Weird Stuff In Our Foods

A mushroom is a fungus. I cannot put one in my mouth but love the taste they bring to dishes.
Lobster is an insect, but you won't catch me eating an ant.

I plan to actually eat today, at some point, so will now run, screaming, from this thread. ;-)

LOL I hate mushrooms too Louise ..

A lobster is an insect ????

Yeah lobster is ... but to save stomach I won't say which one *smiles*

they do call it a sea cockroach for a reason.

all you need to do is paint them red, jack up the price and convince people its a delicacy.


many odd things are in foods, like carnoba wax is made of a type of fly i believe, and that wax shines candy and the like. many odd herbs come from strange places. eye drops used to come from the bella donna plant, it's used to make your eyes dilate, and they used to use them in the old days, girls thought they looked prettier with big open pupils. problem was they had to use it all the time, couldn't see a thing because of too much light. and since that stuff was made from the deadly nightshade plant, it totally destroyed their vision. but it didn't matter once you married rich. they mimic the properties now.


---Mike Savad

Sausage casing is intestine. I love sausage but if the casing falls off, I won't eat it. I know, that's weird...

Some things that taste like beef are made of yeast extract... Like Marmite and Vegimite.

Mikey D's McNuggets have an defoaming agent in them. 50% of a McNugget is chicken the rest are things like Dimethylpolysiloxane, a type of silicone, is used in caulks and sealants, as a filler for breast implants, and as key ingredient in Silly Putty and TBHQ, a petroleum derivative, used as a stabilizer in perfumes, resins, varnishes and oil field chemicals. Mickey D's hamburger buns have been embalmed. They can sit around for many years and never grow mold. So if anyone was planning on going to McD's for lunch today....sorry for this post. lol!

Don't get me started on HFC ;O( Nasty what it does to you. HFC = High Fructose Cornsyrup

*gulp*

Peanut butter is allowed by the FDA to have one mouse hair per 100 grams of product. Bon Appetit!

Another little tid bit about everyones favorite hamburger place is that they are the #1 purchaser of cow eyes in the united states. beef is beef :-)

Snopes claims that is not true. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/coweyes.asp

hubba bubba gum (not sure if they still make that), has spider eggs in it... and that's what made it taste so good.



there are places that do eat the eyes. they say it's a delicacy, it has a nice salty taste to them. some weirdo show on history channel showed guys eating weird things. it was the most disgusting thing i ever saw people eat, and yet the way he described it made me almost want to taste it.


---Mike Savad

Mike! I thought you were more up on things like that? http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/bubbleyum.asp

Who REALLY purchases all the eyeballs? http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2000/may/25/mcdonalds-really-largest-purchaser-cow-eyeballs/

Glad I already had my lunch (an Amy's bean and rice organic gluten-free burrito). Yuck, you guys....

They used to serve something in school when I was a kid called Jiffy Pizza. It was some sort of bland colored spread that tasted nothing like pizza. It was spread on an English muffin and everyone just loved it. Kids (myself included) would trade our cookie with kids who wouldn't eat the jiffy pizza just so we could get doubles. Who knows what it really was...

is that why? because it was soft. when i was a kid it was hubba bubba... it would be really expensive to use spider eggs anyway.


---Mike Savad

Google and read about the pink slime that McDonalds uses in their burgers.

-Roz Barron Abellera

The water you drink, the toothpaste you use, all have fluoride, all containing "super-phosphate", the same chemical component used for industrial strength fertilizers, and in cockroach and rat killers.


-W

No, "super phosphate" and phosphate are not the same thing at all. Only "super phosphate" is in fertilizers. It is calcium phosphate and/or sodium phosphate that is in toothpaste.

and acid is found in coke, but people drink that. flouride is good for your teeth. in small amounts it's safe, though still don't swallow the toothpaste.


---Mike Savad

"Escargot" is slugs. Slugs leave slimy trails on my sidewalks. I pour salt on them and watch them shrivel but I will never put salt on them and eat them.

but if you pay 50 bucks a pop, and a snooty french waiter serves it to you on a silver platter, bet you would... not me of course, there better be a burger on that platter.


---Mike Savad

Okay now I can't eat....oye :(

stop reading , Lori! lol

No wonder people tell me I don't look as old as I am, it's the cigs LOL

Look at it this way, Lori-every time we want to over eat, we can just read this thread LOL

4 more states are adding pink slime back into the ground beef? Horrible.......how can this be? http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/pink-slime-school-lunches-96502.html
and @ Mary Bedy, do you have to eat gluten free? I have celiac disease, I have absolute fits buying food without hidden gluten as more and more of it is processed and over processed......

That pink slime thing needs to be stopped.

the problem with the super taster test is - they don't show you what each type of taster should look like. like when i count, it's off the charts. but i don't know what i'm counting. they say, only count the pink dots - but they are all pink, except the center of my tongue, which looks blue enough that i was sucking on smurf brains. i don't like the taste of the dye so i don't do this all that often. i've photographed my tongue to make it easier.

the better test to use is the saccharine test

get two thirds of a cup of water, and mix one pack of sweet and low. take a taste of it.

if you taste sweet only or mostly, then your an under taster, if you get a it 50-50, then your a normal taster, and if you taste mostly bitter, your a super taster. in my case, it's so bitter it lasts for hours. i can't get it out of my mouth. it's like the flavor is really tiny and it's falling back on parts of my tongue that no other flavor as the ability to remove. but worse after the test, i can taste it strongly in everything, toothpaste, mouthwash, etc. all has saccharine in it. those things never tasted sweet to me, but it's far worse now. oddly though when the liquid was under my tongue - i tasted the sweet.


