Two foods:

#1: Casu Marzu. It's a type of cheese from Sardinia made with sheep's milk and includes live maggots.

The safer method of eating it involves putting the portion you want to eat in a sealed paper bag and wait until you stop hearing popping sounds. This means the maggots are dead. Wolf it down before they start to decompose. Naturally, the preferred method of consumption among conisseurs involves eating it while the maggots are still alive. Said maggots can easily jump up to about six inches and either get in the diner's eye or live on in their intestines.

It should go without saying that this cheese is illegal, in both the US and the EU. If you need to ask why, you clearly haven't been reading this post. That said, people still make 110 tonnes' worth of it per year with a cost between €2–3 million.

#2: Lutefisk. I'm one of those people who cannot stand the taste of fish, but the fact that you have to soak the fucker in lye is what makes it truly "are you shitting me." Yes, the same chemical used in this scene to both scar Tyler Durden and Sebastian (Yes, that's his canonical name), and turn some woman's fat ass into soap.



And, yes, there's a very real chance of the meat's fat content turning into soap. There's apparently a right range of time where it neither tastes hideous nor turns into soap, but it's extremely narrow, and evidently is not commonly followed. In addition, some even go as far as saying that the best lutefisk... well, you ever watch some old cartoon where the bad guy's creating an evil potion and it's so corrosive it causes the spoon to dissolve? For some, apparently, the best lutefisk can dissolve the silverware used to eat it.

The Y-donor loved pickled pig's feet and pork rinds. "We use everything but the squeal." Real City-of-the-broad-shoulders shit.

(June 29, 2023 at 9:32 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(June 29, 2023 at 8:29 pm)Tomato Wrote: Granted, I've never ventured to eat it, but the boyfriend loves pig's feet.

My mother grew up on a farm, and her dad died when she was 12. She grew up on pickled pig's feet, pork hock, watermelon rind pickles, etc. She told me about going to school with only mustard on bread for lunch. We had pickled pig's feet and watermelon rind pickles growing up. Yech. Ate 'em, we were poor.

My grandparents were like that. The two that stick out are blood pudding (pig) and carp soup made by pressure cooking so all the little bones would crunch. I could go on about the critters but I don't feel like typing that much. Their three daughters (mom) had pet racoons, caught when gramps killed the mother, he'd then pull their canines. Eventually they would be on the dinner table.

I was a young teen and at my grandparents' farm one day. It happened to be the day they decided to make blood sausage. URP. The smell was awful. There wasn't air conditioning in the house so it was hot, humid, and smelly. I offered to make the casings that grandma was sewing out of some sort of cheesecloth or something similar. I worked away on a treadle machine near a window in the hall in the hopes that I could escape some of the smell. Needless to say, I didn't eat any of the stuff being cooked up in the kitchen. Grandpa loved that stuff, with maple syrup.

(June 29, 2023 at 1:07 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I am sort of a picky eater so the list could be long.  

One that shows up, seemingly everywhere, that I cannot abide is green bean casserole.  It's been something for me to avoid for as long as I can remember.  BLECH!

Green Giant green beans, Campbell cream of mushroom soup, and Durkee canned french-fried onions on top.

It's been a staple at every family gathering since I was a toddler.

I'd rather eat the staples.

Pork rinds.

My wife loves the stuff, and has her whole life. With her, it's all about the "crunch" sound that some foods make upon eating.

She'll eat plain rice cakes, too, because of the crunch. I swear, she'd eat cardboard, if I could somehow make it crunch between her teeth.

She didn't bat an eye when I told her what pork rinds are made of. (She didn't know, until she was ~50 years old.)

(June 30, 2023 at 5:34 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: Pork rinds.

My wife loves the stuff, and has her whole life.  With her, it's all about the "crunch" sound that some foods make upon eating.

She'll eat plain rice cakes, too, because of the crunch.  I swear, she'd eat cardboard, if I could somehow make it crunch between her teeth.

She didn't bat an eye when I told her what pork rinds are made of.  (She didn't know, until she was ~50 years old.)

I think it would be easy to replace rice cakes with little rounds of styrofoam.  I tied to snack on rice cakes some years back but even the so called flavored ones...weren't.

(June 30, 2023 at 5:37 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(June 30, 2023 at 5:34 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: Pork rinds.

My wife loves the stuff, and has her whole life.  With her, it's all about the "crunch" sound that some foods make upon eating.

She'll eat plain rice cakes, too, because of the crunch.  I swear, she'd eat cardboard, if I could somehow make it crunch between her teeth.

She didn't bat an eye when I told her what pork rinds are made of.  (She didn't know, until she was ~50 years old.)

I think it would be easy to replace rice cakes with little rounds of styrofoam.  I tied to knack on rice cakes some years back but even the so called flavored ones...weren't.

Did you try them on the parrot? Can't be much worse than eggshell cornbread.

(June 30, 2023 at 6:04 pm)brewer Wrote:

(June 30, 2023 at 5:37 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I think it would be easy to replace rice cakes with little rounds of styrofoam.  I tied to knack on rice cakes some years back but even the so called flavored ones...weren't.

Did you try them on the parrot? Can't be much worse than eggshell cornbread.

She loves that!  The cornbread also has veggies.  Lately she's been digging some grapes.

Spam and Limburger cheese with Miracle Whip on Wonder white bread. Or use Velveeta "cheese". I can't imagine a worse sandwich unless actual garbage was used. These are all things that will never be seen in our house.