What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?

From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2001 4:11 PM

Reading Stang's response about possums got me thinking about
Granny's recipe for possum. I've never eaten one, but there
are recipes for them and other critters in The Joy of
Cooking. So, what's the weirdest thing you ever ate?
For me, it would be fertilized duck eggs.

We had been coming to a Philippine restaurant for a couple
of weeks and decided to take my parents there on Sunday. On
Sunday it would fill up with Filipinos after church, and we
noticed teenagers at the next table ordering a dozen hard
boiled eggs. I asked the waitress what they were having, and
she informed me that it was fertilized duck eggs, the kind
with not only a white and yolk, but a baby duck with beak
and feathers and everything. Apparently it was a kind of
macho thing with the young men, so I had to try it. When I
opened it up, it was only a little stinky, like the hard
boiled chicken eggs that are only a little too old, but
you'll still eat them. So I cut it open, and there was
little Dewey, yolk still attached. It tasted a little like
duck, but mostly like egg yolk, but the texture of the
little "duck" was like...........eating a whole soft boiled
duck, only smaller. The white of the egg was so tough,
literally like rubber, that I could eat only half of it. My
wife refused to kiss me until I brushed my teeth and used
mouthwash. I'd eat one again, but only to show off.

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Reply-To: like.excess@sex.org
Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2001 6:35 PM
Message-ID: <3C0EAF2D.73A3@succeeds.com>

Blended cat in white cream sauce. Maybe.

He would never 'fess up, one way or the other.

He said it was a joke worth dying for. Even
if we killed him, we would never know for sure.

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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: König Prüß, GfbAEV <saurkraut@weinerschnitzle.com>

I like rattlesnake and nopales.
One restaurant had the front widow stacked full of skinned and cooked
sheeps heads. The tacos are all made from meat shaved-off the sheep's
jowels, mostly. For a few pesos more, you can get a taco with a sheep's
eyeball looking out of the end.

Monkey brains.

Bbq dog.

The Chines herbalists have something called, "The Mushroom of the Dead"
After a corpse has been in the casket for a while, the coffin is opened and
it's full of these 'shrooms.

Philippine "baluk" which are embryonic duck eggs. They are boiled, then
the end is cracked-off with a spoon, the liquid is good, as is the duck. The
duck is the newest of flesh, and the head and beak don't even crunch.
A favorite also at Viet poker parties.

There was a local restaurant named "Dominique's" that always had some
kind of big game item, like hippo, elephant, whale, etc.

Bear is good, about like beef.

Live scorpions.
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: Monseignor Tartarus Sanctus <tartarus@marilyn.cudenver.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2001 6:50 PM
Message-ID: <3C0EB2E1.3090302@marilyn.cudenver.edu>

John Starrett wrote:

> So, what's the weirdest thing you ever ate?

I guess you mean ate on purpose. Well, when I was a kid a moth landed on
my ice cream bar and I didn't notice until it was in my mouth. I knew it
was a moth from the texture, but I ate it anyway because it was covered
in ice cream. Weirdest thing I paid to eat was a jellyfish. It was in a
Vietnamese salad.

Monseignor Tartarus Sanctus
Salvian Holy Pipe Synod
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: md_archangel@hotmail.com (mykal d'archangel)

>So, what's the weirdest thing you ever ate?

Crow.

st m d'a
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: thereheis99@hotmail.com (Rev. Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Dec 6, 2001 10:20 AM
Message-ID: <129b702.0112060720.44debf41@posting.google.com>

A Swanson "Salisbury steak" frozen "dinner"
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

Rev. Crawford wrote:
>
> A Swanson "Salisbury steak" frozen "dinner"

Oooo. Gross. You actually put that thing in
your *mouth*?

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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

Do you have any idea of how many Swansons they have
to kill to make just *one* of those patties? And
do you know how dirty and parasite-infested a
Swanson is? Geez, and I though sausage and peanut
butter were gross...

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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: mshotz@aol.comnospam (James T. Rex King of the Monsters)

>So, what's the weirdest thing you ever ate?

Rattle Snake

Squirrell

Authintic Brunswick Stew.

MRE Chicking Ala King

C-Ration Ham & eggs (chopped)

MSHOTZ: The Post Post Modern Man

"Just think, the next time I shoot someone I could get arrested!"

Lt. Frank Dredin, "The Naked Gun"
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: "Paul E. Jamison" <pauljmsn@infi.net>

There's room here for a joke about my last date, y'know.

