Top 10 Dare Devil Dishes

[LonghornGal]

Anyone had these? Got something to add to the list?

I've had duck tongue - not spicy though.

1. Crispy White Sea Worms
Typhoon
Santa Monica, Calif.
This Thai entree may look like pasta, but pasta doesn't have eyes.

2. Grasshopper Tacos
Galaxy Global Eatery
New York, N.Y.
Weeping from the jalapenos will be the farthest thing from your mind.

3. Calf Brains with Brown Butter
Le Gaulois
Washington, D.C.
Tasty, French and Atkins-friendly! Vegetarians need not apply.

4. Spicy Duck Tongues
Koi Palace
Daly City, Calif.
Order this Chinese specialty for a chance to French-kiss your food.

5. Pig's Feet Stew
Islas Canarias
Miami, Fla.
A little hoof for your mouth? This rich stew is a Cuban delicacy.

6. Rocky Mountain Oysters
Rawhide Steakhouse
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Bull testicles -- you know you want them. Be brave and have a ball!

7. Fried Brain Sandwiches
Ferguson's Pub
St. Louis, Mo.
You're not mad to order the cow brainwich. It's a local specialty.

8. Smoked Snake
Esparza's Tex-Mex Cafe
Portland, Ore.
The tables have turned. Leave the snakebite kit at home and dig in.

9. Intestine & Pig's Blood Hotpot
New Shanghai Restaurant
Las Vegas, Nev.
A Shanghainese dish that just oozes with flavor... and innards.

10. Goat Eyeball Tacos
Maxwell Street Market
Chicago, Ill.
These tacos like to watch. Snag this Mexican snack from a street cart.

Here's the original link: http://netscape.digitalcity.com/newyork/toptendaredevildishes/main.adp?_dci_e_t=incoming&_dci_a_l=home%2enetscape%2ecom%2f

--Kristin

[Jazzmatazz49]

I've only had mountain oysters once. In Oklahoma. After tequila. As for the other stuff, nope!:rolleyes:

[sneezles]

Originally posted by LonghornGal
Anyone had these? Got something to add to the list?

Nothing to add just that I think I've lost my appetite for dinner!

[adrianna!!]

Well, I have EATEN at Islas Canarias in Miami...and DH is Cuban and he told me that JUST recently he ordered pigs feet at a little cafeteria he frequents near his work. I asked him WHY???? Why would you order that? His family never ate organs and stuff like that. He said that everything the owner of the cafeteria recommended was great. He said that last Wednesday the special was Pigs Feet and the owner heartily recommended it so he gave it a try. His conclusion? GROSS! Dh said they were tough and just like eating tendons or something. He was trying to be adventurous...I am always into trying new things and I tell him that he should, too...but this was one item that he will NEVER order again! Ick!

[SueK]

Kristin - when I first read this thread, I thought this was your own personal list of things you have eaten and I was amazed! Then I saw the link you posted. :)

And I'm happy to say I have not consumed any of the dishes on the list.

[AmyO26]

Where's that barfing smiley? ;)

[Alethea]

Have had one on the list (though I don't know if it's #3 or #7), because when I was a kid and living overseas my grandparents thought it would be funny to take me to a nice restaurant and order brains for me, and then after I'd eaten to tell me what they were. Who does that to a seven-year old? :( :rolleyes: Come on!

[Tally]

Got something to add to the list?

One word: Haggis.

To paraphrase Mike Meyers, most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

[Kayla]

Originally posted by AmyO26
Where's that barfing smiley? ;)

I think it ran to the bathroom and hasn't been brave enough to venture back out...

my response the those things: YIPES! :eek:

[SueK]

Originally posted by Alethea
Have had one on the list (though I don't know if it's #3 or #7), because when I was a kid and living overseas my grandparents thought it would be funny to take me to a nice restaurant and order brains for me, and then after I'd eaten to tell me what they were. Who does that to a seven-year old? :( :rolleyes: Come on!

This is by no means to the same extreme, but when I was out of town for work 2 years ago, DH took DD1 out and they ordered fried calimari. She thought they were onion rings, so she ate them and loved them. Then later that night he told her it was octopuss and she felt sick (all in her mind, I know)....

[badunnin]

I love pigs feet.

[aggie94]

I have had pigs' feet, although not pigs' feet stew. And while I haven't had the smoked snake, I have eaten at Esparza's in Portland, and they make quite a mean chicken-fried steak (and that's coming from a native Texan)! I must have missed the snake selection on their menu. :o

Oh, and calamari is actually squid, not octopus. Not that that would have made your DD feel any better. ;) :p

[LonghornGal]

alethea - that's cruel! And fried calamari is the best! Except when it's done wrong and is super chewy. ew.

