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Spam. Who has eaten it, and was it any good. I've also heard that 15% of it is fur. Can anyone confirm this? It looks horrible and somewhat resembles the Swedish Kalvsylta (shown below.) which is outright horrible.
http://www.icakuriren.se/img/recept/bilder/ik5103sanbbappel.jpg

What other atrocities against the human tongue are popular in your respective countries? Pictures if possible!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)

The labelled ingredients in the Classic variety of Spam are: chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite.

You Swedes have

Bacon Ost

which is a particularly sickening paste formulation of smoked bacon and bacon fat in a toothpaste tube.

You Swedes have

Bacon Ost

which is a particularly sickening paste formulation of smoked bacon and bacon fat in a toothpaste tube.

It's actually cheese with smelting salts and bacon. And yes, it's horrible, but no way near the Kalvsylta or Sourherring, a particularly nasty form of fish, seasoned over a few years in lactic acid.

Sülze (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:S%C3%BClze001.jpg)

Blutwurst (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Blutwurst.jpg)

Eisbein (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Eisbein-2.jpg)

I'll think of other ones and post them later.

Incidentally, why are the top most grossest things always made of meat (or pretend so)?

Spam isn't remotely as bad as people like to think it is. I've eaten plenty of worse things than Spam.

It tastes decent enough in a sandwich.

Natto isn't meat, and it's supposed to be really, really bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natto

Natto isn't meat, and it's supposed to be really, really bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natto

That reminds me:

Brilliant blog entry on things that can't possibly have really been meant for human consumption :

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php

That reminds me:

Brilliant blog entry on things that can't possibly have really been meant for human consumption :

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php
Best. Blog. Ever.

http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/spam_musubi.jpg
Spam Musubi

Spam Fried Rice

then there's spam with Saimin/Ramen

Spam salad

lottsa good stuff.

I followed one of their recipes they have on the label once. it was a SPAM burger and it was nasty, fried SPAM acquires a sharp salty taste that is just shocking. i've also had SPAM chilli too, that was pretty rotten. i actually don't mind it cold though.

i'm a big fan of unusual food and local delicasies and whathaveyou, but i've yet to try jellied eel, that sounds pretty bad.

I followed one of their recipes they have on the label once. it was a SPAM burger and it was nasty, fried SPAM acquires a sharp salty taste that is just shocking. i've also had SPAM chilli too, that was pretty rotten. i actually don't mind it cold though.

i'm a big fan of unusual food and local delicasies and whathaveyou, but i've yet to try jellied eel, that sounds pretty bad.

you have to find the right combo of spices that accentuates the saltiness of spam.

a bit of shoyu and sugar added to the spam while frying it softens the saltiness while adding a psudo teriyaki flavor to it.

That reminds me:

Brilliant blog entry on things that can't possibly have really been meant for human consumption :

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php

i love that steve don't eat it thing. it' one of my ambitions to try everything on that list for myself.

you have to find the right combo of spices that accentuates the saltiness of spam.

a bit of shoyu and sugar added to the spam while frying it softens the saltiness while adding a psudo teriyaki flavor to it.

i shall have to try that someday. someday when i really really want meat but can't afford the real stuff :p

Sülze (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:S%C3%BClze001.jpg)

Blutwurst (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Blutwurst.jpg)

Eisbein (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Eisbein-2.jpg)

I'll think of other ones and post them later.

Incidentally, why are the top most grossest things always made of meat (or pretend so)?

what bit of the beast is Eisbein?

The only thing on the steve don't eat it site I've eaten is a silk worm... not canned though. It was awful. I still weep when I think of it. *sniff*

i love that steve don't eat it thing. it' one of my ambitions to try everything on that list for myself.

What's keeping you?

what bit of the beast is Eisbein?

The whole meaty part; the rest is sauerkraut.

http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/spam_musubi.jpg
Spam Musubi

Spam Fried Rice

then there's spam with Saimin/Ramen

Spam salad

lottsa good stuff.

on a good day growing up we could have fried spam and mayo sandwiches. It's a good cheap meat-like substance. LIke Khadgar said I have had much worse.