A long time ago, when I was workig at Cessna, a fellow
engineer promised to bring in some rattlesnake meat for
the rest of us to try. Tasted like chicken. Really. It wasn't
until he left the company that he told us that what he'd
really fed us was mountain oysters.

However, if I don't count the off-brand of frozen pizza I
tried years ago, I'd have to say the weirdest thing I've
ever eaten were pieces of witchety grub in the Outback of
Australia. I was part of a tour group and we did the turista
visit-the-quaint-Aborigines thing. They dug out some grubs,
buried them in the ground and built a fire over them. The
results were kind of nutty tasting. The guide ate one grub
for us raw and still kicking, so to speak. You gotta do it quick
and in one gulp or the grubs bite your tongue.

Paul E. Jamison

"There's more pressure on a vet to get it right.
People say 'It was God's will' when Granny dies,
but they get *angry* when they lose a cow."
- Terry Pratchett
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: Tesla Coil <tescoil@irtc.net>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Dec 6, 2001 9:32 PM
Message-ID: <3C102AA2.C2418F7A@irtc.net>

On 4 Dec 2001, John Starrett wrote:
> So, what's the weirdest thing you ever ate?

The weird part is considering the recipe and
deciding to cook it up and try it anyway:

1-1/2 cups chopped onion
1 cup finely chopped celery
1/2 cup finely diced smoked ham
1 garlic clove, minced
3 cups chicken-broth
1/8 tsp ground red pepper
1 16 oz can navy beans, drained
1 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes, drained
3 tbsp creamy peanut butter
1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley

Place large saucepan coated with cooking spray
over medium-high heat until hot. Add onion,
celery, ham, and garlic--saute 8 minutes. Add
broth and next three ingredients (broth through
tomatoes); bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and
simmer 15 minutes. Add peanut butter, stirring
with a whisk. Cook 5 minutes, stir occasionally.
Sprinkle each serving with parsley.
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: peter molenda <peter.molenda@sci.monash.edu.au>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Reply-To: peter.molenda@sci.monash.edu.au
Date: Thu, Dec 6, 2001 10:46 PM
Message-ID: <3C103B7B.DDA555C@sci.monash.edu.au>

> I could handle the sea slugs and
> the yak tails and the Chinese Everclear, but I had to give my eggs to
> Li Li-jing, The Chinese SubGenius. He EAGERLY gobbled them down. I
> guess it's an acquired taste.

an acquired taste, huh. let me just re-quote that bit:

> It smells like vomit and shit mixed together with burnt
> hair, blood and pee. And a stink bug.

if something tastes *that* bad, isn't it nature's way of saying "don't
put it in your mouth"?

(shakes head) they could be eating lightly salted fried potatoes.
instead, they have to eat something that tastes like the clot of matted
hair that's plugging up the line to the septic tank. can this be just a
cultural thing? are they that weird? are *we* that weird because we
DON'T eat it?

nikolai (at work)
---
for the past few nights, i've had dreams that end in a way that makes
me feel like throwing up. wednesday night, some dream bit-player
pointed out i had a tape worm caught between my front teeth. last
night i was chowing down on the stalks of big fleshy white 'shrooms
and thinking "this will make me throw up.. here it comes.. oh, hang on,
no.. wait.. yes.. here it comes - no, fuck, that's the alarm clock."
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: xenu <xenu1324@hotmail.com>

I've eaten meal worms and honey pot ants In biology class
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>

"Paul E. Jamison" wrote:
<snip>
> I was part of a tour group and we did the turista
> visit-the-quaint-Aborigines thing. They dug out some grubs,
> buried them in the ground and built a fire over them. The
> results were kind of nutty tasting. The guide ate one grub
> for us raw and still kicking, so to speak. You gotta do it quick
> and in one gulp or the grubs bite your tongue.
<snip>

That's what I like; food that fights back. Even though raw
oysters are alive, you can't really feel them trying to claw
their way back up your throat. I bite them in two, though,
just to be safe. I like Rocky Mountain Oysters. Of course,
like any deep fried food, they are just a trencher to scoop
up some yummy sauce. Round these parts, especially during
the stock show, you can get them everywhere.

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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

That reminds me of one of the first examples of an
early chop sockey movie, I think it was called "Judy Lee"
(actress Chia Ling, I think), (implied that she was the
sister of Bruce) where the main gimmick was "Judy Lee
will tear your heart out". She would stick her hand into
some guy's chest cavity and pull that sucker out so quick
it would still get off a beat or two. Really impressed
the heck out of my school mates.
I was instantly reminded of that when I saw an oyster
aorta pumping. Oh, fucking yummy.

