Comments on: Weird Foods

By: River

River — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:41:22 +0000

Poutine is awesome …make it from scratch !!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:56:29 +0000

Squirrel, I’ve had. I was youngish at the time, and what struck me was how the stripped top-halves resembled little jackets. If they had gone into the frier on a little conveyor, it would have resembled a tiny dry-cleaners.

Near the same time, we were also offered possum, rattlesnake, and alligator; but were blocked by a less-than-sure mother.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:53:48 +0000

Once when very young I tucked into a fried squirrel’s leg after being convinced by my siblings it was the drumstick off a ‘really tall chicken’

By: Expat Experience! Edition 1 - Blog Carnival | BasBasBas.com

Expat Experience! Edition 1 - Blog Carnival | BasBasBas.com — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:43:55 +0000

[...] Shaula presents Weird Foods posted at Your Mileage May Vary, saying, “As a Canadian from British Columbia traveling in New England, I have found some of the food just as strange and foreign as anywhere I’ve traveled in Europe or Asia.” Below, a picture of something called “scrapple”. [...]

By: Bas - Istanbul Expat

Bas - Istanbul Expat — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:22:12 +0000

I've eaten fried grasshoppers once ;-) That was definitely weird. Though not as weird as escargots or something they have in France called andouillette. Thanks for submitting this post to the Expat Experience blog carnival. :-)

By: eileen

eileen — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:52:58 +0000

Thanks for the shout out! I understand lobster rolls are the thing to eat in Massachussets and beyond, but since when I lived there I lived inland, and definitely wasn’t into eating lobster, I can’t speak for them. Good friends swear by them though. They’re essentially lobster salad in a roll.

fair foods come to mind, like funnel cake, but I think that’s made the rounds already.

I wonder what else you’ll find on your trip! They sold scrapple at the grocery store when I lived in DC. I was baffled, truly I was.

(Also, finally got the blogroll up and running, thanks for your patience!)

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:58:05 +0000

I have fond memories of fuitcake =] The travel trouble is that fruitcake is too dense to x-ray properly, so it can get you a special search at airports. Christmas Pudding—which I also love—can also be indistinguishable from plastic explosives.

By: Shaula

Shaula — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:43:56 +0000

Andrea, you have always clearly been in a league of your own…

Lovely to see you here! Thank you for dropping in. :)

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:30:14 +0000

Just for the record, I actually like Scrapple. I also like fruit cake. I know, weird …

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:57:29 +0000

Yvette, I can hear the tone of your voice . The article didn't say it was all new to both of us. I know scrapple, menudo, tripe, chittlins, haggis, black pudding, spam, mayonnaise . . . lots of things. (I'm not saying I've had all of them, but I've enjoyed a few.)