My Omnivore's Inventory
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naomikritzerOK, I wrote this up a while ago and then never posted it, but I like my version better than the meme currently in circulation, so here it is.
1. Hve you ever eaten artichoke?
2. Okra?
3. Cactus?
4. Kumquats?
5. Persimmon?
6. Star fruit?
7. Turnip or mustard greens?
8. Have you eaten a habanero pepper?
9. More than once?
10. Have you ever eaten dandelions?
11. Have you eaten ferns?
12. Have you eaten cat tails?
13. Have you eaten food made from crab apples?
14. Acorns?
15. From other items considered inedible to humans?
16. Have you ever eaten something harvested while hiking?
17. Have you ever eaten a mushroom you picked yourself?
18. Have you ever eaten something despite not being absolutely certain it wasn't toxic??
19. Have you ever accidentally poisoned yourself?
20. Have you eaten tofu?
21. Have you ever eaten a Tofurkey?
22. Have you ever eaten soy cheese, or another non-dairy cheese substitute?
23. Have you ever eaten a non-dairy ice cream substitute?
24. Have you drunk soy milk?
25. Have you eaten limburger cheese?
26. Unpasteurized cheese?
27. Have you ever drunk raw milk?
28. Have you ever drunk goat's milk?
29. Sheep's milk?
30. Yak's milk?
31. Other milk that came from neither a cow nor a human being?
32. Have you tasted either human milk or baby formula as an adult?
33. Have you ever eaten goat?
34. Have you ever eaten rabbit?
35. Have you ever eaten buffalo?
36. Water buffalo?
37. Pheasant?
38. Quail?
39. Ostrich?
40. Emu?
41. Venison?
42. Elk?
43. Moose?
44. Bear?
45. Kangaroo?
46. Snake?
47. Alligator?
48. Frog?
49. Raccoon?
50. Squirrel?
51. Muskrat or nutria?
52. Possum?
53. Rat?
54. Horse?
55. Dog?
56. Have you ever eaten a fish that still had its head attached?
57. Did you eat any of the meat in the head?
58. Did you just say, "yeah, of course, that's the best part"?
59. Have you eaten squid?
60. Octopus?
61. Eel?
62. Oysters?
63. Were they raw?
64. Have you eaten sashimi, or sushi that contained raw fish?
65. Have you eaten caviar?
66. Have you eaten a whole lobster (the kind you have to pry out of its shell)?
67. Crab in its shell?
68. Soft-shelled crab?
69. Sea urchin?
70. Jellyfish?
71. Have you ever eaten snails?
72. Have you ever eaten an insect?
73. Intentionally?
74. Big enough that you had to chew it up?
75. How about insect larvae?
76. Have you ever eaten something just to impress another person with what you'll eat?
77. Have you ever eaten something just because you'd never eaten that species before?
78. Have you ever eaten something just because you'd never eaten that body part before?
79. Have you ever eaten liver?
80. Have you ever eaten intestines?
81. Have you ever eaten kidneys (a.k.a. "sweetbreads")?
82. Have you ever eaten brain?
83. Have you ever eaten tongue?
84. Have you ever eaten an eyeball?
85. Have you ever eaten a testicle?
86. Have you ever eaten a foot?
87. Did it look recognizably like a foot while you were eating it?
88. Have you ever killed an animal and then eaten it?
89. Have you ever killed a bird or mammal and then eaten it?
90. Have you ever given an animal a name, and later eaten it?
91. Have you ever eaten lutefisk?
92. Haggis?
93. Blood sausage?
94. Black pudding?
95. British sausage?
96. Marmite?
97. Scrapple?
98. Chitlins?
99. MREs?
100. Have you ever eaten something completely unfamiliar (e.g., you were in a foreign country, and ate some food presented to you without knowing what it was)?
The idea here is that you don't give the whole checklist, but instead do it purity-test style: you start with 100, deduct 1 point for every "yes," and then brag about your score like you did in college ("ooooh, I am SO CORRUPT you probably don't want to associate with me...")
My score was 44 and then I remembered a bunch of things I'd eaten. I have edited: my score is 39, which means I've eaten 61 of the listed items. (OK, OK, it's more fun to brag when you're specific. I'll give my answers below the cut.)
