What's the most disgusting thing you ever ate?

We had that at school, Agus - we called it 'dead fly pie' but it was actually quite nice!

What have you dissected jess?

When I have tasted Eccles cakes and they have a similar taste but made with puff pastry? tiggy has given a better description of what I know as fly cemetery and made with shortcrust pastry finished off with sugar on top.

In some places absent - Wales for one - testicles get called sweetbreads. Pancreas is not a smooth oval, its kind of blobby. Thymus not shaped like cojones either. (I speak as ex-biology teacher. You should trust me on this. I've done a few dissections in my time. )

HATE Lady's Fingers or Okra, it's not just the taste it's the texture as well.

I always forget the thymus bit!

Just shows how everyone is different,I love broad beans jingle, especially young ones.

Sweetbreads are the thymus gland and pancreas from sheep, calves and, occasionally, pigs. Testicles are called animelles or, in Spain, white kidneys. Pancreas sweetbreads could be confused with testicles because of their round appearance but they are prepared differently.

It's used for both phoenix and they taste similar too.

I thought sweetbreads were the pancreas, not testicles?

Love caraway cake. But as I'm the only one I never get it.

Not together! Well, especially not together.

Marrow and broad beans.

We called it Fly Pie (still do !) and it is different to Chorley and Eccles cakes in that it was made in a slab and cut up.

I don't think I could manage Monkey brains

YIPEE - just seen a woodpecker on the bird table !

when my mum loved caraway seed cake I used to make one especially for her, can't say it was a favourite of mine.

We called Eccles cakes flies coffins, they really are delicious warm or cold.

That's what children here in Manchester called Chorley cakes, Agus. They're delicious, so are Eccles cakes.

I remember being given a cake called 'flies cemetery' wouldn't touch it when I was a child, convinced it was actually full of dead flies. Now I love it, it is pastry top and bottom, filled with sweetened raisins.

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I seem to remember caraway seed cake being called 'seedy cake' and I think it was associated with Easter. Just a vague memory though. I quite liked it.

Yuk! Caraway seed cake. My friend at school told me it was made with head lice, when I was five.

That is pretty special janerowena -if this was a competition, which it is not, you would be a strong favourite!
Smash had not been invented when I ate school dinners. (it is vile though) but a species of grey, lumpy potato had - perfect for mashing .
Abalone (they of the beautiful shells) are called Paua (pronounced paarwaar)
in NZ. They are much prized and paua rustling rings exist, illegally fishing in restricted areas. Much like tar-black squid I reckon.
Was it caraway seeds they used in seed cake? Can't remember the last time I saw seed cake.

I forgot to mention that it was all encased in pastry! I can remember it as the forum described, I did like it though.

Yes, I had abalone as a child and I can't remember being impressed. Not revolted though.

I chose calves sweetbreads once at a restaurant in Tenerife and a friend had to rush out and be ill when she discovered what they were.

My aunt lived in Singapore for a while and she did the same when they were taken out for a very special meal by a chinese company. It was monkey brains - eaten from a freshly killed monkey's head that was placed in a central reservoir in the table. They were then all given long handled spoons to scoop out the interior, she described it as 'like a boiled egg'. Of all the things I have heard, that revolts me the most. Please note that I did wait until after you had all eaten your dinner before I posted this.

Our school cooks would never have heard of 'Smash' I think ! Their pie was pastry top and bottom and a thick layer of cheese and onion all held together with an egg or two I expect. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it - I think I shall try again to replicate it but if my mother couldn't do it 50+ years ago I don't fancy my chances !

My mother used to bake her own cakes and puddings which were delicious. Every once in a while she would buy a cake. Sometimes she would bring home a seed cake. Yuk! It was like eating what I imagine the bottom of a budgie's cage would taste like. I have often thought of trying some now, as I eat so many things now that I hated as a child.

Sea Slug otherwise known as Abalone - many years ago in Singapore at a Chinese wedding banquet.

Revolting !