No idea, but I remember going to the village butcher as a kid and he'd give us the brains for free if we bought other stuff (like liver. My father used to eat liver, we could go nuts with the brains.)
Speaking of that, whatever happened to butchers here in Canada/USA? I'm vegetarian nowadays so I don't buy much meat but when I walk down grocery isles, all I see is perfect cuts of meat. What happens to the innards? Like the organs and other things?

Ramoth already said it, just about every one of us in Hawaii can't get enough SPAM in our meals. Sure it's salty but that's what water is for :3. Oh and if you want to help kill that flavor I suggest marinating it with something sweet (or spicy depending on your taste.)

The thing about SPAM that annoys me is the greasiness. I don't mind the saltiness since I usually put it in fried rice so that diminishes the saltiness.

So, how do you deal with the greasiness?

They're in Chinatown now. Guess it's cheaper to just cut up the meat without asking you what you want, and how much you want. I really miss the sort of community I had in Chinatown, but i really don't miss the smell -_-

I really like squid. We have a place called Huhot where they have everything frozen and you put in in a bowl with some sauce and they grill it on front of you and I'd always get the squid. It was purple and very much still squid looking and so delicious.

I like dark coffee with mint cream liquor, we call that kind of coffee "grama cortada" or "chopped grass" around here.

I also adore tequeños with guava (Mozzarella or white cheese sticks with guava jam inside bread dough, forming a finger like shape), I know that doesn't sound odd enough, but I love to dip them in garlic sauce... it's a guilty pleasure *____*;;;

http://www.apuntesdecocina.com/media...F1os_small.jpg

I don't know if my particular culinary tastes are shocking as such. They're not exactly based on contemporary ways of eating. For instance, I don't eat crisps, I lick the flavouring off them. Or mixing balsamic vinegar with soy sauce and lemon juice and drinking it, or many of the other things I could mention.

I dunno; that's pretty... Bizarre. To say the least.

Seriously, isn't that like tongue death?

Not if you scrub your tongue with your toothbrush...

Gonna have to use two that have already been mentioned in this thread: SPAM and Vegemite. But to puta little spin on it, I like them together in toasted sandwiches. It's a salt overload, but I dunno I really like it.

There's this Italian store in the stripmall over from where I work that I went into once. All I wanted was basically a cheese sandwich with marinara sauce and mayo. Firstly, the woman couldn't understand that I didn't want any sort of meat on it. After I finally convinced her, she couldn't understand having both mayo AND marinara sauce on the meatless sandwich. Hardest day of her life.

When Quiznos first came out with their flatbread pizzas I decided to give it a try. There wasn't a vegetarian option, and the girl was dumbfounded when I asked for one, so I asked her to make me a pepperoni, minus the pepperoni. Honestly stood there for ten minutes trying to explain that to her.

One of my favourite sandwiches is peanut butter, cheez wiz and strawberry jam. Together. And that's just the beginning.

I consume inhealthy amounts of cheese. It must be because I'm white.

I like Ranch Dressing on my pasta, pizza, chicken, steak, pork chops, turkey, and probably more that I can't think of right now.

I like French Dressing on my spaghetti, with my salad mixed into the spaghetti.

I like sugar on my rice.

I remember my Uncle, who will eat anything, offered me a peanut-butter and cheese sandwich. It was a dubliner cheese, if I'm not mistaken, which I'm not entirely fond of, although lately my now budding pallete is beginning to appreciate even stranger cheeses. Anyway, I'm not big on the peanut butter-cheese combo and he was very shocked by my refusal to eat an entire sandwich (I gave it a try and was sure I didn't want one).

I do get a bit of my food-adventuring trait from him, but he really is out there sometimes. I still don't know how anyone can eat Natto, let alone eat Natto for breakfast. What a way to start the day :tpg:

I knew someone who put it on cheesecake. I kid you not. That to me drew the line. As for your other foods, sounds perfectly reasonable to me!

As for me, I rarely use salt and prefer to use pepper to season everything after it's been cooked. I also have a thing for combining strange flavors. I tried a green apple and wasabi sorbet once and it was delicious. Since then, I boldly try things I think could be feasible interesting.

