Doghead's Cosmic Bar

Hey, share the heads!

Yeah! And let me have one right out in the open!

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At the grocery store I go to, there's a sign at the check out area that says "Hog's Head Kids Meals" and I imagine a kid opening a box and peering inside to find a severed hog's head stewing in its own ichor. "Yaaaaaaay!"

Methinks "Hog's Head" is a brand name, but not a very good one.

Bleh. My grandma liked to eat headcheese. It looks like meat-based particleboard.

*sings* Particle board, particle board...

Hmm, somehow that has less flair than the original.

My grandpa and my dad eat sheep-eyes. They boil the scull (with eyes and all in it), and then they suck the eye out of the socket..*plopp* - chew and swallow it. This really is considered normal where I come from, but somehow I can't get myself to do it. They say it's really delicious, though.

Oh yeah, the tongue is also considered "yummie" in my family...

Oy Karma, where do you come from? O.o

My mom talks about how they used to eat brains of various animals when she was a kid...and yet she never could stomach the idea of pickled pigs' feet.

The Most Disgusting Food Ever Award, in my opinion, would have to go to the "thousand year eggs". They bury eggs in dirt saturated with horse pee, and leave them there for I don't know how long before eating them. Apparently they're all black and squishy and stuff. This is one of the few foods I'd never be able to persuade myself to eat, although it's a delicacy in some countries.

Oh, I've heard about those eggs and I honestly don't think that's enything humans are supposed to eat. Someone misunderstood the meaning of the word "food" when inventing that "dish".

I'm from a small island off the west-coast of Norway. A lot of farmers/fishermen. The sheep-brain is eaten too, and it's quite good, actually. It's different from the eyes and tongue because you fry it and it looks kind of like liver when it's done. That's a lot easier to eat than something that's looking at you

I heard from a friend that in Iceland they consider rotted shark meat a delicacy -- and follow it up with a shot of carraway schnapps (smells like rye bread). The schnapps I could understand. The shark meat I would have to smell first...

Ehh, brains I *might* be able to eat, if I didn't know they were brains. I'm not one of those people that spits out good-tasting food upon finding out what it is. If it tastes good, who cares what it is? Although since I've never really eaten anything weird, I don't know. But I'd like to think I'm not *too* much of a food snob. (Actually I ate cow tongue once, knowing what it was, but it probably wasn't the best example of cow tongue considering it was microwaved.)

I think a lot of food items we consider odd came from times when people desperately needed the food and were willing to try anything. After a while, people got used to them and they became traditional, even though the people were no longer as desperate for food. I suspect the thousand-year eggs are an example of this, as well as the custom of eating birds' nests. (This is my personal theory, and I will cheerfully consider any evidence to the contrary. )