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34. Some Southern staples are viewed as unusual.

Thu Sep 30, 2021, 10:05 AM

Sep 2021

Souse and boiled peanuts come to mind; both of which I enjoy. Others I have a philosophical aversion to, mountain oysters nor tripe will not cross my lips. As a child, I ate hog brains scrambled with eggs, probably because my father enjoyed it, but I lost the taste.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with souse (or hog's head cheese) it is made from all of the parts of the hog that are hard to market, such as ears, tongue, nose, brain. Waste not, want not.

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What strange or unusual food preferences do you have? [View all] wnylib Sep 2021 OP

I hate salt RandySF Sep 2021 #1

I love salt GReedDiamond Sep 2021 #24

For the most part me to. Ka-Dinh Oy Sep 2021 #31

When I was young and traveling jpak Sep 2021 #2

Corn and applesauce. FoxNewsSucks Sep 2021 #3

Inquiring Minds Are Wondering wyn borkins Sep 2021 #6

When I was a kid FoxNewsSucks Sep 2021 #10

dill pickle slices, cheddar cheese and butter flying rabbit Sep 2021 #4

Peanut butter and cheese sandwiches AZSkiffyGeek Sep 2021 #5

James Lee Burke wrote a detective series about dweller Sep 2021 #7

Sue Grafton's detective, Kinsey Millhone, wnylib Sep 2021 #33

Not a weird combo, but people hadn't heard of cooked chocolate pudding with a glob of brewens Sep 2021 #8

Chocolate pudding and peanut butter - why not? wnylib Sep 2021 #21

potato chips and cottage cheese. mopinko Sep 2021 #9

I will probably try that. FoxNewsSucks Sep 2021 #12

it's a childhood thing. we used to get milk delivered, mopinko Sep 2021 #16

My best friend loves potato chips dipped in ice cream. Diamond_Dog Sep 2021 #11

I like to crumple potato chips as wnylib Sep 2021 #15

It has to be Diamond_Dog Sep 2021 #22

Yes, weird, but that's the point of the OP. wnylib Sep 2021 #32

raw onion and cheese on buttered toast is pretty good..dont forget the sweet pickles! samnsara Sep 2021 #13

The onion and cheese sounds good to me, but wnylib Sep 2021 #17

I've never done this, FoxNewsSucks Sep 2021 #14

i havent had it in years, but one of my da's snacks mopinko Sep 2021 #18

In the movie theater: popcorn in one hand and chocolate in the other. Eat them together. yummmmm. nt Binkie The Clown Sep 2021 #19

Sweet and salty. A good combination. wnylib Sep 2021 #20

I'm sure that's good, FoxNewsSucks Sep 2021 #23

You can buy popcorn drizzled with dark chocolate. wnylib Sep 2021 #36

I like carbon. Burnt toast, charred bits nolabear Sep 2021 #25

mmmm...slightly burnt popcorn! Totally Tunsie Sep 2021 #28

Absolutely!! Especially kettle corn! nolabear Sep 2021 #37

Fried bread and orange marmalade...n/t bluecollar2 Sep 2021 #26

Apple pie with a slice of sharp cheddar RainCaster Sep 2021 #27

My mom, from rural Nova Scotia, used to always say "Apple pie without cheese applegrove Sep 2021 #30

My husband's family always used to put wnylib Sep 2021 #39

grated cheddar in the pie crust is fantastic on apple pie nt yellowdogintexas Oct 2021 #46

I like slices of old cheddar on bread and sprinkled with garlic salt and microwaved. N/T. applegrove Sep 2021 #29

When I was growing up, we were so poor that sometimes all we had were Jam sandwiches. Chainfire Oct 2021 #43

You had humour. You were not poor in that. applegrove Oct 2021 #48

Some Southern staples are viewed as unusual. Chainfire Sep 2021 #34

You just echoed my whole youth. And make me miss my grandparents. nolabear Sep 2021 #38

I never could get over the facts that every part of the Poke plant is poison. Chainfire Oct 2021 #42

Mississippi Gulf Coast. My people were all over MS and AL nolabear Oct 2021 #54

My people were from the Northern part of Alabama, but they came to N. Florida Chainfire Oct 2021 #65

True dat. And poverty eating joined everybody. nolabear Oct 2021 #66

Souse is an abomination, as are mountain oysters & tripe yellowdogintexas Oct 2021 #44

"Head cheese" according to my Cajun father-in-law. trof Oct 2021 #49

I've never tried souse, FoxNewsSucks Oct 2021 #62

This message was self-deleted by its author USALiberal Sep 2021 #35

Fried chicken hearts & gizzards. Batter fried cardoons. tblue37 Sep 2021 #40

Cardoons? trof Oct 2021 #50

The stalk is what we fried and ate. tblue37 Oct 2021 #51

I have an old recipe book Marthe48 Sep 2021 #41

Peanut Butter And Miracle Whip The Magistrate Oct 2021 #45

my mother was on Team Miracle Whip yellowdogintexas Oct 2021 #47

Miracle Whip is too sweet. Mayo for me! tblue37 Oct 2021 #52

For All Uses Save This One, Sir, I Am The Same The Magistrate Oct 2021 #53

Salsa as hot dog topping jmowreader Oct 2021 #55

Sounds good. wnylib Oct 2021 #57

I love stinky French and Belgian cheeses RFCalifornia Oct 2021 #56

Cottage Cheese (lightly salted) with Tabasco and Chives and scooped up with Fritos. Tikki Oct 2021 #58

If the dietary restrictions are due to wnylib Oct 2021 #59

Yum..Thanks:) Tikki Oct 2021 #60

I've learned to make substitutions wnylib Oct 2021 #61

Mexican Menudo.... the soup/stew, not the band. Hotler Oct 2021 #63

Growing up in SERIOUS cattle country Nac Mac Feegle Oct 2021 #64

Dill pickle spear wrapped in ham slices. zanana1 Oct 2021 #67