July 08, 2004

• Yep. Good ol Natto. You can put it in a small bowl and crack a raw egg into it, and whip it all up with some chopsticks and have it with some plain white rice. Nasty nasty stuff. Anyone who has spent any time in Japan has come across this, its very popular here. Nutritionally, its very healthy, it just smells bad, tastes bad, and has a revolting texture. Like quite a bit of japanese food, actually. Its not all sushi and teriyaki.
• While I cannot endorse the eating of Pickled Pork Rinds, I do endorse playing with it like a puzzle. I did have some fun trying to put the pig back together, but eventually that got boring as I lost the will to live. Brilliant. This is good.
• Ok, being part Japanese, I have to apologize for my peoples' crime against nature. Natto is just...wrong. Almost as wrong as pizza with mayonaise on it, but that's a story for another thread, perhaps. Best thing was the, "non stinky" natto they were pushing a few years ago. Still smelled like ass and tasted about the same. An old girlfriend used to eat the stuff and then kiss me just to gross me out. I wonder why we're not still together...
• This is funny, but most of his revulsion has to do with his preconceived notions, i.e. western food taboos. I've got Japanese friends who gag at the mention of drinking a glass of whole milk, Australian friends who gladly gobble down yeast extract, and South American friends who stare incredulously at me as I chow down a PB&J sandwich. Ultimately it all has to do with what you grew up with. Can't say that I've had pickled pork skin, but I have had potted meat and enjoyed it. Tastes like pate, only cheaper.
• How about beef in a can? (i saved the picture here)
• friends who gladly gobble down yeast extract
• e-coli in a convenient, portable package!
• Mmmmh... calpis....
• Monkeyfilter: Baked in the filthy heat of Satan's asshole. It also smelled kinda like baked beans. If they were baked in the filthy heat of Satan's asshole. The entire experience is difficult to describe, but if you can remember back to the very first time you made out with a hobo's ass, it's a lot like that. In closing, the only silver lining to this dark dark cloud is I have figured out why so many dogs lick their own assholes. Only imagine you are opening the can while your head is wedged in a horse's ass. I think Steve has an an ass fixation. But seriously, is bleu cheese, which is moldy cheese, which is rotten milk, any worse than rotten soybeans with a snot-like coating? Either way, The Sneeze is awesome.
• Trust me, dirigibleman, it's a zillion times worse than bleu cheese. I saw said Iron Chef episode and was alternately fascinated and repulsed, as you might expect. Our next-door neighbours were an American married to a Japanese girl who learned English in Australia (I was in love with her accent) and her mother was staying with them when we went over for a barbecue one night. So I mentioned natto and pondered aloud whether it was as bad as it looked. Lo! Mayu had a container of natto right there in the fridge and brought it out for us to sample. It was...interesting. Served cold with rice. I ate it all but only with the vow that I never would again. Soon after that we moved back to New Zealand. Coincidence? Yes.
• Most fermented food kicks my ass. The exception being probably kimchi.
• is bleu cheese, which is moldy cheese, Try a little bit followed by a taste of red wine.
• Bleu Cheese is also nasty. I havnt tried blood pudding, and I probably wont. Im not a big fan of menudo either. I have had tongue, and its paleatable, but not really my thing. Liver is too rich. I always pass on the Chicken Feet and Heaping Piles of intestines at Dim Sum. Then again, Im not a gourmet, I dont really like food much.
• Listen, you yank bastards, I've had enough of the vegemite jokes. There is nothing wrong with vegemite. Ok, it looks like axle grease. Ok, it smells sour as your wife. Maybe it doesn't even taste that great to people not brainwashed into eating it since birth. But take it from me, oh people who voted for George W Bush, it is much tastier and a hell of a lot better for you lightly spread on yummy buttered toast in the morning than the average Yank breakfast, which consists mainly of lard, a huge stack of pancakes made with lard & potato & lard covered with a barrel of liquified sugar, beef, more beef, chocolate, 15 fried eggs and half a firkin of bacon washed down with something called bosco and six pints of coffee. You fat, bubble-headed bunch of retards. There's a reason why America is so big. It's so all of your fat asses don't flop over into the friggin ocean. only kidding, I love you all really. And this was a very amusing link.
• Did I kill the thread? :)
• sounds quite delighful, nostril. do you eat it a lot? is there any correlation between vegemite and affective fluctuations? *scurries away before the wrath of nostril descends*
• the response that wasn't meant to be?
• this vegemite sounds like wonderful stuff, nostril. i'd never really paid attention to it before you brought it up. ouch do you eat it a lot? any correlation between vegemite consumption and affective fluctuations? *scurrries out before nostril responds.
• I'm a yank, and I love Vegemite. If you can get past the smell, putting a thin layer on toast with butter is downright tasty. Now kimchi on the other hand... Eww. Or tamarind pulp. Or the lead lollipop, chacachaca.
• ladies and gentleman, i give you, canned pork brains (with milk gravy!)
• There's a reason why America is so big. It's so all of your fat asses don't flop over into the friggin ocean. Sadly this is true.
• Good call, shawnj, I was just about bring the Bad Candy website myself. It really is all about what you were exposed to as a child. Being raised in the US deep south, I quite enjoy strange cuts of pork like hog jaw and fat back. Then with the fried renderings you can make red-eye gravy... it's two simple ingredients- ham grease and coffee. Spooned over biscuits, it's delicious.
