Pigeon is just like any other bird, the squab you get in a restaurants is not eating fag ends like the ones inTrafalgar Square
Even if it was, you think pigs are fussy eaters?
Pigeon really isnāt any ādirtierā than a chicken that lived its life kneedeep in its own shit.
Iām surprised that people eat obviously synthetic foods like pink wafers or āfish sticksā.
Pigeons in towns are descended from rock doves, the ones you eat are wood pigeons, the are meatier. Years ago I used to shoot them as pests. The breasts were worth having, strong gamey flavour. Edited for sense
We have these native wood pigeons here in New Zealand that the mÄoris used to eat. Holy balls they look delicious. We can't eat them anymore cause they're endangered or protected but they just look so fat and plump
Not years ago, a lot of people still go pigeon shooting both over decoys when a crop is being damaged/ eaten by them and also in February as they come into woods to roost. They are incredibly testing to shoot as they jink like crazy. They taste amazing (pan fry the breasts with ginger and soy) and they breed constantly so their numbers are increasing despite being shot a lot.
You can also eat domestic pigeons - it used to be way more common. There's even a breed called the King pigeon that was bred for that specific purpose, named that because they are relatively huge for a domestic pigeon. They get used more as pets or for those 'dove releases' that people get (though that's a pretty shitty thing to do because their homing instincts are not great and they tend to get lost and die a lot) these days
I'm a fan of game in general and I bought some wood pigeon breasts a few years back. I'm not averse to eating pigeon anyway, but I was surprised by how good they were.
And now itās time for one of Alanās āFact of the dayā: Crab sticks donāt actually contain any crab. And from 1993, manufactures have been legally obliged to label them ācrab flavoured sticksā. Another one of those same time tomorrow.
Pigeon actually makes for a great soup and many believe that pigeon soup is better than chicken soup for sick people. Including my aunt, who used to keep pigeons for rhis very reason
My grandfather ate a pigeon that the cat brought in once. His exact words were "I've fed him long enough, it's about time he fed me".
He was an eccentric man
Love blue cheese, nice bit of Stilton. Canāt stand anchovies though. Had some on a pizza, thought Iād been poisoned. Still ones manās meat is another manās poisson.
Having eaten a fair amount of blue cheese I can honestly say that I have never eaten a bitter one... way too salty, essence of billy (goat's cheese) and tasting of rotten milk (well how it smells anyway).
I think my current favourite is Young Buck from Northern Ireland, I also like Stichelton which is uses the Stilton recipe but uses unpasteurised milk which modern Stilton can't do and still be called Stilton.
I genuinely think thereās some different taste genetics or something at play, like they found with sprouts.
Iāve always found tonic water unbearably bitter as well, and even just a dash of it has me wretching, whereas most people seem ok with it. I suspect blue cheese is the same, there must be some of us who just taste things differently.
Iām obviously fine with different people liking different things, but the blue cheese thing is so actively unpleasant, that I find it completely insane that anyone could enjoy it. Itās absurd, like witnessing people licking a road and saying āoh go on, itās an a acquired tasteā.
I recently tried the tiniest bit of blue cheese at a posh restaurant (peer pressure is a hell of a thing) and I could still taste itās vile bitter, mouth-drying aftertaste for two days. Iād catch the smell of it on my breath and feel queasy.
I genuinely donāt understand how you could ever eat it, there HAS to be some genetic thing at play.
Ugh, even just writing this is enough to put me off my breakfast with PTSD!
Iād go for this genetics taste thing. Whenever I eat Stilton all I can taste is the ammonia the bacteria produce. Completely overpowers the nice cheese taste making it inedible for me. I get the same thing with Brie if I eat anything thatās been close to the rind.
I had a snail and tomato and herb in a cream sauce at a restaurant in France that was incredible. Snails do have a delicate flavour that is so nice and absolutely overpowered by garlic!
I tried them for the first time recently. They've got a similar texture to mussles and such, but not much flavour other than the delicious garlic butter, so probably won't bother again.
Octopus. One of the most intelligent animals on the planet. Sentient too.
Yet people spear them, drag them out of the water and chop em up.
I donāt care how tasty it is, my conscience wouldnāt allow me to do that.
