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Yep, this might be a good time to add I cringe at the word fajitas.

And you're totally right about puerto ricin food being totally different. Personally , I wish they had more if it here.

 

I hope you mean Puerto Rican food! Puerto Ricin food would be deadly poisonous!

 

And this thread really did go off topic to fajitas.

 

I don't know, Min... We do have a dish here called mondongo.

 

I want to try that, actually. I've had haggis at a memorial for some Scottish dude, and it was surprisingly good.

 

Well, Duchess, sweetie, you can have my plate. I ain't eatin' that. My friends are all, "But you have to understand that it comes from the slave times and it's part of out culture, blah, blah, blah," to which I answer, "I don't care. We're not slaves. We can afford the good parts of the cow now."

 

That sounds delicious except for the tripe. Leave the tripe out, and you've got a great veggie soup!

Maybe we could add in some slow-cooked beef or something instead of tripe. Yum!

 

That actually sounds better than cow's tummy-tums.

 

There's something fundamentally wrong about trying to digest the organ you're trying to digest with.

 

Then it would be sancocho, and sancocho is really good, but seriously Min, that wiki page makes it out to be prettier than it is. It's mostly tripe with a scattering of veggies. Most PR's claim "allergy" to any veggie that isn't a root veggie. When I was a medical interpreter this was something I often had to explain to the nutritionist to be very specific when talking about veggies else their patients would eat plate-fulls of tubers.

 

And now we have gone onto the blissful topic of eating various animal organs.

 

Over the weekend I ate stink bug soft tacos. Yes, you read that correctly. Stink bugs. They were surprisingly good. Apparently stink bugs are some of the tastiest insects on the planet. So I would actually be willing to try some sopa de mondongo. It sounds good enough.

 

I read this thinking of the old saying, "You are what you eat." Then I threw up.

... no, I didn't. But if you do, I'll sympathize!

 

Not trying that one.
*grabs "special" red bucket for just this occasion*

 

Come on, guys. It wasn't bad at all. Stink bugs taste (and smell from what I hear) like cilantro. And aside from the slight crunch, you probably wouldn't be able to tell that stink bugs were being used at all.

Besides, we may have to start eating bugs one day in the future because of food shortages. Might as well get used to it now. I already have a few recipes in mind. Cockroach kabobs. Grasshoppers and greenbeans. Poached pill-bugs and potatoes. Feel free to add to the list.

 

Slug jam on toast?

I know, not an insect. I just wanted to share that nice imagery.

 

Bugs, pfft, piece of cake.

Now, try and make me eat lampreys and I'm out of here!

P.s. Cute thread, Dutchess. Gentle Trolling 101

 

That's pretty much what Scotland can say about the Haggis.

 

What the heck is that!? Looks like something you'd find at Area 51.

 

They're interesting in that, along with the hagfish, they form the superclass agnatha, the jawless fish. The jaw (or mandible) is a pretty big part of the whole "Hey, I'm a modern vertebrate" deal. The extant examples are from a lineage that branched off prior to the advent of the jaw and also prior to paired fins, which eventually became legs in terrestrial vertebrates, though some later agnathans did have paired fins that they passed on to their mandibular descendants. Modern agnathans are all, "Ugh. Mandibles are soooo mainstream. It's all about the slime."

 

@Wreybies, stop trolling and be serious for once. Lampreys are hybrid insects/mammals that live in the water pipes in Finland. If you accidentally drink one, it sticks to your throat and starts sucking your blood while you choke on its squirming body that grows larger the more blood it drinks. There are annual epidemics of deaths relating to this creature as they multiply exponentially every autumn, which is an insofar unexplained phenomenon since their mating season is in winter and their gestation period is only a few weeks. Also, after sucking its fill of blood, it lays its eggs (around 5000) in the wound in your throat, and bodies found late are often riddled with these things.
They aren't all bad, though: one lamprey actually has its own talkshow.

 

More like something you find from that innocent, idyllic river streaming past your hometown. Or when you go to a supermarket, check out their fish selection, and THERE THEY ARE, reclining in neat rows right under the glass, those tiny kraken-like mouths gaping at you, frozen in silent screams (the most hellish sound on Earth, I'm sure, yet rarely heard). Imagine that on your plate. That mouth. Those teeth. "Eat me, I dare you, I double-dare you."

 

@KaTrian, lies, slander!

 

I love you two.

 

We aim to please and sometimes at other people when they don't know they're being watched through crosshairs.