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[Nadaka]

Do people in USA really find liver disgusting or is that just a movie thing?

Some do. Part of it is that a lot of people overcook their liver and turn it into rubber, or undercook it so that it is still bloody. Just right and it is delicious.

I have eaten squirrel and rattlesnake, that is probably the oddest, but it is quite good. But the most disgusting traditional food i know is Chitlins and dumplings. Boiled intestines and boiled bread. Some people insist that you loose the flavor if you rinse the intestines out first, and that you are lucky if you get the pucker because it has more meat.

[Levi]

Liver/Tripe:  I can handle eating stomach, but my philosophy is that anything past the stomach is just sewage processing organs and I refuse to eat them.

Mango:  Although not unusual really, there are few things I hate more than the taste of mango.

[G-Flex]

Liver/Tripe:  I can handle eating stomach, but my philosophy is that anything past the stomach is just sewage processing organs and I refuse to eat them.

But tripe is the stomach!

[Levi]

Liver/Tripe:  I can handle eating stomach, but my philosophy is that anything past the stomach is just sewage processing organs and I refuse to eat them.

But tripe is the stomach!

I thought tripe was just a random assortment of organs?  Oh well.  The stomach is okay, but I don't like eating any organs below that.   

[RedKing]

Do people in USA really find liver disgusting or is that just a movie thing?

Some do. Part of it is that a lot of people overcook their liver and turn it into rubber, or undercook it so that it is still bloody. Just right and it is delicious.

I have eaten squirrel and rattlesnake, that is probably the oddest, but it is quite good. But the most disgusting traditional food i know is Chitlins and dumplings. Boiled intestines and boiled bread. Some people insist that you loose the flavor if you rinse the intestines out first, and that you are lucky if you get the pucker because it has more meat.

Yeah, chitlins is one of those things that I won't do, even if it is a traditional Southern food. Now crackling (the fat surrounding the intestines) OTOH is delicious, especially when baked into biscuits. It's like self-buttering bread. Although one distinct memory I have from childhood was a family gathering where a bunch of the adults were in my aunt's gigantic kitchen, working on the feast, and crackling bread was one of the items on the menu. They had a particularly fatty hog to work with, so there was leftover crackling to use. So they just fried it up in small chunks and put in a basket on a table in the parlor. I came across them and thought they were some kind of sugar-dusted butter cookie twist thingys. I grabbed a handful and tossed them in my mouth. Yeah, that was the hard way to figure out what they really were -- fried fat with a dusting of salt. 

Tripe is okay, though not high on my list. Had it a couple of times in a hotpot, and...well, everything tastes good when flash-boiled with chilies and garlic. And technically, it's the lining of the stomach.

EDIT: Some other local items I won't eat: souse (basically head cheese pickled with vinegar and usually with some hot pepper) and C-Loaf. C-Loaf is difficult to describe. It's....think of the stuff that goes into a hot dog. Now think of the parts that they wouldn't even put in a hot dog. Take those parts, grind them very coarsely, let it congeal and shape into a brick.

[counting]

I am not familiar with the term "chitlins", its made of pig's intestines as some kind of soup? I don't know what's weird about that either. There is a famous Taiwan street food called 大腸麵線, it's literally means a noddle soup with pig's intestines.

It looks like this

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I don't know if they are similar or not? But I don't think anyone who lives around where I am will feel it bizarre. (People who DO afraid of it are probably more weird as I concerned.)

An tripe are stomach right? Pig's or Cow's? I think we have a recipe of cow's stomach soup

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We believe that it is a medicine of increasing human immune system. As well as making your stomach strong (a quite twisted idea about what organ you ate is beneficial for the same organ you have)

[RedKing]

I am not familiar with the term "chitlins", its made of pig's intestines as some kind of soup? I don't know what's weird about that either. There is a famous Taiwan street food called 大腸麵線, it's literally means a noddle soup with pig's intestines.

It looks like this

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I don't know if they are similar or not? But I don't think anyone who lives around where I am will feel it bizarre. (People who DO afraid of it are probably more weird as I concerned.)

It's not a soup, they're usually boiled, then fried. And in bigger chunks.

