'100 % meat'.


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Wasabi? :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

..............man I would have been pissed............she do anything to lessen your anger? :confused:


;)

I had to eat my girlfriends' grandma's lutefisk.

There is no substance on this earth as disgusting as lutefisk. I'd rather have eaten a stew of garden slugs in mucous.

"Hello ladies" said the blind man as he passed the fish market.........

Yeah, that's teh stuff. Man, I like it but hate having to use it on raw fish. Fish just has to be cooked. I'll bet wasabi would be good with celery or bell pepper slices.

Its a very efficient nasal decongestant.... :eek:

Actually it is not. http://preventdisease.com/news/articles/wasabi_clears_sinuses_think_again.shtml

I try to consume small amounts of that stuff because it is hot in a really weird way. Don't get me wrong. I love hot stuff and can take just about anything but it's like having a strong chemical pumped through the sinuses.

Coupla decades ago I paid for that pleasure, but it was a white powder. Costs a lot more than the green paste from hell. Might be interesting to lay a couple of lines of green paste on the table. "D-u-u-u-u-de, what a r--u--u--u--sh!"

first time I had it and I way misjudged its potency....and put on a pea sized wad........woooooaaahahhhooooo

Far , far more effective than vicks vaporub... :eek:


You only make THAT mistake once in your life.

I just had Sushi today...

The way to eat the stuff, and correctly use the wassabi is to put a blob of wassabi into a small tray in a couple teaspoonsfull of soys sauce, that usually comes with the sushi, and mix it all together until the wassabi is thoroughly dissolved in the soya sauce. Then, dip each peice of sushi into this mixture before you eat it. It improves the taste of the sushi 100% and allows you to moderate the dose of wassabi.
Both are an acquired taste. I like sushi so much better now than when I first tried it in 1993 when I first moved here from the prairies.

There are advantages to living in a multicultural city, and the best one is the variety of foods and restaraunts.

Still, I agree about the Chickens Feet that were referred to at the start of this thread. That is a pretty extreme Dim Sum dish. I have tried it - what is done is that you are supposed to suck the marrow out of the chickens feet, not actually eat the feet. Still, I can not get used to that, and pass that dish over when I go out for Dim Sum with friends. Don't label all Dim Sum as crap just because someone tried to make you suck a couple of Roosters Feet. Some of the dishes are quite tasty.

:D EVIL!

I would like to see what a bottle of wasabi gas would do attached to some ricer's civic....

Maybe more boost than nitrious? :D

I dunno, sushi always seemed so effete and trendy,completely opposite the Italian and Portuguese food I so enjoy cooking and eating.

Really though,how can one compare a bit of sushi with,say a good piece of fresh roughie,lightly breaded and baked at 325,served atop a bed of well peeled broccoli rabe and spinach sauteed in garlic and oil,topped with shaved pecorino romano with a light spreading of bruschetta atop it all?

Now that's good eatin'!!!

I like to cook and eat too but I think I would rather sit down to a meal of hickory smoked hog ribs, baked beans, and corn bread washed down with cold beer served in frosted mugs.

Sounds tasty. Really!

By the way, what do you weigh?

I used to weigh 190. I'm 5' 9". Now I weigh a lean 170.

Just playin' wit cha.

5'9" 170 lbs is fit.

As a side note I'll be 49 in Oct. Two years ago an 18 year old high school track athlete challenged me to a 2 mile endurance race. I whipped his a$$.

When you turn 49 I'll be turning 51.
Perhaps I should have eaten more ribs. I havent run a 2 mile endurance race in my life. Thats an impressive win for the Old School.

Been done, On the show "Jackass". They immediatly puked right there on the spot.