Just try it you might like it

For Christmas I baked a cajun turkey. That's my thing, I do cajun turkeys because I loathe the taste of turkey and the only way I'll eat it is if I can't taste it. I removed the innards: liver, heart and gibblets. I love poultry livers and gibblets. But the heart, I'd never had the heart of anything. I was intrigued, after my many hours of watching No Reservations and Bizarre Foods I feel like I can eat just about anything and survive, hey Bourdain and Zimmern are still alive.

Much to the disgust of everyone in my house at the time (all of whom eat chitterlings and pig feet, go fig) I fried it up like a piece of chicken and ate it with some grits. I'm only 4 generations removed from being a country girl. It tasted good. It tasted just like the liver but had the texture of gibblets. The best of both worlds. Of course the only other person who would try it was my little one who thinks she's a little Zimmern. If it sounds weird or digusting she's all over it. She won't eat a donut but deep fried chicken hearts, she's all over that.

When telling my family about my new discovery everyone was typically grossed out but my mom brought up a good point, we eat a lot of things that look gross. I mean really lobster looks like a huge roach. But our culture tells us its good. We eat chicken embryos all the time, what's any grosser than that? And how many people know that McDonald's beef is actually kangaroo meat. My dad swears by this and if he's just been playing a life long joke on me, My apologies to McDonalds.

Trying new foods is one of the great things about living in Western world. I often go to the grocery store and buy things I've never had before and try to make things out of it. I would encourage eveyone to try something different that sounds disgusting. One can only eat so much chicken, potatoes and greens. Even if you don't like it, you never know until you try it.