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And the smell when they're boiling is apparently just this side of a bio-weapon. Which isn't far from the truth, as they have to be boiled good and long to kill off the Yersinia-genus bacteria endemic to hogs. Yersinia pestis is better known as bubonic/pneumonic plague.

Nothing says good eatin' like a poop-chute full of the Black Death. 

[MonkeyHead]

Speaking of local foods... one that the rest of the UK thinks is downright odd is a traditional dish us Welsh have called Laverbread (pronounced Lava Bread). Basically, get a particular type of seaweed (Laver - special as it is only one cell thick), boil the crap out of it for a few hours, then mince or pulp it. Most people that eat it fry it and serve it with bacon as a breakfast meal. It is seriously good for you in terms of vitamins and minerals, and tastes similar to oysters. I like it due to the salty bitter taste, not overly dissimilar to Ilsa Scotch single malts. On fried bread it is wonderful.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laver_(seaweed)

[Nadaka]

Yes. Chitlins is a word used for pig (or any other animals) intestines. Like RedKing mentioned, they can be fried. But Chitlins and dumplings are particularly nasty because they are served strait from and soaking in the poop water, but mostly drained.

It is a traditional meal among the extremely poor in the South Eastern US.

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It's not a soup, they're usually boiled, then fried. And in bigger chunks.

Spoiler: Like this. (click to show/hide)

And the smell when they're boiling is apparently just this side of a bio-weapon. Which isn't far from the truth, as they have to be boiled good and long to kill off the Yersinia-genus bacteria endemic to hogs. Yersinia pestis is better known as bubonic/pneumonic plague.

Nothing says good eatin' like a poop-chute full of the Black Death. 

So it is more like this 炒/滷豬大腸 ?

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Which is fried/soy-source pig's intestines? (They are boiled with water first, pre-processed than fried or stewing with soy source), The stewed pig's intestines cut into small chunks, are a common kind of snakes you can buy on food stands as well.

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There are pig's ear on the top right, and intestines on the bottom, and pig's tongue on the left of the plate.

[RedKing]

It's not a soup, they're usually boiled, then fried. And in bigger chunks.

Spoiler: Like this. (click to show/hide)

And the smell when they're boiling is apparently just this side of a bio-weapon. Which isn't far from the truth, as they have to be boiled good and long to kill off the Yersinia-genus bacteria endemic to hogs. Yersinia pestis is better known as bubonic/pneumonic plague.

Nothing says good eatin' like a poop-chute full of the Black Death. 

So it is more like this 炒/滷豬大腸 ?

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Which is fried/soy-source pig's intestines? (They are boiled with water first, pre-processed than fried or stewing with soy source), The stewed pig's intestines cut into small chunks, are a common kind of snakes you can buy on food stands as well.

Yeah, that looks pretty close. Except for the soy sauce.

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There are pig's ear on the top right, and intestines on the bottom, and pig's tongue on the left of the plate.

That actually looks pretty good to me. 

I wasn't that freaked out about chicken feet either, although I didn't see the point. There's just not that much meat on them. Not like a turkey neck.

[counting]

Speaking of local foods... one that the rest of the UK thinks is downright odd is a traditional dish us Welsh have called Laverbread (pronounced Lava Bread). Basically, get a particular type of seaweed (Laver - special as it is only one cell thick), boil the crap out of it for a few hours, then mince or pulp it. Most people that eat it fry it and serve it with bacon as a breakfast meal. It is seriously good for you in terms of vitamins and minerals, and tastes similar to oysters. I like it due to the salty bitter taste, not overly dissimilar to Ilsa Scotch single malts. On fried bread it is wonderful.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laver_(seaweed)

Are they nori in Japanese? Then we have a common soup called 紫菜蛋花湯, which is "nori egg soup"

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I think almost every common restaurants here provide it for free @@.

[MonkeyHead]

Nori is very similar in taste and texture - possibly a little less extreme/more mellow. Its the same species of seaweed but prepared differently - isnt it dried instead of smushed?

[G-Flex]

They're the same genus, yeah. Species vary across the board.

Interesting that seaweed apparently aren't actually plants. I did not know that.

[Levi]

Interesting that seaweed apparently aren't actually plants. I did not know that.

I hope they aren't mammals, because if they are I'm giving up on sushi.