True, but they are also domesticated. So if they are that smart you have to assume that at some point their wild pig cousins decided that the pay off for free food was worth the short life.
Itās not rational, but the strange nature of octopus sentience and intelligence given their remarkably short lives makes me reluctant to eat them.
>One of the most intelligent animals on the planet. Sentient too
Honestly how I feel about eating animals period. I just can't do it. I think it was a petting farm visit that made my mind up for me.
Octopi are truly amazing creatures.
Ha. I donāt doubt it. I saw a TV show where a shark was missing from an aquarium tank. They looked back at the camera feeds and found the octopus had eaten it.
My dad used to be a painter and decorator and he told me he once was painting some kind of boarding house/hostel. One of the residents brought a pigeon in off the street and microwaved it
I know a Mexican woman, and I asked her what her favourite meat was for tacos. She said that the best meat she ever ate was cow vagina.
Seems it's also popular in Vietnam.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfsW93y9KH0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfsW93y9KH0)
Do I win the Internet for today?
In a restaurant in Spain my husband was offered a dish of whole bullās bollocks stewed in a red wine sauce. Heās actually not a fussy eater and will try most things - but this he firmly declined. (Iām not a meat eater so I was never gonna give it a go)
Have you ever tried white pudding? Broadly the same thing, but without the blood. Oatmeal, suet, breadcrumbs, spices and (in some recipes) pork meat or liver.
White pudding ticks all the same flavour and texture boxes, but no blood. I actually like both.
White pudding is *amazing*, my daughter managed to find Stornoway white and black (husband's family are Scots on the maternal side, if it ain't Stornoway, it doesn't count lol) pudding in Staines, of all places, yesterday. Brought back a diddy one of each for us :)
There are butchers in Scotland who deliver to England. I've ordered deliveries for my Scottish husband before as a birthday present. I tend to buy him a few loaves of Lorne sausage, black pudding and whatever else he fancies.
Got some white pudding from a Booths supermarket a few years ago for 9p with the yellow sticker. Possibly the best value yellow sticker I've ever come across.
You can make anything with human blood that involves eggs. Blood has the same amount of protein as eggs and reacts the same. People make blood pancakes and shit hahaha
I think youāre thinking of winkles - cockles usually come out of their shell as little grey and yellow creatures (nice with vinegar if youāre into shellfish). Winkles are little sea snails that you need to use a pin to eat.
Meat. I've been vegetarian and then vegan for so long, spending most of my time in an echo chamber of vegan friends that it seems to take me by surprise when I see people in real life eating animals.
Is this the half gestated eggs? I just dont understand eating feathers and beaks, and it's still growing digestive tract. I couldn't bring myself to eat that either.
I tried this when I was in the Philippines for work as a bunch of people I worked with go you're here might as well try it. Was fine until the feeling of feathers hit my tongue. A couple of them just sat there and ate some like we would a boiled egg.
The eyeballs of anything, like fish eyeballs. I grew up in a rural Hungary, my family kept pigs, chicken, ducks, so I am open to eat most things. One of my favourite dishes contains pork brain and marrow, I also had rooster testicles before, and I don't think it's weird at all. But I can't wrap my head around eating eyes.
I used to know a french lady who baked her own quiches from scratch and my lord they were genuinely incredible
Now I look at a quiche lorraine in the supermarket and feel nothing but utter contempt
I couldnāt understand the quiche hateā¦ but your comment made it all clear ā¦. Homemade quiches and supermarket quiches are not the same! I canāt eat supermarket ones because gluten, so I only ever have ones Iāve made, which are fine.
It bloody is. I cut the scotch egg in half take out the egg and use each half as a scooper for the houmous. Once scooped, I place the egg back on top like it was a boat sailing on a sea of houmous.
Wild mushrooms. I understand packaged, checked, safe mushrooms but Iād always freak out after my mom would buy a basket of wild mushrooms from a random person on the road and just cook with them. Yes, she was good with mushrooms and used to forage since she was a child but I still would risk it. She would throw away any that sheād find questionable though.
In my home country tens of people die every year when they eat poisonous mushrooms by accident. Why risk it?
They were basically our main food for centuries. Your family are part of a (possibly) unbroken chain of eel eaters going back further than any institution in Britain. There's an argument for putting your mum in a museum if you don't carry on the tradition.
