How can you eat that???

[Yasai]

Two of my all-time favourite things to eat are natto (fermented soy bean) and eel... not together, I hasten to add. My family never tire of pointing out (albeit correctly) that natto smells like faecal matter and looking at it invariably reminds them of bronchitis and the phlegm it gives rise to (I'm really selling this, aren't I!?) But I LOVE the stuff. The last time I left Japan, I had natto and rice for brekkie and eel at the airport cooked in a sugary soy sauce mixture, and served with rice, that (as long as I don't think about the sugar content) I could eat for-e-ver! My family question my sanity...

[Scarlet]

My family question my sanity...

I'm with them on that..yuk! YUK! It really sounds disgusting....

[two brews]

I love cow heel in stews but my family all say they hate it .Good job they don`t know how many times they have eaten it and said the stew was lovely .

[greenishfing]

I love rabbit (in pie or stew). So hard to get hold of these days. I also love all seafood particularly mussels cooked in red wine and garlic and baby squid fried in batter. I also like chicken liver, made into pate or just pan fried. I also love snails cooked the Spanish way, red wine garlic etc or with garlic butter. I will try anything once.

I was brought up in deepest Yorkshire by parents who had never travelled abroad and a mother who would never use garlic, peppers, aubergine or any other "foreign muckment".(I now grow all these veg in my allotment. )

I lived in the Netherlands for a while and although I ate it I really could not see the attraction of their "Harring"

The only thing I find disgusting is Marmite.

I did find it amusing on a trip to France a few years ago when my husband told the waitress he wanted what the man at the next table was having without asking what it was. (My husband does not speak any French). I did wait until a couple of hours later to tell him it was horsemeat.