[ale] [OT] list of cultural food oddities

[Geoffrey]

You left out mountain oysters...

Jim wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 August 2002 10:28 pm, Christopher Ness wrote:
> 
>>On Monday 26 August 2002 09:07 am, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>>
>>>"I HAVE A THEORY that many (all?) cultures invent a food that is weird
>>>or disgusting to non-initiates as a sort of a "marker." The kids start
>>>out hating it, but at some point they cross over and perpetuate it
>>>(perpetrate it) on the next generation. Then they nudge each other when
>>>foreigners gasp."
>>
>>On the other hand,  I don't believe the first person to eat these things
>>was being brave...I believe he was desparately hungry. The second guy was
>>brave. He believed the first guy when he said it was good. Escargots
>>anyone?
> 
> 
> Haggis for the Scottish (assorted ground sheep organs served in a casing of 
> sheep intestines)
> 
> Lutefisk for the Swedes (I have heard it described as fish marinated in 
> ammonia)
> 
> Boudin for Cajuns (also uses a casing of intestines, described as resembling a 
> horse's...well, you know!)
> 
> The Vietnamese have a way of preparing fish that involves letting it "ripen"  
> (we would say "rot") for a few days before cooking.
> 
> The Germans have Blutwurst (blood sausage) and head cheese (apparently, the 
> parts left from a pig's head after you run it through a wood chipper).
> 
> Then there are Pennsylvanians and their scrapple...
> 
> And if you are truly Southern, you are not more than two generations removed 
> from somebody who ate chitterlings (aka "chitlins").
> 
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