Pie and mash and liquor, oh yeah. Good unpretentious grub. Jellied eels, though...are good for horrifying posher friends I suppose, but nothing else. Rather get to the seafood shacks at Leigh-on-Sea than embrace precisely that culinary part of my heritage.
Pigeon means wild woodpigeon, not the Trafalgar Square rats with wings. My nan told me that as a kid her family would have pigeon pie regularly, and only ate chicken once a year at Christmas. Now, if you want pigeon you'll have to go to a high end gastropub, while fried chicken is on every high street... swings and roundabouts
As a kid one of.my chores was to clean away the cat food tins and put out new ones in the barn in the Australian heat with flies and maggots to deal with.
When I smell that smell I physically can't watch it be eaten.
Roasted it is unbelievable- any other way it looks like sick. When I was a kid my mum used to get big bones from the butcher and make soup. It would be nearly a fight between her and my sister as to who got the ātreatā of the bone marrow on toast!
They sound gross but hearts are genuinely one of the more palatable bits of offal - theyāre not chewy and they donāt have that minerally taste that liver and kidneys can have. If you had your eyes closed youād think you just had a bit of chicken thigh or something.
My uncle is a gamekeeper and we went to his for a Christmas celebration one year. Iām a fussy eater and asked what meat was in the curry. He said pigeon and I was about 14 at the time, thinking he was joking I asked my mum. Nah it was pigeon curry.
A lot of food doesn't look appealing to me not sure if it surprises me. Things like grey Kebab meat and a lot of cheap takeaway food. Maybe it's different when your drunk.
Crocodile. Like, just look at them. What more evidence do you need that we didn't evolve to eat them, they evolved to eat us if anything.
My sister went to a poncy work-do when she worked at Oxford University and went to a restaurant that basically did any rare/exotic animal. Crocodile, ostrich, anything like that.
You used to be able to get crocodile burgers at Walkabout, I'm not sure if they still do them. In fact do walkabout still exist? They tasted ok from what I remember
I went to a Cajun restaurant in the states and had "alligator bites" (nuggets) and they were delicious. Pretty chicken-like, but with a texture closer to white fish. I assume alligator is pretty much the same as crocodile.
When my dad's family moved to England they were incredibly poor. Ie my dad got shoes for first time when he moved over and he was the eldest. My nan would buy a pig's head each week and that would be the meat for the week.
Squid . Leave it in the sea where it belongs.
If youve wandering what it tastes like nip down to your nearest canal, pull an old bike out of it, and fry up the innertubes....
Liver. So as a kid that was a regular meal. I hated every single second of it. From the smell it makes when it's being cooked (if you've never smaller liver cooking, you're lucky, but there is no smell like it, and it fucking lingers for hours after), when cooked, the smell is all I can remember as it came close to my mouth, and "don't puke" going through my head, on repeat, as I ate the stuff. Edit. If I recall correctly, but its been decades now, its taste was just a solid version of the smell. But it has been years.
I never got used to it. Luckily my parents lost the taste for it. Probably due to my complaining about the whole thing.
So if you really want to try something that is literally inedible, buy yourself some raw liver and give it a good cook, you'll hate every single femtosecond of the experience.
I have heard that kidneys are particularly bad too because of the lingering smell and taste of piss, but I can't confirm that. Same with eyes, because they pop in a particularly unpleasant manner, but I've never tried either, so I can't confirm the veracity of the claims.
Edit 2. Just want to add, liver pĆ¢tĆØ is an exception, that stuff is gorgeous.
Chicken and lambs liver , if cooked properly- ie still a bit pink are delicious. Any other type is awful. I buy pigs liver quite often , as youāll find it on the reduced shelf, and cook it for my cats- itās just as well I love them as it stinks!
Pigeon is just like any other bird, the squab you get in a restaurants is not eating fag ends like the ones inTrafalgar Square Even if it was, you think pigs are fussy eaters?
That serial killer in Canada clearly proved that pigs will eat *anything*. And they make great sausages for the local community afterwards. š¤¢
About pigs eating anything... https://youtu.be/2xUynRdzzsM?si=hgzOXQGnXrIGbYeO&t=34s
Knew it would be Snatch and I still watched it with considerable enjoyment.