What's keeping you?
it's one of those ambitions that i only think about occasionally never really put much effort into. plus i can barely afford to buy food that i can guarantee i will keep down long enough to extract some benefit from as it is, when i have a job maybe i'll be able to afford some food experimentation.


The whole meaty part; the rest is sauerkraut.

i meant what body part is that?

At least lutfisk has something in it to preserve the meat.

Quite unlike stinkheads

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinkheads

Stinkheads (tepa), fermented salmon heads, are a traditional food of the Inuit in southwest Alaska. A customary way of preparing them was to place salmon heads and salmon guts in a wooden barrel, cover it with burlap, and bury it in the ground for about a week.

No, I haven't eaten them, and I wouldn't, unless I was starving.

spam, bully beef just the same you wouldn't want to live on it like in WW1

i meant what body part is that?

Oh, sorry. It's pork, and it is the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle. This (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Schwein-Eisbein.png)shows you all nicely in a picture where it hails from.

The word-for-word translation from the German expression is "ice leg", for reasons unbeknownst to me*.

*Well, actually, now I looked it up and it says it comes from the fact that these bones were in the earlier days taken and made into parts of ice-skates, so there. Loads of things you never wanted to know about Eisbein.

Sülze (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:S%C3%BClze001.jpg)

Blutwurst (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Blutwurst.jpg)

Eisbein (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Eisbein-2.jpg)

I'll think of other ones and post them later.

Incidentally, why are the top most grossest things always made of meat (or pretend so)?
Whereas I don't really care for Sülze or Eisbein - what's wrong with blood sausage? I like it! :D

Never actually tried spam.

Oh, sorry. It's pork, and it is the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle. This (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Schwein-Eisbein.png)shows you all nicely in a picture where it hails from.

The word-for-word translation from the German expression is "ice leg", for reasons unbeknownst to me*.

*Well, actually, now I looked it up and it says it comes from the fact that these bones were in the earlier days taken and made into parts of ice-skates, so there. Loads of things you never wanted to know about Eisbein.

ah i see, just was wondering why it might be disgusting.

Whereas I don't really care for Sülze or Eisbein - what's wrong with blood sausage? I like it! :D
I think the very name ansers that silly question already without furthe rinput from me, seeing how the picture's aready given.

ah i see, just was wondering why it might be disgusting.

Allow me to quote wiki:

"Eisbein is heavily marbled meat covered with a thick layer of fat [...] can be an alarming experience for the unwary tourist, as it is a huge portion and the skin is left soft, not crispy, because the dish is merely boiled."

Tripe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe
and
ox tongue
http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11140126/Meat_Buffalo_OX_TONGUE_SWISS_CUT.jpg

I think the very name ansers that silly question already without furthe rinput from me, seeing how the picture's aready given.



Allow me to quote wiki:

"Eisbein is heavily marbled meat covered with a thick layer of fat [...] can be an alarming experience for the unwary tourist, as it is a huge portion and the skin is left soft, not crispy, because the dish is merely boiled."

sounds yummerz ;)

and i got to agree with GM, blood sausage is also yummerz.

Tripe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe
and
ox tongue
http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11140126/Meat_Buffalo_OX_TONGUE_SWISS_CUT.jpg

tongue sandwiches are great, with a bit of lettuce and tomato and mayonnaise it's perfect. i also eat it on it's own though.

never tried tripe yet however.

sounds yummerz ;)

and i got to agree with GM, blood sausage is also yummerz.