1. Hve you ever eaten artichoke? Yes.
2. Okra? Yes.
3. Cactus? Yes.
4. Kumquats? Yes.
5. Persimmon? Yes.
6. Star fruit? Yes.
7. Turnip or mustard greens? Yes.
8. Have you eaten a habanero pepper? No.
9. More than once? No.
10. Have you ever eaten dandelions? Yes.
11. Have you eaten ferns? Yes.
12. Have you eaten cat tails? Yes.
13. Have you eaten food made from crab apples? No.
14. Acorns? No.
15. From other items considered inedible to humans? No.
16. Have you ever eaten something harvested while hiking? Yes.
17. Have you ever eaten a mushroom you picked yourself? No.
18. Have you ever eaten something despite not being absolutely certain it wasn't toxic? Yes. (OK, admittedly, when I ate it, I THOUGHT it was edible.)
19. Have you ever accidentally poisoned yourself? Yes. (On a berry, eaten as a teenager. It wasn't a blueberry.)
20. Have you eaten tofu? Yes.
21. Have you ever eaten a Tofurkey? No.
22. Have you ever eaten soy cheese, or another non-dairy cheese substitute? Yes. (Bleah.)
23. Have you ever eaten a non-dairy ice cream substitute? Yes.
24. Have you drunk soy milk? Yes.
25. Have you eaten limburger cheese? No.
26. Unpasteurized cheese? Yes.
27. Have you ever drunk raw milk? Yes.
28. Have you ever drunk goat's milk? No.
29. Sheep's milk? No.
30. Yak's milk? No.
31. Other milk that came from neither a cow nor a human being? Yes. Water buffalo milk.
32. Have you tasted either human milk or baby formula as an adult? Yes.
33. Have you ever eaten goat? Yes.
34. Have you ever eaten rabbit? Yes.
35. Have you ever eaten buffalo? Yes.
36. Water buffalo? No. Just the milk.
37. Pheasant? I don't think so.
38. Quail? Yes, deep-fried with blood orange sauce at the Local years ago. FABULOUS.
39. Ostrich? Yes, with cherry sauce at Sherlock's Home years ago. FABULOUS.
40. Emu? Yes.
41. Venison? Yes.
42. Elk? No.
43. Moose? Yes.
44. Bear? No.
45. Kangaroo? Yes: kangaroo jerky.
46. Snake? No.
47. Alligator? Yes. Deep-fried alligator nuggets.
48. Frog? No.
49. Raccoon? No.
50. Squirrel? No.
51. Muskrat or nutria? No.
52. Possum? No.
53. Rat? No.
54. Horse? No.
55. Dog? No.
56. Have you ever eaten a fish that still had its head attached? Yes.
57. Did you eat any of the meat in the head? Yes.
58. Did you just say, "yeah, of course, that's the best part"? No.
59. Have you eaten squid? Yes.
60. Octopus? Yes.
61. Eel? Yes.
62. Oysters? Yes.
63. Were they raw? Yes.
64. Have you eaten sashimi, or sushi that contained raw fish? Yes.
65. Have you eaten caviar? Yes (if by "caviar" you mean "fish eggs")
66. Have you eaten a whole lobster (the kind you have to pry out of its shell)? Yes.
67. Crab in its shell? Yes.
68. Soft-shelled crab? Yes.
69. Sea urchin? No.
70. Jellyfish? Yes.
71. Have you ever eaten snails? Yes.
72. Have you ever eaten an insect? Yes.
73. Intentionally? No.
74. Big enough that you had to chew it up? No.
75. How about insect larvae? No.
76. Have you ever eaten something just to impress another person with what you'll eat? Yes: raw oysters.
77. Have you ever eaten something just because you'd never eaten that species before? Yes: kangaroo jerky.
78. Have you ever eaten something just because you'd never eaten that body part before? Yes: chicken feet.
79. Have you ever eaten liver? Yes.
80. Have you ever eaten intestines? Yes.
81. Have you ever eaten kidneys (a.k.a. "sweetbreads")? Yes.
82. Have you ever eaten brain? Yes.
83. Have you ever eaten tongue? Yes.
84. Have you ever eaten an eyeball? No.
85. Have you ever eaten a testicle? No.
86. Have you ever eaten a foot? Yes.
87. Did it look recognizably like a foot while you were eating it? Yes.
88. Have you ever killed an animal and then eaten it? No.
89. Have you ever killed a bird or mammal and then eaten it? No. I've seen them killed and then eaten the meat, though.
90. Have you ever given an animal a name, and later eaten it? No. If it's got a name, it's a pet. I don't eat my pets unless I'm under siege or something.
