Y'all ever watch the show Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimern? It's a show where this guy goes all over the world and eats exotic and strange foods.

Anyhow, last night he had a show in Shelby, N.C., which is about 15 or 20 miles from where I live. He attended the Shelby Livermush Festival, and sampled livermush. Now, since when is livermush an exotic or strange food? I mean, gaddam, it's livermush. Nothing exotic, bizarre, or strange about it. It is a staple food, especially for breakfast.

This reminded me of when I attended C-Fest this year. We stopped in some diner in PA to eat breakfast. I ordered eggs, livermush, and grits with sweet tea to drink. Damn place only had the eggs. They had heard of grits, but didn't actually know what they were. They had not even heard of livermush, had no clue as to what it was.

What the hell is wrong with people? Don't even know what fine dining is.

There ARE places in PA that serve grits; but for the most part it is a regional thing.

I suppose finding grits in PA is a bit like finding a chip/chop sandwich in SC.

Grits is obviously a big thing in the South, but I have never heard or seen livermush down here in FL. I have heard of Scrapple which isn't that bad but I don't think I want to know what is in it.

Matthew a.k.a. Bigkerm

Scrapple has all the stuff that they WON'T put in hot dogs!!!

Livermush is the pigs liver and add all the "non-edible" parts such as the ears, snout, and other worthless organs, add some spices and grind everything up together into a paste and bake it into a loaf. Now, what could be better than that?

Never heard of Livermush and don’t want to eat it. I can only suspect you are being sarcastic about the whole thing. Just a guess, isn’t the show now renamed Bizzare World, about showing foods and cultures that you may not be familiar with?

I never heard of grits until I moved south of the Mason Dixon line a few years back.....Love the heck out of them now with lots of pepper, butter and cheddar cheese! Yeah!

Livermush? I ani't eating pig ******!

^ #6

Dude, there is no sarcasm in my posts. I'm telling the truth. Livermush is just a food made with pork by-products. If you ever have the chance, try it. It's really good sh*t.

Chip/Chop?

Livermush?

Hell, Grits is Just Corn . . . Get all bent out of shape about it, but it's just Corn . . .

Add some salt, pepper, butter and cheese and they're delicious . . .

Andrew Zimern is a **** . . .

^hater!

Head cheese and pickles, anyone?

ScottHar

Lamb fries............

Charlie

Of course livermush isn't strange or exotic to you, if you are from the area.

(hand on forehead, shaking head)

Livermush sounds alot like Kieshka, and Kieshka is good.

you can get grits here but why would you want to?

Bizarre Foods?

fire ants

Chickenfoot

Mmmmmmm kishka!!!

Originally, kishka was just kasha (buckwheat groats), pig blood, and spices stuffed into a gut.

Now, it can be all sorts of things, but the blood is usually in it.

I like grits with a sloppy egg chopped up in them.

I like to mix scrambled eggs with my grits . . .

YUM ...

I've eaten lots of bizarre foods all over the world.Some I even liked and still eat given the opportunity.........balut from the Philippines would be a good example(I love these little buggers and my wife,a Filipina,won't touch them)but I think I'll pass on the spare pig parts...............besides that I hate liver.

Ron