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Then how do you know it's gross?
Honestly, this is like the haggis thing all over again. People are far too scared of offal. Devilled Kidneys, Haggis, Faggots, are all good examples of British cooking.
This really doesn't make any sense. There's no reason why a person should be willing to eat one part of an animal and not others.
I'll eat a bear's muscles but stay the fuck away from his liver.
You mean, other than taste, function, and aesthetics?
Because those seem like pretty good reasons to me
My mom used to make me peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches in my school lunches as a little kid. They were totally inedible. Actually, now that I think it was a plan to force me to do the job myself and was diabolical genius. ::fist-shakin' respect::
Yorkshire Pudding, man. It's the best thing.
And chip butties aren't soggy, because A: they're not absolutely loaded with butter like you seem to think, and B: you don't use pissy little McDonalds style chips to make them. Someone mentioned In-n-Out fries? Big chunks of potato, cut and fried? You use those.
If you think offal tastes bad you clearly haven't eaten it. Heart in a meat pie is freaking delicious. So tender.
Aesthetics, meh. Food isn't made to be looked at.
I'm not sure what you mean by function. If you mean that the function of the organ puts you off, consider that sausage skins are made from intestinal membrane.
Regarding (a), fair enough, regarding (b), so what? Give it a try and then decide if you hate it or not. Do you also refuse to eat rare steak?
Lamb liver tastes too gamey for me.
Sweat breads are good though.
While I usually get my steaks "medium rare" there is a world of difference between "a steak which still has some blood in it" and "cooked blood in an intestine with a bunch of random shit thrown in it":
EDIT: Now that I think about it I actually did try a black pudding in Ireland but I couldn't do any more than nibble on it, and I didn't even really know what they were made of back then. So I think my prejudice is justified. If you like it more power to you, but it seems pretty gross to me.
I live in Florida, so what part you visit will largely determine the type of cuisine you can find. And with the number of people from the north (I'm originally from Maryland but my family moved here when I was like...3) that plays a big part to. There's a lot of things that I won't eat that are stereotypically southern; cole slaw for one and collard/mustard greens for another (they smell terrible), but I love the smoky flavor that you can't get from an oven or stovetop. On that note, I prefer a dry rub for things like ribs and skip the sauce since it just masks the flavor of the meat. Chicken, on the other hand, needs all the flavor it can get if you're not frying it so bring on the barbecue sauce!
Most shops dedicated to barbecue will give you a lot of meat. That's the main draw to those establishments, after all. Split chicken breasts are readily available in most markets though I can't say I've noticed half a chicken (legs and wings included) for sale, but there's nothing stopping you from buying a whole one and butterflying it (easier to cut in half that way) yourself
There really isn't. This is part of my point.
And the rest of it is fairly typical sausage fare, though sweet potato is somewhat unexpected. There's also white pudding, which is basically black pudding without the blood and with more suet instead.
Also, the red liquid that runs out of raw and rare meat (meat that you see in the supermarket/butcher shop anyway) isn't blood.
Isn't that basically just eating a big scab with some meat and fat thrown in?
Also, read my edit.
If I were to insist that anyone who ate shrimp (So many legs! Beady little eyes!) was crazy there would be plenty of people rushing to argue that one.
The legs and heads are removed. Some people (me included) wouldn't eat a shrimp's head. Kind of like how I don't like raw tomatoes but think they help make delicious sauces when pureed, except in the case of eating certain body parts it's mostly the squick factor. I'll eat some kinds of fish raw, but I won't eat any other kind of meat raw so you can count me out of eating steak tartare or carpaccio.
I'd be disappointed to get my shrimp any other way, but I can see how you could be freaked out if you didn't know what to expect.
Now I wanna go to Bubba Gumps.
I'd just cut the heads off before eating. I actually don't mind them being boiled with the heads on (or separately if you're keeping the heads and shells for seasoning something else), but I won't actually eat them. I'm sure that sounds strange.
Tach: Have one in your area? There's several here in FL.
Yeah- Universal Citywalk. It's god-awesome.
Actually, I've been there, and I still think your food is gross.
To be fair, I liked it more than German.
Sweet potato fries are the BEST fries.
Let us bridge the gap between our philosophical families
and bond over the wisdom that is sweet potato fries
<3
Damn you for making me want quality sweet potato fries!
These guys are friends of mine from Norman, OK. I still can't believe they made those and then ate them. Worst decison amid a long string of bad decisions by some of these guys.
I thought one of them posted here for a while, but I could be wrong.
In a bar near me they make a fry which is effectively a Buffalo Wing fry. I don't know how they do it, but they get that buffalo wing flavor onto the chip without it being all greasy and fatty. Its awesome!
I wonder how that works, because the spicy sauce on wings are literally nothing more than butter and hot sauce.
You might as well sprinkle sugar over wax paper.
Thats what made Pixy Stix so awesome! It made no bones about it. It was flavored sugar!
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I'd get those thinking it'd be fun to take out the shapes, but once I did I'd realize I'd just torn my sheet of candy paper into a bunch of smaller pieces of candy paper.
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I'm surprised small children don't confuse the shapes cut into Fruit Roll Ups and Shrinky Dinks more often.
It kinda saddens me because I see a box of Cookie Crisp and get an urge for the good ol' days.
Yeah that shit is disgusting. I tried a bowl a couple of years ago to see if it aged as well as I remembered.