Food Taboos?

[bayouchica]

One of the food I will never eat again is boudin. I used to eat it as a child,but when my mother explained one day how they made it back then...

It's pieces parts of pig & whatever plus some dirty rice.Mom would tell me how they would clean out the pig intestines & use that to stuff the mixure in.

I've seen chickens feet at the meat counter at the store & chittlins.

Another food I wouldn't eat is hoghead chesse.

I will eat crawfish, oysters & crab

Now I've lost my appetite,lol.

 

[deb1]

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Monkey brains. See my earlier post about squirrel brains.


Kimchi. I'm not sure it is rotten cabbage any more than sauer kraut is rotten cabbage. Kimchi isn't just cabbage, there are a lot of different kinds of kimchi. I spent a year in Korea and had only a few of the many.

Kimchi isn't rotten, just fermented.

I was about to make the same comment. Kimchi is fermented cabbage, very spicy. Isn' t sourkraut feremented cabbage?

When I was in Korea I was told(I do not know if this is true or just a rumor) that there was a problem with rabies because the type of dogs that are used for meat don't get vacinations because it ruins the flavor of the meat. Pet dogs were given vacinations.

I think that areas that have been hit by extreme poverty and starvation end up with traditions of eating unusual food. The southern US has unusual food also. For example, I have had friends who eat pickled pigs feet, and chitlins(intestines-I think from pigs) My grandmother flavored her beans with ham hocks.

Cucumber Kimchi is wonderful by the way. It is hot, spicy and sweet. Yum!

 

[MicMoo]

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I believe it's called "Oi Kimchi" and I have to agree 100% that it's my favorite kind of kimchi. It was explained to me that kimchi has gotten a bad rap from Americans because it was put into a ceramic crock and buried - it was buried because that was the only reliable form of refrigeration in pre-electrified Korea.


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Being of Scottish heritage, my family LOVES a good haggis. We get our 'fix' from our haggis 'dealer' who lives almost 200 miles away in Oregon. It's a funny scene when we meet at a pre-arranged location for the 'exchange'.

Me: "Got the stuff?"
Him: "Got the money?"

Then an unmarked envelope and a brown paper bag pass between us. Someday, we're going to get arrested.

 

[boilerjoe_96]

Rocky Mountain oysters.... I have had many things on the lists here and am wiling to try most things... as mentioned brains... no thanks.... but if I had to choose... brains would be eaten before testicles.... that is just not right.....

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

I wont eat scallops. Childhood related:/
Wont eat horse. No way no how.
I wont eat lamb or veal
Cant eat anything that I have named. So my girls are safe.

No to dog, cat.
No turtle, no snake, no insects
Dont like duck. Wont eat goose.
No venison, moose,bear
No rocky mountain oysters
No hagas
No brain, tongue, pig hocks, chicken feet, pigs feet, liver,kidney

What I have eaten.

Alligator
Buffalo
shark
beaver jerky

I have no problem with those that eat the things I wont. I understand different cultures = different foods