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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 464481" data-attributes="member: 4937">Wow, when the thread first started I thought I was going to be to do some gross out stuff here, but I see that some of you have me beat.Giblets are awesome, and a classic of Southron American ethnic cuisine.  One must have a southern thanksgiving at some point with cornbread dressing (the good kind with lots of onions and celery to give it texture) and giblet gravy.  But you know you are in a real southron resturant when you see on the menu 'Fried Chicken Heart Plate'.   Don't knock it till you try it (with as it is put 'all the fixens': cornbread, pinto beans, turnip greens, fresh tomatoes, and slices of raw onion).   Far superior in my opinion to the more common 'Fried Chicken Liver Plate'.As for sashimi and sushi, is there any cuisine more elegant and sublime?  My personal favorite is Unagi, but Toro is a classic.  The most exotic I tried was sea urchin (very good), and raw scallops (probably better cooked in a little garlic).Who could not like fried calamari?I haven't heard of eating sparrows before, but in my Grandmothers day, blackbird was considered quite a delicasy, but I wouldn't know where to procure it now, nor have I much interest in eating one.  I have tried Bison, Caribou, Oppossum, Raccoon, Squirrel, Rabbit, Pheasant, Aligator, Locusts, and Quail.  I'm interested in having Rattlesnake at some point, but unfortunately was never able to find someone to prepare ground hog for me while I was up north (They were killing them all the time, and it seemed such a waste of meat to not eat the varmits).  On the other hand, Shark is something I'm morally opposed to eating (though I've always wanted to try), and I generally feel the same about most top predators (like bear).The one food I just don't 'get' at all is Oysters.   They just seem so wrong to me.  They are coastal bottom feeders.  You shouldn't eat them raw, and they don't taste that good no matter how you fix them.  I've never understood how an American could eat one of those foul slimy critters and turn his nose up at a slice of raw tuna.</blockquote>

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