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#166053 02/24/07 02:35 AM
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Liver isn't good for you?? Aww...I like chopped liver with fried onions.

How come they tell you to eat liver to get iron, then?

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What kinds of food repulses you?




The men have already made a nice summary of it, and I've been repulsed. It took me a week to consider a reply and now I do because it's after all just a matter of prejudice.
So I add the black and yellow striped caterpillars my African friends get imported from central Africa as a delicacy. I can't get over that alarming colour combination. And in spite of their efforts to make me try one I did not. Cowardness for sure. After all they are just like shrimp (I do eat) without the scale and legs.They just bake them in a frying pan like shrimp.
But those black and yellos stripes !

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But there is just no reason to wreck the flavor of anything on purpose, such as by adding cilantro or cumin...I have found I am not the only one to think cilantro is vile, so do not put it in my soup thinking it is just my imagination.




There is a bug which exudes a smell like cilantro. Of course if you have, like my husband, met the bug first, you will always have a tendency to think cilantro smells (and tastes) like bugs.

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Actually almost all organ meats are not good for you, liver being especially so. The liver filters poison out of the blood stream and IIRC some of the poisons are stored in perpetuity. So when you eat the liver you are eating stored poisons.




Yeah, yeah. They say that about everything that tastes good.

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Am I recalling correctly a news story several years ago about some people who got stranded while dogsledding, ate the liver of a dogs that had died, and it killed them? (Though I believe they'd eaten it raw.)

C a t e r p i l l a r s ?! Horrors! And I thought it was awful when our African people bring these big messes of greens that reek (and taste of) fish...

No bugs--or ANY raw meat for this chick, thank you.

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I would think it was vitamin A poisoning, because arctic predators have high concentrations of it.

Anyways, I've eaten butterflies and cocoons. They both taste disturbingly crunchy.


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No bugs--or ANY raw meat for this chick, thank you.




Lovely caterpillar, Jackie.(yeh,that's them allright!) I know about those greens too , which they usuallly cook with a dried sort of catfish. I like that. You know we eat raw salted herring as a national delicacy ? I love it. The Africans abhor raw herring equal to my disgust of their caterpilllars.

Curuinor , what an interesting way to put : "they taste disturbingly crunchy". Does that mean nice or not? Is crunchy not rather a quality of the texture in stead of of the taste?

Elisabeth, (c?) silantro or choriander, when I first met with those leaves I was repulsed by the heavy smell of what I thought was dirty dishwashing cloth. But that became quickly a favorite herb. The fastest aquired taste I remember.

Bugs. I guess if we lived in places where there would be a protein shortage we would quickly adept to the taste of bugs. And I would close my eyes on the black and the yellow. Or get to like them.

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O.K. a Sunday dubble. Just a little story I think belongs here:

Our lifelong best friend, Walter, he hated fish with a serious hate. He couln't stand the smell of it. Somewhere fish on a friendly dinner? He would say :"Count me out!". Then came our turn to feed the friends,Walter included. Everyone knew he hated fish, because he always had to let that be known, even though he knew we all knew.
That day I thought: "see if I can trick Walter". I prepared a mediterranian dish, some ratatouille based on tomatoes, onions, garlic and mixed vegetables, the French mish-mash. We all enjoyed the southern stew and then Walter said : "Hm, nice, hm, yes, very nice. What's in it?"
"Fish Walter" I said, "fresh tuna fish".
"WWOOOOOOOOOOOOOhh !" . Walter went and we all roared with laughter.
"Well" , he said to work out his embarrassment , " I thought it was chicken , Gosh, hm, īt did taste a bit like chicken, no?"
"Yeh, chicken from the sea, Walter" someone said and we laughed again..
Ever since we kept it like that .' Chicken from the sea'.

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Not that we necessarily trust purveyors of the product on matters etymological but here's what Chicken of the Sea has top say about the matter.

The lovely AnnaS and I will sometimes refer to chicken as tuna of the barnyard.

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Funny!Walter's taste was right then. To me it tasted like tuna .The Mermaid site is interesting. First recipe I found would go on my list of repulsive: Tuna and marmelade on toast. But there's more, thanks!
Yes, understood, Chicken of the Sea. (prepositions hopeless for a foreigner)

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