Post your horrible ethnic foods!

Post your horrible ethnic foods! Preferrably ones that you've actually eaten.

I'll start with the Filipino dish Diniguan (pronounced din-ih-goo-uhn). This shit is gross.

Take a bunch of miscellaneous innards of pig, intestines, god knows what else. Dice them. Put them into a large pot filled with pig's blood and vinegar. Cook until black. Spoon onto hot steamy rice. Eat. Vomit.

I grew up eating this stuff. My Grandma used to tell me it was "chocolate meat". "What kind of chocolate is this?!" I'd ask her. "Special chocolate" she'd answer. It wasn't until years later that I found out what was really in "chocolate meat".

You see, my family liked feeding this to other people, neighbors and potential mates, that sort of thing. Then, after they'd enjoyed a plateful, we'd tell them what they just ate. (Note, we did not do this to Jews. We aren't that fucked up.) Well, one time, my Grandma had just served up a steaming portion to my cousin's boyfriend. After he was done eating, he looked up from his plate to see my Grandma smiling and bouncing from foot-to-foot like some horrible asian charicature. "You like it? You wanna know what that is now?" she asked. "Sure, this is good!" Tony said. "It's blood and guts! Hahaha. From a pig!" Tony wasn't eager to try too many more Filipino dishes after that. Anyway...

Little did she know that I had overheard this whole thing. Never again would I eat "chocolate meat".

 

I make a point of not eating any food unless I either know what the ingredients are, or I trust the source of the food.

Milo, you've had a fairly traumatic life haven't you?

 

Well, in Tony's case, you gotta trust your girlfriend's Grandma's home-cooking right? Or at least try it. For the sake of the relationship.

I never used to think of it that way... But now I'm not so sure.

 

Anybody that got head-fudged by a rottweiler named ROC, I think would be classified as having a traumatic life. Even if the rest of it was peaches and dreams.

Let's see.....

-Milo has been raped by a huge dog,
-Threw up on by a homeless man,
-Got laughed at for showing up at a job interview like 3 weeks early smelling of homeless man vomit,
-His grandma fed him pig innards,

Any other hilarious experiences you wanna share, Milo?

Now, to add something to Milo's Original Post so I don't COMPLETELY train wreck his thread,

I can't think of any "ethnic" foods in my family....I mean, it's "ethnic" to somebody else, but.......hmmmm

Well, we do eat cracklin cornbread and chitlins whenever we butcher a hog. (Don't know? Don't ask..)

 

Don't give me that! I bet you wolf down the pickled pigs feet like a good 'un.

London suffers from several of these ethnic aberrations (surprise, surprise). The most horrendous I've had personal contact with are:

Jellied eels. My dad and older brother love these. Recipe? Take the shit eating scum from the bottom of the Thames and throw them in a pot of boiling water (seasoned with salt and pepper), add gelatin and leave it to cool/set.

Tripe. The stomach of cows, boiled and seasoned. My dad grew up on it but has fortunately not eaten it recently. My mum used to feed our dogs on it and I had to leave the house while it was being prepared (it stank the place out).

 

BEEF TRIPE!! Thank you sheriff, I forgot about beef tripe. My dad grew up on it as well. I've never had it, but he told me it stinks to high heaven. Also, I have had cow tounge and cow heart. Don't care for either, but again, my dad loves the stuff. They have a very strong, musky flavor to them.

Oh, and no, we don't eat pickled pigs feet, but cracklins and chitlins are never in short supply.

 

Does Peyote count?

 

We do eat this over here, as well as cow’s brain and testicles ( onder .

But overall I have no issue with weird food, and I don’t need to know what it is before I eat it.

 

Ewww. Tripe. *shudder*

And black pudding - tried that once. Never again. It's congealed pig's blood! (unpasturised too - did you know that you can get more than 450 different types of infection from unpasturised pig's blood? And that doesn't include the parasites!)

As I said. Yuck!

 

I have never tried pig's blood, but it's quite common chicken's blood over here. Very tasty.
It seems I have an oistrich's stomach.

 

Guess you guys have never heard of salmonella.

 

Yeah I have - did a research project on it during my degree. Shigella-type toxin yada yada yada yada...

Not often found in pig's blood though - more often in fowl (I think they prefer the nucleated blood cells or something).

 

Yeah, Salmonella is the one that's in raw chicken, right? The one in undercooked pork is... E.Coli? Something like that, I think.

This one doesn't sound too bad to me. That is except for the whole "shit eating scum from the bottom of the Thames" part. But then I like anchovies and Unagi.

Ugh... Holy shit, man. My Grandma used to make this other Flip dish that I knew as "Peanut Butter Soup". I don't know what the authentic Flip name is. But anyway, all it was was a big beef stomach that looked like a white, fleshy, rubbery honeycomb thing. Toss into a pot of water with a jar of peanut butter and some other stuff. Oh my god.

I remember this smell, too. It smells like shit. We'd get this big bag of intestines from the farmer's market or asian grocery and soak them for awhile in a big bucket of water. The color and smell of this soaking water was not at all appetizing. That is unless you have some weird shit-eating fetish. Ugh... And the smell of it cooking over a slow boil was nothing nice, either. The dogs did go nuts for it, though.

If cracklins are what I think they are, then I do like those. Deep fried pig skin, right? We call those Chicharones. They are heart-cloggingly delicious. Chitlins are probably the bits that are in Diniguan. Pickled Pigs feet I have not had, but I've seen people eating them. I have had Pickled Pig's ear, though, and yes, I ate it when I was younger but can't eat it anymore.

Cows in Brazil have testicles?! And you eat them?! This must be a delicacy due to the rarity of hermaphroditic cows!

Hahaha, I know how you feel! Did your Grandma call it "chocolate" pudding?

 

Not really, eh. But I have forgotten the male of the cow. Is it bull?

Anyway the most common technique to eat brain is: slice than pass the slices through egg’s yellow part and flour. Fry in oil. Yummy yummy.

 

Haha, yeah, it's bull.

This sounds pretty good to me. I'd try it once. It sounds kind of like sweetbreads.

 

Ethnic foods just don't cut it in my family (thank goodness). For some reason they tend to use strange parts of animals, and involve disgusting concoctions and rituals.

Edit - Actually, there is a particular food that I enjoy, but I'm not sure that it's ethnic. It might be Aboriginal (native Australians), but I don't know. It is a food known as...damper. Yes, it's called damper. However, it basically soft and squishy dough with a crusty covering. It's quit delicious, as it is whatever shape you cook it in. It's not unlike bread, but it's oh so much nicer. About the only drawback is, you usually cook it on a stick when camping, so you have to deal with the drawbacks of eating off a stick.

 

I thought trick was the one in pork?

 

Like I said, there are more than 450 common bacteria, nematodes, platyhelminthes and various viruses and prokaryotae you can get from pork.

The most common one though is probably Escherichia Coli. Although it's found naturally in 99% of human guts anyway, there is a variant (O147:H7 variant) that has been infected with a Lambda-class Lysogenic bacterial virus that happens to leave it's lambda-coding viral DNA strand in the codons of the gene that regulates toxin production. This leads to the shigella-analogue E.coli toxin that is normally produced by the bacteria being produced 1000 fold.

This is the really nasty food-poisoning 'bug' that claims the lives of people through Enterohaemorrhagic Gastroenteritis. (ie. the one you would have heard about on the news).

Hope this clears a few thing up! (if you can read it! :wink

 

Err... It's hard to tell...

 

you forgot the hamster biting incident...