Comments on: waiter, there’s a squirrel in my patty melt

By: Sofia

Sofia — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:59:31 +0000

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.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:42:04 +0000

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.

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:52:47 +0000

UHF . . . Classic.

By: Angela

Angela — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:03:50 +0000

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.

By: Moody

Moody — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:55:29 +0000

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.

By: olivia

olivia — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:58:39 +0000

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.

By: John

John — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:11:43 +0000

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.

By: tODD

tODD — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:32:00 +0000

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.

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:27:47 +0000

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

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:26:48 +0000

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.