Weird Food People Eat
 

Hey, wanna piece of candy?

Uh...no?

Damn whippersnappers, and their disgusting chemical laden candy. Why can't they eat all natural scabs and boogers like we did?

That must surely have been a special for halloween right?

Oh man, I love weird food. I'll try an awful lot of stuff once, usually twice. I get a lot of funny looks when I try something and go "OH GOD this is weird/gross, YOU GOTTA TRY THIS!" but anybody I can convince to try it, whether or not they thank me for the positive taste experience, at least usually ends up thanking me for the experience of trying something different.

The last thing I tried that's made everybody I know cringe was, I thought, pretty mundane, but still terrifies many people... headcheese. Which, well, if you don't know what it is... it's pretty much scraps of meat from a pig or cow's head that's been boiled and scraped; it's encased in gelatin (that's come out of the head as it boils) and sliced thin as a cold-cut style lunchmeat.

Surprisingly good, too, I have to say. It's spiced such that it tastes a lot like corned beef, and the texture isn't actually anywhere near as awful as I thought it'd be.

the durian tasting, on the other hand, kind of went in the opposite direction.

I think the problem with headcheese is the name. Like tripe, it just doesn't sound appetising.

The name isn't appetizing, but I don't think that's the only problem. The description isn't appetizing either.

Durian-flavor ice cream, OTOH, is rather mischievously good. You can tell why Singapore doesn't allow it to be eaten on the subway, though.

Neither is the appearance or the flavor.

The closest I come to eating something weird is grits. Or the occasional chicken liver.

If grits are weird, you must have a really, um.. plain diet?

Durian was.. the bites of it that were good, tasted like a delicious sweet custard. the bits that were not so good tasted like... spoiled onion-custard-egg pie that hasn't set up yet. every bite was somewhere different on a scale between those extremes, and the whole thing had the texture of scooping the guts out of an alien.

everybody should eat one of them bastards at least once. durians, i mean, not aliens.

Having watched people happily eat bugs/ reptile penis/ fish eyes etc and then gag over durian fruit, I think I'll give it a pass. But then I think mango is repulsive...

Saveloys, trotters, faggots, jellied eels - no problem.

Have you every thought of becoming a restaurant critic, SW?

I don't find 'em weird, it's almost everyone I know that finds them weird.

:yum:

Oh, I do freeze Hershey bars before I eat them, as with most chocolate.

That might be a little weird.

I don't eat meat (and that seems pretty weird on this board!) and when people say to me "but lettuce is alive too" I try to explain my reasoning of 'drawing a line'.

I think most people 'draw a line' even if, like mine, it isn't necessarily too straight - where is your one? What won't you eat?