(Dang, now I'm thinking of the other cinema verite, such
as "Master of the Flying Guillotine"; the one with the
master swordsman/executioner pushing around his son in a
baby carriage; and "Master of Death", where the good guy
single handedly kills like 300 guys in one big fight.)

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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

In article <9urpb40prm@drn.newsguy.com>, HellPope Huey
<whatthe@flurkingshnit.blargh> wrote:

> A 300-pound SWEE-dish gal improbably named Telulah. Mashed my ears some.
> Responded with 8.5 enthusiasm, 6.3 cleanliness. Would return myself. Would
> recommend to a friend.
>

URL? Digits?

It's for a friend.

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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: Tesla Coil <tescoil@irtc.net>

On 7 Dec 2001, Arbane the Terrible wrote:
>> The weird part is considering the recipe and
>> deciding to cook it up and try it anyway:
>>
>> 1-1/2 cups chopped onion
>[snip]
>> 3 tbsp creamy peanut butter
>> 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
>
> Well, how did it taste?

Peanut butter blends in with the taste of the
navy beans more than one might expect. I could
take it or leave it, probably a dish to provoke
sharp differences of opinion among others.

> I'm a boring cook--I leave peanut butter
> on bread, where it belongs.

Thai cooking frequently combines peanut butter
in sauces with peppers, garlic, or cilantro.

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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: modemac@modemac.com (Modemac)

Maple leaves, right off the tree. I was young, naive, and curious,
and I was hungry that day. The maple leaves were very bitter, and I
only ate a couple of them; but they didn't poison me or anything. I
think I ate them on two or three separate occasions that year.

Also when we were young, my brother tried to impress us by eating
yellow snow. He didn't do it again.

Down South, I hear that the kids there literally like to eat dirt.
Apparently there's a certain kind of clay that supposedly has a
"buttery" type of taste; though I suspect you've probably got to grow
up eating the stuff and acquire the taste before you think that.
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: alleykatzen@hotmail.com (Alliekatt P.Pstensch McPogmahone)

Chicken fried squirrel. Excellent. Tastes just like rabbit. Except
that with about every third bite I was spitooning buckshot onto the
plate. Pftp-ding.

Chicken fried gator. Again, excellent. Kind of like fried pork
chops.

Jellyfish salad. The Chinese like it. It was okay.

Curried squid (I learned to make this one too, it's really good)

Black pudding (also really good but unavailable in the States). Took
me about five minutes to get up the nerve. Then I was hooked.

Whole doves skinned, wrapped in bacon, dipped in Tandoori sauce and
barbecued.

pretty good stuff

alliekatt
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>

Haven't had squirrel yet, but I would love to try it. I'm with you on
the black pudding. We first had it in a Serbian bar in Slovenia with
potatoes and sauerkraut, but the best ever was on a farm in England,
where the blood came from a calf slaughtered the night before. Ah yes,
and haggis. What I have had has been excellent. There is a Scottish
festival every year just outside of Denver, and last year they stopped
putting the haggis in a sheep stomach because too many people were
complaining that it was gross. For Bob's sake, you sissies, IF YOU DON'T
WANT TO EAT A SHEEP'S STOMACH DON'T ORDER HAGGIS!!!!!!!!

John Starrett

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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>

I just remembered I ate a sheep sinus once. The sheep had been buried in
the ground with hot stones for 24 hours, and it smelled so good, I
imagine the poop would have tasted fine. As it was, a few brave souls
split the head. I had some brain too, but I had had that before in
France. Heck, the French will eat anything. In fact, they make it a
point of honor to have 20 recipes for any part of anything that creeps,
swims or slithers, and an appropriate sauce and wine too.

John Starrett
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Dec 10, 2001 2:56 PM
Message-ID: <3C15135A.22CD04A3@carbon.cudenver.edu>

Modemac wrote:
>
> Maple leaves, right off the tree. I was young, naive, and curious,
> and I was hungry that day. The maple leaves were very bitter, and I
> only ate a couple of them; but they didn't poison me or anything. I
> think I ate them on two or three separate occasions that year.
>

Why maple leaves? Was it the syrup connection? I have eaten grape leaves
right off the vine, and they are good. Of course you can cook them
wrapped around rice and lamb, but that's not weird. The mud eating is
weird, though.

John Starrett

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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: ali assa seen <dancing@ausNOTTHISchron.com>

Is there anyone in or from Texas who *hasn't* eaten squirrel? Nothin's
as good as gator on a stick, tho, when it's good and greasy.