91. Have you ever eaten lutefisk? No. Which is kind of amazing, since I live in MN.
92. Haggis? No.
93. Blood sausage? Yes.
94. Black pudding? Yes.
95. British sausage? Yes. And I'm just going to take one more opportunity to note: SCARIEST FOOD IN THE WORLD.
96. Marmite? No.
97. Scrapple? Yes.
98. Chitlins? No.
99. MREs? No.
100. Have you ever eaten something completely unfamiliar (e.g., you were in a foreign country, and ate some food presented to you without knowing what it was)? Yes, several times while in Nepal. If my host family was eating it I figured it had to be edible.
1. Hve you ever eaten artichoke?
2. Okra?
3. Cactus?
4. Kumquats?
5. Persimmon?
6. Star fruit?
7. Turnip or mustard greens?
8. Have you eaten a habanero pepper?
9. More than once?
10. Have you ever eaten dandelions?
11. Have you eaten ferns?
12. Have you eaten cat tails?
13. Have you eaten food made from crab apples?
14. Acorns?
15. From other items considered inedible to humans?
16. Have you ever eaten something harvested while hiking?
17. Have you ever eaten a mushroom you picked yourself?
18. Have you ever eaten something despite not being absolutely certain it wasn't toxic??
19. Have you ever accidentally poisoned yourself?
20. Have you eaten tofu?
21. Have you ever eaten a Tofurkey?
22. Have you ever eaten soy cheese, or another non-dairy cheese substitute?
23. Have you ever eaten a non-dairy ice cream substitute?
24. Have you drunk soy milk?
25. Have you eaten limburger cheese?
26. Unpasteurized cheese?
27. Have you ever drunk raw milk?
28. Have you ever drunk goat's milk?
29. Sheep's milk?
30. Yak's milk?
31. Other milk that came from neither a cow nor a human being?
32. Have you tasted either human milk or baby formula as an adult?
33. Have you ever eaten goat?
34. Have you ever eaten rabbit?
35. Have you ever eaten buffalo?
36. Water buffalo?
37. Pheasant?
38. Quail?
39. Ostrich?
40. Emu?
41. Venison?
42. Elk?
43. Moose?
44. Bear?
45. Kangaroo?
46. Snake?
47. Alligator?
48. Frog?
49. Raccoon?
50. Squirrel?
51. Muskrat or nutria?
52. Possum?
53. Rat?
54. Horse?
55. Dog?
56. Have you ever eaten a fish that still had its head attached?
57. Did you eat any of the meat in the head?
58. Did you just say, "yeah, of course, that's the best part"?
59. Have you eaten squid?
60. Octopus?
61. Eel?
62. Oysters?
63. Were they raw?
64. Have you eaten sashimi, or sushi that contained raw fish?
65. Have you eaten caviar?
66. Have you eaten a whole lobster (the kind you have to pry out of its shell)?
67. Crab in its shell?
68. Soft-shelled crab?
69. Sea urchin?
70. Jellyfish?
71. Have you ever eaten snails?
72. Have you ever eaten an insect?
73. Intentionally?
74. Big enough that you had to chew it up?
75. How about insect larvae?
76. Have you ever eaten something just to impress another person with what you'll eat?
77. Have you ever eaten something just because you'd never eaten that species before?
78. Have you ever eaten something just because you'd never eaten that body part before?
79. Have you ever eaten liver?
80. Have you ever eaten intestines?
81. Have you ever eaten kidneys (a.k.a. "sweetbreads")?
82. Have you ever eaten brain?
83. Have you ever eaten tongue?
84. Have you ever eaten an eyeball?
85. Have you ever eaten a testicle?
86. Have you ever eaten a foot?
87. Did it look recognizably like a foot while you were eating it?
88. Have you ever killed an animal and then eaten it?
89. Have you ever killed a bird or mammal and then eaten it?
90. Have you ever given an animal a name, and later eaten it?
91. Have you ever eaten lutefisk?
92. Haggis?
93. Blood sausage?
94. Black pudding?
95. British sausage?
96. Marmite?
97. Scrapple?
98. Chitlins?
99. MREs?
100. Have you ever eaten something completely unfamiliar (e.g., you were in a foreign country, and ate some food presented to you without knowing what it was)?
