Let's not bad mouth the noble hot dog for it is a delicious handheld food. Sure, it's made out of mostly raccoon entrails, horse hooves, and old newspapers, but at least it's... well... at least they fit in your pocket, right? Anyway, eggs and beans repulse me to no end. Why? Who knows, it's just one of those grand mysteries of life, I suppose. But the mere smell of those foods make my stomach feel like it has been put through a centrifuge.

Haha, over the summer I shared a kitchen with this asian girl that got a lot of food from her mom since she didn't live really far away. One time she gave me this really spicy soup and asked me if I wanted this little cube of something. I was like, "What's that?" "Oh, it's just some pork blood." she replied. I started worrying about all the other food she had given me over the summer after that. :(

At least she was blunt with you.

Although I'm slightly intrigued by it, a Chinese friend recently mentioned eating chicken feet. I just can't understand that one. A chicken's foot is essentially scales, bone, talons, and a tiny amount of meat. Why would you ever eat that? Supposedly it makes for a hearty soup too, but again, why go through all that other crap for such a small amount of meat?

My girlfriend is half-Chinese, and her mother considers chicken feet to be quite the delicious snack. This attitude is not shared by my girlfriend or her brother, who apparently had much the same reaction as you the first time their mother offered them a delicious box of chicken feet.

Mind you, this same mother also once ate strawberries with ketchup. I believe that being Chinese is only partly responsible for her culinary peculiarities. I seriously dread the thought that we might ever go to their house for dinner. I also now understand why my girlfriend is such a great cook. She had to be.

I dunno, strawberries with ketchup doesn't sound too bad. Then again, I've only found a few foods that ketchup didn't either improve or at least not clash badly with.

Chicken feet cooked in the right sauce isn't bad - the skin picks up the flavor of the sauce, and sticking the whole thing in your mouth and spitting out the joint bones is fun. =D I've only had it dim sum style, though, never fried like many from Hong Kong have it.

Also, I've had pork blood (it's like tofu - they congeal it and cut it up into cubes like RR stated) in a really spicy Shanghai style dish. The sauce covered most of the taste, but the iron flavor was still pretty apparent. Not my favorite experience, but more palatable than balut.

Swiss rotten cheese. Odorous as hell. Ugh!

Scrambled eggs and ketchup. Jesus Christ, its so disgusting that it pisses me off. Something that also gives me reason to sigh...("sigh") is how people are so passionate about it that they are willing to start a half an hour argument defending their disgusting food choice.

Casu Marzu, anyone? I'd rank it right up there with Balut in the looks-so-gross-that-I'd-never-go-near-it category. Heck.. I'd probably call it worse. It's basically rotten cheese that's eaten in Sardinia - so rotten that insect larvae are present in the cheese. Eye protection is mandatory when eating it, unless you remove the larvae manually. Don't want the insects to get in your eyes! :tpg:

On the topic of foods that I've actually tasted, blue cheese makes me want to vomit. I cannot stand the taste at all. I was at Disneyland one summer and bought a bleu cheese burger for the first time, which could have ruined the rest of my day there if I actually ate all of it. Fortunately, I had the sense to throw it away and head for the next loooong line for a classic ride.

Casu Marzu? Insect larva in your eyes? Who sees this stuff and decides, screw McDonald's, I'm eating THIS for dinner?

Well considering McDonalds isn't remarkably more quality and/or sanitary to begin with, I am guessing more than you might think.

Casu Marzu, eh? I don't rank it up with balut, but it's something I'd rather not ever encounter in real life. Never heard of it before and never want to hear of it again. :p

Ja ja...When I clicked the link for Casu Marzu and saw the picture, I thought it was bread. :tpg:
"Ooh! Yummy!! Brea-CHEESE?!" :twitch:

At least if I find maggots in my food at McDonalds, I can sue the pants off them and be rich for the rest of my life.

True, but then theres the risk of McDonalds having you secretly killed to protect their investments. Do you think those Ronald statues are just for show? No, they are there to make sure that the customers leave "happy", with no complaints. If anything comes up, Ronald sees to it that the "problem" is neutralized.

Weapons of choice: Scolding hot coffee and rock hard sausage egg and cheese biscuits which crack the skull upon impact.

Ronald McDonald's a gangsta!

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/images/19/ronald1.jpg

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I've heard Birds nest soup is an interesting dish.

Birds nest soup is quite yummy. Most of the flavor comes from sources other than the birds' spit, but I liked birds nest soup even when I was a little kid, and I was a picky eater back then.

Something I wouldve posted in here as a kid was any sort of fish and turtle soup. If anything but for my loyalty to my TMNT.

I like to think that I'm an overly-adventurous eater, but I don't think I could bring myself to eat rotten maggoty cheese. Or blood sausage either. Eating giant blood clots mixed with lard is, uh, unappealing. Also, fugu is right out for being laced with poison unless prepared perfectly...I don't think I trust any chef that much.

Balut is pretty weird too, but, while I wouldn't go out and buy it at a restaurant, I don't find it completely unappetizing. I guess that if I was hanging out with someone and they insisted on eating it, I could be prodded into trying it.

Fugu's toxin has got to be one of the coolest poisons on earth. More or less complete paralysis and full consciousness with death by asphixiation ensuing typically within 4-24 hours? Amazing. I know how I'm offing people next time I get crossed.

oh man thats a burtal poison. are there news stories about someone that dies from this dish?

I heard once that some bosses make the chef eat a piece before serving him. thats shits supposed to be really tasty.

omg blood clots that is so fucking foul

I AGREE!! even if i were starving and that was last thing on earth to eat, i'd rather die of starvation! :><:

hmm. I can't say that balut would be gross, cause I've never tried it. I'm one to judge food by looks or smell. Bananas. THOSE are more disgusting than balut in my opinion.

Oh, I perfectly understand why someone would take arsenic over hot dogs any day.

I grew up in a lower middle class family. Need I say more? Growing up, because they were so fast, and so easy to cook, and you could prepare them in different ways, like in buns, in sammiches, or cut up into pieces, we had hot dogs almost EVERY DAMN NIGHT.

In fact, the only foods I can remember eating before age 10 were hamburgers, hot dogs, and cereal. Then after branching out into an entire new world of food, by age 14 I could not even look at a hot dog.

Yet, I still love BBQ hot dogs. Which kind of renders my hate of hot dogs void. :eagletear: