Table Talk

By robo

May 16, 2007 8:49 AM | Link to this

shoot, eating a “low-end” hotdog sounds far gross to me.

By Jeff

May 16, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this

Stir fried mealworms is probably the weirdest thing. Although once I went to a Japanese shabu shabu on Buford Highway and ate several things that I had never seen before. I still don’t know what I ate but it was pretty good.

By fd

May 16, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

guinea pigs…..only the best, but i guess you have to be from peru to understand

By fd

May 16, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

can anyone tell me where is the crazy chicken at norcross, i want to try some of their roasted guinea pigs

By Bhorsoft

May 16, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

Don’t remember the real name of them, but at a Japanese restaurant in Singapore our group tried what is best described as “fish crackers”. It looked like hundreds of baby minnows dried and pressed into the shape of a graham cracker. You could make out each little fish - tail, eyes, and all. Only cracker I’ve ever eaten that stared back at me while I ate it. They tasted really fishy, too. No one went back for seconds….

By Steve M

May 23, 2007 4:53 PM | Link to this

Ecuador-Guinea pig —The cognoscenti know enough to ask for “las nalgas” , the back half, which has more meat on it than the front (head) end.

Myanmmar-Palm grubs If you walk into the right restaurant in Yangon, you may find a bowl of water full of fat, thumb-sized grubs, writhing like little accordions. They fry them, then dip them in salt, like a krinkle-cut french fry with a head. Crispy on the outside, fatty white liquid on the inside. Tastes quite good believe it or not, like cashews. Very rich. If you are in a group of men, especially beer-drinking men, they will elbow you and laugh a lot. One told me in his minimal English…”Good for sex!” No doubt

China wins the strange food contest, over and over, hands down

Fried scorpions- Crunchy. Like a chitinous potato chip with a stinger. Frankly, everything tastes better fried, and this goes for most bugs.

Sea cucumber- Tastes like a rubber dog toy, plus soy sauce

Duck tongues- Like eating a bony frog, made of baloney

Donkey biscuits- Tastes like BBQ

And the latest weirdest thing I have eaten (but wished I hadn’t)

I was at a formal banquet in Jinan, China in April. A plate of what looked like small breaded fish sticks came my way, and without thinking I grabbed one in my chopsticks. Just as I brought it to my mouth I asked, “Whats this one ?” and started to chew the mushy, strangely tasteless thing…. After a long pause my translator said, “…ah, that one is cow spinal cord !” I nearly choked.

The one I didn’t dare eat: In the cobblestone streets of the old town in Quito, Ecuador, I occasionally would see indigenous ladies stirring giant woks full of corn, potatoes and organ meats. Among the hunks of trachea, spleen, lungs and kidneys, I spied a Y-shaped organ, like two fat pink bananas, attached at the top, and split open to reveal……a fetal lamb as long as your hand. When I asked them what that part was, they would grin and say, “huevos!” (eggs)