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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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In the sixties, back when I styled myself into either a latter day beatnik or a new wave hippie, I ate bugs. It wasn't protein that I was seeking it was attention. Listen humans, I said, you must transcend your petty conventions and become like me...supermen!
No one listened so I ate bugs to get their attention. It worked pretty well, I got attention but none of the girls would kiss me. I didn't care. I was on a mission. I was showing society the folly of entrenched social behavior.
Most of all I ate cockroaches (they proved to be the most dramatic, the trick being to first pull off the wings). Then one night three of the girls who wouldn't kiss me and I were sitting in a booth at Ed Salem's Ice Cream Bar having sodas and a small green moth landed on our table so I ate it. Big mistake.
I turned green. Nature had endowded the little moth with a most effective defense mechanism. Teen-age boys who ate them didn't die they just suffered agonies hereto unknown to their breed, and they, like me, lived to tell others as I am telling you -- Don't eat little green moths, they taste terrible.
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Vivid coloration means either poison or bad taste. Don't eat things with vivid coloration.
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Vivid coloration means either poison or bad taste. Don't eat things with vivid coloration.
..or maybe they just look like something that tastes bad or is toxic, as the viceroy butterfly mimics the evil-tasting monarch. But it's a really good rule. Except when applied to M & M s .
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Vivid coloration means either poison or bad taste. Don't eat things with vivid coloration.
Except when applied to M & M s .
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Or when applied to vegetable and floral items. The nasturtium and the squash flowers, rose and pansy are lovely of taste,non toxic and of a very vivid colouring.
But when I eat those I feel more barbaric than when I eat fish or chicken. 
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Hast tried peanut butter on it? [But beware certain brands.] Moths of any colour always seem a bit too dusty to eat. 
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In the sixties, back when I styled myself into either a latter day beatnik or a new wave hippie, I ate bugs. Most of all I ate cockroaches
In the sixties, many people smoked roaches. But that is another thing entirely.
P.S. "I never inhaled"
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frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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My food rules boil down to
1) it has to be dead.
2) it has to be FOOD not just a dare or "let's see how dumb the tourist is"
other than that I'll try it and either like it or not. I quite liked chocolate covered grasshoppers. Kind of crunchy and honey tasting.
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it has to be dead
What! No oysters?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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What about chopped-up octopus legs? They're quite dead but their metabolic functions can last quite a long time up to 10 or so hours. Which means that they still squirm.
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1) it has to be dead.
I quite liked chocolate covered grasshoppers. Kind of crunchy and honey tasting.
Have you verified how dead they were under that chocolate covering?
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ICK!!!!!!!!! NO food that moves, for me, tyvm! Hubby fried up some freshly-killed frog legs once; they contorted in the skillet*, and I screamed.
*That is just...wrong!
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By the time you cook the oysters (don't like the taste raw) and octopus (pulpo Gallejo, mmmmmmm) they're dead.
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I am reminded of the Star Trek episode where number 1 was on temporary duty to a Klingon station. His first experience in the chow hall he is given a plate of some good-awful worm-like substance and he looks at it with revulsion. The Klingons are all set to laugh (or whatever it is that Klingons do) at his wimpiness when he says, "I can't eat this. It's not even alive."
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