[DeathToWindows]

Originally posted by Troll:
Fried Mopani worms:
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A staple diet for many in Botswana, South Africa and Namibia. Delicious, once you get over the IDEA of what you're eating.

what is that thing and how is it eaten?

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by Sealobo:
i have eaten owl with pepper.

YOU BASTARD!

-Owl

[Troll]

Originally posted by DeathToWindows:
what is that thing and how is it eaten?

It's called a Mopani Worm, so called because they feed on the indigenous Mopani tree. They are caterpillars of the emperor moth.

From a recipe website:

Serving Suggestion

After harvesting, the crop of caterpillars are disemboweled and dried or boiled in salt water, then preserved in ashes. Mopani worms have a long shelf life - which is just as well in a hot climate where few households have refrigerators.

Mopani worms can be gently simmered or fried, and are delicious served with peanut butter or tomato relish. Accompanied by maize-meal porridge, they are part of a substantial meal. Mopani worms are incredibly nutritious - they are almost 60% protein and contain iron, calcium and phosphorous.

[torsoboy]

some of the food i have eaten in the philippines:

1 day old chicks (baby chickens) that are skeward (on a shiskabob) and barbaqued whole. 3 fit on a stick. you dip them in vinegar. they are decent to eat, but they are a little crunchy and the stomach is a little bit bitter.

balut, which is a duck egg that is incubated until a few days before hatching and then boiled and eaten. you make a little hole in the top of the egg and suck out all the juices, and then you peel off the shell and eat the little duck whole. sometimes they are pretty dang close to hatching... have feathers and beaks and all.

dog (many times), from little puppies found on the road to house pets sold to the highest bidder (i have never cooked them myself, just eaten them when invited). they usually have dog when there is a party and they want lots of meat for cheap.

field mice found in the rice fields.

dinuguan (barbaqued blood); when a pig (or chicken, or dog, or whatever) is butchered it is killed by stabbing it in the neck and letting it bleed to death... you just catch the blood in a pail and fry it up later until it becomes coagulated. then you just cut it into squares and eat it. yum! (no, just kidding, i do not think that it is 'yum')

and many other strange and wonderful things. the philippines is a strange place. probably no stranger than other asian countries though.

[Sealobo]

Originally posted by OwlBoy:
YOU BASTARD!

-Owl

LOL~ Sorry.

[tavilach]

My nails...

[sir_hc]

One time at a restaraunt in China the chef made us a special dish of mince beef and egg custard with these little inch long green caterpillars with black heads. Apparently it's a seasonal delicacy and (lucky us) it happened to be in season. When they harvest the paddy fields they also harvest these buggers too.

Next dish plonked down was mixed goodies including pancreas spleen and god knows what from god knows where. Being mostly doctors it was like anatomy class all over again with comments like "There's a bile duct..." "That's a big hepatic artery..." etc.

Didn't touch the stuff but a couple people in the group ate both with great gusto.

Guess who got the runs next morning?

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally posted by wilsonX:
Tooki, sorry to break this to you but uni is sea urchin GONADs. http://eatdrink.timeoutny.com/articles/450.eat.feat.php

I've had that once. Fresh from the ocean, nice tasty sea urchin penis.

Well, if it had tasted something else than pure salt water that is

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally posted by torsoboy:
balut, which is a duck egg that is incubated until a few days before hatching and then boiled and eaten. you make a little hole in the top of the egg and suck out all the juices, and then you peel off the shell and eat the little duck whole. sometimes they are pretty dang close to hatching... have feathers and beaks and all.

Local delicasy in Hong Kong if I'm not mistaken as well. The smell and taste are apparantly nauceating, which in Asia means it's natural viagra (lot's of penis-related superstition in Asia for some reason).

[moonmonkey]

Originally posted by torsoboy:
dinuguan (barbaqued blood); when a pig (or chicken, or dog, or whatever) is butchered it is killed by stabbing it in the neck and letting it bleed to death... you just catch the blood in a pail and fry it up later until it becomes coagulated. then you just cut it into squares and eat it. yum! (no, just kidding, i do not think that it is 'yum')

I've had that, they actually serve it with lunch on China Eastern Airlines.

Tourists beware.

[Randman]

Originally posted by moonmonkey:
I've had that, they actually serve it with lunch on China Eastern Airlines.

Tourists beware.

