Bcoulal's Journal, 30 March 2016

That's hardcore, bro, I like it. I've started eating more organ meat, but I've got to be honest, it's tough. I'm hoping to acquire a taste for it, at this point I can only tolerate some of it.  

Raccoon is nasty. Porcupine's not so bad. Beaver tastes a lot like beef. As far as insects go, grasshopper is the only one I've ever tried -- it was kind of like a cross between beef jerky and potato chips. Sort of crunchy. I make my own haggis, so organ meats are a regular part of the diet around our place. I will admit, my haggis is relatively high in ground muscle and relatively low in liver. 

If you want a food that's 80% fiber, eat grasshoppers. Just make sure you chew thoroughly or you'll find out the hard way when you poop. lol  

Also, Acorn meal and crab meat makes an absolutely INSANE crab patty. (I'm an amateur botanist. There are at least a hundred wild plants I know I can identify and eat; I led wild edibles hikes for several years in my area until I got too busy and had to drop it.) 

Geez, and I thought I was being daring when I tried bull testicles a while back, lol... 

My mom's favorite food is crab meat, she steams crabs all the time and makes some kind of spicy Asian dish with it. I'm not too keen on crabs myself. Crabs are basically giant underwater bugs as opposed to land bugs, which are smaller. There is a giant land crab called the Coconut Crab and as the name intends, its diet is primarily coconuts on deserted islands. I've heard of acorn bread, which is what Native Americans used to make. 

I've heard good things about coconut crabs, but never lived around them My personal feeling about odd foods is, if I see some other human eat it and it doesn't hurt them, I'm willing to give it a go. Radically hot peppers are about the only thing I won't do. I'm of a Scottish background, if we want something to be more spicy we put Cardamom in it. 

I've had turtle eggs, snake meat, and even accidentally ate maggots and roaches a few times. 

This is an awesome appetite suppressant! So much better than all the food porn. Thanks! ;-) 

I've never eaten a pure carnivore's meat. Most meat I've eaten were either pure vegetarians or omnivores. I've even had balut, which is filipino for aborted fertilized eggs. It's very delicious if you don't think about it, lol. I've never had carnivore meat like cougar, tiger, lion, and polar bear. Hell, I haven't even tried grizzly bear meat, which I've heard is delicious, but grizzlies are omnivores though, unlike their polar bear cousins which are true carnivores. Although I've eaten a lot of what most 1st worlders consider strange, I still have much more to explore. Plants are easy to cultivate and eat and are pretty boring in terms of challenging the brain, but meat gives you more of a challenge and you already know humans love a good challenge. 

Sorry about that, but you're welcome kpwcarlories. lol 

I think you have successfully killed our appetite. Maybe we should have you post those pictures, and we will all have green arrows pointing down. Better than our nice restaurant pics. lol 

Bahaha, I don't want yall to go anorexic on me. lol 

I'm flying 8,700 miles to Thailand this October and I'm gonna be in heaven with all the weird foods they sell on the streets. Cheap, highly nutritious, and weird food. I just gotta avoid all the foods that's full of MSG and I'll be fine. I'm highly allergic to high concentrations of MSG in food. Yall already know Asia is all about MSG, they're the creators of MSG, thanks to discovering it in Sea Weed. 

You also beat down the troll, so you're my hero this week, ha ha! 

Dang, you read all of that? I've been in situations that kid only dreams of. #VeteranFTW #Doyouevenketo #Longbearddontcare 

You must like that bald headed guys show on strange foods. Forgotten the name of it, but it's a great show. Bizarre Foods, is it?  

Andrew Zimmern. He was on the show chopped one time and they asked him if there was anything he didn't like/wouldn't eat. He said walnuts. hahahaha 

Lol, beat down the troll! I was thinking the same thing... I think that was the absolute longest journal I've ever read, and enjoyed every second of it. Bcoulal, you're full of awesome info... Please don't ever stop sharing it with us :)  

Nah, don't really care too much for shows that depict chubby bald guys traveling the world eating "strange food." It's to propagandize a misleading image (prejudicial) of other cultures that if foods aren't 1st world, it's still considered a social taboo. I understand the attempted methods in the show, but it still demeaning to those who eat those foods to survive. It's like the stupid "Teen Moms" shows. It's retarded that anyone would watch such a show as entertainment and accept it as the norm. I stopped watching cable television in 2007, that was 9 years ago, and I don't plan on going back. My brain figuratively rots every time I see a show on television.