73353 -- weirsdest foods

[Giovanni Schwartz]

https://theboard.byu.edu/questions/73353/

Can I just say "I love this game."? Because I love this game.

[wryness]

I think it's fun to hear, too.

I once ate a Bolivian dish that included chuño, which are potatoes that have had the water stamped out of them by people with their bare feet and then left to freeze-dry in the cold night air of the Bolivian altiplano. They are brownish and have a consistency like sand.

In the same dish, there was pig skin. I didn't know what it was at first, and I guessed I shouldn't ask what it was, but I thought, "Nah, I'll still eat it." I thought it was some sort of gelatin or bread, and when I learned it was pig skin, I thought, "Oh, okay," moved my fork towards it, hesitated--and then tried to hide it under the bones of the meat.

Wobbly gelatinous pig skin is gross.

[mic0]

I had some pork belly for dinner last night at a Chinese restaurant in Michigan. Gelatinous pig skin only seems gross but then it doesn't taste that weird. In my opinion, obvs.

[Genuine Article]

I once ate a Bolivian dish that included chuño, which are potatoes that have had the water stamped out of them by people with their bare feet and then left to freeze-dry in the cold night air of the Bolivian altiplano. They are brownish and have a consistency like sand.

My mother-in-law just got back from a trip to Peru and she talked all about this process. Her group spent a day harvesting potatoes at high altitude, and they had potatoes at every meal, and if she ever sees another potato it will be too soon. Apparently they have 7,000 different varieties of potato in South America.

[thatonemom]

Bolivia is like the potato capitol of South America! Wryness, did you serve a mission there?

I spent a semester in Cochabamba, so not a mission. But I still ate some interesting things. Chuno and charque (which was like very dry jerky) and this peanut soup dish with whole peanuts (which wouldn't have been bad) and a big hunk of beef on the bone hiding at the bottom. Also a dish called pique a lo macho, which was cut potato, chorizo (a hotdogy-sausage meat), beef (I think), ketchup, mayonnaise, and a big fried egg on the top.

[Whistler]

When I was in Japan I ate a Kaiseki meal (lots of little courses). One of the things I ate was a weird, warm, green-tea colored gelatinous substance.

[Emiliana]

Not a mission in the Mormon sense, but on my various trips to Africa I ate whole fish (eyeballs and all), caterpillars, termites, and goat testicles.

[blpsara]

We seem to have a lot of Bolivia connections - how fun!

I served my mission in La Paz. And chuño and tunta are absolutely disgusting.

As far as strange...monkey, armadillo...also, it was always a bit horrifying to be in a room teaching one day with a bunch of innards hanging from the ceiling and to know that the next time you come back they will be offering you that to eat.

[wryness]

Bolivia is like the potato capitol of South America! Wryness, did you serve a mission there?

In Argentina, actually--but my last area had tons of Bolivian immigrants and the ward was probably 80% Bolivian. (My mother served a mission in La Paz, though.)

There was this one poor family we sometimes ate with in another area, and they would give us a type of soup with bones from a cow's spinal column in it, and only a tiny bit of meat on the outside of the bones and then the marrow inside the bones. (I don't think I ate the marrow.) That was kind of gross until I got used to it.

[Yarjka]

You guys are making my Holodets sound like child's play.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

One time I showed up at a member's house, and they offered me stewed fish fins. Except I didn't know what they were when they told me. And they were trying to explain it to me, and I just wasn't getting it, so I tried some, thinking it would be some vegetable. And then I realized what they were saying when I could feel it in my mouth. And then I told my companion and he wouldn't try any.

I also tried stinky tofu a couple times, which smells like the sewer, and tastes like it smells.

Among many other things.

Intestines are actually pretty okay, as long as they're washed out good. If they're not washed out good, they taste like what was in them before they were chopped up.

We would also eat these little octopuses that were about as long as your pinky. And you boiled them in the hot pot (soup stuff), and then ate them. They were kind of rubbery and squirted juice in your mouth that had cooked the inside of them.

I can continue, if anyone still has an appetite.

[NerdGirl]

I ate this in France: http://unclestinky.wordpress.com/2008/0 ... n-sausage/

It's probably the only thing I've ever eaten that I didn't like.

[Yarjka]

I had kidneys that tasted like pee. I tried to make them on my own, thinking I could make it so they didn't taste like pee. I succeeded in making my entire apartment smell like pee and producing a completely inedible meal. I don't think kidneys can not taste like pee. It must be an acquired taste.

[C is for]

I ate this in France: http://unclestinky.wordpress.com/2008/0 ... n-sausage/

It's probably the only thing I've ever eaten that I didn't like.

Haha that's blocked on my computer for being "Tasteless"

[Whistler]

really? I had a steak and kidney pie when I was in England and I really liked it. It's possible that it was mostly steak though .

[Yarjka]

really? I had a steak and kidney pie when I was in England and I really liked it. It's possible that it was mostly steak though .

I've only tried beef kidney. Perhaps pork or lamb kidney is less pungent.