Food that makes people around you shudder - Savor the flavor

Cabbage and Sausage.

My mom, specifically, took these Texas branded pecan smoke sausages, cut them up, added to cabbage and broth. Cooked in a cast iron skillet. The other methods she used (slow cooker) was an opportunity I could have course corrected, because goddamn that last shot at it was incredible.
 
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Vietnamese or Thai fish sauce.
People actually dislike that?
 
When I needed to be left alone during lunch, I'd leave open the counter/split-door to my shop office, fire up the hot-plate, and grill myself up a Limburger & three-onion (white, green, & sweet) on rye with schmaltz.

Good goddamn; the resulting stench, and silence, in that motorpool was glorious.

Those particular sandwiches are a "tastes like heaven, smells like trenchfoot salad" thing. Still, I wouldn't have done it though, without the NBC scrubbing fans & air filtration system the shop had, or was in normal uniform that day (not coveralls).

Thai or Vietnamese fish sauce

People actually dislike that?

I can't speak for Thai sauce (which I happen to love anyhow), but have you seen how Viet nuac mam is made?

Take a 55gal drum, spigot the bottom, add a screen of sorts halfway down, top it off with fish heads, and stick that shit out in the open rain, then cover it with fronds for a couple weeks.

Who knows; maybe a bit of botulism makes the flavor pop, or adds a whole 'nother level of spice.

Still, that shit is still foul, will not eat.
 
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I can't speak for Thai sauce (which I happen to love anyhow), but have you seen how Viet nuac mam is made?

Take a 55gal drum, spigot the bottom, add a screen of sorts halfway down, top it off with fish heads, and stick that shit out in the open rain, then cover it with fronds for a couple weeks.

Who knows; maybe a bit of botulism makes the flavor pop, or adds a whole 'nother level of spice.

Still, that shit is still foul, will not eat.
I can see why some people might want to stay away from it, but it's not a problem for me. I'd rather take fish head sauce over most of the shit that's served in fast food restaurants.
 
The salt content alone keeps out anything dangerous. Botulism can't live in air, either, which is why you get it from canned foods.

I was being facetious, but still.....

Ick.
At least, not without peppers. Add that, and I'm golden
 
I like raw pickled herring. Especially after it's aged in my fridge for a few months.

Pickled herring is fantastic, especially with potatoes and boiled eggs, or on rye bread. My favorite kind of herring would be either herring in mustard sauce or shrimp-based sauce though.

For some reason, quite a few former colleagues around me have taken issue whenever I've eaten pea soup at the workplace. I mean, it doesn't look very appetizing, but it tastes great.
 
People around me shudder when I order five star heat at Thai and Indian joints. Not as shocking as some of the other things in this thread, but there you have it.

If you really want to raise eyebrows, or maybe just impress your waitress, ask for "Thai hot". Generally, even the HOT/5* ratings at Thai restaurants is for American palates. Many also don't put the strong fish sauce on the table, ya gotta ask for it too.

Pickled herring is fantastic, especially with potatoes and boiled eggs, or on rye bread. My favorite kind of herring would be either herring in mustard sauce or shrimp-based sauce though.

For some reason, quite a few former colleagues around me have taken issue whenever I've eaten pea soup at the workplace. I mean, it doesn't look very appetizing, but it tastes great.

I'm not big on pickled, but smoked kippers are my jam. I typically eat those on melba toast crackers, with a little chopped onion.

But only if I don't really look before scooping, the sight of em in the can kinda turns my stomach.

And yeah, I've gotten shit from people when I order or eat split pea soup; especially from my wife. At least, until I finally convinced her to try it.

I think the fact that it looks like babyfood or green vomit turns people off, but throw a hamhock in the pot & shove a bowl under their nose....
 
My gross food is canned corned beef hash. You know the stuff, sort of a pinkish goo with little tiny cubes of potato, smells like dog food? I love that shit, fried up.
Yes. With some over easy eggs and toast.

Seared ahi tuna is my jam and I've cooked it a few times on barbecues and whatnot (it's cheaper than steak!). I've have more than a few people complain that it's raw. I'm like yeah, no shit. It's sashimi grade. Try it. They never do and I ruin it by cooking them all the way through. Then they smear a bunch of tartar sauce or some other heresy on it.
 
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Yes. With some over easy eggs and toast.

I just crack the eggs right into it.