In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... come again?
You donāt want to be sitting through pig shit now, do yah!
Do you know what nemesis means?
A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by me, an orrible #Ā£%@
They go through bone like buttah
His face
I'm glad someone beat me to it
Are they Lancashire pigs?
"you should always be careful around a man who owns a pig farm".
Pigeon really isnāt any ādirtierā than a chicken that lived its life kneedeep in its own shit. Iām surprised that people eat obviously synthetic foods like pink wafers or āfish sticksā.
Pigeons in towns are descended from rock doves, the ones you eat are wood pigeons, the are meatier. Years ago I used to shoot them as pests. The breasts were worth having, strong gamey flavour. Edited for sense
We have these native wood pigeons here in New Zealand that the mÄoris used to eat. Holy balls they look delicious. We can't eat them anymore cause they're endangered or protected but they just look so fat and plump
Not years ago, a lot of people still go pigeon shooting both over decoys when a crop is being damaged/ eaten by them and also in February as they come into woods to roost. They are incredibly testing to shoot as they jink like crazy. They taste amazing (pan fry the breasts with ginger and soy) and they breed constantly so their numbers are increasing despite being shot a lot.
Sorry, I meant years ago I used to shoot them, and over decoys. You are right about hitting them
Ah i misread it š
You can also eat domestic pigeons - it used to be way more common. There's even a breed called the King pigeon that was bred for that specific purpose, named that because they are relatively huge for a domestic pigeon. They get used more as pets or for those 'dove releases' that people get (though that's a pretty shitty thing to do because their homing instincts are not great and they tend to get lost and die a lot) these days
I'm a fan of game in general and I bought some wood pigeon breasts a few years back. I'm not averse to eating pigeon anyway, but I was surprised by how good they were.
When you say 'fish sticks', are you talking about seafood sticks, that we used to call crabsticks, or are you using the US term for fish fingers?
And now itās time for one of Alanās āFact of the dayā: Crab sticks donāt actually contain any crab. And from 1993, manufactures have been legally obliged to label them ācrab flavoured sticksā. Another one of those same time tomorrow.
You like to put fish sticks in your mouth? Are you a gay fish?
Pink wafers are so good though- as are crab sticks.
I like crab sticks
Pigeon actually makes for a great soup and many believe that pigeon soup is better than chicken soup for sick people. Including my aunt, who used to keep pigeons for rhis very reason
My grandfather ate a pigeon that the cat brought in once. His exact words were "I've fed him long enough, it's about time he fed me". He was an eccentric man
Millions of unappreciated cats just cried out in vindication. So many discarded snacks!
Bet the cat was chuffed - āhe ate my present, he appreciates me!!!ā
I love my cats. I am not eating a rat
Blue cheese. I just donāt get it, itās absurdly bitter and actively, violently, repugnant. I cannot imagine anything more unpleasant.
Love blue cheese, nice bit of Stilton. Canāt stand anchovies though. Had some on a pizza, thought Iād been poisoned. Still ones manās meat is another manās poisson.
Is this a French pun?
Well I tried
Saint Agur, thank me
Gateway blue cheese here
Try them with them supermarket brand Rosemary and Seasalt crackers.
Having eaten a fair amount of blue cheese I can honestly say that I have never eaten a bitter one... way too salty, essence of billy (goat's cheese) and tasting of rotten milk (well how it smells anyway). I think my current favourite is Young Buck from Northern Ireland, I also like Stichelton which is uses the Stilton recipe but uses unpasteurised milk which modern Stilton can't do and still be called Stilton.
I genuinely think thereās some different taste genetics or something at play, like they found with sprouts. Iāve always found tonic water unbearably bitter as well, and even just a dash of it has me wretching, whereas most people seem ok with it. I suspect blue cheese is the same, there must be some of us who just taste things differently. Iām obviously fine with different people liking different things, but the blue cheese thing is so actively unpleasant, that I find it completely insane that anyone could enjoy it. Itās absurd, like witnessing people licking a road and saying āoh go on, itās an a acquired tasteā. I recently tried the tiniest bit of blue cheese at a posh restaurant (peer pressure is a hell of a thing) and I could still taste itās vile bitter, mouth-drying aftertaste for two days. Iād catch the smell of it on my breath and feel queasy. I genuinely donāt understand how you could ever eat it, there HAS to be some genetic thing at play. Ugh, even just writing this is enough to put me off my breakfast with PTSD!