Oh, I'd forgotten that I'd had rattlesnake before in Cincinatti (why in Cinci? Because it was there.)

I have no idea what haggis is, and am afraid to ask. :)

--Kristin

[Kayaksoup]

i have eaten grasshoppers. Baked. in Pastry. I was 8 and we had severe grasshopper problems and they were eating everything. So we ate them. Little scratchy, but otherwise.....tasted like chicken.

[Tally]

LonghornGal, here's a definition of haggis found in Epicurious' Food Lovers' Companion:

"This Scottish specialty is made by stuffing a sheep's (or other animal's) stomach lining with a minced mixture of the animal's organs (heart, liver, lungs and so on), onion, suet, oatmeal and seasonings, then simmering the sausage in water for about 4 hours."

I had it once at a Celtic festival. Emphasis on the word "once."

Actually, Alton Brown did a hilarious take on making haggis on the Good Eats episode featuring oatmeal. The show opened with a spoof of Braveheart.

[Alethea]

I forgot about haggis (too wrapped up in remembering the brain trauma). I've also had haggis once, though this time of my own choice. It was a dare, and I was also very very drunk.:o Don't remember what it tasted like!

[HejazSunKat]

Originally posted by Alethea
I've also had haggis once, though this time of my own choice. It was a dare, and I was also very very drunk.:o

After Tally's description that sounds like the only way to eat it. Sounds like it was invented on a dare. I admire anybody with an adventurous palate. I do not have one. Weirdest thing I've ever eaten was hartebeest.

[imloulou]

Ok...I have to post this photo of my daughter. My kids could probably do Fear Factor...they will try anything! And what is funny is that my daughter is the "picky one" ROFL!!

This is our Squid dinner:

http://a8.cpimg.com/image/04/94/31637508-4141-019001EA-.jpg

[Kayaksoup]

What a great picture!!

[AvrilH]

People are impressed that my kids will eat fish that's not fishsticks and chicken that's not nuggets. But SQUID? Holy cow!

[CompassRose]

Funny how all of these involve dead animal parts... and most of 'em, animals that everyone's just fine about eating all the other parts. And yet vegetarianism mystifies people!

What about durian fruit? And fugu's gotta be up there -- not as gross, maybe, but anything that stands a recognised chance of killing you has got to be counted as a daredevil food! Blood pudding. (Actually, haggis tasted pretty much like a variant of sausage to me. Although the preceding ceremonial poem, recited for me by a Scottish gentleman of age and gravitas, was magnificent.)

[Grace]

Those are all pretty gross. Haven't had any of them. But I have had squirrel, turtle (soup) and frog legs. Oh, and blood and tongue sausage. Used to love that as a kid - don't know why, exactly?? And head cheese - BLECH. It's all the wierd parts of the pig cut up, and floating in a vinegary jello. As I said, Blech.

I found an official description of Head cheese online:

Head Cheese
Head cheese, also called souse and brawn, is a jellied loaf or sausage. Originally it was made entirely from the meaty parts of the head of a pig or calf, but now can include edible parts of the feet, tongue, and heart. The head is cleaned and simmered until the meat falls from the bones, and the liquid is a concentrated gelatinous broth. Strained, the meat is removed from the head, chopped, seasoned and returned to the broth and the whole placed in a mold and chilled until set, so it can be sliced.

[Sami]

I have had chocolate ants, cow's feet and haggis. I actually like haggis, but won't eat raw oysters. Go figure.

Sami

[tbb113]

I've had duck tongues also. Also jellyfish (tastes like cold chewy rubber bands). The thrills of eating dim sum with people that REALLY know their Chinese food (they are from Hong Kong).

Wouldn't go out of my way for the duck tongue, too small and have a little bone, but I have learned to like the jellyfish :D

[adrianna!!]

LOVE that picture! Thanks! I am gonna show it to my 5 year old DD!!!!

[cab321]

CompassRose, I thought of blood pudding when I read the pigs intestine and blood hotpot - sounds like alot of the same ingredients. I love blood pudding by the way!

[Kayla]

Originally posted by tbb113
I've had duck tongues also. Also jellyfish (tastes like cold chewy rubber bands). The thrills of eating dim sum with people that REALLY know their Chinese food (they are from Hong Kong).