I've got a jar of human brains I stole from one of the Liquid Mice
guys, and I'd like to try a bite, but they've been in formaldehyde for
something like 70 years (supposedly they're Nazi German scientists'
brains from the 30s - the kind zombies like!), and I ain't gonna die
for that particular "thrill".

Unless someone dares me.

- Dr Strangemonde
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From: shinpath@gol.com (SPLR Ministries, Western Japan)

"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote:

>
>
>That Coventry area is one of a zillion reasons that I live in Cleveland
>now instead of Dallas. Years before I lived here, Mac's Backs sponsored
>a SubG book signing; Big Fun, the novelty collector's store, used to
>have a whole SubGenius section! Only reason they don't now is because
>I've been lazy. That used record and CD store, Record Revolution (?),
>always helped publicize Devivals. Same with the Arabica coffee house,
>which I think closed. And the Cleveland Food Coop is there -- my wife
>used to be president of the board of that until some Commies tried to
>unionize it -- unionize a CO-OP! (Alt.slack old-timer historical note
>-- former Rev. Lou Duchez took on the job when she got burned out. We
>talk to Lou regularly and he's doing fine; in fact he had a good turn
>of luck recently.)

Another mysterious resignation. Sigh. Can't we just have a clause
that you are a Sub FOR LIFE when you sign up? Buck Naked didn't like
the killing of humans and Bob Black, well, we won't even go there.
But then people like me and Michael Peppe hang around FOREVER, wearing
out our welcome.... you figure...
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

Well, you know how Lou is. Of course he's still a SubGenius, of the
classic "Lou Duchez" type, but you could never get him to admit it on
account of he's so mad at some of those other SubGenii of non Duchezian
types. I wasn't paying much attention to alt.slack at that time so I
missed what all the hubbub was about. It was years ago.

When I moved here he said he had thought I was mad at him over some
altercation that we had had on this newsgroup, and told me he had long
since blown it off. Seemed a tiny bit perplexed when I told him I
didn't remember getting into any big fights with him to begin with.

In those days I didn't consider newsgroup interactions to be as "real"
as "real" interactions, but obviously they are every bit as real; they
get real people just as upset, or in love, or whatnot.

This Church would probably have eclipsed Scientology long ago, if not
the very Mormons, but, as fate would have it, this particular religion
appeals to people who can't get along for long.

You WOULD BELIEVE the gossip I hear as Clenches fall apart. Luckily,
none of that sticks in my head. I need the memory for things like
Photoshop keyboard commands. The gripes of SubGenii about their fellows
would fill a godzillion harddrives, even Zipped.

With exceptions, of course. As you saw at Burning Man, the fiendish Dr.
Drumond and I can be complete nonstop jerks to each other for days at a
time and still get along famously. I have been in the constant company
of Dr. Legume, G. Gordon Gordon, Sterno, Palmer Vreedeez and Jesus, and
Andrew the Impaled and David Apocalypse, for as long as two weeks solid
(but not all of them at once), and never had the slightest argument,
well, nothing that caused serious injuries, even though everyone agrees
that we are all absolute shit heads. But, you know, as the old saying
goes, "To make an omelet you gotta break some eggs." I can see how some
of the eggs would rankle at our gigantic, overpowering humility as
Chefs and Doktors.

There ARE "nice" yet productive SubGenii, such as Onan, Dr. Howll,
Brother Cleve, Glassmadness etc. (I am using Old Timey Subs who aren't
on this NG as examples, so as to not show favoritism among the current
day alt.slack "nice" SubGenii). Then you have your completely
inexplicable High Unpredictables like Puzzling Evidence, or Janor, who
cannot be said to be either "nice" or "mean"; like "Bob" they are
outside the realm where such terms have meaning. Michael Peppe falls
into that ascended anticategory, too, I guess.

Lou is a "Nice SubGenius," too nice for the heat in this Infernal
kitchen we call alt.slack... this gauntlet of insult and taunting, this
High School in Hell. O "Bob," where is thy Slack? Whence cometh thine
Xists? How Nigh is Their Arisal?!? Let us pray.

(mumble mumble mumble)

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Resurrected
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 140306, Dallas, TX 75214
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
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Subject: Re: What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
From: "pater nostril" <hotfoot@nospaminame.com>

Squirrel brain fever has taken the life of many a soul, kinda puts a damper
on a good meal.

Try possum the other other white meat

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