My most horrible food mistake so far...

[Sideways]

but at the same time people eat chicken feet, that is just as weird.

They don't really, they're just something they put the crazy hot chilli sauce on for you to slurp off

 

[Sideways]

Our school milk came in tiny bottles and was delivered fresh every day. Loved it.

I enjoy cold milk too. I was raised on unpasteurised milk from a local TB tested dairy herd.
Sadly our 1/3 bottles of pasteurised milk were delivered to school each morning, not chilled, and to make it worse the primary school teachers thought even cool milk was too much for the poor darlings and lined it up on top of the classroom radiators for 2 hours before we had to drink it.
Disgusting !

 

[Spectric]

They don't really, they're just something they put the crazy hot chilli sauce on for you to slurp off

It gets worse, rather than use a spoon or other utensil they use chicken feet as a utensil. I suppose it saves on the washing up but licking chicken feet is some fetish !

 

[AJB Temple]

Yes - you can also get 1/3 pint glasses as well, sometimes sold as ale tasting glasses.

One of my fondest childhood memories is my grandfather giving me small glasses of cold milk from his ice encrusted gas fridge when I was about 4. I still drink cold milk even though it sometimes gives me a bit of gyp.

 

[mudman]

I'd forgotten about these. Never tried them and never intend to. Must be far worse than tripe: https://b2b.goldencrop.fi/shop/80599-raw-natural-pork-rectum-1kg-1kg-3747

 

[AJB Temple]

Pig rectum indeed. Well they do say with a pig you can eat everything except the squeak.

Never tried chicken feet and did wonder how they used them other than as a means of jellifying stock. No different to pigs trotters really I suppose. When we get chicken from our butcher I usually ask for extra carcasses and you often get feet and heads in the bag. I've tried cooking the combs, but the feet re washed and go in the stock pot.

 

[Sideways]

I'd forgotten about these. Never tried them and never intend to. Must be far worse than tripe: https://b2b.goldencrop.fi/shop/80599-raw-natural-pork-rectum-1kg-1kg-3747

Actually, they're not.
Deffo chewy and in need of a good sauce

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Brown sauce?

 

[alexalexander]

Ordering Chicken feet in a restaurant in Beijing was a mistake - a bowl of broth with green and brown feet floating in it. Not very appetising. But - the duck tongues we also ordered were OK if a bit of a faff. You had to scrape the meat off the cartalege with you teeth but it did taste OK.

 

[TRITON]

Dislikes -
Mushrooms, in fact all fungi, with the exception of grated black truffle.
Shellfish. ALL shellfish
Most fish types, apart from maybe haddock or cod as in fish&chips
99.9999% of vegetables, potatoes being the only exception
Offal, the clue is in the name - it's awful.

As another ex-butcher i love meat, Pork, Lamb, Beef and maybe chicken, as long as the chicken isn't on the bone.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I think my very favourite food is scallops.

 

[Fergie 307]

My wife loves pickled walnuts.
Regular variety are bad enough to my mind, but pickled, ugh.

 

[mudman]

My wife loves pickled walnuts.
Regular variety are bad enough to my mind, but pickled, ugh.

That reminds me of the walnut liqueur my father brought back from Czechoslovakia. Absolutely foul. It went to five parties and came back until a very drunk scowser at the sixth took a swig, declared it to be not too bad and downed the bottle.

 

[Fergie 307]

I think it was Bear Grylls in one of his shows visited a Bedouin camp.
They had slaughtered a goat for a feast in his honour, so there they all are sitting around and the headman shows him the raw goats testicles.
The interpreter explains these are considered a great delicacy.
So, not wishing to cause offence, Bear pops one in his mouth and starts chewing away. Much hilarity amongst assembled Bedouin. When he eventually manages to get it down he asks the interpreter what they are all laughing at.
"Oh, just that they usually cook them first!"

 

[Phil Pascoe]

That reminds me of the walnut liqueur my father brought back from Czechoslovakia. Absolutely foul. It went to five parties and came back until a very drunk scowser at the sixth took a swig, declared it to be not too bad and downed the bottle.

Medronho has to be worse.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I saw a rather large prop get a large bucket and have it passed along the beer taps, half a pint of each, along the bottle shelf, one of each (inc. fruit juices, babycham etc.). There was just enough room in the bucket to go along the optics and have one of each. He sat on a stool at the bar and drank the whole bucket pint by pint.
Not quite as revolting as people throwing up in a pint glass and passing it to someone else for a down in one.
I saw a beer race - eight pints each in under two minutes. The results were projectile.

 

[Bingy man]

I've been a vegetarian since about 1984 - my mother's doing initially but eventually it's because I just don't like meat now. I actually believe in mixed farming, if farm we must.

Anyway, being vegan is the big trendy thing with certain celebrities doing it, manufacturers of convenience foods really jumped on the bandwagon to sell stuff to this newly expanding customer base - not so many years ago vegans were very under-catered for in this arena because they were a fringe group and generally regarded as a bit mad.

What really gets my goat is that people are becoming vegan and simply buying meat-substitutes as though it's completely natural, they .don't have to make the effort that my vegan friends did long ago. They are buying into something artificial in the name of being more eco friendly.

So it's great that there are more meat -free convenience options for me, but some of these really are supposed to have some cheese in them and not it's fairly terrible substitute.

Also, I always worry about the consequences when big companies muscle in on this sort of thing. What nasty tricks are they up to to put on this "ethical" front? Not to mention it's yet another pressure (albeit a small one) to increase arable farming, which is not good.

The world or at least some of does seem to have gone a little mad on these meat free alternatives and of course the money aspect from greedy supermarkets has a big part to play in this . You make a good point regarding vegans not being fully catered for years ago so I suppose it’s a case of flooding the shops with everything that vegans can now eat because it’s meat free . As for the nasty tricks - didn’t Linda McCartney sell vegan meat free pies that actually contained meat .. thanks for you views btw..

 

[Phil Pascoe]

... I suppose it’s a case of flooding the shops with everything that vegans can now eat because it’s meat free.

No, it's because it sells.

 

[Bingy man]

They don't really, they're just something they put the crazy hot chilli sauce on for you to slurp off

Chicken feet have been eaten by many West Indian families and I believe Asian families for years . Along with tripe , cow foot and oxtail to name but a few .. I regularly eat oxtail but tripe , cow foot and chicken feet etc I’ll give them a very wide birth .

 

[Kittyhawk]

Reading the comments, I am once again very grateful for having an underdeveloped sense of taste and smell to the extent that if I can't see what I'm eating then I don't know what it is.
People say this is a bit sad but you don't miss what you've never had. And there are many benefits. Having no sense of taste is beneficial in promoting a harmonious home life in that the Child Bride never has to consider me in the food preparation business and can cook exactly to her own likes. Secondly, she is pretty keen on healthy eating so I get to benefit as well. Our diet features a lot of nuts, legumes and vegetables which I enjoy as texture replaces taste in the enjoyment department. By comparison, when you can't taste anything, meat is squishy and, well, a bit gross.
And a major plus was decades ago when I did a lot of single handed sailing - no engine so no refrigeration. With help, a diet was proposed that would meet my nutritional requirements and so on passage I ate simple, identical meals every day, the longest period being 69 days. From my perspective have taste likes and dislikes is a of a bummer.