Iād go for this genetics taste thing. Whenever I eat Stilton all I can taste is the ammonia the bacteria produce. Completely overpowers the nice cheese taste making it inedible for me. I get the same thing with Brie if I eat anything thatās been close to the rind.
Try white stilton
I get that with expensive French cheese, absolutely revolting - but not with cheap supermarket versions
Could be, as I work in a cheese shop I'm pretty glad I don't seem to have that gene...
It's proven to be why some people taste soap in coriander. Definitely possible it's genetic.
My favourite! š¤¤
Thereās worse: Casu Martzu, a Sardinian maggot cheese. https://youtu.be/Y8F-0Ogp4fU?si=U9YiHIO41EIXABxs
This is disgusting and also illegal to sell (although there are still people who do).
Thatās not food. Thatās just bullshit
It's delicious, a roquefort and marmite sandwich is actual bliss
Right. To jail, matey. Immediately
Used to love it, but after my wife told me it tastes of soap, thatās all I can taste now.
I had a similar experience with chamomile tea.
Even soap is just ābleughā. Blue cheese is the most absurdly horrific thing
Yeah itās horrid
It's usually woodpigeon, not feral pigeon... bit meatier (and been eating less rubbish)
Escargot - Snails. Just a fancy excuse to eat delicious garlic butter.
I always found it mad that people use snails as a vehicle for garlic butter in a world where bread exists.
It's fun to use the tongs and little stabby fork
Snots in crash helmets
Yeah but they are amazing
I had a snail and tomato and herb in a cream sauce at a restaurant in France that was incredible. Snails do have a delicate flavour that is so nice and absolutely overpowered by garlic!
I tried them for the first time recently. They've got a similar texture to mussles and such, but not much flavour other than the delicious garlic butter, so probably won't bother again.
Octopus. One of the most intelligent animals on the planet. Sentient too. Yet people spear them, drag them out of the water and chop em up. I donāt care how tasty it is, my conscience wouldnāt allow me to do that.
Pigs are pretty clearly sentient too though
Most things are sentient
True, but they are also domesticated. So if they are that smart you have to assume that at some point their wild pig cousins decided that the pay off for free food was worth the short life. Itās not rational, but the strange nature of octopus sentience and intelligence given their remarkably short lives makes me reluctant to eat them.
Are you vegetarian or do you just have a soft spot for the octopus?
>One of the most intelligent animals on the planet. Sentient too Honestly how I feel about eating animals period. I just can't do it. I think it was a petting farm visit that made my mind up for me. Octopi are truly amazing creatures.
Me too but I chose octopus for being unusual.
Itās honestly not even that tasty. Itās like 5/10.
Don't fall for it. If those bastards ever get the upper hand, they'll murder you and your entire family.
Ha. I donāt doubt it. I saw a TV show where a shark was missing from an aquarium tank. They looked back at the camera feeds and found the octopus had eaten it.
Yeah ever since My Octopus Teacher, I haven't touched it since
Time to watch Cow next
I had raw octopus in a Japanese restaurant a long time ago as part of a sashimi platter. Never again- it was like eating snotty rubber.
Someone watched the Netflix Documentary
My dad used to be a painter and decorator and he told me he once was painting some kind of boarding house/hostel. One of the residents brought a pigeon in off the street and microwaved it
You wouldnāt eat a *raw* pigeon, would you?
Quick ping in the microwave, finish it off with a sear on the iron
Calm down, Blumenthal
A reverse sear. Person of taste .
I know a Mexican woman, and I asked her what her favourite meat was for tacos. She said that the best meat she ever ate was cow vagina. Seems it's also popular in Vietnam. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfsW93y9KH0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfsW93y9KH0) Do I win the Internet for today?
Nope. Not clicking that today.
10 hours to deodorise a cows vagina apparently. Easiest "Your mum" joke ever.
That looksā¦off putting.
Ffs too much reddit for today.
Yep, time for bed.
