June 9, 2008
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Weird food
Dyl and I are eating lentils tonight. Bev works Mondays, Kaitie is with a friend, Greg is with his friend, Tara is in New Mexico (
for me; 
for her). Bev set out lentils and noodles and told me that was what I was to make for supper, so who am I to argue?Have you ever had lentils? They’re not bad – we’ve had them for years since Bev found a recipe in a Mennonite cookbook. I wouldn’t sell my birthright for them like Esau did (Genesis 25:29-34), but they’re ok.
But it leads me to an interesting question:
What is the weirdest food you’ve ever eaten?
I’d have to say guinea pig meat. Kaitie saw some girl who had to answer this question on a test and she said …….. veggie pizza! Whoa there, girl! You’d better slow down in life!
So what’s your weirdest food ever?
Comments (10)
I first discovered lentils as “Linseneintopf”, or lentil stew, in the student cafeteria of the university where I studied in Germany 1976-77. They gave you a HUGE bowl of stew and a delicious roll for less than 50 cents! It became one of my favorite meals! Yum.
I would say the strangest food I had was “o-mochi”, which is a strange Japanese bean curd wrapped in raw rice dough type thing. Hard to describe. I worked with a Japanese lady and she was always bringing me stuff and teaching me Japanese at the same time.
I also had pickled garlic in Russia. Now I am indeed a great fan of garlic, but I nearly gagged on it. I do believe you can get pickled garlic amongst the Dutchies maybe (in chow chow?), but I might be wrong.
I’m not very adventurous when it comes to eating. I did eat cow tongue when I was young. I really like vienna sausages?
I’m not picky but I’m not that adventurous either. I guess the weirdest would be a Cheeto and gravy sandwich.
Mmm, lentils. They just always look good to me and they’re good too and healthy for ya! Ya know, I’m not a picky eater but I really haven’t had any really weird foods. I think the weirdest I’ve had is sushi and that’s not weird these days. But I like your question, I don’t hear that one too often.
Have you tried cellophane noodles? I want to and think I’m going to talk Neil into getting them to have a good dinner one night.
WAIT! That’s it! Neil reminded me with his comment above. I have had cow stomach before–it was delish!
Cow brains. It was delicious until my grandmother told me what it was. Once and one day my parents decided to roast a cow’s head for my brother’s fifth birthday… needless to say, all I had that day was ice cream and cake. Waaay better than cow head stuff!
Hmmm … i would say using the kangaroo mince in my spaghetti bolognaise, but its just not so strange in our family any more. In fact .. its downright a permament on our menu.
I know that cookbook! We used to eat lentils a lot when we were first married. I like ‘em with some kind of sauce and/or cheese, but they are a no go for the kids. My weirdest food? Don’t think I’ve really had any! How boring! Dry, salty squid is about as bizarre as I’ve gotten – not too impressive, I know.
hmmm….i’m not a big lentil fan.
the weirdest food i’ve ever eaten i guess is probably antelope (visiting a missonary somewhere) or alligator. 1st tasted like deer meat (gag), and alligator tasted like chicken sort of…but rubbery?….ick. yeah. i wouldn’t eat them again unless i HAD to to survive or something extreme like that.
those dish that made with been.the weird food I ever eaten.
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