Wouldn't go out of my way for the duck tongue, too small and have a little bone, but I have learned to like the jellyfish :D

... I wonder what Sponge Bob would have to say about the jelly fish ;)

I've had exotic jelly beans before... does that count? (Leah, where are you when I need my Jelly Bean Support Network?)

[HejazSunKat]

ROFL - Lisa that's the best picture! :D

[hollysmom]

I didn't know that ducks had tongues.

SSM

[pschambers]

I personally have not had any of those, but I have had cow's tongue. I actually kind of like it. My Dad used to make it. HE did eat brains scrambled with eggs, pigs feet and pigs knuckles, head cheese. It used to gross me out when he would eat those.

Patti

[colleency]

We went for Dim Sum with a Chinese friend who had us try chicken feet. Ick! It was little bones covered with skin that had been boiled and then refrigerated. I don't think there was any meat at all.

We're hosting a party that a friend is throwing in June called an exotic meat party. People have to bring meat from an animal that we (in Southern CA) don't normally eat. (But it can't be illegal or road kill.) So far, I hear we will be having goat and snake. I just hope no one brings turtle.

[Jen]

DH is Filipino, and one of their delicacies is an embryonic chicken...looks like an egg but there's an actual baby chicken inside. I'm not sure, but I think other Asian cultures may eat these as delicacies as well?

DH has never had it, and I wouldn't go near it for money, but his parents have it occasionally at parties etc.

...OK, I looked it up and it's actually a duck egg, not a chicken, and it's called Balut. Supposed to be an aphrodisiac (no thanks!:eek: )

Here's a link, but don't click if you're easily grossed out...

http://www.filipino.com.au/categ/cuisine/balot.htm

[tbb113]

Originally posted by Jen
DH is Filipino, and one of their delicacies is an embryonic chicken...looks like an egg but there's an actual baby chicken inside. I'm not sure, but I think other Asian cultures may eat these as delicacies as well?

DH has never had it, and I wouldn't go near it for money, but his parents have it occasionally at parties etc.

...OK, I looked it up and it's actually a duck egg, not a chicken, and it's called Balut. Supposed to be an aphrodisiac (no thanks!:eek: )

Here's a link, but don't click if you're easily grossed out...

http://www.filipino.com.au/categ/cuisine/balot.htm

Years ago I worked with a Filipino woman who brought it for lunch. YUCK! That is something you need to eat in the privacy of your own house ;)

[Jazzmatazz49]

I just hope no one brings turtle.

...or possum, armadillo, or raccoon.:p

[Lynn B]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Well, I guess that's 10 more things I hadn't thought of to add to the "Things I've never made" thread! (Insert "shuddering" smiley here!) :cool:

Lynn :)

[lhall]

Originally posted by colleency
I just hope no one brings turtle.

Turtle, YUM!

Ok, so I've had turtle soup once. It was delicious!

I wouldn't go near any of the things on that list and I think the grossest thing I've eaten is blood sausage.

Leigh

[sab1976]

Originally posted by Jen
DH is Filipino, and one of their delicacies is an embryonic chicken...looks like an egg but there's an actual baby chicken inside. I'm not sure, but I think other Asian cultures may eat these as delicacies as well?

DH has never had it, and I wouldn't go near it for money, but his parents have it occasionally at parties etc.

...OK, I looked it up and it's actually a duck egg, not a chicken, and it's called Balut. Supposed to be an aphrodisiac (no thanks!:eek: )

Here's a link, but don't click if you're easily grossed out...

http://www.filipino.com.au/categ/cuisine/balot.htm

I saw something similar recently on National Geographic's show Taboo. It's an Indian (Anglo-Indian) dish called Kuutti Pi...basically a cow (or other animal) fetus cooked in a curry-like sauce.

*gag*

[Lynn B]

Originally posted by Jen
DH is Filipino, and one of their delicacies is an embryonic chicken...looks like an egg but there's an actual baby chicken inside. I'm not sure, but I think other Asian cultures may eat these as delicacies as well?

DH has never had it, and I wouldn't go near it for money, but his parents have it occasionally at parties etc.

...OK, I looked it up and it's actually a duck egg, not a chicken, and it's called Balut. Supposed to be an aphrodisiac (no thanks!:eek: )

Here's a link, but don't click if you're easily grossed out...

http://www.filipino.com.au/categ/cuisine/balot.htm

DDIL is Filipino, I'll have to ask her about this. I'm adventurous and proud to say I'll try almost anything... and I try to NEVER be "critical" of ANY culture's foods... but I think I'd have to be half-tuned <hic! ;)> to be talked into trying THIS! Ewwwwwww!!!!

Lynn