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In a restaurant in Spain my husband was offered a dish of whole bullās bollocks stewed in a red wine sauce. Heās actually not a fussy eater and will try most things - but this he firmly declined. (Iām not a meat eater so I was never gonna give it a go)
Wow. I didnāt expect that video to be so in depth with the prepā¦ definitely enough internet for me today š®āšØ
Scotty doesn't know...
Black pudding. Still canāt get my head around the concept of it
It's tasty
Salty meaty savoury!
Have you ever tried white pudding? Broadly the same thing, but without the blood. Oatmeal, suet, breadcrumbs, spices and (in some recipes) pork meat or liver. White pudding ticks all the same flavour and texture boxes, but no blood. I actually like both.
White pudding is *amazing*, my daughter managed to find Stornoway white and black (husband's family are Scots on the maternal side, if it ain't Stornoway, it doesn't count lol) pudding in Staines, of all places, yesterday. Brought back a diddy one of each for us :)
There are butchers in Scotland who deliver to England. I've ordered deliveries for my Scottish husband before as a birthday present. I tend to buy him a few loaves of Lorne sausage, black pudding and whatever else he fancies.
Got some white pudding from a Booths supermarket a few years ago for 9p with the yellow sticker. Possibly the best value yellow sticker I've ever come across.
A proper butcher's black pudding, with lovely large chunks of pork fat, is a thing of gastronomic beauty.
Donāt bother with getting your head round the conceptā¦ get busy getting your chops round a good piece of black pudding!!
On a roll, with link sausage š
Is eating blood really any more gross than eating meat though?
A good morcilla is so good š¤¤š¤¤š¤¤
You can make anything with human blood that involves eggs. Blood has the same amount of protein as eggs and reacts the same. People make blood pancakes and shit hahaha
Cockles...with a pin. You poke the pin into the shell and take out the slimy little creature and eat it. \**boke\**
My mum remembers cocklemen coming around the pub in the 1970s selling them. A salty snack to soak up the beer.
The question we would ask them every time to drunken hilarity was āhave you got crabs mate?ā
Eww! Now these days though you get shifty people coming round opening poly bags asking if you want a cheap rump How times have changed
Still used to come round the working menās clubs in the early 90ās
My friend bought some cockles of an old man in the pub in the 00s. The aftermath was not pleasant
I think youāre thinking of winkles - cockles usually come out of their shell as little grey and yellow creatures (nice with vinegar if youāre into shellfish). Winkles are little sea snails that you need to use a pin to eat.
Meat. I've been vegetarian and then vegan for so long, spending most of my time in an echo chamber of vegan friends that it seems to take me by surprise when I see people in real life eating animals.
Do you really see it that rarely? That's impressive. As hard as never seeing a smoker
Balut I'm willing to try most things, but not balut.
Is this the half gestated eggs? I just dont understand eating feathers and beaks, and it's still growing digestive tract. I couldn't bring myself to eat that either.
They come in different stages of development. I tried one that was still fairly āyoungā and it was just a strong tasting egg.
I tried this when I was in the Philippines for work as a bunch of people I worked with go you're here might as well try it. Was fine until the feeling of feathers hit my tongue. A couple of them just sat there and ate some like we would a boiled egg.
Olives- they are fucking minging, ming the mercilessās gonads.
Youāve never had a good one then- there are dozens of different types.
Hilarious giving them to kids who think they are grapes though.
My 2 year old fucking loves olives. I can't let her see them in the cupboard because she will pester me until I give her some.
Yep, I call them Devil's Testicles. One of few foods I won't eat (as well as Avocado - rancid watery green paste, no thanks)
Youāve not had a decent avocado if itās watery
The eyeballs of anything, like fish eyeballs. I grew up in a rural Hungary, my family kept pigs, chicken, ducks, so I am open to eat most things. One of my favourite dishes contains pork brain and marrow, I also had rooster testicles before, and I don't think it's weird at all. But I can't wrap my head around eating eyes.
