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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. )

Well, some foods were created as delicacies by some king's chef who was trying to figure out a food the king wasn't bored with already. Stuff like caviar, peacocks under glass, etc. They used to make food sculptures, some of which had little fountains of wine in them.

I don't care how "highbrow" caviar is, eating fish eggs just seems pathetic to me.

Of course I'd assume some other dishes were created due to lack of food, but I read some book or other on the middle ages that mentioned the food sculptures and so on.

There's a difference between the dark blackish caviar which is considered "highbrow" and normal fish-eggs. I also thought the snob-caviar came from lobsters, but I might be wrong.

I love caviar, the binkish kind. I never tried the black stuff. In Norway they sell pink caviar in tubes and it's very nomal to put it on your bread. It tastes delicious.
We usually mash cod-egs and roll in into a kind of sausage. Then you cut it into slices and fry it (for dinner). It's very tasty, and when you catch the fish yourself it's free

I've always found it fascinating how foods that we are prepared to eat in one country are disgusting in another. For example, eating horsemeat is perfectly acceptable in France but not here, yet it's not so far away. When my teacher asked me why I wouldn't eat horse, I couldn't give a proper answer - it just seemed, well, wrong. But who decides these things? Who decides we can eat pigs and cows but not horses and dogs?