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I'm not talking about exotic foods or anything, just everyday, mainstream foods you enjoy eating, but when you think about them, kind of freak you out.
Mine is surimi (faux crab meat). I love eating it, and in fact, I was just enjoying some straight from the bag, but whenever I think about how it's fishpaste, I get a bit wierded out.
I get freaked out by grits. I mean, what's a grit?
Legumes. They just sound flaky.
They're the juvenile delinquents of the edible world.
Kleptomaniacs that have to pick up and look at any and all interesting and portable things in your house.
You know the type.
Eggs. As the Coneheads used to put it: "Fried chicken embryos" The worst is when you crack one on the griddle and there's a little bitty white chicken fetus inside you have to kinda worry out with the spatula. Wouldn't want one of my customers getting a chomp of that =P
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Cheese. Really, it's milk that's been sitting around with mold growing in it and you're expected to eat it? Which I do and love.
Wine, beer, spirits... these you drink after it's been sitting inside a container for months at a time if not longer. Similar to cheese. Beyond most expiration dates of other stuff.
Coffee, l love coffee but all it really is is bean juice. What's worse is the best coffee in the world is made from beans that were shat out out by a cat.
I really enjoy fried and steamed calimari. Well, I used to... I'm not so sure anymore.
But then again, I eat eggs, so I don't know why the squid thing would bother me.
Shrimp. I love shrimp.
But there's the whole de-veining thing -- which is REALLY gross if you let yourself dwell on it for long -- and then the concept that you're throwing the entire thing into your mouth. You might as well be ripping the skin off your kid's goldfish and chomping on that.
Shrimp. I love shrimp.
But there's the whole de-veining thing -- which is REALLY gross if you let yourself dwell on it for long -- and then the concept that you're throwing the entire thing into your mouth. You might as well be ripping the skin off your kid's goldfish and chomping on that.
I love shrimp now. But as a kid fishing with dad, we used them for bait. The frozen bait ones, that started getting stinky when thawed. I was legally drinking alcohol before I ever ate a shrimp.
And the shrimp shell/tail/little legs are great for making seafood stock for paella or risotto.
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Anyway, milk kinda freaks me out. Last night I was getting some from the fridge and had to drink it without really enjoying it because I psyched out. It tastes strangely sweet when you're thinking about it.
Edit: And eggs freak me out, but only because I always crush them in my hands instead of cracking them the right way. Stupid weak eggs.
Ninja'd by Gark. Ive often wondered who the first weirdo was that decided to latch onto a cow teat and decided it was pretty good.
Hot dogs. Love 'em, but every once in a while, I think about how they got that way (and the raccoon scene from The Great Outdoors comes to mind). *shudder*
Vegetarians represent?
Hmmm, I don't know... I've never been hungry enough to consider eating a vegetarian.
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Better them than me.
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Lactose reduced milk.
They take milk, which is funky enough on its own, and dump in an amorphous blob of living bacteria and let it all grow in a vat before bottling it. It's like a bait-and-switch where they're hoping no one will notice.
It tastes very sweet and is thicker (and opaquer) than normal milk.
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Bean dip. Just looks iffy.
And guacamole. I seen baby poop that looks kinda like that.
What's worse is the best coffee in the world is made from beans that were shat out out by a cat.
Kopi Luwak is so freaking good. :9
Tripe kinda freaks me out since I can see and feel the stomach villi on my tongue.
Liver and foie gras freak me out because as a cell biologist I primarily work with human and rat livers for various primary cells. So seeing liver on my plate, it looks like work, and that's not yummy. But foie gras can be so yummy (I pity, pity those of you in California about to have it outlawed for sale).
I live in China, but actually the only odd one I really like to eat is...
...donkey. But it seems to really bother other people. Donkey is like beef but better!
I get freaked out by grits. I mean, what's a grit?
It comes from a flowering tree. Southerners call it "a grit tree," but it's real name is something technical that I can't remember.
So what you do is you get a big basket or have people hold a big blanket open while someone else shakes the tree. Of course it's much easier with modern agricultural equipment.;-)
Eggs. As the Coneheads used to put it: "Fried chicken embryos" The worst is when you crack one on the griddle and there's a little bitty white chicken fetus inside you have to kinda worry out with the spatula. Wouldn't want one of my customers getting a chomp of that =P
I want to know who the first person that saw where eggs came from and thought "I think I'd like to eat that."
Vegetarians represent?Hmmm, I don't know... I've never been hungry enough to consider eating a vegetarian.
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I have, but that was more a matter of personality of the vegetarian and less a matter of my hunger.
Dog. It's "exotic" in that they only eat them in asia, but it's not exotic in that they're all over the U.S. I asked a chinese exchange student about eating dog once. She told me "We only eat the ugly ones." I laughed for a week straight every time i saw her.