Bizarre Foods You've Eaten

[PopBoy]

omg greek food is delish. but it really depends (like with every thing to do with cuisine i suppose)...the dish and the region.

I've never been disappointed by Spanish food. French food is bizarre and i've had three terrible dining experiences whilst in France.

For me the oddest thing to eat was spam and a bumble bee.

 

[SmoothieX]

I love Greek food, despite olives and feta cheese being on my Mt. Rushmore of foods I hate.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

For me the oddest thing to eat was spam and a bumble bee.

LOL deliberately or accidentially? The bumble bee, I mean

 

[Shaytan]

French food is bizarre and i've had three terrible dining experiences whilst in France.

It's bizarre only if you want it to be bizarre.
After a few years on this board, I understand that the foreigners have usually a bizarre idea of what is French food

 

[iguana_tonante]

Falafel with macaroni, right?

 

[Gary7]

If you like Greek food, definitely try Turkish. Although implicitly related by proximity to Greece, Turkish cuisine seems to have a wider and more diverse range of traditional recipes. I absolutely love it.

 

[NebulaClassGuy]

omg greek food is delish. but it really depends (like with every thing to do with cuisine i suppose)...the dish and the region.

I've never been disappointed by Spanish food. French food is bizarre and i've had three terrible dining experiences whilst in France.

For me the oddest thing to eat was spam and a bumble bee.

Greek food just irks me, and for strange reasons, the biggest being that literally EVERYTHING the Greeks make is ultra-crumbly... their cheeses, their breads, their foods, their pastries... everything just crumbles all over the damn place as soon as you either touch it or bite into it... it's like a perfect metaphorical allegory for their entire culture and economy... all it does is crumble. The idea of food is to get it into your mouth, not all over the place. No wonder Greeks break dishes at weddings... better that than having to wash them.

And the Greek chesses I cannot stand... aside from the crumble factor, they are just so overly-salty that it's unpleasant. I like cheese to taste like cheese... not like I'm eating a horse's salt lick.

Part of my family is Greek, so I have to put up with the stuff sometimes, but I never make or buy Greek food myself. I also despise Asian and Indian food, but Greek is at the top of my list.

 

[Gryffindorian]

I'm not a big fan of Mediterranean food, although I don't consider it bizarre. I just don't care for grains and veggies with weird names like couscous, baba ghanoush, and tabbouleh. I want my food a little more substantial, but the tiny chunks of lamb on a stick don't do much for me.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I think Greek cuisine being on the salty side, esp. the cheeses, has two reasons:
1) cheese keeps longer when its salted
2) in the hot climate you sweat a lot and need to replace the lost electrolyts.

Try stuffed wine leaves or Pastitsio (a pasta with minced meat sauce), or Suvlaki (grilled spicy stripes of pork) or Sofrito (sauteed veal) - they don't crumble.

Btw, Germans, Austrians and many others also break dishes the evening before a wedding.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Greek food just irks me, and for strange reasons, the biggest being that literally EVERYTHING the Greeks make is ultra-crumbly... their cheeses, their breads, their foods, their pastries... everything just crumbles all over the damn place as soon as you either touch it or bite into it... it's like a perfect metaphorical allegory for their entire culture and economy... all it does is crumble. The idea of food is to get it into your mouth, not all over the place. No wonder Greeks break dishes at weddings... better that than having to wash them.

And the Greek chesses I cannot stand... aside from the crumble factor, they are just so overly-salty that it's unpleasant. I like cheese to taste like cheese... not like I'm eating a horse's salt lick.

Part of my family is Greek, so I have to put up with the stuff sometimes, but I never make or buy Greek food myself. I also despise Asian and Indian food, but Greek is at the top of my list.

What a pleasant piece of conversation.

 

[NebulaClassGuy]

^

Well, I figured I'd give my reasons, and I have to be honest. With Asian food, it's mostly because I can't stand seafood, and almost everything they eat comes from the sea. Add to that that a lot of that stuff ends up looking like Klingon food, with your plate being full of tentacles, and God knows what else. Indian food is simple... I don't like heavily spicy food.

And yes, I'll be the first to admit that I do indeed have a very finicky palate.

 

[iguana_tonante]

My comment had nothing to do with the food.

 

[PopBoy]

For me the oddest thing to eat was spam and a bumble bee.

LOL deliberately or accidentially? The bumble bee, I mean

Deliberately. The bubble bees were part of a desert. Amazing though. I've eaten flowers. Too.

French food is bizarre and i've had three terrible dining experiences whilst in France.

It's bizarre only if you want it to be bizarre.
After a few years on this board, I understand that the foreigners have usually a bizarre idea of what is French food

I think bizarre, in the sense of expectations. I went to Paris thinking it would be the towering example of food. It isn't. You can get much better croissants in your local British or German supermarket than in the finest French bakery. Don't know why don't know how. Plus, i have three incidents of food poisoning on trips to France. Never had such bad reactions elsewhere.

 

[Shaytan]

I think bizarre, in the sense of expectations. I went to Paris thinking it would be the towering example of food. It isn't. You can get much better croissants in your local British or German supermarket than in the finest French bakery. Don't know why don't know how.

Oh, it's simple : what you call croissant is not what we call croissant. It might look like a croissant but what you eat in the UK is not one. You can't expect the croissant you buy in Paris to taste the same as the thing you buy abroad
The croissant I tried in London was err...from London

Plus, i have three incidents of food poisoning on trips to France. Never had such bad reactions elsewhere.

To recognize where you can eat and where you can't (unless you want to commit suicide) is an art.
Exemple : I can't eat near Gare du Nord.

 

[Gary7]

^ I stayed in a little farming town just outside of Nantes and the local bakery had such a fantastically delicious assortment of baked goods. Everything was so fresh and delicious. I had a croissant and while it was a little different than what I expected, it was still better than the USA interpretation I had from a fine bakery.

And the cheese! Oh man... I was in heaven. It's astounding how much flavor exists before pasteurization.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Deliberately. The bubble bees were part of a desert.

Did they look sandy?

I've eaten flowers. Too.

Rose and violets petals are not unheard of in Italian confectionary.

You can get much better croissants in your local British or German supermarket than in the finest French bakery.

No. Just... no.

Don't know why don't know how.

Probably because they are not croissant.

 

[Unicron]

I haven't tried this myself, but recently a family friend was relating that he has a friend who makes something apparently awesome: bacon and chocolate chip cookies.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

LOL that's pretty much the weirdest food mentioned yet, I'd say

 

[sbk1234]

By far, the grossest thing I ever ate was the Harry Potter Jelly Bellies!

 

[rhubarbodendron]

do they really exist? I thought that was just a gag in the books.