Do People Really Eat This Stuff??

That, Surströmming, and Lutefisk are all on my "No way in heck will I even THINK about trying that" list.

Might as well add blood sausage to that list as far as I'm concerned.

It's all in the mind. Many won't eat carp, but one of the best meals I remember from my boyhood was a noon meal at haying time at the neighbor's place. I was the only one in the field under the age of 60, and the wives of all the other crew members had done themselves proud as usual in preparing the noon meal. One of the dishes was a " fish soup" for lack of a better description, that was a thin stock containing onion slices, some celery pieces, and probably some other ingredients that I couldn't recognize, and some spoonful sized chunks of fish. The lady who brought it mentioned that her hubby had -caught the carp from a spring-fed gravel pit a few days before, so they probably from as clean and cool a water source as any fish wild-caught would have been in central IN at the time. I just remember that it was firm, white, and delicious enough to make a lasting impression on a hungry 14 year old.

That meal didn't make a dedicated carp fishermen out of me, but I did take an uncle at his word later when he spoke of the good eating qualities of the carp he had caught in early spring while fly-fishing for them in eastern Pennsylvania where he lived at the time. He was a dedicated fly fisherman and fly tier, but enjoyed the pull of a decent carp on the line and had experimented with them in the kitchen.

And probably the most disgusting substance anyone could even consider eating if they were aware of it's history would be honey. After all, it isn't honey until two different bugs have eaten it and then deposited it the comb, which is itself a container made of other bug deposits. And when it comes out the hive and goes into a jar, it's known by many as the world's most perfect food, and there's nothing I like better on a hot biscuit.

As Steve Rinella said about the coyote he just removed from the grill, "tastes like meat".

I still haven't tried possum. We have one visiting our bird feeder and brushing against our picture window while chomping the seeds pile there in the wee hours of the morning a couple times a week. Haven't set an ambush for him yet, but I do admit it has crossed my mind. There are recipes on the 'net for them, and almost everything else 8^)

I've eaten a LOT of the critters that I've trapped, at least tried them once. Tried 'possum once (too greasy), 'coon once (BBQ and it wasn't bad), beaver a bunch of times (tasted like beef that had some sugar on it), muskrat a BUNCH of times (haven't found a bad way to cook it), and lots of other wild game. Dunno if I'd ever try a canine, feline, skunk or mink. Probably not kopi luwak either. I know, I know, it's still a mind thing.

The jury is still out on bugs, at least not on purpose. Never had the opportunity, and I'm NOT looking for one either.

It's all in the marketing. LOL

Cat turds are good to drink, blobs of paint are art.