What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?

[grace]

work pt as a seafood chef...we do marinated, grilled calamari... but i can only eat the rings...never the clusters...

[Gamplayerx]

Yeah.  The suckers are a bit much for me.

[dazie]

tongue-  I don't know that I'd like to eat anything that would taste me in return.   

[ReBurn]

lived in appalachia... for a few years.... my first trip to the only grocery store there "piggly wiggly" and .... there in the meat counter was "pig ears".....WTF...do ya do with pig ears???? 

People season soups and stews with them.  I grew up in an area where many of the dishes could be seen on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Once while traveling through Tennessee I stopped in a Piggly Wiggly to buy something.  The total was $3.14.  When the clerk told me the total I couldn't understand what she was saying because of her accent.  So she started saying it louder, like I was deaf of something.

[BigDun]

lived in appalachia... for a few years.... my first trip to the only grocery store there "piggly wiggly" and .... there in the meat counter was "pig ears".....WTF...do ya do with pig ears???? 

People season soups and stews with them.  I grew up in an area where many of the dishes could be seen on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Once while traveling through Tennessee I stopped in a Piggly Wiggly to buy something.  The total was $3.14.  When the clerk told me the total I couldn't understand what she was saying because of her accent.  So she started saying it louder, like I was deaf of something.

People are often amazed by the fact that I was raised in Arkansas but have no southern accent. At which point I start talking with a drawl just to show them I can.

It was a conscious decision for me not to not have an accent growing up. I should say I choose to speak with a Midwestern (the newscaster accent) because I didn't want to be stereotyped as a "dumb southern hick". That doesn't mean I don't know how to talk that way. Indeed, if I hadn't spoken with a southern accent when working in the chicken factory, I would have gotten my ass kicked.

Even though I don't have a pronounced southern drawl I still use southern colloquialisms such as y'all and ain't.

[ReBurn]

lived in appalachia... for a few years.... my first trip to the only grocery store there "piggly wiggly" and .... there in the meat counter was "pig ears".....WTF...do ya do with pig ears???? 

People season soups and stews with them.  I grew up in an area where many of the dishes could be seen on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Once while traveling through Tennessee I stopped in a Piggly Wiggly to buy something.  The total was $3.14.  When the clerk told me the total I couldn't understand what she was saying because of her accent.  So she started saying it louder, like I was deaf of something.

People are often amazed by the fact that I was raised in Arkansas but have no southern accent. At which point I start talking with a drawl just to show them I can.

It was a conscious decision for me not to not have an accent growing up. I should say I choose to speak with a Midwestern (the newscaster accent) because I didn't want to be stereotyped as a "dumb southern hick". That doesn't mean I don't know how to talk that way. Indeed, if I hadn't spoken with a southern accent when working in the chicken factory, I would have gotten my ass kicked.

Even though I don't have a pronounced southern drawl I still use southern colloquialisms such as y'all and ain't.

OMFG!  I thought I was the only one who tried to get rid of the accent.  Having been raised in the deep south, I have always been conscious of my accent, and I worked really hard to lose it.  I think that people don't take someone with a southern accent seriously.

[BigDun]

lived in appalachia... for a few years.... my first trip to the only grocery store there "piggly wiggly" and .... there in the meat counter was "pig ears".....WTF...do ya do with pig ears???? 

People season soups and stews with them.  I grew up in an area where many of the dishes could be seen on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Once while traveling through Tennessee I stopped in a Piggly Wiggly to buy something.  The total was $3.14.  When the clerk told me the total I couldn't understand what she was saying because of her accent.  So she started saying it louder, like I was deaf of something.

People are often amazed by the fact that I was raised in Arkansas but have no southern accent. At which point I start talking with a drawl just to show them I can.

It was a conscious decision for me not to not have an accent growing up. I should say I choose to speak with a Midwestern (the newscaster accent) because I didn't want to be stereotyped as a "dumb southern hick". That doesn't mean I don't know how to talk that way. Indeed, if I hadn't spoken with a southern accent when working in the chicken factory, I would have gotten my ass kicked.

Even though I don't have a pronounced southern drawl I still use southern colloquialisms such as y'all and ain't.

OMFG!  I thought I was the only one who tried to get rid of the accent.  Having been raised in the deep south, I have always been conscious of my accent, and I worked really hard to lose it.  I think that people don't take someone with a southern accent seriously.

Stephen Cobert (of Comedy Central) also grew up in the deep south and made it a point to not have a southern accent to avoid being stereotyped.

[grace]

spent 2 yrs. in "Saltville" Va.  (salt capitol of the confederacy)....my vocabulary has gone south since.... TV...became TEEE VEE ...wash...became ...WORSH...

[Beefy]

I spent high school doing theater.  Senior year, it was mostly British plays, so by the end of the year any Southern accent I had was gone.  Which was good, as it made a little less target of ridicule when I went to college (no worries, I was still a raging preppy lifeguard, so I got my share of insults).

Since I've been back in Texas for the last nine years, it has started to creep back in.  But just a little.

VikingJuice is one of those folks who has been in Texas for ages as well and I don't think he's ever had an accent.  Not one that I notice.  I think the accent gene skipped him.  Lucky bastard.

[VikingJuice]

I spent high school doing theater.  Senior year, it was mostly British plays, so by the end of the year any Southern accent I had was gone.  Which was good, as it made a little less target of ridicule when I went to college (no worries, I was still a raging preppy lifeguard, so I got my share of insults).

Since I've been back in Texas for the last nine years, it has started to creep back in.  But just a little.

VikingJuice is one of those folks who has been in Texas for ages as well and I don't think he's ever had an accent.  Not one that I notice.  I think the accent gene skipped him.  Lucky bastard.

It has seaped in a bit, but for the most part, I consider it a second language. Everytime I start using some Texas-ism, I hear my mother in my head correcting my speech. Maybe it's her fault I don't fit in.

[Jessie]

I have a terrible accent.  I can subdue it a bit when I make a conscious effort to do so.  I usually don't worry about it though.  I figure that if people assume that I'm dumb I can get in a suprise attack of intellect and they'll be even more impressed at my smartitude.

[Gamplayerx]

My mom's from South Carolina.  The accent only makes an appearance when she's mad.  If mom starts drawling, run.

[ReBurn]

I have a terrible accent.  I can subdue it a bit when I make a conscious effort to do so.  I usually don't worry about it though.  I figure that if people assume that I'm dumb I can get in a suprise attack of intellect and they'll be even more impressed at my smartitude.

So you're saying that if you get an attack of intellect that it would be surprising?

[Jessie]

I have a terrible accent.  I can subdue it a bit when I make a conscious effort to do so.  I usually don't worry about it though.  I figure that if people assume that I'm dumb I can get in a suprise attack of intellect and they'll be even more impressed at my smartitude.

So you're saying that if you get an attack of intellect that it would be surprising?

Uh, yeah. 

[Alice]

I like men with a little bit of a southern drawl.  But the total accent, triggers off the fact that they're stupid to me... even though I know that they could very well be highly intelligent.

[Beefy]

I figure that if people assume that I'm dumb I can get in a suprise attack of intellect and they'll be even more impressed at my smartitude.

Oh man, there's just so many ways to run with this.

[DownSouth]

I am stupid.  So it fits.