Ewww

Foie Gras is good.

Foie Gras is not necessarily cruel. I watched a PBS program on a goose farm where the geese freely, even eagerly came up to the woman to be overfed with the tube they use to give them their feed. Very much like chicks eagerly seeking out food from mothers who put their beaks down the throats to regurgitate food for the babies. They followed her all over the yard and jockeyed for position to be fed.

@Leelu How often do you think that happens?

@BufftonBeotch I don't know, how many Foie Gras farms do you think there are?

@Leelu I highly doubt I will eat it again. It was purchased for me and set in front of me that one time.

Jeff I was trying to think of an iconic Ohio food. I thought of Amish grub, buckeye bars and Goetta from Cincinnati. Any thoughts?

@barjoe Haven't heard of the first or third. One source likened it to Hanky Panky, which I've had, made, and love. I don't mess with Buckeye bars because I just make Buckeyes and destroy them.
I'm surprised you didn't ask about Skyline Chili.

@JeffMurray I was asking you. Goetta is like scrapple. I don't know what skyline chili is so I guess I'm asking.

You are the winner. Black pudding? Vampire stew.

I always thought it would be sort of like scrapple. Scrapple is delicious, it should be on the list.

Wouldn't eat any insect, psychological. Never had kangaroo or cat.

@barjoe My best friend and I found a jar of chocolate covered ants and a jar of fried grasshoppers for $2 each in a weird little market when we were teens. On a dare we tried them both. Ants were just crunchy chocolate but the grasshoppers were kind of yucky weird grassy taste,

The cat incident was at a Chinese restaurant in KC. I didn't know about until after, the place was shut down because the health dept had gotten notice lots of cats in the area had been reported missing. They investigated and found 52 cat carcasses in the bins behind the restaurant. I remembered two weeks before... commenting on the chicken in my cashew chicken tasted different, different texture. kind of slick like frog legs or alligator. Was probably cat.

@Leelu I know I could get cancelled for telling this ethnic joke: What's the loneliest job in the world? Animal control in Chinatown.

My part of the country we eat hard shells, you can buy a bushel live, months without an "r" from Maryland and Delaware. Thankfully I've never "had crabs" lol

@barjoe I have watched a person eat alive crab;
They really just pulled the legs off a flailing animal and sucked.

@BufftonBeotch Softshell are sometimes eaten alive. I wouldn't do that.

@barjoe I would have to give something the dignity of death before I started munching.

I will never forget the look on a chickens face as my dog had already eaten off its hind parts.

@BufftonBeotch What about the stuff that gets cooked alive like mussels?

@JeffMurray Every animal has to be killed in some manner. I could not eat something still moving. Just a preference.

@JeffMurray Mussels and clams are mollusks a fairly lowly form of life. Crabs and lobster much higher life forms, moving creatures, they are boiled alive, much more disturbing. I've thrown a whole bushel of crabs in a boiling pot, I don't like to think about it.

I've yet to have St Louis pork steak.

@barjoe It's just sliced butt roast. But telling my butcher in Ohio to do that, they were never as good.

@Larimar What food are they famous for in Ohio? They have Amish food in parts of Ohio. Goetta, sort of like scrapple in a roll, it's good, they have that in Cincinnati. Ohio food. Hmmm. I think they put chili on spaghetti.

@barjoe Depends what part of Ohio. Cincinnati is famous for Skyline Chili, Toledo for Tony Packo's (those pickles are WONDERFUL as are the hungarian hot dogs), Dayton has Marion's Pizza, Columbus has Schmidt's (german), and Cleveland has a well known assortment of ethnicities. It's the only place I ever heard of Cassata Cake which is Sicilian, but there are places making homemade pierogi, and greek places, etc. Cleveland has a WIDE variety.

@barjoe And everywhere around the lake is Walleye or Perch in various forms. Perch I enjoy but otherwise, I'm not much into eating fish. I'm more a shellfish type person. It's my dad's fault.