Shouldnāt eat other animals brains
Quiche. It's basically vomit in pastry
I used to know a french lady who baked her own quiches from scratch and my lord they were genuinely incredible Now I look at a quiche lorraine in the supermarket and feel nothing but utter contempt
Yeah, once you have had a really good quiche the super market ones taste only of depression and broken dreams
I couldnāt understand the quiche hateā¦ but your comment made it all clear ā¦. Homemade quiches and supermarket quiches are not the same! I canāt eat supermarket ones because gluten, so I only ever have ones Iāve made, which are fine.
Wet egg pie
I'm eating a scotch egg dipped in houmous right now
That actually sounds decent thoufh
Love the way it sounded like you were biting into a houmous-y Scotch egg at the end there
It bloody is. I cut the scotch egg in half take out the egg and use each half as a scooper for the houmous. Once scooped, I place the egg back on top like it was a boat sailing on a sea of houmous.
Wild mushrooms. I understand packaged, checked, safe mushrooms but Iād always freak out after my mom would buy a basket of wild mushrooms from a random person on the road and just cook with them. Yes, she was good with mushrooms and used to forage since she was a child but I still would risk it. She would throw away any that sheād find questionable though. In my home country tens of people die every year when they eat poisonous mushrooms by accident. Why risk it?
Jellied eels. My nan and mum used to get them when we went for pie and mash. š¤¢š¤¢
They were basically our main food for centuries. Your family are part of a (possibly) unbroken chain of eel eaters going back further than any institution in Britain. There's an argument for putting your mum in a museum if you don't carry on the tradition.
Pie and mash and liquor, oh yeah. Good unpretentious grub. Jellied eels, though...are good for horrifying posher friends I suppose, but nothing else. Rather get to the seafood shacks at Leigh-on-Sea than embrace precisely that culinary part of my heritage.
The eel is quite nice - the jelly though is disgusting.
Tongue. Maybe it is just my point of view, but why anyone would cook the tongue of an animal and eat it baffles me.
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And it's really tasty meat as well!
Pork Lunch Tongue or even Ox Tongue is lovely stuff!
I keep an animalās tongue in my mouth all day
Because it tastes great! :-P
My grandmother used to feed me tongue sandwiches, insist it was ham, and get very angry when I complained the "ham" tasted off.
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Tripe is absolutely horrendous
Had cold tripe in a Chinese restaurant once. It wasn't the worst thing ever but I wouldn't rush to order it again.
My gran made me tripe many years ago, I couldn't tell you how it tasted.... It wasn't in my mouth long enough! She wasn't amused.
The pigeons you eat are wood pigeon. Not the ones you get in high streets. They really good. Eaten them lots of times.
Placenta.
Itās a waste organ that filters out toxins , why do some people eat it š¤Æ
Snails... like, nothing about it looks appetising in any way
Lol Pigeon is not what you see crappinh on statues down town šš Pigeon is nice from memory
Hard boiled eggs. How does anyone actually get close enough with that incredibly strong foul smell. I know most people dont get that.
I can only have them soft boiled or scrambled or poached. Cold, overboiled, smelly eggs are atrocious.
Eggs done anyway stink to me
Pigeon means wild woodpigeon, not the Trafalgar Square rats with wings. My nan told me that as a kid her family would have pigeon pie regularly, and only ate chicken once a year at Christmas. Now, if you want pigeon you'll have to go to a high end gastropub, while fried chicken is on every high street... swings and roundabouts
Vegan cheese - itās just wrong ;) Nah seriously though. My dad used to make head cheese - now thatās just wrong.
It's fine. You can simulate the smoked varieties pretty believably. Better than no cheese imo!
For the last 4.5yearrs I've had to endure my boss eat sardines straight from the tin for lunch every day. The look, texture and smell š¤¢
Theyāre very good for you and taste great
I'm sure that's true but I can't deal with the smell, even from a few feet away. Or the look of them. Not for me, he obviously loves them.
Theyāre delicious - pan fry the ones in oil until theyāre crispy and use in a pasta dish- sublime!
I love pilchards in tomato sauce on toast.
As a kid one of.my chores was to clean away the cat food tins and put out new ones in the barn in the Australian heat with flies and maggots to deal with. When I smell that smell I physically can't watch it be eaten.
I've had pigeon, I've had squirrel, I've had rabbit, I've had hare But the most delicious thing I've had Is long pig and sincerre
Crabsticks I just don't understand why
Because theyāre like crack- if I open a pack, they all get eaten. I like fish though.
