If Andrew Zimmern Visits Jamaica

[Historian]

We’re most likely familiar with the popular Travel Channel program, “Andrew Zimmern: Bizarre Foods.” That guy, a chef I believe, is truly remarkable in that he apparently eats just about everything that is popular in the various cultures of our world!

Last night I was thinking to myself, “Suppose Andrew Zimmern and his team were to visit Jamaica, would they find anything that would be relevant for their program?”

Well, guess what, they certainly would!!

Cow foot
Cow tail
Cow head
Cow cod soup
Pig’s feet
Pig tail
Goat tripe
Goat liver
Goat head soup
Fish head

Anyone care to add to this list any Jamaican cultural food items that would be considered bizarre to someone outside the Caribbean region ?

[Gamma]

roasted goat testicles
mackerel run dung
cow/goat/chicken lungs

[TDowl]

Stew Cow Skin
Whelks
Sea Beef
Kakkle
Galla Pot
Bossou
Heart of Palm
Barracuda
Sour Sop Fish
Stinking Toe

[Mosiah]

Cow tail - how yankee!

Di ting name ox tail bredren, whether it come from ox or not!

[MdmeX]

Cow tail - how yankee!

Di ting name ox tail bredren, whether it come from ox or not!

No so Mo. Cow tail is for real and them call it cow tail in the Meat shop. Ongle certain meat shops carry it.

[Mosiah]

Ok, my apologies to those who indulge. I have never tasted the tail from the ox or from the cow!

By the way, what's the difference, if any? And are you saying when you order it in the meat shop it's called cow tail, but when prepared it becomes ox tail?

[MdmeX]

Any time yuh come back to NY - I'll take you to a meat shop that sell cow tail and ox tail - then you decide fi yuself

[Mosiah]

Naw, MdmeX. Yuh talking NY! Is not NY mi a deal wid now, sis. Dem liable fi call it hennyting!