Also it not only smells like dog food but dogs think so too and go nuts when you open a can and then you have to give them a little. It's too salty for them to eat too much but really it's too salty for humans to eat if you're talking about being healthy.
 
Yes. With some over easy eggs and toast.

Seared ahi tuna is my jam and I've cooked it a few times on barbecues and whatnot (it's cheaper than steak!). I've have more than a few people complain that it's raw. I'm like yeah, no shit. It's sashimi grade. Try it. They never do and I ruin it by cooking them all the way through. Then they smear a bunch of tartar sauce or some other heresy on it.

During my first deployment, I shared a hooch with a Jamaican. His GF from the islands sent him a care package filled with fairly fresh ahi; vacuum sealed, packed with dry ice, in one of those Omaha Steak cooler-boxes.

He'd been talking it up for days, after she told him it was on the way, that it's the best fish ever.

When he picked it up, we thought he was gonna hand it off to the cooks, as we weren't supposed to grill or use hotplates around the tents. So what happened?

He found an electric skillet, and set it up on the other side of the hooch sandbag walls. The smell completely inundated our company area, drove guys out of other tents to investigate the stench, a couple of them wearing their promasks.

Our tent, being at ground-zero, still stunk 3mo later, after the wind shifted directly towards it.

I don't mind the smell of cooking fish, but holy hell....

Edit:. He didn't get to eat much, and nobody else was given the opportunity to try it; our 1SG fairly ran from the TOC after he caught a whiff. Our intrepid Jamaican then spent the next couple days pressure washing all of our tents, cots, and anything else that stunk.... which was most everything within 50m.

I'm really fond of burned BBQ fajitas covered with mustard. I don't think it's that weird but people love giving me shit for it at cookouts.

That's..... interesting. Any kind of mustard?

Reminds me of something my HS smoke-buddy came up with one day after school, when we both had insane munchies. I've made them on occasion afterwards, just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating.

So, there was absolutely nothing in his fridge which didnt require a good amount of prep & cooking.... except a roll of Ritz, creamy peanut-butter, and brown mustard.

Yup, we made PB&M crackers, finishing off the entire sleeve.

It was something that sounds & looks disgusting; but the flavor combination kinda short-circuits the taste buds, after the first, another is required to be sure it's really not that bad.

And it's not. Just don't overdo the mustard; only a dot or two on a dollop of PB.
 
Anchovies, sardines, and brie noir. Also, a lot of faggots around me that hate olives.
 
My family is always grossed out when they see me eat konjac filament or bean curd in its various forms (my favorites are dried and fermented). I like a lot of pickled vegetables (beets, turnips, cabbage) and that doesn't seem to go over well a lot of the time either.

That's nothing though compared to my grandparents, they were old country Russians who loved mystery meat in aspic, herring salad (herring, potatoes, raw onions, boiled root vegetables), ate raw pig fat, and put mayonnaise on fucking everything. All the other kids at school brought things like Rice Krispy Squares or Handi-Snax while they sent me with a can of goddamned fish... I was not a popular child :story:
 
That's..... interesting. Any kind of mustard?

Reminds me of something my HS smoke-buddy came up with one day after school, when we both had insane munchies. I've made them on occasion afterwards, just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating.

So, there was absolutely nothing in his fridge which didnt require a good amount of prep & cooking.... except a roll of Ritz, creamy peanut-butter, and brown mustard.

Yup, we made PB&M crackers, finishing off the entire sleeve.

It was something that sounds & looks disgusting; but the flavor combination kinda short-circuits the taste buds, after the first, another is required to be sure it's really not that bad.

And it's not. Just don't overdo the mustard; only a dot or two on a dollop of PB.
Just classic yellow mustard. Christ that does sound like the type of shit you'd only be willing to try while high. I might actually be willing to give it a go.
 
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Just classic yellow mustard. Christ that does sound like the type of shit you'd only be willing to try while high. I might actually be willing to give it a go.

Since chicken fajitas are on the menu tonight, I'll check it out; gives me an excuse to carbonise it.

The only suggestion I have is to make a little divot in the PB, and then kinda fold it over the mustard. For the first couple seconds it's sweet & salty, then comes the kicker.
 
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I got the family of a friend barfing for an hour after telling them where to get the Brats they gulped down like herons.
they loved them till the realised that it was horsemeat.

Raw beef.
Its called steak.

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GAAAY! the 3 best way of eating beef are RAW! Steak, Tatar and Carpaccio
 
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