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What Was It?
Fun things to eat:
Grasshoppers
Giraffe
Pheasant
Swordfish
if it was strange i wouldnt eat it
actually i did eat deer once (venison)
didnt like it
Moq
Swordfish isn’t kosher.
Although I did not eat it myself, years ago I worked in a meat factory in Eretz Yisrael.
I saw somone carrying a tray full of a food that I had never seen before.
I asked what those items were.
I was told they were turkey baitzeem.
No, they were NOT turkey EGGS.
Ha’mayveen yaveen.
I was informed it was considered a favorite by some Sephardic eidot.
I once had lamb soup. Really strange it wasn’t bad but it was weird.
Sac
What’s the matziv with all the food threads?
Their scales are an issue of great historical debate; Rav Machpood recently partook of a mesora seudah in Tel Aviv that served swordfish.
But it’s true, most Poskim tell us to stay away from them (only the little ones have scales, and they can’t be taken off).
I love sweetbreads (AKA pancreas)
A Temani in Yerushalyim told me they taste like french fries.
WIY
Lamb is weird?
lamb is delicious! Soft and fatty. yum.. Lamb Chops!
Phrum
Well I had never heard of or had lamb soup before so it was weird to me at the time.
SJSinNYC-
sweetbreads are COW’S BRAINS
from Wikipedia:
Sweetbreads or ris are culinary names for the thymus (throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) and the pancreas (heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread
Sac
I hear. Your grandfathers family is teimani? Or did everyone eat these yummy grasshoppers?
Sacrilege
Thymus?
Did you grandfather say how they prepared the locus?
gnats – I was bicycling with my mouth open and they flew right in.
Moderator-80-
There is some disagreement if both locations count as sweetbreads.
Shari Lewis used to enjoy ordering lamb chops in restaurants, just for the reactions.
Beatrix Potter used to…
…not eat rabbits, but disect them (for scientific purposes).
(those of you who will now be skipping lunch need not thank me. really, it’s my pleasure.)
Does “my words” count as something I’ve eaten?
Bacos. It just seems wrong.
Sacrilege
Why do I suddenly find myself without an appetite for lunch…?
i love bacos, but yes there is something strange about it
ICOT
that is very funny about shari lewis!
anyone ever eat limburger?
a favorite of the 3 stooges.
I tasted ptcha, which wouldn’t have been that unusual, but it was at a reception, and there were gourmet mushrooms being sauteed at the same station. Now that’s fusion cooking!
Borcsht.. thinking it was black cherry soda.
Borscht is good stuff. Although it depends who makes it. The Russians know what they are doing.
I used to love ptcha but not so much anymore. A similar type of dish that local Ukrainians love – think it is made with chazar feet – but basically the same – jellied with hard boiled eggs and lots of garlic – but they call it headcheese. The name alone is revolting.
When my daughter was in Thailand she said that along the main drag there are all kinds of food vendors preparing hot foods on carts. She followed the wonderful aroma of garlic cooking to discover fried grasshoppers being prepared. She lost her appetite for the rest of the day – but said that the grasshopper vendor had a huge lineup of people waiting to buy. I guess whatever you are used to. The Thais might find us lining up to buy a hotdog a little peculiar.
As for personal experience – I can’t recall eating anything weird, unless you count ptcha, which many people might.
half & half diet mayim chaim celery soda
Moq
Uch I’m getting nauseous. Imagine a meal of grasshoppers and downing it with celery soda.
cholent on sunday
Sac
You mean grasshoppers and celery soda?
Mod-80
Leftover cholent is part of supper in many homes Sunday night
orthodox homes!?
Strangest- Gravlax
Second – Cholent 🙂
for those of you who dont know
gravlax is an old remedy for severe “irregularity”.
it was a concoction of fine ground pebbles and a laxative taken with large doses of water.
Sacrilege
Wow I learned a lot of useless information here today lol.
Mod-80
Yes Orthodox homes have leftovers Sunday night.
Which explains the cholent….
A couple of months ago there was an article in the local paper about the hottest new item on the midways of fairs and carnivals. Apparently people are bored with burgers and mini-donuts, so the newest thing is chocolate covered bacon. Now if that isn’t revolting, what is? Not to mention that it is probably a waste of good chocolate.
The sweetbreads we get are pancreas.
I love Celery Soda, I haven’t had it in so long. And grasshoppers mmmmmm. great combo.
Fried candy bars on the midway, too. That’s probably a waste of good chocolate, too.
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