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Also referred to as "Cowboy Caviar".
Ingredients: The testicles of a very unlucky calf or bull.
Preparation: Beer-battered and deep-fried.
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Trademarked officially as SPAM. The famous, precooked, canned meat product that we know from dining nightmares and Monty Python sketches.
Ingredients:chopped pork shoulder meat, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, and sodium nitrite as a preservative. Spam's gelatinous glaze, or aspic, forms from the cooling of meat stock. Preparation: Open can and plop onto plate, grilled, served with eggs, instant noodles, rice and placed between bread for sandwiches.
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In all my years assisting with autopsies, the brain was my favorite part to extract. However, you'd never catch me sauteing these with eggs on a Sunday morning.
Ingredients: The brain of a little lamb.
Preparation: Again, an internationally popular item for cuisine. There is also mention of Mario Batali's recipe for Lamb's Brain Ravioli on a few sites.
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Beef Kidneys
Yum, yummy organ meat! Kidneys help you pee!
Ingredients: Kidneys of a bovine.
Preparation: There's the ever popular British standard, Beef and Kidney Pie. It can also be found, sauteed, stewed, deviled, etc.
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My dog is a far more advanced connesieur of this that anyone else I know.
Ingredients: Literally, the ears of a pig.
Preparation: Apparently, popular all over the world. It's generally ""soul food"" or dog treats here in the U.S. Boiled, pickled, stewed, grilled everywhere else and eaten as sashimi in Japan.
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I can still see the taste buds... *shudder*
Ingredients: The tongue of one cow.
Preparation: Commonly boiled, pickled, stewed, roasted as well as in tacos and burritos.
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Chitterlings (a.k.a. Chitlins)
What's that smell?
Ingredients: Pig instestines, plus regional variations.
Preparation: Boil until you've stunk up the whole house, then serve.
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Ingredients: Salt, wood smoke, hot vinegar brine, the feet of several unlucky hogs.
Preparation: Salted, smoked, brined and preserved.
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There's just NO way to dress this up.
Ingredients: The yummy portions of the stomachs of various farm animals; beef and "unwashed" tripe (which includes some of the last contents.
Preparation: A shocking array of dishes from all over the world; including Scotland's Haggis, stews, soups and sausages.
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Raccoon
Yet another Southern delicacy. I thought raccoons were cute until a family of then set up shop in my attic last winter. First there was the sounds of digging and scratching. Being wakened in the middle of the night to the sounds of them chasing each other, playing and fighting. Then the discovery that they had "soiled" practically every inch of insulation. An expensive fix... Please eat them.
Ingredients: One formerly cute, skinned raccoon.
Preparation: Bar-BQ'd, stewed, grilled, deep-fried, baked and stuffed (apples, stuffing, onions), pie, pot roast and meatloaf. The possibilities seem to be endless.
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Ingredients: 18-day-old duck embryo
Preparation: peeled out of it's shell plopped right into your watering mouth
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Rotten Shark Meat (Icelandic)
"Hákarl" or "kæstur hákarl", Icelandic for "fermented shark".
Ingredients: One or more gutted and beheaded Greenland or Basking Shark.
Preparation:
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French for "fat liver"
Ingredients: Geese, hefty female farm workers, corn, large funnels
Preparation: "Gavage" or "force-feeding" said goose until it's liver is nice and fatty
Versions: Whole, or is prepared into mousse, parfait, or pâté
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Blood Pudding
Also, Black Pudding or Blood Sausage.
Ingredients: Cooked or dried animal blood (sheep, cattle, duck or goat), meat, fat, suet, bread, sweet potato, onion, chestnuts, barley, rice and/or oatmeal filler, raisins, spices, and green onions, etc.
Preparation: Another favorite food internationally. Preparation techiques vary by country, region and culture.
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Oysters on the Halfshell
I gave it a good try once. Had an ""oyster shooter""...
Ingredients:
1 oyster
1 teaspoon Spicy cocktail Sauce, recipe follows
1 teaspoon horseradish
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 pinch black pepper
1 shot pepper vodka
Slimy, cold, nasty...and I had to swallow it. *shudder*
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Opossum
I have never spotted one of these and thought of it as potential form of protein. I'm hoping I never do...
Ingredients: The only North American marsupial.
Preparation: Soup, stewed, pot pie, chili and dare I say it...possum tartare.
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Alligator
All I had to do was take a bite of a fried alligator nugget (as opposed to chicken nuggets) --- once. I can only describe the flavor as that of "fishy pork".
Ingredients: Alligators that are less than six feet long and between two-three years old.
Preparation: Burger patties, sausage, deep-fried, General Tso's Alligator, blackened, ribs, stewed, chowder and soup.
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The fact that it's jellied meat, immediately takes it off the table for me.
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Snake
Snakes of all varieties seem to be on the menu, but Rattlesnake is very popular.
Ingredients: Boa Constrictors, Rattlesnakes,etc.
Preparation: Stewed, Bar-BQ'd, fried, chili and soups.
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Vienna Sausage
I savored these little "meaty" gems as a kid. However, between that nasty yellow jelly they would float in, and a changing palatte, these are no longer on the menu for me.
Ingredients: Chicken, pork, beef and turkey. Along with sail, spices and mustard.
Preparation: Blended meats ground into a paste, flavorings added, stuffed into casing, and cooked again. Mmmm...
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Chicken Liver
A textural nightmare!
Ingredients: Chicken Livers, sans rest of the chicken.
Preparation: Deep-frying, pan-fried, battered and fried.
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No Mexican boy bands here!
Ingredients: Beef stomach, clear broth or red chili base, lime, onions, cilantro, oregano and chilis
Preparation: Cook the hell out of it (4-7 hours)
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Pork Snout
Ingredients: The nose of one pig.
Preparation: Soup, deep-fried, burritos.
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I'm a big sushi fan. This happens to be one of only a few that I won't eat. Big ol' tentacle sucker staring at you. Then things get really chewy...
Ingredients: One octopus, size varies.
Preparation: Slice and eat when still alive in Korea. More popular post-mortem in Japan, Hawaii, the Mediterranean, Portugal and Tunisia.
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For me, just a micro version of that same ol' chewy octopus. This time, battered and fried. To each his/her own.
Ingredients: Several squid.
Preparation: The body (mantle) can be stuffed whole, cut into flat pieces or sliced into rings. The arms, tentacles and ink are edible; the only parts of the squid that are not eaten are its beak and gladius (pen). (Wikipedia article)
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Squirrel
"Tree Rats" are tastier than you think.
Ingredients: Several skinned tree rodents.
Preparation: Slow-cooked, chili, fried, braised, stewed, curried, etc.
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