DUrian?!
 

I don't eat this anymore but when I was young there's this fruit called Durian (a fruit from Thailand and other Asian countries). The fruit is encased by a spiky exterior and can weigh up to 20 pounds. Anyways, to MANY people they describe the smell of the fruit to be like burning human flesh or rotting meat. But get this, to the native people that eat this stuff like no bodies business, the smell is sweet and so as a result it taste sweet to them.

Today I don't eat it anymore, but to me, since I grew up with it, the fruit smells very sweet to me. I stop eating it because the fruit is really high in fat and is REALLY hard to digest (it warms your body up quick because your body is working so hard to digest the dang thing).

I like cheese and Ragu sauce mixed together. I grate the cheese (usually cheddar or parmesan) and then I mix it with Ragu sauce and I eat it.

I like putting ice in everything too; apple juice, orange juice, water, whatever. I just like it cold.

Wow, I wouldn't eat half the stuff in this thread, but that cheesecake idea actually sounds pretty good to me.

Personally, I don't like crisp lettuce. I prefer dark green, leafy, lettuce instead, and when I was younger, I'd have no lettuce in my salad at all before I'd deal with crispy lettuce (try telling your waiter that!). Now I can tolerate it, but don't particularly care for it either.

Also, in opposition to LaMenina's post, I hate ice. I like drinks cold, but would rather drink it lukewarm or even hot than have it with ice. Like lettuce, I'm more tolerant now that I was when younger, but I still hate ice in general.

My dad and I were talking earlier and he reminded me of another great little treat we would prepare in Mexico when we still lived there; we called it "Coctel Bronco". (Wild Cocktail)

We would take some chocolate Nesquik mix, pour 2 tablespoons into a glass and then, since we usually did this at the ranch with the cows around, we would milk the cow... RIGHT INTO THE GLASS. Add a shot of tequila to the glass, mix and enjoy.

I wish we could do that here but with all the hormones that get put into cows to make them milk out the white stuff, I'm sure that would be tantamount to suicide.

People look funny at me for eating plain white rice. My friends usually say "put some soy sauce on it to give it some flavor," and I ask them "why would I want to ruin the flavor?"

Of course, I was dumbfounded when I saw my Jewish roommate prepare dinner, and put a slab of butter in a bowl of white rice. I didn't hold it against her, but I didn't want to touch that rice either.

I like to put hummus on my sandwiches; tastes so much better than mayo, or mustard, or whatever else you might consider putting in its place.

Here in Malaysia we eat a kind of fruit called Durian which happens to smell like rotting meat to caucasians. As a matter of fact, it's banned in all hotels and airplanes. Durian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Personally I enjoy the smell.

Yeah, I used to put cinnamon in everything--rice, pasta, etc. I don't do it quite often now, but I still love my cinnamon. <3

Also, cheese. Back when we could get an 8oz block of cheese for 99 cents, I would stock up and then dump some into a bowl, microwave it, and just eat the melted cheese. American and pepperjack most definitely do not count. I can't even tolerate a melted cheese sandwich--basically American cheese on already-terrible sandwich bread.

Also, Italian dressing in rice. I think the general consensus on this mixture is pretty negative, but I personally love the flavor. Plus, I don't like soy sauce on my rice.

I think there was one point in time when I put plums, peaches, apples, and orange juice in a chicken dish. The fruit was cooked with the chicken on a skillet, mind you. It wasn't too bad, actually. Now that I think of it, I think plum chicken already exists, but I don't think I know of anyone who's tried it.

Eeeggghh. When I was younger, I wasn't particularly fond of the smell, but I could tolerate the fruit if I ate it semi-frozen. Now, I won't even touch it. I still go insane when there's durian in the fridge, which causes everything to stink and taste like durian. :D

it's really good to dip French fries in a chocolate shake.

Cheese is one of the BEST foods! There are few foods that don't benefit from either cheese or whip cream. I also like salsa on all sorts of things--meats, rice, pot pie, perogies.....