Argentina Cordoba Mission

I think the grossest thing I ever ate was cow brain. They just like, they kind of formed into chicken nugget looking shapes and they didn't tell me what it was till after, but it had a really like fishy flavor and as soon as I figured out it was cow brain, I like couldn't keep eating it. But another thing that they eat down there, they like eat all parts of the cow pretty much and I had cow tongue a couple times, which actually wasn't bad. They kind of dip it in this vinegar sauce and as long as you don't think about it being a tongue, it's actually pretty good.

One of the craziest things that I ate was eel. Eel is not super popular in Cordoba but I guess somebody suggested it and we tried it so we took an eel and we like I think we boiled it first and then we put it in a pot and cooked it in the backyard like a dutch oven kind of style and cut it up with potatoes and made like an eel stew. So it was really weird kind of like fish but with a different texture like somewhere between fish and chicken kind of texture and it was really interesting and really one of the weirdest things I've ever eaten.

In Argentina, in Cordoba, they have a period of time, I guess during holidays especially, when it's cold outside, they'll make locro. And locro is this, I don't even know how to describe it. It's like an oatmeal made out of corn, kind of, and it's got everything you can imagine, like all parts of the cow, like all parts of the cow. Some people make it more normally, and it doesn't taste as bad. But one of the times that one of the members specifically told me that I would love his locro, and he made a huge deal about it. And he's like, okay, you're going to love my locro. And I couldn't lie to him. It felt so bad, but it was so gross. But I mean, it's not the worst thing in the world. But yes, locro.