Strange Dishes... (restaurant, hamburgers, tuna, chinese)

[dorado0359]

There are some really strange dishes, being served in restaurants and on street corners thoughout the world. One such item is fried rat, which according to the television program is a very popular in some Asian countries.

Are there any more?

[Town&Country]

There's more than more... around 6 years ago I came out of the house in the morning, around 9, and noticed an animal under my pickup truck, which I no longer own... at first I thought it was a cat, and, as I got closer and closer, and, seeing that it didn't run away, it was an animal that I had never heard of nor ever seen before (I found out from the wildlife hotline what it was), it looked like a cross between a beaver and a giant guinea pig... with big Orange front teeth like a beaver but a smooth tail like an armadillo... it was nearly 2 feet long... and, what was it? A Nutria. Not native to our country, it was brought in earlier in the last century to help clean out waterways in Louisiana and other low lying states. How it made it here I'll never know, I don't live really near any ponds or lakes, they are all around but not right here. By coincidence, a couple of weeks later, on a cooking show on PBS, some chef was trying to sell a group of "tasters" on the culinary delights of the Nutria... cooked it like chicken, cooked it like rabbit, for all I could tell he was making Nutria Rockefeller... when the next Nutria cookoff rolls around I won't be there, I couldn't eat the freakin thing, it just seems so unnatural. I do, however, like raw oysters. Yum...

[compelled to reply]

Originally Posted by dorado0359

There are some really strange dishes, being served in restaurants and on street corners thoughout the world. One such item is fried rat, which according to the television program is a very popular in some Asian countries.

Are there any more?

It's only strange to us. Strange is subjective . They probably think that hamburgers are strange in Asia. Then again, they love KFC in China,so who knows?

[Dancingearth]

A couple of years ago I did some research for a college class on eating insects. I read the first book and was totally sold on the idea (lots of protein, don't take many resources to raise, could feed the world.) One source said there was a restaurant in Washington D.C. that only served insects--it was the upcoming new food.

Then I opened the recipe book with pictures. I don't think so. Worm spaghetti anyone?

[mountain_time_Blues]

Two words: Jellied Eels



Yum........

[Town&Country]

Reminds me of that "container" in the storage unit in The Silence of the Lambs... Yow!

[happynoodleboycey]

Anything you can get at a Chinese restaurant seems pretty dubious to me. Lemon rice? No thank you very much.

[LauraPetrie]

Originally Posted by Dancingearth

One source said there was a restaurant in Washington D.C. that only served insects--it was the upcoming new food.

Then I opened the recipe book with pictures. I don't think so. Worm spaghetti anyone?

That has to be the yuckiest restaurant ever ..

[Ellise]

I was shopping my local Food Lion (the worst grocery store chain I have ever had the misfortune of shopping at) last week, browsing the canned tuna, when I noticed pork brains in a can on the shelf. Good grief. Felt nauseous just thinking about it.

[PinkString]

Originally Posted by boycew02

Anything you can get at a Chinese restaurant seems pretty dubious to me. Lemon rice? No thank you very much.

Lemon rice is great. I make my own at home, without the chicken stock. I don't know why people have to put chicken in everything.