This has been covered, and Winston can back me up here: sea cucumber.

Other than that… I’m not sure really. Irish people think that Chicken Fried Steak is really, really disgusting. And biscuits and gravy make them feel worse.

As for Sarah Palin… she’s so aggressive. The write of that article is so completely right, she is like the kid who didn’t do her homework but is just about getting away with it.

But how can you now know what the Bush Doctrine is??? You can’t even GUESS??

But let’s not have a conversation about that again. I’m still sorry that Henri and I didn’t try to reshoot the video for ‘I believe I can fly’. Damn it.

I don’t know about the rest of y’all but that looked DELICIOUS. I’m hungry.

I don’t think anything is too weird or gross. I hate beets. Hate the smell. Hate the sight of them.

There’s a ton of weird fruit (and not just açai) that’s super fun down here (in Brazil for those who don’t know) but mostly it’s just combination of foods that’s odd. Spaghetti with rice and beans and salad all piled on a plate.

Oh. My. Goodness. That’s gross. And really, really funny.

Since when are onions gross?????

The weirdest things I’ve eaten: (and my list isn’t interesting either)
- pickled pig skins
- fresh grasshoppers (military)
- Alligator
- Infamous mystery meat while overseas (I don’t even want to know)
- Few weird things at Se’s house. I usually got grossed out and chickened out, but I remember dried little squids. Kind of like beef jerky. I probably didn’t try them, but I don’t remember.

Aren’t you one who as a sixth grader visiting Williamsburg ordered rabbit for lunch and enjoyed it very much?

While in Ecuador this past summer, I had the opportunity to eat Guniea Pig . . . but I passed. They call it “cuy” (pronounced koo-ee). While visiting a small village in the middle of the country, I “toured” a woman’s mud hut. Inside her kitchen? A little pen of about four guinea pigs. Apparently they’re common. On the side of the road, driving through various towns, you see roasted pigs and nearby roasted cuy.

Some of my friends on the trip tried some, but I balked.

As the resident conservative, I should mention in Palin’s defense that there is no decided definition of the Bush Doctrine as can be evidenced by the person who coined the term. (I could also mention that according to the columnist, Gibson’s definition of the doctrine was wrong) The column can be viewed here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202457.html

This isn’t to say that she gave a great interview, but let’s not get up in arms about a relatively ignorant question.

OMG WHY do I not have The Huntress stockpiled on my DVR for a rainy day? A-mazing.

That reminds me, yesterday when I was walking into work, I saw a squirrel running next to me with what looked like a bulge in her neck (tranny squirrel?). But when she crossed in front of me, it actually turned out that the bigger squirrel was carrying a baby squirrel under its neck. I think it may have been dead; perhaps the Huntress got to it.

There’s this guy whose blog I used to read when I had time who’d eat random, usually disturbing, food. I am not sure he ever ate a japanese pizza though, which remains my personal goal.

Also, John, not just the Irish think Chicken Fried Steak is disgusting. Why would anyone want to take an already-crappy cut of steak, batter it, and then deep-fy it? AND pour that gross white gravy over the top? What is that about?

Oh! Japanese pizza! We took lots of pizza advertisement-pics while we were there but never tried one. Mayonnaise, boiled eggs and hot dogs. ON PIZZA, you guys. Seriously.

My most exotic foods? Rattlesnake or turtle soup, nothing too disturbing. Oh and I once ate a bug in its cocoon on a dare and won a six-pack of beer! Adventure!

Jen K, I love love love the dried squid. I’m also a big fan of this japanese fish candy. I don’t know what it’s called but I know it comes individually wrapped in silver and gold foil and I love it. Also, I had sweetbreads at a French restaurant once. It really wasn’t bad at all.

I think the grossest thing I’ve ever eaten is cilantro. I freakin hate cilantro. It tastes like soap.

I dated a guy my freshman year of college who took me home to meet his family who lived in a trailer outside of Cut n’ Shoot, TX. While there, his younger brother shot and skinned a squirrel, which his mom then cooked up into squirrel dumplings. I took one bite at dinner and nearly threw up at the table, but at least now I can say that I ate squirrel in a trailer outside of Cut n’ Shoot, TX. Eeeewww….

that is disgusting. so gross.

when i was in morocco, they tried to get me to eat spleen. i politely and then not-so-politely refused.

oops, that was me, Ann, not Michelle who often uses my computer to check on Posh Updates…

Natto. I believe Anthony Bourdain had this to say about natto: “Given a choice between eatting natto and digging up my old dog Pucci (dead thirty-five years) and making rillettes out of him? Sorry, Pucci.”

The chef at the sushi restaurant where I ordered it (foolishly thinking, hey, I’ll try this thing I’ve never heard of) was surprised when I ordered it. “You like natto? Many people in Japan [he paused] think it sucks.” Greeaat.

On the other hand, Bourdain also complains about mountain potato, which I’m pretty sure I had at a different Japanese restaurant, and I rather liked it.

I just want to state that both Japanese Pizza and Chicken Fried Steak are AMAZING. I actually can’t believe Japanese pizza has even been mentioned in the same breath as ‘gross food’. It’s wonderful.

And I don’t want to get into anything but although the Bush Doctrine might not be specifically defined, we all have an idea what that means, and Palin came across as astonishingly ignorant.

She also seemed extremely unlikable, but she was being interviewed by a fairly hostile journalist.

I ate camel in Mauritania, and it’s delicious. Just throwing that out there.

I had a whole series of disgusting food when I was in China–probably worst was the squid, which was just kind of disgusting, but I had something else too I couldn’t eat, and then I had dumplings, which are always good. And a bit like cheating, maybe.

I think there must be other gross things, but I can’t remember. I avoid most unusual types of meat and parts of animals in general, even if it would normally be rude to do so.

It’s not really gross but I did have a Twinkie wiener sandwich that I learned about from UHF. You cut the twinkie down the middle put in a hot dog wiener and put EZ cheeze on top. Wasn’t that bad but after the second one I felt kind of sick and maybe could feel my arteries hardening. I’m very picky when it comes to food. I can’t eat anything that is in the same shape it was when it was alive. Except for shrimp. And I can’t eat anything that could possibly have eaten me. So no Alligator or shark for me. Wait, there is a place called Cut n Shoot, TX? Shouldn’t you shoot before you cut?
And Japanese pizza looks like something I would try.

I had some kind of stuffed pig intestine when I was in Venezuela, and I’m not entirely sure what it was stuffed with.

Brian and I have an acquaintance who lived in a tent on someone’s farm land I think for 3 years. He has all sorts of recipes involving small game animals like squirrel, rabbit, chipmunk, etc. He also liked to take a popsicle and dip it in an ant hill to get it covered in ants before he ate it. He said it tasted like sweet tarts.

UHF . . . Classic.

oh, i forgot to add “tripe” (cow’s stomach) to my list. which i will never eat again. cos it’s super chewy, so with every bite you think, “this is cow’s stomach. this is cow’s stomach.”

japanese pizza = no thank you.

i think olivia wins with camel. although that popsicle story is pretty impressive, and by impressive i mean INSANE.

I’ve eaten eel, which isn’t considered weird at all in Sweden, but I guess most of y’all probably think it’s pretty weird. It tastes fairly good, especially smoked, but it has an intense flavor, so I don’t like to eat too much of it at a time.