---Mike Savad

They all have bitter taste... specially the aftertaste.
That sounds like a super power.... I'm calling the X-Men HQ.


I like cilantro. I don't like fennel in sausages. I like fennel in cookies.

if anyone lives near a joes crab shack (don't know if that's just a NJ thing), they claim sweet crabs. now i don't know if this count is mostly for the sides, i think we determined it was not but

http://www.calorieking.com/foods/calories-in-seafood-bucket-of-crab-snow-crab-with-sides-without-butter_f-ZmlkPTE5MzY3Ng.html this shows 68carbs - for crabs. something that shouldn't have any at all. we assumed they boil them in sugar. they refused to answer our email and we never ate there. red lobster on the other hand shows the right amount of carbs.


---Mike Savad

i don't care for fennel, but i enjoy funnels.


---Mike Savad

the fennel and myrrh toothpaste i got at trader joe's is as disgusting as it sounds.


---Mike Savad

Mike, the bucket includes red potatoes and an ear of corn along with the crab legs, so there's your carbs. LOVE Joe's Crab Shack but it's a bit pricey.

i think we narrowed down the actual crabs, and they were high.

i'd like to know for certain because i'd like to go there, but the research is conflicting. they show one page 1 leg having zero. 2 legs in having 10

http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-joes-crab-snow-bucket-i325942 this one doesn't say there are sides and it shows 68 carbs.
http://chubbygrub.com/food/snow-crab-excluding-side-of-butter/ same thing.
http://chubbygrub.com/food/add-snow-crab/ as a side, it shows zero, so it's a bit confusing.

---Mike Savad

Any time it says "bucket", there's other food, usually corn on the cob and roasted red potatoes. There are several flavors and combos but always starches included in the bucket.

Louise, to keep celery from getting limp, you keep it in water. Like a flower. It will grow leaves if you leave it there to grow.

Those "BBQ" crabs are deep fat fried, I believe. Of course they are low carb, excluding the other starchy stuff. They're also high in fat and cholesterol, I would guess.

My theory is that escargot snails have a shell for protection, so escargot is fairly edible.
Slugs on the other hand have no shells, and I infer, without doing any scientific test, that slugs have toxins and a bad taste to protect them from predators.

Crabs are extremly tasty, but yet angain it's in the insect family.. pink slime in hamburger meat? * skims through*

Insects?

Yeah crabs are related to spiders

Louise, yes tilapia, very bland. But that's why its popular. Its never "fishy" tasting.

Leek soup. Why do people eat leek soup? I have a theory that the reason the Irish invented Guiness is because their food has no flavor so they needed something they could taste.

Crabs and lobsters are not insects (spiders aren't either, they are arachnids).

Crabs and lobsters are crustaceans

They are related at the level of arthropods, that is that they all have exoskeletons. Insects all stem from that level as well.

And we're all related to spiders, lobsters, snails, slugs, prawns and crabs in a very distant sort of way.....

I didnt think they were actually insects. That threw me. Yes spiders are not insects either. I had to study them to overcome my fear. NOT going to eat them either

A few years back, when I had a vegetable garden, I was growing corn, but then it started coming in as a fungus instead of husks. I asked the local garden place about how to stop that from happening but the guy there said I should just fry that gross stuff up-it's a delicacy in South America. I stopped planting corn...It's called "corn smut".
http://mexicanfood.about.com/od/faqandglossaries/g/huitlacoche.htm

Haven't been in this thread for a while. I see it's still delicious.

@Peggy - have not been diagnosed with celiacs disease, but I know I was getting sicker and sicker until I stopped eating wheat. Felt tired and had the chills when it got bad.

The good news is I love all fruits and veggies (although I'm also allergic to corn), and they are selling a lot more gluten-free stuff in the grocery stores.

And you guys were discussing Joe's Crab Shack. Last time we went to visit our son's family, we stopped at one on the way there and had crabs, which were delicious, but on the way back, I ordered salmon at the same restaurant. It was way over cooked and dry. I was peeved. They know how to cook crabs, but at least at this place ordering something different threw them off.

I like the crabs boiled in blacken seasoning. Anything with blacken seasoning is good..love some crawfish..
Another one to add is oysters. They are a natural filter of the ocean. Meaning whatever they eat last stays in their bellies like fish poo..

The best thing is to cook for yourself rather than going to restaurants or fast-food joints. That way, you know what you're getting. If I want burgers I buy steak and have it minced and make the patties myself. It costs more than getting one from a fast food joint, but there's a very good reason for that. When Britain was getting fed on burgers full of dodgy horse meat, the price people were paying for a burger was below the wholesale price of the equivalent amount of lowest grade beef. Sometimes, you get what you pay for. With most foods, it's cheaper to buy top-quality ingredients and cook it than it is to buy from a restaurant and it tastes better, too.
I put a few of my recipes here, but I haven't bothered updating it http://gourmetlens.com/