The Food Thread

I assume he is just saying that food mostly eaten by Southerners = red state voter

when you say snails for food in English do you imply the land ones or it could be the sea ones as well?

have you tried frog rococo?

have you tried cheese with worms?

it's weird to read eel as japanese as we have eels in the Po river Delta in my region and in Veneto since forever and we sell them to the Japanese :-)

I haven't tried at least 8 things on your list but I did try bear meat

I have had both types of snails. I've had the land snails as traditional escargot, and sea snails in Chinese preparations.

Frog legs are good. I have not tried the cheese with worms.

I didn't mean that eels themselves were specifically Japanese. I meant that I mainly eat them in Japanese food.

I have not tried bear meat. I haven't been that tempted because I've never met anyone who really liked it.

Correct, which is off-putting because you can't help but compare it to duck or goose liver.

Late-imperial decadence had rather more serious indicators.

Snails were my pregnancy craving. I ate hundreds and hundreds of them in the span of a few months at this bistro that served them over garlic toast… I even had a reservation for there the night they induced me. I was so mad.

suppose this means it was land snails.

if you ever to to puglia south try the municeddre (Monicelle) the local ones

LOL. Hundreds and hundreds of snails in a few months would be a little much for me.

I think the weirdest meats I’ve tried have been emu, kangaroo, crocodile, sheep’s brain, and horse

I’ve tried bear meat but to be fair I’ve tried almost all game meat in the Us from traveling

I’ve accepted that I’m deeply carnivorous, I will try any animal, I don’t need to know which part it is… Just season it

Horse meat is very weird in the U.S. It is illegal to sell for human consumption.

Frog (not only the legs) is delicious and quite chickeny. I’ve only had it in very hot Chinese dishes. Very good.

Sheep’s brains are also good in food from the Indian subcontinent.

The only things I avoid are tripe and jellied eels. Oh, and okra. **** that slimy shite.

oh wow had no idea. In Italy it isn't super common but you can find it in puglia interiore and in some places in the north including my city for some reason.

it's actually just like a super lean beef and in "popular culture" it's "good for anemia".

the horse bresaola though (a kind of beef salami we do) is great as it's supposed to be a super lean cut, the filet is almost like beef as well

best frogs I had were french fried frog legs by far. chickeny yes but like when chicken had real flavour.

in Italy we do soups and a frittata with them and sometimes in the pan but given they are harder to find by the day, not funny to cook and not much meat around them to begin with, I don't fine them around both in stores and in restaurants anymore

haven't read rabbit being mentioned; is that because it's normal meat for you guys or because it's as weird as horse or more? fairly common in central Italy (and the national dish in Malta)

My grandfather (who was quite a country fellow) took me and my brother out to gig frogs a couple of times when I was a kid. It was a little bit traumatic tbh because I was very young. But the frog legs were good.

Rabbit is more of a specialty restaurant food in the U.S. than something that people cook at home. If you are eating rabbit at home in the U.S., then you probably are fancy enough to be ordering things from a specialty butcher, or you are poor and country enough to be eating the rabbit that you shot yourself with a .22.

You would not find rabbit in a typical suburban grocery store. But it is not difficult to find in restaurants in big cities. My favorite local Italian restaurants serves a simple but delicious pappardelle with braised rabbit and olives.

ye rabbit stew with olives (coniglio alla cacciatora) was what I had in mind for the quintessential rabbit dish in central Italy.

you can find it in butchers (and in some prepared high end sauce vases) but given it takes so much to debone and divide unless you buy it whole it tends to be quite expensive

Okra can only be consumed in two ways, as a fried snack or as a component in gumbo. It is not edible as a proper side dish.

I'm not sure that I realized people ate any part of the frog other than the legs. I would have guessed Cantonese given their reputation for adventurous eating, but it probably was Sichuan or Hunan if very spicy.

the italian frog soup starts with the legs removed, the rest of the body is cooked until it "melts" in a garlic and carrot and celery soffritto, then the tomatoes then you blend and filter and cook the legs in that

Yes it’s a south china dish. Really recommend trying it if you see it but unfortunately most Chinese restaurants tend to be Cantonese which I find a little bland.

Goat is also delicious

I find goat itself to be neither here nor there, but it is common in a lot of cuisines that I like and therefore is excellent.