Beef tongue- It's delicious!

keethrax wrote: I'm amused to see radishes in the same list as balut.

Radishes taste like dirt. Balut is all good until you squish the head and that metallic salty taste permeates your whole mouth. I can handle mostly anything. Its not about the stigma of eating an embryonic bird, its actually the taste. I can eat grubs, worms, crickets, bear heart, kimchee, and pig brain sandwiches.... but I'd rather get punched in the dick than eat a radish.

curtis73 wrote:

keethrax wrote: I'm amused to see radishes in the same list as balut.

Radishes taste like dirt. Balut is all good until you squish the head and that metallic salty taste permeates your whole mouth. I can handle mostly anything. Its not about the stigma of eating an embryonic bird, its actually the taste. I can eat grubs, worms, crickets, bear heart, kimchee, and pig brain sandwiches.... but I'd rather get punched in the dick than eat a radish.

I've had balut, it's not my cup of tea as it were. But I agree, it's the taste itself. The only one on that list I'm missing is pig brain sandwiches, and they're very much on my "dang, those look good" list.

keethrax wrote:

curtis73 wrote:

keethrax wrote: I'm amused to see radishes in the same list as balut.

Radishes taste like dirt. Balut is all good until you squish the head and that metallic salty taste permeates your whole mouth. I can handle mostly anything. Its not about the stigma of eating an embryonic bird, its actually the taste. I can eat grubs, worms, crickets, bear heart, kimchee, and pig brain sandwiches.... but I'd rather get punched in the dick than eat a radish.

I've had balut, it's not my cup of tea as it were. But I agree, it's the taste itself. The only one on that list I'm missing is pig brain sandwiches, and they're very much on my "dang, those look good" list.

Pig brains aren't bad. They take a slice, usually deep fry it, and serve it on bread with Mayo. The texture is kinda like scrambled eggs. The taste is kinda bland.

I used to love balut. Like I'd get down on several at a sitting and eat em day after day. Then I got sick eating some once in 'nam. Can't eat it no mo.

Sea urchin, on the other hand, looks like baby chit and tastes like burning rubber. I've tried it once after that and it was slightly not as bad.

Also won't eat that white numbly stomach lining, texture freaks me out.

I totally believe you 100%, but there is a mental block that even a hard-core carnivore like myself could never get past.

Nope, just can't do it.

pinchvalve wrote: I totally believe you 100%, but there is a mental block that even a hard-core carnivore like myself could never get past. Nope, just can't do it.

Meh, I'd still eat tongue. Anything that can taste itself HAS to be delicious.

Margie

pinchvalve wrote: I totally believe you 100%, but there is a mental block that even a hard-core carnivore like myself could never get past. Nope, just can't do it.

That's the problem for me too. I've seen it uncooked. It cannot be unseen. If you diced it up, cooked it, and threw it in a taco, I'm sure I'd love it.

My mother used to cook tongue for us when we were little. She would put in a pressure cooker to speed up the cooking/tenderizing process. It was good.

I still like tongue and order it when I see it at a Mexican restaurant.

poopshovel wrote:

pinchvalve wrote: I totally believe you 100%, but there is a mental block that even a hard-core carnivore like myself could never get past. Nope, just can't do it.

That's the problem for me too. I've seen it uncooked. It cannot be unseen. If you diced it up, cooked it, and threw it in a taco, I'm sure I'd love it.

It's even freakier when you get a bicolor tongue- like the one I had. It was black AND pink. Made peeling the tastebuds off that much more amusing.