I was about to subtly question your culinary tasting ability, but then this:

tongue sandwiches are great, with a bit of lettuce and tomato and mayonnaise it's perfect. i also eat it on it's own though.


told me I need not bother, you'd out yourself on your own. ;P

I was about to subtly question your culinary tasting ability, but then this:




told me I need not bother, you'd out yourself on your own. ;P

:p someone's got to eat this stuff or it'd go to waste, i've taken it upon myself to be that someone :D

tongue sandwiches are great, with a bit of lettuce and tomato and mayonnaise it's perfect. i also eat it on it's own though.

never tried tripe yet however.

here we eat it with some kind of tomato sauce which also has madeira wine in it (I think that's how it's called). It is quite good actually (unless you start thinking about what you're eating).

here we eat it with some kind of tomato sauce which also has madeira wine in it (I think that's how it's called). It is quite good actually (unless you start thinking about what you're eating).

sounds good, my parents drink madeira wine, maybe i'll have a go at recreating that. does the dish have a name?

sounds good, my parents drink madeira wine, maybe i'll have a go at recreating that. does the dish have a name?

Yeah, it's called "Smegmapuke"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn4CZw3oGOQ

Spam actually isn't too bad i had fried Spam and Pineapple in BBQ Sauce and it rocked

Tripe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe
and
ox tongue
http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11140126/Meat_Buffalo_OX_TONGUE_SWISS_CUT.jpg

Hey, tripe's good if you know what to do with it!
I just have never eaten tongue -- can't get over tasting something that might be tasting me back...

Hey, tripe's good if you know what to do with it!
I just have never eaten tongue -- can't get over tasting something that might be tasting me back...

letting a cow taste you not a good idea as that would give them the taste for humans

Spam is alright, there's plenty of worse food than spam out there.

Now where are the singing vikings gone ...

Hawaiians have an unhealthy Spam obsession. They have in on sandwiches at McDonalds. Seriously, Spam McMuffins!

Oh, and they also have a whole Spam aisle at Walmart, of all places...

Balut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut)

Bopis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopis) ~ well at least this one chopped so fine (http://www.redcrabonline.com/menu%20images/black%20beards/gallery/sizzling_bopis_s.jpg) you don't realize it's the pig lungs and heart...

Bung fritz

Bung fritz is a very thick type of sausage found in South Australia, made with the finest animal by-product. Eat it raw... fantastic. Yes I'm serious.

:D

I used to eat it as a kid, especially with cheese and mayo. My eating habits are pretty plain. However, it got to the point where it tasted too salty. I hate salt and cannot eat a lot of it without my blood pressure rising. I would recommend pineapple slices if you plan on cooking it. That was my favorite preparation of it. ^^'

There's always this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:McDonalds1.svg) atrocity...

spam fritters are pretty tasty :)

perhaps one of the strangest things I ever ate was a bun from Japan. I can't remember the name of it, maybe somebody here can help? It was sort of like madeira cake but with a kidney bean paste filling and was quite odd to me.

Casu Marzu is way worse then spam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_Marzu

Casu Marzu is way worse then spam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_Marzu

Shit, thats downright horrible... like the midnight markets in Beijing, but worse! Uhhrrg...

stinky tofu:
http://iftf.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/choudoufu.jpg

yes, as the name suggests, it is very stinky. As the above photo suggests, it looks mightily like puke. And I can attest that it does indeed bear a more-than-passing resemblance to puke in ordour (or should that be ordure), texture and taste.

I just have never eaten tongue -- can't get over tasting something that might be tasting me back...
It's not bad at all. I prefer mine BBQed with salt. Yummy!

Japan is home to foods that really shouldn't be eaten, besides the aforementioned natto (Evil! EVIL!!!), my prefecture is known for eating raw horse, fried crickets (For breakfast), and bee larva.

Spam. Who has eaten it, and was it any good.

I like to fry it and eat it with eggs. Don't much care for Spam sandwiches.

I've also heard that 15% of it is fur. Can anyone confirm this?

I can confirm this is NOT true.

tongue sandwiches are great, with a bit of lettuce and tomato and mayonnaise it's perfect. i also eat it on it's own though.


Tongue is quite good. Slowly simmered in spices, peel it, let it cool a bit, slice and serve. Especially good with some Dijon mustard.:fluffle:

So I found a can of turkey Spam in my cupboard. Should I or shouldn't I? And how? Never had it before.

Worse than Spam.

Potted Meat Food Product: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potted_meat_food_product

MMMmmm! Meat paste!