Tuesday, February 16, 2016

What's the Weirdest Food You've Eaten?



 
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A friend suggested that a good blog post would be to ask, “What is the weirdest food you’ve eaten?”

I’ll start it off. My mom made gizzards and gravy for dinner when I was a kid. I’d spoon those rubbery innards floating in gravy over egg noodles. And I loved it. I ate them like a pig getting filet mignon instead of corn hash. Serve gizzards and gravy now to any kid and they’d leap from the table begging to clean their room instead. Hey, there’s a way to get something done by kids.

Those were good size gizzards I ate back then, so I’m not sure what animal they were from because the gizzards I happen to see occasionally in whole chickens (sometimes there aren’t any) look pee-wee compared to the gizzards I gobbled up as a kid. But since the gizzards were cooked in gravy, they became tender—well, as tender as a rubbery organ can become.

Even the name gizzard doesn’t sound appetizing, does it? I was the kind of kid that tried anything put in front of me, and usually ate it with gusto! Gizzard Gusto!

What’s your weird food?

6 comments:

  1. Alligator might be the weirdest food for me. But then like you I grew up eating squirrel which will now gag younger people. While teaching, I learned the students, even here on Ozarks edge, had no idea people ATE squirrels.

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  2. Kalamari (spelling), which I know lots of people love. And snails from the sea (NOT from the garden).

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  3. Weirdest food...alligator, I guess, and some type of snake (they were called "snake bites"), both of which tasted like chicken. :)

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  4. I guess I'm just not weird enough. I can't think of any unusual food I've eaten. Squirrel and gizzards were pretty routine meals at our house.

    I do wish I had tried a pickled pig's foot from the jar my grandpa kept in the refrigerator. I wouldn't taste one now, of course...

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  5. Pickled pigs feet were delicious, but I wouldn't suck on one of those knuckles now for a million bucks. What else? Ox tails, roe: fish eggs...otherwise known as caviar, and someone in Mexico told me I was eating lizard, but I doubt it.

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  6. I tried an oyster once, and nearly gagged.

    Pat
    Critter Alley

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