dan_alford

Keep it clean please

Every July 4th we go out to my wife's family farm out in the country. Well the first time I was there they made this "stew" which was mostly Chicken and Tomato. It tasted pretty good. After a few bites my wife told me to be careful not to eat any of the buckshot or the small squirrel bones! Turns out that this special stew was something from the days of the depression where they had to use any meat they could. I couldn't eat any more of it due to the thought of eating fluffy tree rat. I found out that one of the freezers was loaded with all sorts of meat, including Deer, Possum and Snake. Ever since then I make sure I see the Grocery store packet that the meat is in before they start cooking.

Anyone else had anything "weird" to eat, either knowingly or unknowingly.

AmerLisa

Surely Ray would disagree with you here. I mean that squirrel stew has to be a delicacy for him.

Elvira

All right, cancel my first response...

Gritz

"Gravy"

Kate2112

Hush puppies...I dont see the big deal with these at all
Grits ....ditto
Spoon bread..bleurgh
Hash browns...
Cocktail sauce...er no thank you


Cinammon Rolls...where were you when I was a youngster
French Toast..I am soooooooo boring I have this at practically every breakfast out.
Dry memphis style ribs...omg I love them...alas no more now in Seattle
Lynchburg Lemonade..no wonder they though I was an alcofroholic

dan_alford

Funnily enough you were one of the personalities on here that made think it warranted the "keep it clean" warning

AmerLisa

Ice Cream (Yes I know I'm American, but I think its disgusting)

My MIL is here and I swear we have to stop at every ice cream shop there is and it makes me want to hurl. She has to eat it and loves everything that has to do with cream (double cream back in the UK - gag!!)

ladyofthelake

First christmas dinner here:
salad with mandarins in it,
cold ham and mash
sweet potatoes in syrup with melted marshmallows on top....urgh is all I can say.

Elvira

I'm a "personality" now, am I?

I'll add that to my list...

Kate2112

i'm sending you karma...you have all my sympathies..Thanksgiving was like this last year..it was as though they were having a competition to see who could make me barf first Green Bean casserole...very special with mushroom soup sauce - WTF was that about

peterbainham

My Dad was visiting a team-mate (let's call him John) from his local cricket team in Elmsett, Suffolk a few years ago. John was busy preparing a stew in the kitchen when my Dad asked what was in it. "Squirrel", he answered in the thickest ooh-aar Suffolk accent imaginable. "Is it for the dogs?", my Dad asked. "No", said John "it's too good for they."

Seriously though, I don't think eating Squirrel is very good for you. Something to do with all the chemicals and hormones in the animal that makes it so skittish.

My wife's uncle regularly brings back Deer that's he's found dead on the road. He simply hacks off the legs by the side of the road and brings it back home and stuffs into his over-size freezer.

nethead

Uck have to agree with the candied yams/sweet potatoes, hate them.
Also had some jelly with celery and other random veg in, which was not what I had expected

Kate2112

Used to do this in Norfolk...silly pheasants

snowbunny

Heheheheh..... the latter is called a terrine if it's French.

I hated sweet potatoes too until I found a good recipe. Really, a lot of it is down to good recipes and a lot of "traditional" dishes rely on tinned bouillon and soups which add a lot of salt and ruin the taste. There's something weirdly American about opening a lot of cans and dumping the contents together, mixing and baking.

geordiegirl2

Have to agree the sweet potatoes with syrup and marshmallows, gravy, packet stuffing and while I've never done this myself can't get used to seeing people have a mouthful of their lunch then mouthful of dessert then back to lunch, its worse than sausage, eggs, pancakes and syrup

Guest21

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwichs DISGUSTING