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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?

And we think people in India are weirdos for not wanting to eat beef. O.o

At least the people in India have a reason not to eat beef. We won't eat cats and dogs because they're "cute".

This discussion makes me wonder: what do you all think about eathing whale-meat?

I thought they were endangered.

Oh yeah, and bout horse-meat. When I was younger, I wouldn't eat it. Now I only want to eat meat from animals that have been slaughtered in a humane way. If someone put a cat to sleep in a nice way, I still wouldn't want to eat it, though.

The trouble with the thought of eating a cat is that I think about MY cat and all the other cats I have had.