How can you eat that???

[Nicos]

I too will eat most things...preferably not processed, but I can easily gag when I get a small hard fish bone in my mouth.

[Nicos]

After a bit of thinking , I think I'd be hard pressed to eat one of those chocolate covered locusts etc ( can you still buy them??)
I'd be happy enough to add a protein powder made from desiccated insects to my food ( have they invented that yet??)...so it's not the idea of the insect/ grub...just what it looks like!..ewww

whole eyeballs?- nah- I'd give them a pass too I think ...although no doubt I've already eaten loads in processed foods

[Potstubsdustbins]

I love to watch my granddaughters face when I have black pudding or better still a plate of chitterlings with vinegar, pepper and bread and butter.

[JanieB]

I eat most things but there are some I just don't like the taste of. Chitterlings, peanuts, brawn, pigs liver. I'm allergic to beetroot so although I like it I can't eat it. And I'm not too keen on ordinary crisps, they're usually too salty.

I like pig's trotters, heart, tripe and rabbit, but getting hold of them is difficult.

[Bren In Pots]

I'll try anything we're lucky enough to have a local butcher who supplies all the old fashioned items and cooks them on the premises.
Thinking about it the only things I'm not to keen on are jelly and chocolate.

[teakdesk]

Anyone tried purging garden snails with lettuce for a week and then cooking in garlic butter?

Free source of protein widely available in UK and it is a common sight abroad to see people walking the ditches collecting them.

Much cheaper than sea snails!

[Jay22]

Now that is YUK!!! teakdesk!

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

C'mon, what food disgusts them?

Hahaha, as I said in my opening post, my tastes are quite tame. So, given the replies so far, I think I am 'average' on that count. I'll eat most of what has been posted with the exception of a few items (Eyeballs and anything of that ilk, brains - Thelma!, Snails - maybe one day, not today though).

The surprising thing is that the items that my friends and family comment on are not the meaty/gamey/offaly/fishy things faggots,black pudding, liver, mackerel etc (ok maybe a few would turn down rabbit or pigeon) - it's more the vegetarian stuff and dairy. My OH is a veggie so the path of least resistance is for me to have a predominantly veggie diet (though she is a choc 'n' cheese veggie by her own admission - tut tut).

Falafels, feta, goat's cheese, chick peas, lentils,beans, chana, wholewheat pasta, wholemeal bread, vegetables (yes vegetables) etc are the things they find a bit odd. But, like a lot of you I am of the midset - you are what you eat.

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Anyone tried purging garden snails with lettuce for a week and then cooking in garlic butter?

According to my mother, my grandfather used to get her out collecting snails during the war for this very reason. Not sure they did them in garlic butter though

[Scarlet]

Anyone tried purging garden snails with lettuce for a week and then cooking in garlic butter?

Free source of protein widely available in UK and it is a common sight abroad to see people walking the ditches collecting them.

Much cheaper than sea snails!

My French friends said they purge theirs on flour. Nowt wrong with snails

...I'm sure there was a thread on here sometime ago about keeping snails for food - just can't find it

[Scarlet]

Hahaha, as I said in my opening post, my tastes are quite tame. So, given the replies so far, I think I am 'average' on that count. I'll eat most of what has been posted with the exception of a few items (Eyeballs and anything of that ilk, brains - Thelma!, Snails - maybe one day, not today though).

The surprising thing is that the items that my friends and family comment on are not the meaty/gamey/offaly/fishy things faggots,black pudding, liver, mackerel etc (ok maybe a few would turn down rabbit or pigeon) - it's more the vegetarian stuff and dairy. My OH is a veggie so the path of least resistance is for me to have a predominantly veggie diet (though she is a choc 'n' cheese veggie by her own admission - tut tut).

Falafels, feta, goat's cheese, chick peas, lentils,beans, chana, wholewheat pasta, wholemeal bread, vegetables (yes vegetables) etc are the things they find a bit odd. But, like a lot of you I am of the midset - you are what you eat.

I love pigeon, often dress it with a blackberry sauce and it's gorgeous! Unfortunately I served it to some friends as a starter for dinner once, it didn't go down too well I ask these days if I'm not sure...

[Greenleaves]

I will eat most things and love fish but not Sardines and as for tin tomatoes why would you even contemplate eating them.

My two favourite sandwiches are:

Cucumber and Marmite
Onion and Tomatoe

[noviceveggrower]

I will eat most things and love fish but not Sardines and as for tin tomatoes why would you even contemplate eating them.

My two favourite sandwiches are:

Cucumber and Marmite
Onion and Tomatoe

I love marmite. Love it on toast

[Aberdeenplotter]

I will eat most things and love fish but not Sardines and as for tin tomatoes why would you even contemplate eating them.

My two favourite sandwiches are:

Cucumber and Marmite
Onion and Tomatoe

I read through the whole thread till the second last post and then find marmite . Surprisingly it's someone who likes it. Makes me want to puke just at the thought

[veggiechicken]

Over the years, I've eaten and cooked lots of unusual things - nothing was off-limits Snails, spleen, frog's legs, trotters, pig's ears with black pudding and pineapple, octopus and squid, shark, sea urchin (raw) etc etc.
Having given up meat my weird tastes are a bit limited. Foraged fungi and tofu raise some eyebrows.
Personally, I can't stand milky things - custard, blancmange, milky drinks or rice pudding. Anything that might have "skin" on Just thinking of it sticking to my tongue or coating my teeth makes me queasy.