Bizarre Foods

[DeAnna]

Anyone watch that show on the Discovery Channel? (or maybe it's the Food Chanel?)

omg...why must hubby watch that while I'm trying to eat dinner?? Some of the stuff he has eaten is NASTY!! Especially the one where he ate that rotted meat with eggs in Morocco.

And what's up with that Anthony Bourdain? I mean, does that guy look like a drug addict, or what? How can someone who is (or was) a chef be that skinny? And he seems to be a chain smoker.

Ok, food rant over.

 

[schutd]

He's not a chef anymore. He's a food writer and TV personality with many years of cheffin experience. He's a total chain smoker, and he's skinny, most likely from years and years of amphetamine abuse. He did come up in NYC in the 80s... Ever eaten a dry aged steak? Thats rotted meat. Ever eaten a delicious virginia ham? Rotted meat. Drink wine? Rotted grapes. A good stinky cheese? Rotting seperated milk. Controlled rot is a beautiful thing!

 

[DeAnna]

Ever eaten a dry aged steak? Thats rotted meat.

Trust me, this was not 'dry-aged' steak. It was meat left sitting in the sun all day, then they added eggs to it. Even Andew Zimmerman (the host of the show) said it was horrible; and he will eat anything - even fried worms and bugs.

 

[Rivercard]

I saw a show once where they counted down the 5 worst dishes in the world. Amazingly gross stuff. There was a bug dish of course and weird stuff from asia. Fried Bat (from South America) was another one. and a Seal excrement sauce (Eskimo delicacy) was another. Who would ever eat Seal excrement!!!

On a side note, whenever you hear the word "delicacy", that is code for "something gross".

 

[Linderbee]

If anyone has some time to kill for some HILARIOUS but extremely disgusting reading:

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=15001

This chronicles the adventures of Steve, who set out to find the most disgusting foods available & describe his adventures in eating them. He has an amazing way with words...

A small sample of his description of eating "Natto":

Spoiler

The entire experience is difficult to describe, but if you can remember back to the very first time you made out with a hobo's ass, it's a lot like that.

It's some funny stuff...

 

[schutd]

In Malay cooking, we use a condiment called belacan (bell-ah-shawn) Its fermented shrimp paste. They take baby shrimp dry them in the sun until they are hard, grind them into a fine powder, and mix with liquid they are then dried and fermented in the sun a few more times until it becomes a weird block of wreched smelling stuff, but man, cook it up in a wok with other aromatics and it becomes an amazing flavor. Mmmmmmm fermented shrimp paste.

 

[DeAnna]

In Malay cooking, we use a condiment called belacan (bell-ah-shawn) Its fermented shrimp paste. They take baby shrimp dry them in the sun until they are hard, grind them into a fine powder, and mix with liquid they are then dried and fermented in the sun a few more times until it becomes a weird block of wreched smelling stuff, but man, cook it up in a wok with other aromatics and it becomes an amazing flavor. Mmmmmmm fermented shrimp paste.

When I lived in SE Asia, that was used a lot as a condiment.