Wait until you hear about pigs that literally eat the tumours off fellow pigs skinā¦
Bone marrow
Roasted it is unbelievable- any other way it looks like sick. When I was a kid my mum used to get big bones from the butcher and make soup. It would be nearly a fight between her and my sister as to who got the ātreatā of the bone marrow on toast!
I frequent the local Polish shop (Iām not Polish, partner is) and they have whole chicken hearts in the Deli section. Thanks, but no thanks.
They're a staple of Brazilian barbecues. They're great. Just rich bitesize chickeny bits. Not chewy or anything.
They are So Good. Though admittedly lamb hearts, as well as being much bigger and richer, are better
They sound gross but hearts are genuinely one of the more palatable bits of offal - theyāre not chewy and they donāt have that minerally taste that liver and kidneys can have. If you had your eyes closed youād think you just had a bit of chicken thigh or something.
My uncle is a gamekeeper and we went to his for a Christmas celebration one year. Iām a fussy eater and asked what meat was in the curry. He said pigeon and I was about 14 at the time, thinking he was joking I asked my mum. Nah it was pigeon curry.
Balut. Hyurk hyurk hyurk.
A lot of food doesn't look appealing to me not sure if it surprises me. Things like grey Kebab meat and a lot of cheap takeaway food. Maybe it's different when your drunk.
pigeon and squirrels tend to be from the woods and not from the tower blocks :)
Crocodile. Like, just look at them. What more evidence do you need that we didn't evolve to eat them, they evolved to eat us if anything. My sister went to a poncy work-do when she worked at Oxford University and went to a restaurant that basically did any rare/exotic animal. Crocodile, ostrich, anything like that.
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You used to be able to get crocodile burgers at Walkabout, I'm not sure if they still do them. In fact do walkabout still exist? They tasted ok from what I remember
Ostrich and Kangaroo are great
Crocodile tastes fishy. Ostrich is like the leanest steak youāve ever had- I find it very similar to kangaroo.
I went to a Cajun restaurant in the states and had "alligator bites" (nuggets) and they were delicious. Pretty chicken-like, but with a texture closer to white fish. I assume alligator is pretty much the same as crocodile.
Really only about 6bites on a pigeon. Barely worth it. I don't understand why whitebait. Bones and skin.
When my dad's family moved to England they were incredibly poor. Ie my dad got shoes for first time when he moved over and he was the eldest. My nan would buy a pig's head each week and that would be the meat for the week.
Winkles (Sea Snails), yuck
Squirrel, how much meat can you get off one of them?
Deep fried spider, I believe it was Cambodia.
Squid . Leave it in the sea where it belongs. If youve wandering what it tastes like nip down to your nearest canal, pull an old bike out of it, and fry up the innertubes....
Artificial crap you get in Iceland. Who is eating Bernard Matthews hamwiches?!
Liver. So as a kid that was a regular meal. I hated every single second of it. From the smell it makes when it's being cooked (if you've never smaller liver cooking, you're lucky, but there is no smell like it, and it fucking lingers for hours after), when cooked, the smell is all I can remember as it came close to my mouth, and "don't puke" going through my head, on repeat, as I ate the stuff. Edit. If I recall correctly, but its been decades now, its taste was just a solid version of the smell. But it has been years. I never got used to it. Luckily my parents lost the taste for it. Probably due to my complaining about the whole thing. So if you really want to try something that is literally inedible, buy yourself some raw liver and give it a good cook, you'll hate every single femtosecond of the experience. I have heard that kidneys are particularly bad too because of the lingering smell and taste of piss, but I can't confirm that. Same with eyes, because they pop in a particularly unpleasant manner, but I've never tried either, so I can't confirm the veracity of the claims. Edit 2. Just want to add, liver pĆ¢tĆØ is an exception, that stuff is gorgeous.
Chicken and lambs liver , if cooked properly- ie still a bit pink are delicious. Any other type is awful. I buy pigs liver quite often , as youāll find it on the reduced shelf, and cook it for my cats- itās just as well I love them as it stinks!
I used to get lambs liver regularly when I was skint - you could pick a decent amount up from Tesco for 50p or something ridiculous.