I've flown on that airline. The blood treat is the least of your worries.

[OSX Abuser]

Originally posted by TailsToo:
Chicken Feet.

I was served Chicken Feet in Vietnam but I could just not eat it.

The weirdest thing had to be the Fried Baby Chicks. Those Chicks couldn't of been more than a week old.

[Randman]

I avoided dog street when visiting Hanoi last year but I was intrigued by the cobra wine that was sold in many places. Anyone have any of that?

[gorickey]

Originally posted by tavilach:
My nails...

Depending on what you have crammed under there...that could be both wholesome and nutritious...

[turtle777]

Originally posted by tavilach:
My nails...

go eat your nuts !

-t

[Cadaver]

Vegemite.

[khufuu]

Hmm.. let's see..

Chicken feet and duck tongue are probably the most far out I've eaten.

Staples back home were moose, deer, elk, prairie chicken, pheasant, goose, rabbit, and duck.

On the vegetarian side I guess the oddest thing would have been cactus berries. (Yes they can sprout berries after they flower and the frost has hit them once or twice.) :-)

[khufuu]

Originally posted by Cadaver:
Vegemite.

Euwww!!

[Truepop]

not really wierdest but it was rememberable for me. Live shrimp was good. cut and then still moving as I put it in. I didn't try octopus sushi when I was in japan.

[moonmonkey]

Originally posted by Randman:
I avoided dog street when visiting Hanoi last year but I was intrigued by the cobra wine that was sold in many places. Anyone have any of that?

Yep, iv'e had it in Beijing (think it came from Vietnam), tastes like sh1t.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by SamuraiDL:
Pussy is kind of a weird thing to eat, right?

[demograph68]

Leave my cat alone!!!

[OSX Abuser]

Originally posted by Randman:
I avoided dog street when visiting Hanoi last year but I was intrigued by the cobra wine that was sold in many places. Anyone have any of that?

I bought 3 bottles of that stuff for gifts. The one I kept for myself has The Cobra with a small green tree Snake in its mouth.
None of my friends will even taste the Rice wine.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by khufuu:
On the vegetarian side I guess the oddest thing would have been cactus berries. (Yes they can sprout berries after they flower and the frost has hit them once or twice.) :-)

Opuncia? (That's what they're called in German - they're about mandarin-sized, but more oval.)

Stuff grows all over the place in Spain and is rather yummy.

-s*

[RobOnTheCape]

I ate monkey meat once. Didn't know it was monkey beforehand, justy accepted a vendors offer. No different than any other meat really.

[His Dudeness]

How about breakfast, lunch and dinner onboard the USS Enterprise? That's enough right there...

[quadraphonic]

I had kangaroo in Australia.. tasted like tender beef.

[His Dudeness]

I got off deployment one time in Bergen, Norway. I ate reindeer steak. Tasted pretty good. I like to tell little kids that they won't have Christmas this year because I ate Rudolph.

[itai195]

Hmm, I recall going to some restaurant in Israel that served ox balls. Didn't take them up on it though

So I guess the weirdest thing I've eaten would be... hm. $0.25 Thai food?

[osiris]

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
Local delicasy in Hong Kong if I'm not mistaken as well. The smell and taste are apparantly nauceating, which in Asia means it's natural viagra (lot's of penis-related superstition in Asia for some reason).

Isn't that called a ba-loot? I remember a south pacific delicacy that sounds almost the same - an unborn chick/duck in an egg served a la carte.

Pretty gross if you ask me. yeeesh.

[Paco500]

When I was a kid I was served woodchuck meat tacos- not told until after we ate it.

Two years ago I went to a picnic where we had allagator, cobra and something else.

The woodchuck tasted like tacos- smothered in spices, salsa, etc. The allagator and cobra were allright, not much to get excited about- allagator was oddly fishy.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by His Dudeness:
How about breakfast, lunch and dinner onboard the USS Enterprise? That's enough right there...

Depends.

Which cast?

[turtle777]

Originally posted by quadraphonic:
I had kangaroo in Australia.. tasted like tender beef.

Kangaroo is not weird ! It's flippin' great.

In Berlin is a great Australian restaurant, the Woolloomooloo .
My favorite dish is the Dreamtime Platter: Kangaroo, ostrich and crocodile !

Ok, you may hate me now for eating cute kangaroos...

-t