Comments on: One (Wo)man’s Poison Is Another’s Delicacy

By: Nell

Nell — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:39:36 +0000

Hey there Michelle , you should have made peanut butter cookies first to intice P to try the taste , then lured him with peanutbutter and Nutella sandwhich and then all out plain peanut butter.
It took my husband almost 6 months to eat spaggetti, after we were first married.He kept saying to my father they looked like wet red worms, and he hated the taste of it.
We finally got the truth that his mother only gave him canned spaggetti and he hated it , she was an Irish Mangecake mom who did not like to cook much.

Hahaha wet red worms…too funny! I’m afraid P doesn’t like sweets very much, so the cookies would be even less likely to go over well. I know. Strange tastebuds

By: Christina

Christina — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:55:33 +0000

Hm – I think compared with you all I am not a food explorer although if I can force myself I first try everything before turning it down.
I can just offer pretty normal stuff like oysters, octopus and stuff.

Craziest food ever offered: Roasted lamb brain rolled in a pancake, but I did not eat that. I couldn’t stop my brain from thinking about what it was.

Peanutbutter: I am too European for this as well. Over 10 years ago a friend made a peanutbutter jelly sandwich for me and if I would not know she loves me I would have thought she wants to kill me. Felt like I had salty / sweet cement in my mouth which would never ever go away again.

But I like peanutbutter filled pretzels (we have something very similiar in Croatia / Bosnia / Serbia) and I love Saté and other Thai food with peanuts as well. Weird – I know.

I think you just got a bad batch of peanut butter; if you get a good kind, it’s not so cementlike, but I know what you’re talking about because I’ve had some bad stuff too
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By: Mimi Torchia Boothby Watercolors

Mimi Torchia Boothby Watercolors — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:44:39 +0000

I did a lot of research before the first trip I took to Calabria with my husband. I decided the best time to go would include being their for their annual festa di San Pasquale the third Sunday in September. We got there after it was dark, but my cousin’s bar was full of people. No, I didn’t notice they were all men. But it was later explained to me that everyone ate this dish to celebrate this feast day. Lots of people came to the store and took some home. But I didn’t notice that, It looked good, like a dark minestrone. My cousin had the sense to tell my husband and I to sit in the back because by now we realized everyone was staring at us. I’ll never know if it was because we were stranieri, or because I was the only woman in the place. He gave us small bowls of tripe! TRIPE is their extra special treat to eat just for this holiday! It wasn’t very good, tasted a bit like cheap chili con carne. But I ate it.

I’m not a tripe fan either; here they normally do it in a tomato sauce/broth, and it’s actually not *too* bad if you don’t know what it is…or think of it like calamari
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By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:15:29 +0000

guinea pig? Cute wittle fuzzy wittle guinea pigs? no no no! Poor things.

Then again, I know someone here whose ex came from a very, very, very, very, very poor family out in the province (and here, poor means.. reallllllly poor).. and when they were kids they sometimes ate…. are you ready…. cats and dogs! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

One older porteno I know, upon hearing that I like to make ravioli by hand, said, “oh, what do you put inside the ravioli? My mother used to make them when I was young, and she put brain in them.” AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

The food here is great but Argentines really like their weird animal parts. I can’t bring myself to eat kidneys (weird texture) and blood sausage.

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I’d have to turn down the brain ravioli, I’m afraid, but cats? Yeah I’ve also heard tales of cat-eating around here in the lean post-war times

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By: Jessica, Italy Logue

Jessica, Italy Logue — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:16:23 +0000

I can’t watch that Bizarre Foods show… It really does make me ill. I have such a weak stomach anyway (I often have trouble right here in the good ole US of A) that the very idea of some of the stuff he pops into his mouth without hesitation is enough to freak me out!

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By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:40:23 +0000

I have had the Abruzzesi version of pigs blood pudding (sanguinaccio) and it was rather nice – tasted like Christmas pudding…

I used to hate some of the traditional dishes back home – tripe and trotters foremost – mostly for its appearance and how it smells when cooking… Otherwise I guess people would frown at other stuff that is eaten in SA such as fried or curried fish roe, smiley (boiled sheeps head), etc.

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Oh yeah, boiled sheep’s head is definitely not making it on my dinner table any time soon. I also have an issue with smells…they can be *really* hard for me to get past….

By: cheeky

cheeky — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:13:02 +0000

I think I’m very open minded to trying new things and I have eaten/tasted a lot of different foods. Some that wouldn’t classify as food to most. I also hold to the saying don’t say you don’t like it unless you have tried it. However, I am not going to try things just for the “gross out” factor but if I truly feel inspired/interested, if you will, to try something foreign to my palate then I will. At this stage, I’m not interested in eating something just to say “I did it”. I think the only thing that sounds ok to me on that list would be the guinea piggie. Poor little piggie.
In the end it’s all about what we are use to and what we were given growing up, for the most part, until we experiment further and discover the wonderful world of food and all there is to consume. It’s almost strange to think peanut butter (and let me say I’m not a huge fan but I like it when in the mood) seems too different yet pig organs are fine. I’m just imagining all the different delicacies that exist in all of the cultures. Just goes to show how we have all developed our tastes in such different ways.

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So true Cheeky; all a function of how our palates develop and then with how much we are willing to stray from that. I think you’d like Andrew’s show…it’s not just about the grossness of the food at all. He really gets into the cultures and the traditions of eating these things, how they’re prepared–he’s often in the kitchens with the elderly women getting the real deal

By: smtwngrl

smtwngrl — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:40:48 +0000

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