My Mother-In-Law's cooking. The last time I did (over 2 years ago) I got horrible diarrhea.

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I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.
- Ron White

gmill880:

...I did eat bear which I thought was very good.

I've eaten bare. I've also eaten dressed. Bare's more fun.

Marty

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Some expensive sour mash bourbon, an excellent handmade cigar, an exceptional woman....Life is good!
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Life is too short for bad cigars, Grasshopper
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First, things I've eaten (in no particular order):
squid
octopus
conch (plus many other sea creatures like this whose names I don't know)
manatee
bear, deer, elk, moose
cougar
rattlesnake
bison
goat
horse
beaver (4 legged variety. I'll let you guess about the 2 legged variety)
muskrat
dove
quail
pheasant
duck, goose (both wild & domestic)
escargot (love these little creepie-crawlies)
lobster
crawdads
snapping shrimp
garlic ice cream
woodchuck
squirrel
rabbit (wild & domestic)
squab

Now for the TMI section where I'll tell you WAY more than you ever wanted to know:

Conch is like a large, ocean-going escargot. Usually served in conch chowder or conch fritters. The other unknown sea creatures were mostly eaten when we visited my cousins in Italy and went to Sardinia, a large island, where many, many unknown (to me) sea creatures (mostly in shells of one kind or another) are included in the daily fare.

Manatee is also called a sea-cow or dugong. When I lived in Florida a friend of mine once had an opportunity to kill a manatee calf. My friend was a 'Cracker' and proud of it, and sea-cow is a favorite on their list of things to eat. I got a piece of the tenderloin which was delicious. A lot like pork but a little drier and sweeter.

Cougar is just a mountain lion. Tough, gamey, stringy. All in all not one of my favorites. A friend of my dad's killed a big tom and gave us a himd quarter. Needless to say, we had to try it out.

We ate a lot of goat and horse during WWII when our meat-ration coupons ran out before the end of the month when we could get some more. I grew up in Detroit and there were butcher shops that specialized in goat, horse, and other things for just that reason.

Beaver, muskrat and woodchuck are all herbivores and are all good to eat.

Bear is an omnivore and a lot of how it tastes is dependent on what he's been eating and how the meat is cared for after the kill.

I tasted garlic ice cream in Gilroy, CA, home of the annual Garlic Festival. I love garlic but... 'Nuff said.

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Some expensive sour mash bourbon, an excellent handmade cigar, an exceptional woman....Life is good!
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Life is too short for bad cigars, Grasshopper
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Wow, kinda surprised no one has listed frog yet, but here's my list:

Elk
Bison (everything from steaks to burgers to sausage)
Antelope
venision
dunno why you guys listed it as weird but calamari
frog
shark tail

The frog actually wasn't bad, you just had to get over the fact that the it was a frog leg. Tasted fairly sweet and a bit like a buttery chicken.

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brsmith21:

I've heard the first step is admitting that you have a problem. Thankfully, I don't have a problem. I'll just smoke more.

Coke zero and kraft dinner, common that shiza is messed up

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I am still here

Ive had cow tongue and thought it was very good. Snapping turtle is also very good if prepared correctly. Some people around where I live like nutria, Im not so sure about that one.

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"If life was fair, ELVIS would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." Johnny Carson

P.s. What the HELL is Head Cheese??? GROSS

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plaidbanana1:

Ive had cow tongue and thought it was very good. Snapping turtle is also very good if prepared correctly. Some people around where I live like nutria, Im not so sure about that one.

As a north of the border guy who travels to Louisiana more than any human being should, and having seen nutria out in the open, I can safely say that is one rat I never intend to try!!!!!!!

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Shaun
Senior VP, Department of Redundancy Department

I have had calamari (love the stuff if cooked correctly)
Ostrich (thought it taste like shittie steak. Sorry I'm from Nebraska)
I was a plumber (use your imagination, its already in your mouth)
Bison
Braunschweiger
Cicket in a sucker
And I think that is about it it, oh yeah Navy food

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Thewelder:

I was a plumber (use your imagination, its already in your mouth)

You eat pieces of Sh*t for breakfast???

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This is not crazy but damn delicious. Striper Stew one of the guys at work makes after a succesful fishing trip ...he goes at least twice a week. Striper , Potato's, salt , pepper, tobasco sauce, half and half , and I think a couple of more ingredients. It disapears fast when he brings it to us. I said Striper not Stripper Lassy !!!

gmill880:

This is not crazy but damn delicious. Striper Stew one of the guys at work makes after a succesful fishing trip ...he goes at least twice a week. Striper , Potato's, salt , pepper, tobasco sauce, half and half , and I think a couple of more ingredients. It disapears fast when he brings it to us. I said Striper not Stripper Lassy !!!

HAHA I was thinking the same thing! I was about to say that I had that once when I DJ'd at a strip club... Take all their panties after the night and boil them down! hahaha

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Jason
You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

Oh don't act like I don't know what Stripper stew is....

One part glitter
One part Victoria Secret's "Rose Garden" lotion
2 parts hand sanitizer

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In Tim's Beard we TRUST

Lasabar:

P.s. What the HELL is Head Cheese??? GROSS

Yummy! Nothing beats congealed meat!

Garen B:

Wow, kinda surprised no one has listed frog yet, but here's my list:

Elk
Bison (everything from steaks to burgers to sausage)
Antelope
venision
dunno why you guys listed it as weird but calamari
frog
shark tail

The frog actually wasn't bad, you just had to get over the fact that the it was a frog leg. Tasted fairly sweet and a bit like a buttery chicken.

I just had my first taste of frogs legs while in NY. Delicious!
Add that to :
Gator
Eel
Pigeon
Abalone
Tongue
Beef Cheeks
Nettles
Flowers

I could never eat a bug tho....

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"All things are possible through faith in The Beard."
- j0z3r 1/15/2010


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