22 thoughts on “People eat the weirdest things”

  4. I am Dutch, and of course, quite enthousiastic about raw herring. I just wonder how that is any stranger than any regular bit of Sushi?!

    Raw salmon, tuna, catfish, eel, and so on… why not a herring. And by the way, it is damn great. Try it if you are in the Netherlands!

  5. honestly, I’d try a few of those things… the raw whale meat & herring, like the other person said- I eat sushi, so why not? I’d also try to crocodile meat and salmon roe (which is unprocessed caviar).
    some of those other things grossed me out though… the dried lizards looked cool too.

  8. Ant eggs are also eaten in Mexico.

    There is also rotting larva-infested cheese that is eaten in Italy.

    Also, those foods are NOT mainstream in those cultures =D

  9. No thanks, I’ll stick with REAL food…
    Hot dogs, sausage, hamburgers, Pringles, Cheez Whiz, McDonald’s Chicken Nuggets…

  10. DJ, all of those with perhaps the exception of pringles and cheez whiz (and I’m not really sure here) are a mixture of everything in this post. They just grind it all up, put a casing or batter on it and voila!! Instant Death.

  11. I’ve had chitlins (once only) and it is something that stays with you forever. The smell of the chitlins cooking is enough to melt you sinus cavities.

  12. raw herring is great, but pickled raw herring is even better. Especially when its covered in sour cream and minced garlic. I eat some pickled herring at least once a week. Dont really see whats so odd about it. I have forced friends of mine to eat it and they admitted that it was good afterwards. Dont knock it until you try it.

  13. Bella…yes you’ve discovered the secret ingredient…Make very sure it’s dead, and to make sure, grind it up, batter it and deep fry it in hot oil. Only then I will even begin to consider whether I will eat it. 🙂

    Years ago, another guy and I worked in a house where there was a huge kettle of chitlins burbling away on the stove. The smell was incredible. About every 15 minutes we had to go out into the fresh air by the street and clear our lungs. As they boiled on and on, the smell got worse and worse. Just before lunchtime, my coworker ran out to the street and started vomiting violently, which set me off also (“sympathetic vomiting”??). We snuck our toolboxes out of the house while nobody was in the room, jumped in the truck and sped away. Don’t know if or how the job was ever finished.

  14. Ok, I’ve never even heard of chitlins but the picture just looks like a blob of fat. Does one think by simmering it over low heat that it is going to turn into a steak? I’ve tried a variety of things but I don’t think that would tempt my appetite. I understand that different cultures enjoy different foods but if it even remotely looks the same coming out as it did going in, count me out.

  15. Bella, chitlins=pigs poop chute yea thats right I never had them but a lot of people in the south love them,they have to be washed out really good to get all the sh*t out then fried

  16. Plus, time-out on that “Southern USA” for chitlins. I’m in Nashville and that’s NOT a southern dish. The only time I’ve smelled it cooking was in some apartments around Fort Knox and that was a northern transplant cooking.
    If you can’t barbeque it, we don’t want it. And we like our sushi fried…

  17. NO! NOT THE FISH, PLEASE NOT THE FISH YOU BARBARIANS!!!

    KLAATU COME BACKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE NOT WORTHY!

  18. Thanks for the explanation infidel, but my stomache just did the macarena on that one. Think I’ll pass, too.

  19. Back when I grew up in the small islands, we eat of course raw fish and fish eyeballs. Plus fish liver, raw sea urchins (exceptional!), coconut crabs, sea cucumber etc. We don’t eat bugs because of the abundance of sea food though, I would like to try them out. Worst thing I ate was fermented sea weed in Taiwan, it is pretty disgusting, imagine the smell from a beached sea weed and that is about how it tastes.

  21. Chitlins aka. chitterlings are not just a Southern food. I was born & raised in New England and we ate chitlins are the time.
    I have no idea what that pile of crap is in the picture, but they dont look like that. And if you cook them correctly, they smell wonderful.

  22. To revrick315… I wouldn’t claim TN as part of the true south.

    I’m from SC and we actually have a local pageant called the “Chitlin Strut.” Winner gets a lifetime supply of chitlins.

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