What's the most disgusting (to others) food you like to eat regularly? I like saurkraut quite a bit, but it guarantees the lunchroom at work to myself! I'm sure some of you eat wierder stuff than that.

 

Rocky Mountain Oysters, or as I call it, bovine birth control meal.

 

There's this guy that works with me that is always trying out "new things". I make sure and eat before he does because there always a weird smell in the break room after he eats. It mostly seafood, but its always cooked some wierd way.

 

I've been flat out banned from cabins, garages, barns, and motor homes for eating Stagg Dynamite Hot chili while on the premise. That stuff is pretty good to eat .The food is not what bothers others, it's what happens about 30 minutes after finishing a can of that stuff that they object to .

 

Liver amd Onions is always a good choice. I've also been asked (nicely) by the folks here at LAX to NOT bring leftover scallops and fettucine alfredo to reheat the next day - they seem to think it smells bad........

 

Brick Limburger Cheese on Black Rye bread w/slice of sweet onion and a St. Paulis Girl. It doesn't get any better. Even better than liver and onions. Do not plan on any romance for at least a day after eating.

 

Canned Sardines or Liverwurst sandwiches with ketchup.

 

Where do I start?

To keep it relatively short... just two items, well 2 and a half.

I like to eat at Viet restaurants. They usually have a seafood hot pot which usually has tiny baby octopus in it. I love this stuff. Once I took my son who was about 3 or 4 to that restaurant and ordered my favorite. Well I served up a tiny octopus to my boy and he just kind of looked at it. Later, mom noticed that he had it cradled in his lap. Later that day we were at home and he wanted to have a burial ceremony for the octopus, which he had snuck home in a napkin. He prayed "Lord please protect this little baby octopus and all the other baby octopusses from my daddy so he won't eat them". I still do eat them but I keep it secret. Same restaurant has some braised pork dish made in a fish sauce that stinks to high heaven, smells like uh, well anyway smells terrible but is delicious once you can get it in your mouth.

Now one dish I make at home I call the Henderson Surprise. I fry up a mess of mixed vegetables like carrots, broccoli, mushrooms and a ton of onions and garlic and then I smother it in cream of mushroon soup or similar. Later I get kind of gassy and the onions are very very noticable. Literally makes my eyes cry just as if I was cutting fresh onions(in a way I guess I was). Anyway, I am forbidden to make the HS anytime I expect to be with family or co workers. Wimps.

Jim Henderson

 

Beefsteak Tartare

fork shred or grind 1/2 lb sirloin. In a mixing bowl add
1 egg
drizzle olive oil
salt/pepper to taste
1 chopped onion
1-2 tablespoons capers
paprika
1 tablespoon dijon mustard

refrigerate 1/2 hour before eating. Serve with toast.

Kids are convinced we're gonna die whenever the wife and I make this.

 

JIM HENDERSON , Have you ever ate the chicken in the egg ( BALLOTES ??? (SP)). I love Vietnamese I have never had a bad Viet meal yet -- I will have to say that eating Ballotes was pushing it. But, I ate a French Pate in Paris that Pushed it --it was liver of goose with beef liver and some type of fish all ground together. I have eaten alot of Octopus but never Viet style- I will have to add never eat the octopus jerky- it ranks right up with that one Pate. I will try about anything once. I have noticed that all these urban rumors about food are basically that.....

 

Noone in my family likes grits, but I love em. I guess it's b/c we're in the north where most people don't eat them. Goin to Alabama on vacation changed me there.

 

That rotten smelling fish sauce is what was called Nuc Bom (sp) pronounced nook bomb. If I were to tell you how it was made, you'd never stick it in even your worst ememies mouth. I used to run the hootch maids right out of the hootch if they had the audacity to heat it up inside. For those of you who don't know what it smells like .... imagine burnt sulpher ... it smells good in comparison. And .... you can have my share of the octopi also.

 

I make a seafood alfredo sauce with this frozen bag of mixed seafood I get at Safeway; it has 8 different things in it like little octopus, squid, shrimp and I can't remember the rest. Saute that in butter and garlic then mix it in with the alfredo sauce, pour over your favorite noodles... MMMM.

Pickled fish is another farorite.

Something else a little different that I think is supposed to be a hungarian dish. Chop 1 onion and one small cabbage, fry in oil until onions are semi-opaque, salt/pepper to taste, have a pot of noodles (I prefer homemade but egg noodles will do) cooking, drain and add to the cabbage and onion mixture then continue frying for another 5-10 minutes. I don't remember anyone using meat in the dish but last time I made it I added chopped, fried bacon and it was quite good.

As kids, my grandma used to make something called (I'll spell it the way it sounds because I don't know the spelling for it) kuchunya. What is it you ask... It's cooked pigs feet that you put in a bowl with the broth, put in the fridge and the broth gels and that's how you eat it; cold. It doesn't have to be the feet... you may have seen 'pork hocks' at the supermarket, that's basically what it is, I forget the spice they put on them, maybe just salt and cayenne pepper and they are actually pretty good. I'm too embarassed to buy pork hocks so I don't make them, that and my roommate would wonder what the ---- those things in the fridge are. Oh, and yes you're supposed to eat the pork jello too.

 

Kimchee.......rotten Korean cabbage is a great way to make people leave you alone.

 

You guys are making me hungry. My life (at least from a menu perspective) is too conservative. I must have lived a sheltered life. So much variety you guys have!