Weird Shit your Grandparents and Parents used to (or still do) eat or drink

[Buck]

The Thread Title says it all, lets hear it.

[soopamanluva]

Originally Posted by frazod

I had this once in the Navy. Granted, Navy cooks can **** up just about anything, but that was one of the nastiest things I ever tasted - like chunks of rubber in greasy vinegar. Oh the humanity.

I know. I keep trying to tell my Grandma we aint slaves no more, we don't have to eat that crap. eat another part of the pig

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

I eat a lot more of the 'weird' stuff than my parents or grandparents did. Baccalau is one of the exceptions, though, since we don't need to salt fish to death in order to preserve it anymore.

Now, if you want to see some weird shit that people actually eat. there's always Hákarl:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl

I love to try exotic dishes, but there's not a chance in hell I'd be sampling that stuff.

That sounds pretty superb. Any food that's poisonous unless it sits and ferments for months, and then causes involuntary gagging in most first-timers has to be worth the effort.

[bevischief]

Get re-married and do what they never did before...