Grossest thing you've ever eaten.

[Ct. Lion]

I've tried and eaten a lot of gross things (pickled pigs feet, pork hocks, head cheese, souse) but nothing tops "nook mom". I had some during my tour in Vietnam. It's a seasonly liquid you pour over meat, fish, rice, and veggies. Like soy sauce in consistency but that's where the like ends. It's made from decaying/rotting fish. The VIETNAMESE bury fish underground for a week(?) and the residual liquid from the fish is "nook mom". I tried it on a dare ONE TIME and barfed on the spot.

Nuoc Mam (cham) is one lousy tasting sauce but the Vietnamese eat like we do ketchup. One of my assignments during my tour in Vietnam was as an advisor/artillery FO for various allied units. With the Koreans it was Kimchi, a fermented cabbage dish. With MACV and the ARVNs it was the rotten fish that got delivered every three days and then cooked with hot peppers and smothered in nuoc mam. But the Australian special forces guys and their Montagnard tribal soldiers were the worst. They ate baby bats, dog, cat, rats, tree apes, rotten fish, and stuff I could not identify. They didn't seem to like snakes, maybe because they all seem to be poisonous over there. I survived it and only got amoebic dysentery.

 

[Colorado Man]

I never have. I still remember my last conversation with an in-law (passed away) that was raving about them. Still find it bizarre that Rocky Mountain Oysters was our last conversation.

Their great. Served them at my restaurant in Colorado. Customer favorites.

 

[STPGopherfan]

They great. Served them at my restaurant n Colorado. Customer favorites.

Well, when I make it to Colorado(Wife loves the state) I may have to have some in my in-laws honor.

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

Oh c'mon Gnat, you've never taken the balut challenge! It tastes better than it looks.

clicking out of this thread and never returning.

 

[kgilbert78]

It’s Pho. There is a pho restaurant in State College in North Atherton near where the bus station is located.

Near where I live, we have a restaurant called 6-1-Pho (our area code is 614).

 

[doublehaul]

Raccoon, local bar would cook anything the locals would bring in, included many types of fish and varmint. First piece wasn't too bad, second piece I almost spit on the bar. Never again!

 

[kgilbert78]

Cow tongue taco at Distrito. Not even Jose Garces could make that taste good.

Had cow tongue once in France. It was interesting.

Then there's "blutwurst"...

But most of my friends around here think scrapple is gross.

 

[nits74]

Drunk or sober?

 

[LionHoya]

From year's of living in Japan: basashi (raw horse meat); fugu (blow fish); raw chicken meat/liver/heart; shirako (the "organs" of a male fish, as opposed to roe from a female fish); kajira (raw whale meat). Pig's ear in China.

 

[bdgan]

Oh c'mon Gnat, you've never taken the balut challenge! It tastes better than it looks.

You are what you eat

 

[leftcoastdoug]

Grew up eating beef tongue. Had to have come from my fathers side (English and German). Also had beef and kidney stew a lot.

Shark fin soup in Singapore and Hong Kong. Hong Kong version had the actual fin.

Snake soup in Hong Kong. Asked my hosts if the snakes were poisonous, Answer was yes the more potent the better. I went back for seconds. Allegedly wards off colds.

Shrimp heads all over Jakarta. Generally they were grilled and crunchy.

Lamb oysters in Bakersfield Basque restaurants. Done in a cream sauce and pretty tasty. Lots of pickled tongue there as well.

 

[Colorado Man]

Grew up eating beef tongue. Had to have come from my fathers side (English and German). Also had beef and kidney stew a lot.

Shark fin soup in Singapore and Hong Kong. Hong Kong version had the actual fin.

Snake soup in Hong Kong. Asked my hosts if the snakes were poisonous, Answer was yes the more potent the better. I went back for seconds. Allegedly wards off colds.

Shrimp heads all over Jakarta. Generally they were grilled and crunchy.

Lamb oysters in Bakersfield Basque restaurants. Done in a cream sauce and pretty tasty. Lots of pickled tongue there as well.

Beef tongue. Yum. I loved beef tongue sandwiches. Some of the tenderest, tastiest beef you have ever eaten. I haven't had it in a long time. Some of my favorites, tongue, tripe, are impossible to find. Hell, chicken gizzards and hearts are scare. It all goes into animal food I would imagine. My Mom made pickled pigs feet. I loved them. You would think with the Hispanic population here in Colorado, menudo, would be easy to find, but it isn't..

 

[Nitt1300]

K Ration dinner- packed in 1944, eaten in 1974

We had a liberty weekend on Grand Bahama Island and one of the cooks snagged them out of a supply locker somewhere on the ship- didn't see the dates until we were on the beach and drunk as skunks.