Speaking of Vegemite

[Keith Webb]

As I mentioned that wonderful elixir of life today in the Gracies thread I was horrified, shocked, saddened, enraged and a lot more adjectives to see this item:

Pass the head jelly please
From Divine Caroline’s Pass the Head Jelly, Please: Ten Gag-Inducing Foods

Here’s the only one I’ve tried.

Head Cheese
Head cheese is a more appetizing way of saying “meat jelly,” which is various animal (usually a cow or pig) head bits set in gelatin with herbs and spices. In Europe, it’s used as sandwich filling.

It’s not bad, but I have to eat it between crackers so I can’t see what I’m eating.

Here are the other nine entries:

Black pudding (sausage made of congealed blood)
Sweetbread (stomach sweetbread is pancreas and throat sweetbread is thymus gland)
Lutefisk (whitefish that’s been dried and treated with lye)
Balut (duck or chicken eggs with almost-developed embryos inside)
Chitterlings (pig intestines that are stewed or fried)
Haggis (sheep organs mixed with grains, spices, and soup stock)
Dormouse Stew (this hearty soup consists of dormice or sometimes rats)
Vegemite (extracted from yeast and is used in the way we use peanut butter)
Ti?t Canh (duck blood and innards, chopped nuts, and herbs mixed together and cooled so that it congeals)
Anybody hungry?

Well frankly yes I am, but only for the Vegemite. Think I'll go and have some right now.