Name something weird you like to eat

[adamhovey1988]

Being from the Deep South, I can honestly say I have.

 

[gracepoole]

Thinking about it, this thread is actually harder than ones dealing with theological questions, because different cultures have different views of what food counts as “weird”. That being said, I have never had this, but apparently it’s southern cuisine. Fried Coke

Oh, wow. I need that in my life.

 

[SFV]

I eat the orange peel

 

[StephieNorthCo]

Tis_Bearself:

Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches were Elvis Presley’s favorite snack. Any event or restaurant with an Elvis theme will have them on the menu.

A slice or three of bacon makes peanut butter, banana and mayonnaise simply scrumptious!

That sounds marvelous. Can’t recall trying that particular combination, but sounds yummy.

 

[Minks]

Irishmom2:

Ooh, be careful with that raw pork!

Thank you for your concern but I have never even an upset stomach from any raw meat. And that from over half a century of eating it.

But . . . you could have worms and not know it. Undercooked pork is notorious for transferring larvae into your system. The larvae eat right through intestinal tissue. Read about it, extensively, before continuing that practice with pork, please.

 

[Minks]

StephieNorthCo:

I love peanut butter and tomato sandwiches.

I find that peanut butter pairs with lots of fruit to make good sandwiches. my favorite is bananas and apples. My mom makes really good tomato jelly that would probably be really good with peanut butter

We made a delicious catsup, but I’ve never even heard of tomato jelly. Would you be able to snag that recipe for us? Pretty please?

 

[StephieNorthCo]

One of my sisters made tomato jelly. Unfortunately, she would not share the recipe with me. Drat. Siblings!

 

[adamhovey1988]

Try to make it yourself, use trial and error.

 

[Inbonum]

Sugar bomb in plastic cup… Never tried and probably will never

 

[asdn]

Hi, how uncommon is to eat smoked pig ears with onions?

 

[Inbonum]

@asdn Balcan people eat it whenever pig is on the table.
Not just ears but everything that could be eaten and digested. I don’t like pork but tried roasted pork skin.

 

[asdn]

The same for Portuguese people, we have dishes that include the blood, the heart, feet etc.

 

[Krisdun]

Green Vanilla Spinach cake

 

[Greenfields]

Thanks Minks, I know my safe mushrooms in this part of Australia ,it s Autumn here now and there are some beauties ready in the paddock behind where I live .I eat these ones every year.
The little button mushrooms that pop up after the first Autumn break rains are melt in the mouth tender

 

[Cruciferi]

Some of the bad ones can’t be distinguished from the edible ones, even by experts.

I have no idea what they’re picking then…

There’s really no reason to pick suspicious white cap and brown cap mushrooms. It would be very difficult to confuse a Giant Puffball with the Destroying Angel.

As they say, “There are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters, but no old, bold mushroom hunters."

Please think twice about that. The poisonous ones are lookalikes for some of the edible ones, and there’s seldom a way to prevent death, if eaten.

I have attended several Mushroom Lectures and read many books on the subject. I’m definitely familiar with the local fungi.

That being said, if anyone is having trouble distinguishing Chicken of the Woods from a random Conk, they should definitely find another hobby.

 

[Minks]

I love that white, thick, pithy thubthtanth (thorry, I couldn’t rethitht! ) between the orange flesh and the orange peel of a navel orange! I’d trade orange sections for the thick pith in the school lunch room. During my lifetime, I’ve met a couple of others who also love it. I suppose that could mean that we’re lacking some nutrient; I have no clue.

 

[Greenfields]

I like eating orange skins and the sweeter type of lemon skin and all
When I was a kid I would eat the eggshell along with the boiled egg.perhaps I needed the calcium.

 

[Xystus]

We made a delicious catsup, but I’ve never even heard of tomato jelly. Would you be able to snag that recipe for us? Pretty please?

Tomato Jelly
Tomatoes - 2-1/4 lbs ~3 cups
Lemons - 2
Sugar - 7 cups
Surejell - 1 box

Scald tomatoes and peel. Cut up to cook in large non-reactive pot. Add 1-1/2 tsp lemon rind and 1/4 cup lemon juice. Cook According to Surejell directions. Put into hot, clean jelly jars and seal with lids (soften lids seals in hot water first) and bands. Set on counter to cool. makes about 8 jars.

Notes: I dont know what capacity a jelly jar is but i measured one i still have around from a batch of grape jelly my mom made and it is 2.5 in in diameter and 4 inch tall ball type canning jar.

This is surejell

 

[JanR]

Cruciferi – I’ve also read about mushrooms from a couple of sources. Puffballs, when they’re young and tiny, are edible. But when they mature and become giant, they turn poisonous.

There were some transient men a few years back who ate giant puffballs that were growing in a field, and they all died from liver failure shortly thereafter, in a hospital.

Here’s what’s insidious about mushroom poisoning: One goes through a period of being very sick, vomiting, cramps, and the whole bit, and then it subsides and they feel better – and they think it’s over. But it’s only the eye of the hurricane, as they say. There then comes along the second phase of the poisoning, which actually kills them.

Morels are edible, until one accidentally picks a false morel. False morels, which are hard to distinguish from the good morels, are poisonous. A local lady almost died from eating one.

And if a person is allergic to mushrooms, even the edible ones can be dangerous.

 

[Michaelangelo]

But . . . you could have worms and not know it. Undercooked pork is notorious for transferring larvae into your system. The larvae eat right through intestinal tissue. Read about it, extensively, before continuing that practice with pork, please.

That is an insignificant risk here. But thanks.