• I used to think that those big jars of pig's feet and pickled eggs in pinkish-grey liquid that you see sometimes in very bad bars were somne sort of disturbing decoration, until that fateful day I saw an old guy in a filthy ski vest gnawing on one of those pigfeet like it was a chocolate Easter bunny. Worst thing I've ever eaten? Cricket. The legs are a bitch, they're covered in these little spines that are tailor-made to lodge in your throat right where the gag-reflex button is located. Hwack! Nostrildamus: We Americans prefer to think that our mild portliness evokes a certain feeling of bonhomie and marks us as a nation of cheerful gourmands :D
• the average Yank breakfast, which consists mainly of lard, a huge stack of pancakes made with lard & potato & lard covered with a barrel of liquified sugar, beef, more beef, chocolate, 15 fried eggs and half a firkin of bacon washed down with something called bosco and six pints of coffee. Hey Nostril, when where you at my grandmother's house??? (and you left out the bowl of cereal that she'd make you eat at the end, along with an apple or an orange.) *scratches head, ponders* *shrugs, skips off to make breakfast*
• Initiate the Lard, Potato and Lard Pancake Airlift! Target? Australia!
• I feel a Curious George coming on...
• menudo is God's gift to hangovers. And FWIW, most places in DFW only offer it on Sat and Sun mornings.
• In my filthy Amurkin experience, breakfast is: a) Coffee b) Cold pizza c) Fast food, which I agree is ick. I don't know anyone with the time to make huge quantities of meat in the morning. But then I eat ramen for breakfast with alarming regularity, so I'm no judge of breakfast cuisine. As for the link, I'm easily amused by weird-food stuff, possibly from being a lifelong insanely picky eater (mushrooms are not of this earth, I tell you). So it looks entertaining. Thanks.
• Nostril: Forget the American Breakfast...my father used to make what I assume is a typical Scottish breakfast of fried eggs, fried suasages, and fried blood pudding (aka black pudding). Then when everything's been fried to greasy perfection, he'd fry up some bread in the greasy residue left in the pan and eat that. Tasty as hell, but he's under strict doctor's orders never to do it again.
• almost forgot: obligatory Menudo/Ricky Martin reference.
• I was recently out eating a huge lard-filled american breakfast with some friends when our guest pulled out a jar of marmite (relative of vegemite, apparently??)....we were mesmerized, we were afraid....I declined to try it but my husband did. he said it was...yeasty!
• The only yeasty thing one should put in their mouth on purpose is hefeweizen.
• I visited my brother in Tiawan once, and he introduced me to a healthful snack whose name I unfortunately can't remember. It consists of a whole wasp in juice. OK, I can see eating bugs, although I personally would not want to partake, but with the stinger still attached? Doesn't that seem wrong somewhow?
• Wasp juice! My new favourite drink! "Tangy as a wasp, with a sting in its tail - can you start the day without a cool, refreshing glass of Wasp Juice
• If this wasp juice thing takes off, you can bet that junior executives will be crowding around the bar telling Bill Brasky stories and enjoying delicious wasptinis before long.
• Wha's the nincompup spiked the cock punch with wasp juice? Eh? Speak up, ye crawlin' ferlie!.
• I was just kiddin!!! Dayum. US breakfasts give you the jolt of carbs & sugar you need for a day on the go. Jeesh. I regularly eat cold pizza for breakfast. Sometimes I even put a bit in the microwave. I'm hip. I can dig it. My family are Scottish. The whole porridge-with-tea thing is well known to me. Porridge with cold tea. Yum. & salt. No sugar. Porridge with cold tea and salt, no sugar. mmm-mmm. /gyak gyak /collapse please .. please.. a bowl of C3P0s for me.. stat..
• hehe - he said Yank /beavis
• I'm American but much of my family is English, which may partially explain my affinity for dinner-like foods in the morning and unusual fish-based dishes (curried sardine sandwiches, anyone?) My mom is notorious for frying up a batch of chicken livers at 7 a.m.
• I love porridge (with milk and brown sugar) but can never be bothered making it. I only like it, also, if the porridge forms a floating island in the middle of the milk, so I can spin it around. It's a really bizarre relic of my childhood.
• Porridge, assuming what we USians would call "oatmeal" is really pretty good for you, Unless you insist on butter and cream and too much sugar. (Off to find the oatmeal box, and butter,and cream, and, maybe, some toast with butter, and a poached egg or two. Mmm, lovely egg yolks sinking into the toast, with a bite of oatmeal to bring everything to the right consistency.) They actually served me that breakfast in a hospital, low, many years ago. I still miss it.
• my usual weekday breakfast is oatmeal. a not-too-unhealthy way that I decorate it is raisins, vanilla soy milk & cinnamon. yummmmm!
• I've discovered porridge is really easy to make. I buy "quick oats" in the States, or "Scottish porridge oats" in the UK (whole rolled oats from Canada didn't seem to work - but my mum says if you crush them with a rolling pin they will). All you have to do is add boiling water to the oats in a bowl, stir, wait a min or two, and then (after it's swelled a bit) add your milk and sugar. It's not quite as nice as my mum's cooked over a double boiler for 20 minutes porridge, but it's much faster, and can be made in a residence room. Also, it is better tasting than Quaker Istant Oats, with a firmer texture - personally, I like my oatmeal thick enough to stop bullets. Oatmeal/porridge has "soluable fiber" which, as a biologist told me, doesn't help your digestive system the way unsoluable fiber (as in bran) does, but instead helps keep cholesterol from being absorbed. Which is not a bad tradeoff.
• "... but some women have been known to willingly "ingest" a certain dubious "body fluid" made by men, during moments of "intimacy." (These moments are known as "blow jobs." These women are known as "awesome.")"