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Post by mj on Feb 4, 2017 5:11:12 GMT
Hey peepsiez. Well since we're from all around I was wondering if, what and where you guys might have chowed down on some particularly weird stuff..?
I myself have had crocodile once and an amazing jellyfish salad. Here in south Africa we partake in strange culinary traditions such as cow tongue, which is quite awesome pressure cooked and served with sweet mustard...
I would love to believe that I'm not wrong in assuming that everyone here loves food...so groot pleasiez share your experiences!
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Post by james on Feb 4, 2017 5:24:49 GMT
I'm vegetarian. I ate a rather strange looking carrot once. Looked like a person. I love cooking, but stuff I cook probably isn't very strange.
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Post by james on Feb 4, 2017 5:35:26 GMT
Erm.... thinking. I have some relatives in Scotland that work on the fisheries. They used to post my folks fish. That's a bit strange, having the mailman post you a fish. It was in an envelope with an ice bag. But still... fish by post. Well I thought it was odd. If there was a postal strike I imagine a mail office would start to stink.
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Post by mj on Feb 4, 2017 5:36:22 GMT
Lol, probs quite alarming for a vegetarian to munch a carrot looking like a person! Haha. My hubby and I love cooking too, eating even more so...but not going back to being veg any time soon myself, still need to try some weird foods first. Also very addicted to sushi atm.
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Post by mj on Feb 4, 2017 5:37:55 GMT
Bwahahaha! Fishmail...insanely awesome!
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Post by james on Feb 4, 2017 5:45:51 GMT
Just remembered my dad used to bring home road kill sometimes when I was a kid. Not four legged beasts, game poultry, pheasants that flew in front of the car. Probably partly why I don't eat meat. Seeing them plucked and gutted. Yikes. No thank you.
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Post by mj on Feb 4, 2017 5:53:15 GMT
Aaag sies. Totes understand, I'm finicky about chicken very likely because my granny once slaughtered one I had as a pet from chick stage...named it and all. Was devastated when I figured it out, all she did was jokingly hint that it was my hendrik hoenderhaan...Ai.
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Post by james on Feb 4, 2017 17:58:57 GMT
Well hello ladies.
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Post by mj on Feb 9, 2017 5:29:53 GMT
Hahaha! Weirdo root vegetable! Oh my
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Post by jxbx on Feb 9, 2017 6:50:16 GMT
In California, any decent Mexican food place has lengua (beef tongue). I've had in a taco and burrito maybe even a torta as well. My mother cooks a Filipino dish call Duran Duran, which is pork in pig blood. It's pretty good!
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Post by mj on Feb 17, 2017 18:32:02 GMT
Very nice! Love tacos! I'm considering trying out runaways soon which is chicken feet south African Kasi style...
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Post by saralcat on Feb 19, 2017 11:03:38 GMT
There's a Welsh dish my Mum used to occasionally give me and my Brother called faggots, in an attempt to get us to eat liver. They're basically big meatballs made of meat and offal, slow cooked and eaten with mashed potatoes and gravy. Mum normally made them with beef and liver.
Another Welsh food I like now is Laverbread, which is boiled, minced seaweed, rolled in oatmeal and fried, usually for breakfast. I don't have it that often, mostly when I'm visiting family, but it's delicious.
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Post by mj on Feb 19, 2017 11:27:08 GMT
Wow the Laverbread sounds amazing! Love seaweed! As a child I always found offal to be awful but now I'm beginning to enjoy liver...we've got skilpadjies here, which is lamb liver wrapped in the fat that surrounds kidneys, it is usually thrown on the braai and grilled till the fat is nice and toasty. Also per-peri chicken livers rock quite hard!
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Post by grassman on Feb 20, 2017 5:26:34 GMT
I always get lengua tacos at some pretty authentic Mexican restaurants when I'm close to the Mexican boarder. My favorite is barbacoa & al pastor. They are definitely not the same as the Mexican restaurants up north.
I live by Canada. Canada's known for poutine & where I live we have something similar called hangover fries. Fries, pork belly, cheese curd, gravy & sunny side up egg.
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Post by saralcat on Feb 20, 2017 9:50:41 GMT
Pease Pudding is a local dish in North East England, dates back to the Medieval era but still very popular today. Split yellow peas boiled in ham stock to create a pate which you normally eat spread on a stotty with boiled ham. A stotty is a large, thick, flat, dense bread roll which is chewy and lovely! In school we used to regularly go to the chip shop at lunch times for a chip butty, which is chips in a stotty, and while you can make them with normal bread, it's not quite the same. Stotties and pease puddingI also found a video about pease pudding set in Whitley Bay, a seaside town a few miles south of the village I grew up in. It gives you an idea of the local accent too.
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