You really eat that? And Like it?

I live in Uganda, central Uganda in particular though I hail from the North myself-Here we consider green bananas and spiced beef to be very popular foods-but a delicacy treasured here are some seasonal grasshoppers that a well sought after duing the season-they are grilled in oil and eaten as snacks-in the North of the country, we have white ants, also some flying insecs that fly out of the anthills during the onset of rains in april, these are very serious delicacies that could cause a fortune!

Being from Louisiana, we deal in a lot of seafood, shrimp, crab, crawfish, oysters, there is no better than La seafood, we are a cajun, people so the cooking is of creole or cajun cuisine. It is highly seasoned, which I found when I came up north and started cooking it put a lot of people that wasnot use to the spice in the bathroom a lot.
sitting, not leaning over, if you get my drift. the one rumor that I hear about Louisiana seafood and especially the oyster's that they make people sick, that they are bad when they come out of the water, that is not true, the oyster beds are maintained and the water around them are tested often, there is an inspector on all docks that inspects them as they are being loaded on the trucks for shipping up north, now this is a refrigerated truck, if on the way to their drop off this truck sits on the side of the road broke down for days till it can be fixed the seafood is not going to be fresh when it gets to where it is going, and should e inspected when it arrives,it doesn't take much to know if a sack of seafood is not good, I can walk into a grocery and smell the seafood counter from the front door I do not want any thing they are selling. So it is not true that they are bad when harvested, but it is not our fault if the man hauling them has a problem with the tuck he is driving to get them where he is going,i have been noticng lately the shrimp that is being sold in the stores, it is like card board when you try to eat it, (frozen I mean) this shrimp should be packed in water before froze, the freezing takes all the flavor out of the shrimp or crab, when dry like that, I hope one day you can get to our LOuisiana and try the best seafood in the country.

You are a bit like me then! I like to travel and eating has become a real passion lately (well my waist line seems to think so, along with my hips and...)

I can certainly say that I would never persuade you to eat haggis, it is a bit like MONDONGO in Costa Rica (tripe - YUCK). Black pudding I have eaten in Ireland and it was great but I just couldn't possibly manage to eat it again, I think I just blocked out the idea that it was made from pigs blood but I can't now (plus I was staying with a family and really couldn't say 'no').

I have eaten snake and bamboo rat in China (the first was OK, a bit like chicken but the rat, no could NEVER persuade another soul to eat that, makes my stomach crawl just thinking about it). Had crocodile in Oz (that really did taste like chicken - funny how everything seems to taste like that). I've eaten snails and I love them covered in garlic. Couldn't quite get my mouth around frogs legs though, those poor little things wiggling at me. I ate quail once and couldn't manage to do it again, they looked so cute:(

Here in the Dom Rep they seem to eat lots and lots of rice, chicken and beans. Yummy, love it all. Simple and tasty.

Almost time for lunch, goodie!

I remember the times when almost everybody I ran into almost puked at the thought of having raw fish but lately, I've noticed a lot of people from all walks of life starting to enjoy sushi... I love'em myself... Also there's a dish with pig's inestine, clean it & stuff it with rice or meat, or both & steam it... It's really good... Speaking of sea food, dried & seasoned seaweed, squids, fish-head stew, etc, etc... Some of the food that requires "aquired taste" sounds really nasty but once you try it, it'll get you by surprise... I was in a china town & I actually picked up "fish on a stick" & it was really good... It was exactly what it sounds like... They cook a whole fish & put it on a stick & you just goto town... If you really think about it, so many of us love cheese but do we really know what "cheese" is? Esentially a rotten milk, or at least the main ingridiant of it anyway... If we can eat a food that has the word "crap" in it's name, "sCRAPple", I guess we can eat just about anything... lol...

Hi dfn. I live in the Philadelphia area and unfortuantely we are known for junky things like cheesesteaks and soft pretzels. If you've never had a Philly cheesesteak, you should try one. But seriously it's cholestreol city!
I think this area is also known as the hometown for Tastykakes- you know, those hydrogenated packaged cupcakes. I thought you could buy them anywhere but I've seen people selling them on Ebay so I guess you can't get them in some areas. Not a delicacy by any means, but if you've never had a Tastykake Butterscotch Krimpet dipped in milk then you should try it.

Boy!!! They say we are what we eat...!!! If that's true, I'm in world of trouble...

if you like to eat and travel, then you mustn't miss asia! there's plenty of good food and excellent sights here.

i live in singapore, where it's a smorgasborg of regional food. you can find almost all kinds of cuisine from all over asia. being chinese, i'm more familiar with chinese food. there's nothing much about chinese food that turns people off. it's more of the 'exotic' food that turns me off.

as for durian, i can't really understand the 'hatred' too. i admit the smell is very strong but that's about it. there's a saying in my country that goes 'sell your sarong to buy durian'. sarong is a piece of cloth that is used to cover the lower body for man. so you can imagine how popular the fruit is here.

Well D, I'm from the Mid West so it's meat and potatoes here for the most part. We really don't have any foods that are popular, we just eat everything.

I can say that I've tried several different things at wide game feeds. Turtle and bull snake. Raccon that that kind of thing. I know I've eaten cow tough since I was small and moutain oysters are good. Chicken gizzards are standard. I guess when we butch meat we don't waste anything.

I draw the line on head cheese - that cow or pig brains.