Sharni-----What is vegemite?I am one of those southern New
Englanders; that never heard of it;until;I hear everyone talking about it here.I'll include my e-mail address;so that you won't bore
everyone that knows what it is. Irish (Tom Ahern)
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I would have to say that for odd foods I have had:

Ostrich - actually this tasted really really good... like a nice good steak!
Snake - man, that was a long long time ago, and I do not recall what it was like
Ants - yup, chocolate covered ones at that (they are pretty common in certains parts of Colombia), kinda crunchy, tasted like peanuts
Buffalo - not so odd, tasted pretty good, a little stronger flavor than beef

I saw Pemican bars on SFC's reply - man, I love those things!... I could never get enough of them when I used to go hiking!

And the one thing that I just can not get enough of, good dark beer... Porters in particular... if I did not have to keep a job (and a liver) I would live off them!

-Toast


PS. Irish - vegemite: think of brewing beer, once you have all the good stuff out of the malt after boiling it for a good long while, drain off all the liguid, put the remainder of it into a food processor an make a peanut butter like substance out of it :)

On the subject of food.The expense has gotten rediculous!I have
to watch what I injest now;because I am diabetic.My wife just went shopping.Among other things;she got me Two 16oz.boxes;
of Post Great Grains cereal.They contain many additions,nuts,
fruits,etc.By the time that you add,a cutup bananna,skim milk,
sugar substitute(equal,Sweet n'Low,etc)it sure costs more than a bowl of cereal did;when I was a kid.Of course when I worked at
Sikorsky Aircraft;asa flight mechanic,$3.90hr. was big bucks! Irish
P.S.The cereal was $3.17 a box!

Irish $4.00 is not unheard of here sometimes depending....... costly if you have kids.......but it beats growing the wheat :p

I'm one aussie who doesn't like vegemite! But the spaghetti on toast, now that's a different thing. How can you not like it? It's great! Good thing to have for brekkie on a cold winter morning.

My family thinks I'm crazy because I like peanut butter,mustard and dill pickles on my hot dogs. I admit it sounds wierd but it is good. I also don't have to worry about someone else eating my hotdog if I leave it unattended for a minute! Another thing, I have to have ketchup on my eggs

Milktoast and sfc yall got my Cherokee taste buds awaterin .........lots of those ''odd'' foods were common place in our fridge so i didnt think that much about them. My gramps use to send me out with some friends to catch rattlesnakes to cook on a stick(can you say shishkebob?) .. Another ''delicacy of his was armadillo or carp patties (a freshwater mudeating fish) ......damn got my tastebuds kicking in now......and all i got here is pepperoni and swiss cheese pizza.....oh well......maybe when i go home later this year i can find somemore to add........

Friend of mine gave me the recipe for Carp: Get a pine board, clean the carp & place it on the board, cook in 350 degree oven for about an hour... then throw out the fish & eat the board!

Scotz,

Forget the carp, just get the equivalent volume in river mud.

Legend, Vegemite and left over mashed potato on toast for

breakfast.

Irish, if you weren't fed it as a kid, you'll never like it. Like Chinese

sweets, a cultural thing.

ROFLMAO Scottz !!!! My mom aftercleaning and baking the meat added greenpeppers, onions, celery, and diced tomatos, with a few other seasoning items it tasted pretty good...
another thing i had to taste once put me into the emergency room.....crabmeat....my parents found out then that i was allergic to all shellfish......Oh well.....lots more interesting things to eat out there.........hehehehehehehe

I would die WITH OUT shellfish:p One of my lovies eats Ranch dressing on everything... dips both Pizza and hotdogs into it..........

Lilith --- Your ranch dressing anecdote reminds me of the time my young cousin (I think he was about 8 at the time?) decided to challenge another cousin's girlfriend (she would have been about 16) to a "contest"...

Part one of the contest was who could eat the larger quantity of their specified condiment... My cousin, who is known in the family as The Ketchup Fiend, was to eat (of course) ketchup, and the girl was to eat mustard. Gee, care to guess who won that little competition? :p

The second installment of the contest (a couple of weeks later, when both competitors' stomachs had calmed down) was who could eat the most seasoning. My cousin chose to eat sugar, and he decided that this poor girl should eat salt. (We're talking by the spoonful here...) :rolleyes:

I always wondered what possessed this young lady to go along with the competition --- my stomach still turns when I think about the results...!

--- sweetstuff

Vegemite is Yummy!!! not ICK!!! *LOL*
And Toasted Spag Sanger....Oh yeah...good stuff that is too!

Go here Irish....this will help explain.. :)

www.vegemite.com.au

Anyone found any new food fetishes???