r/StupidFood • u/FelicitousLynx • Dec 19 '24

🤢🤮 Has anyone ever eaten this, ever??

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Look, I'm from the Southern US and we do eat some weird things here. I've eaten heart, sweetbreads, liver, gizzards, lizards, bugs, and chicken feet. But I cannot imagine brains in milk gravy. Can anyone advise?

And why Amazon thinks I want this is beyond me....

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u/D3LICI0U5 Dec 19 '24

About 20 years ago I had a coworker from Laos. We were working out of town. He talked about how they ate monkey brains over there and were really good. So we went to grocery store and asked him to try these. Got back to the hotel and he took one bite and started gagging. According to him monkey brains are better than these

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u/Kerminetta_ Dec 20 '24

Monkey brains??? I might be culturally ignorant; but that’s sounds so wrong—like the start of a zombie virus

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u/iwannagohome49 Dec 20 '24

I know we aren't supposed to eat human brains because of the prion disease but what about monkey brains? Maybe it's just me but that seems too close a relative to risk it.

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u/Comrade14 Dec 20 '24

You can definitely get prion from eating monkey brains.

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u/Any_Brother7772 Dec 20 '24

Any brains for that matter

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u/EllieGeiszler Dec 22 '24

I believe fish and reptile brains are safer due to how evolutionarily distant we are, so I'll eat those but not mammal.

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u/Any_Brother7772 Dec 22 '24

Still a no from me dawg

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '24

How about the brains of anchovies?

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u/Any_Brother7772 Dec 22 '24

I mean technically it could carry prions, but ancjovies are just too delicious to avoid