Rabbit isn't I the list. It's good. Squirrel is gamier and very little meat, it's okay. I've only had eel in sushi restaurants. It's good. Unagi.

@barjoe, rabbit is in this list but it's okay. Not arguing about such small things. However, I miss having a good dash of snails with a good beer.

@Paddypereira It is. My bad lol

Those items except for rattlesnake, seen pretty normal to me. The most disgusting thing you mentioned is spam, for my palate.

Never been to China, I would eat the head but I certainly wouldn't order it. I have eaten fish eyes, they are nasty with an extreme fishy flavor.

@barjoe there is a longer story about this dinner, but for another day.
I did however get the fish cheeks (a delicacy) which was amazing.

Chitterlings are small intestine of a pig. Tripe is the lining of cow stomach. They are different. Tripe is good stuff. It's an ingredient in Pepper Pot soup, a vegetable and tripe red "chowder" popular in Philadelphia. Venison is deer meat, it's a very healthy and delicious meat CWD can't transmit to humans. Bear and boar meat can have trichinosis though. I've had frog legs, they taste like chicken wings, no more inhumane than eating any animal protein.

Tripe is Not chitlins...tripe is the stomach lining of a cow. Chitlins is pig intestines. Have cooked both......

@AnneWimsey You are correct.

@AnneWimsey Thanks

Haggis is a sheep stomach stuffed with grain and organ meat, one of which is lungs. It's illegal to import into the United States. I'm not sure what century eggs are, I think they're buried.

@barjoe Eggs are cooked in a dung pile ( which heats as it decomposes) tends to darken the egg

Squirrel doesn't have much meat on it, it's like rabbit.

@barjoe You gotta use a lot of them to make a dish for sure

@Larimar Well, it doesn’t take much meat to boost your protein levels so, in a fix, I’d snare a couple of the little guys, dress them and carve myself a spit!

Squurrels are delicious, but rabbits are even better

@The-Krzyz squirrel and dumplings took me 6 usually.....

Durian smells like ass, I wouldn't try it twice. Crickets just ain't happening. Razor Clams are like mussels, they're hard to get on the east coast. When I was a kid I ate at my friends house, they often served chitterlings, oxtails and always made soup with chicken feet. Good. Sea urchin is an acquired taste called Uni in Japan.

@barjoe How did you manage the durian? It's the first time I've EVER spit out a mouthful of food, right onto the table, because I couldn't stop myself from doing it! That's really awful stuff!

@LucyLoohoo it's the smell.

@barjoe Uni is awesome, sex glands from the urchin. Just bought oxtail this afternnoon

Can't get Haggis I the United States. Lungs are considered unfit for human consumption. If I ever get over to Scotland, I'll eat that. I heard they have great food there, Scottish salmon. Unfortunately I don't drink anymore, I would've sampled lots of whisky as well.

@barjoe Most people only eat haggis once a year on Burns night. The best are quite tasty. There are vegetarian versions available so they should be allowed in to the country.

@Moravian Vegetarian except for the sheep's stomach. There's a local restaurant in Philadelphia they makes a local version of haggis, I haven't had it.

@barjoe here’s a brand that make it:

[scottishgourmetusa.com]

Bet it tastes very similar, they’re quite spicy yummy. Better than oat cakes lol.

Chittlins are boiled pig intestines. They taste just like their original contents.

@wordywalt You soak them first. I don't what piss taste like but I know the smell. Kidney is like that. It isn't on here surprisingly.

Kim Chi is fermented Chinese cabbage, Korean pickled cabbage. It's spicy and delicious imho. Calves brains are delicious, Sweetbreads, they are actually the hypothalamus gland.

@barjoe They are cleaned and soaked first. They still taste like their contents.

@barjoe Dweatbreafds are testicles.

@wordywalt Sweetbreads are often calves pancreas. It's substituted for brains in Europe, they stopped eating brains after mad cow. Mountain Oysters are bull's testicles. I've never had that.