Horrifying Foods

[c-no]

With the mention of genitals as food, there is this: Soup No. 5, a soup using the penis or testicles of a bull.

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

Monkey brains. I remember hearing (and seeing a picture) that in some Asian countries rich people will strap a live monkey to a table, cut its head open and eat the brains while it's alive and still screaming. It (and general monkey brain consumation) was banned in China, but in Hong Kong it's still done but very expensive - some rich people do it as a show of status or to prove how brave they are.

 

[RichardMongler]

The putrid palate of certain East Asian cuisines is one thing, but this foul thing has the distinction of being a national dish of Iceland. I don't care for seafood, but if Anthony Bourdain is to be trusted, who the fuck would eat it? Mr. Bourdain once described it as "unspeakably nasty" and "the single worst, most disgusting and terrible tasting thing".

 

[MysticMisty]

That reminds me of when my aunt took me to Trop World and we went to this buffet. There was a huge pile of what I think were crawfish. I was so nauseated looking at them. We did not grow up eating seafood. My mom was utterly repulsed by it and believed the mercury hype. But honestly, the smell alone is enough to make me want to hurl. I have eaten shrimp on occasion. But if gives me a weird feeling in my mouth that I don't like. I'm not allergic. But there's some kind of heavy almost irritation. It's just not very pleasant.

But people will sit there and break apart dead shellfish like it's nothing. I'm a food coward. Give me my meat already faceless and dismembered.

Of course I have to remember that I've probably eaten plenty of bugs while foraging wild fruit. This is why I tend to stay away from mulberries now. You never know if you've washed all the tiny bugs off. I did eat a ton of wineberries last month right off the bushes though. Lord knows what extra protein I might have gotten. but at least if you remain ignorant to what might be on your wild unwashed fruit you can pretend it never happened.

I'm not sure how common it is for people to eat crawfish, but I think most people just eat the tails like with lobster. But there are exceptions

Spoiler: GROSS

My folks used to be friends with a guy native to the south when they lived in Mississippi. He told them the traditional way to eat crawfish was to suck out the brains before eating the tail. After hearing that my mom has refused to eat any part of a crawfish.

 

[RealtreeByGod]

I'm not sure how common it is for people to eat crawfish, but I think most people just eat the tails like with lobster. But there are exceptions

Spoiler: GROSS

My folks used to be friends with a guy native to the south when they lived in Mississippi. He told them the traditional way to eat crawfish was to suck out the brains before eating the tail. After hearing that my mom has refused to eat any part of a crawfish.

All of the spices and flavor and shit collect in the head.

 

[Tookie]

Funazushi, which is basically rotten fish and rice.

Spoiler

Also "Dancing Squid Bowls," though these aren't quite as bad as some of the earlier posted ones since the squid is already dead.

 

[AnOminous]

All of the spices and flavor and shit collect in the head.

You should just generally eat all that shit. It's not really "brains" anyway, it's a sort of liver-pancreas thing. You should eat it in lobsters, too. I don't see what's all that horrifying when you're already eating what is basically a bug.

The putrid palate of certain East Asian cuisines is one thing, but this foul thing has the distinction of being a national dish of Iceland. I don't care for seafood, but if Anthony Bourdain is to be trusted, who the fuck would eat it? Mr. Bourdain once described it as "unspeakably nasty" and "the single worst, most disgusting and terrible tasting thing".

I've always wanted to try this just to see if it's really as bad as everyone says.

Even the Bizarre Foods guy, who usually finds something good to say about everything, was outright nonplused at this dish.

 

[melty]

Fish brains are fine. All the fish head meat can sometimes be the best part! I eat the eyes too
Reminds me of sweet shrimp sushi:

The nigiri is raw shrimp, but some places deep fry the shrimp head and serve it to you

 

[Cheeseburger Picnic]

https://www.hersheys.com/reeses/en_us/recipes/the-reeses-cup-inator-burger.html

 

[Trombonista]

That looks so fake.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

https://www.hersheys.com/reeses/en_us/recipes/the-reeses-cup-inator-burger.html

That dork ass Ken Domik did a review on a burger like this and I swear it was the most Islamic thing I've seen done to a burger.

There's experimentation, and then there's "what the fuck is the point of eating a burger anymore".

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Monkey brains. I remember hearing (and seeing a picture) that in some Asian countries rich people will strap a live monkey to a table, cut its head open and eat the brains while it's alive and still screaming. It (and general monkey brain consumation) was banned in China, but in Hong Kong it's still done but very expensive - some rich people do it as a show of status or to prove how brave they are.

If they were really brave they'd catch the monkey themselves and not tie it down. Eat your monkey brains like real men!

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

If they were really brave they'd catch the monkey themselves and not tie it down. Eat your monkey brains like real men!

Dindu's are haram.

 

[nad7155]

Anything prepared at 14 Branchland CT in Ruckersville VA.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Anything your taint produces.

That isn't cum. Plot twist.

 

[DirkBloodStormKing]

Well, during the 1940's-1970's in America, these disgraceful examples of "food" (really should call it unappetizing matter made to "appear" to be "food" instead honestly) existed.

Not only that but these "recipes" for this kind of "food" were rampant and people actually cooked like this.

Hell, you could still find recipes for these things and other "food" and "recipes" just like it.

 

[Super Collie]

Monkey brains. I remember hearing (and seeing a picture) that in some Asian countries rich people will strap a live monkey to a table, cut its head open and eat the brains while it's alive and still screaming. It (and general monkey brain consumation) was banned in China, but in Hong Kong it's still done but very expensive - some rich people do it as a show of status or to prove how brave they are.

Fun fact, where I used to live there was an "upscale" Chinese restaurant that was shut down because they were allegedly serving monkey brains to high paying customers.

The property languished for a decade, became an art gallery, and then Hurricane Harvey blew it down. All that remains is the legend.

 

[Clownfish]

Some years ago I saw an article where a Chinese person said they didn't like dog meat because it was heavy and greasy.

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Depends how it's cooked. No it's not heavy and greasy. It's a weird balance of light, heavy, white dark tender and chewy.

 

[Caesare]

I'm not sure how common it is for people to eat crawfish, but I think most people just eat the tails like with lobster.

People in and around the state of Louisiana eat them, the rest of the country uses them as bait.

He told them the traditional way to eat crawfish was to suck out the brains before eating the tail. After hearing that my mom has refused to eat any part of a crawfish.

That's the only way to eat them tbh. That's where all the flavor is. And you're not sucking out the brains, you're getting all the juice that soaked into the body, everything you boiled them in: cayenne pepper, lemon juice, garlic, etc.

 

[AnOminous]

That's the only way to eat them tbh. That's where all the flavor is. And you're not sucking out the brains, you're getting all the juice that soaked into the body, everything you boiled them in: cayenne pepper, lemon juice, garlic, etc.

They don't really have brains in the same way vertebrates do. That stuff is a combination liver/pancreas organ.