The idea here is that you don't give the whole checklist, but instead do it purity-test style: you start with 100, deduct 1 point for every "yes," and then brag about your score like you did in college ("ooooh, I am SO CORRUPT you probably don't want to associate with me...")
My score was 44 and then I remembered a bunch of things I'd eaten. I have edited: my score is 39, which means I've eaten 61 of the listed items. (OK, OK, it's more fun to brag when you're specific. I'll give my answers below the cut.)
1. Hve you ever eaten artichoke? Yes.
2. Okra? Yes.
3. Cactus? Yes.
4. Kumquats? Yes.
5. Persimmon? Yes.
6. Star fruit? Yes.
7. Turnip or mustard greens? Yes.
8. Have you eaten a habanero pepper? No.
9. More than once? No.
10. Have you ever eaten dandelions? Yes.
11. Have you eaten ferns? Yes.
12. Have you eaten cat tails? Yes.
13. Have you eaten food made from crab apples? No.
14. Acorns? No.
15. From other items considered inedible to humans? No.
16. Have you ever eaten something harvested while hiking? Yes.
17. Have you ever eaten a mushroom you picked yourself? No.
18. Have you ever eaten something despite not being absolutely certain it wasn't toxic? Yes. (OK, admittedly, when I ate it, I THOUGHT it was edible.)
19. Have you ever accidentally poisoned yourself? Yes. (On a berry, eaten as a teenager. It wasn't a blueberry.)
20. Have you eaten tofu? Yes.
21. Have you ever eaten a Tofurkey? No.
22. Have you ever eaten soy cheese, or another non-dairy cheese substitute? Yes. (Bleah.)
23. Have you ever eaten a non-dairy ice cream substitute? Yes.
24. Have you drunk soy milk? Yes.
25. Have you eaten limburger cheese? No.
26. Unpasteurized cheese? Yes.
27. Have you ever drunk raw milk? Yes.
28. Have you ever drunk goat's milk? No.
29. Sheep's milk? No.
30. Yak's milk? No.
31. Other milk that came from neither a cow nor a human being? Yes. Water buffalo milk.
32. Have you tasted either human milk or baby formula as an adult? Yes.
33. Have you ever eaten goat? Yes.
34. Have you ever eaten rabbit? Yes.
35. Have you ever eaten buffalo? Yes.
36. Water buffalo? No. Just the milk.
37. Pheasant? I don't think so.
38. Quail? Yes, deep-fried with blood orange sauce at the Local years ago. FABULOUS.
39. Ostrich? Yes, with cherry sauce at Sherlock's Home years ago. FABULOUS.
40. Emu? Yes.
41. Venison? Yes.
42. Elk? No.
43. Moose? Yes.
44. Bear? No.
45. Kangaroo? Yes: kangaroo jerky.
46. Snake? No.
47. Alligator? Yes. Deep-fried alligator nuggets.
48. Frog? No.
49. Raccoon? No.
50. Squirrel? No.
51. Muskrat or nutria? No.
52. Possum? No.
53. Rat? No.
54. Horse? No.
55. Dog? No.
56. Have you ever eaten a fish that still had its head attached? Yes.
57. Did you eat any of the meat in the head? Yes.
58. Did you just say, "yeah, of course, that's the best part"? No.
59. Have you eaten squid? Yes.
60. Octopus? Yes.
61. Eel? Yes.
62. Oysters? Yes.
63. Were they raw? Yes.
64. Have you eaten sashimi, or sushi that contained raw fish? Yes.
65. Have you eaten caviar? Yes (if by "caviar" you mean "fish eggs")
66. Have you eaten a whole lobster (the kind you have to pry out of its shell)? Yes.
67. Crab in its shell? Yes.
68. Soft-shelled crab? Yes.
69. Sea urchin? No.
70. Jellyfish? Yes.
71. Have you ever eaten snails? Yes.
72. Have you ever eaten an insect? Yes.
73. Intentionally? No.
74. Big enough that you had to chew it up? No.
75. How about insect larvae? No.
76. Have you ever eaten something just to impress another person with what you'll eat? Yes: raw oysters.
77. Have you ever eaten something just because you'd never eaten that species before? Yes: kangaroo jerky.
78. Have you ever eaten something just because you'd never eaten that body part before? Yes: chicken feet.
79. Have you ever eaten liver? Yes.
80. Have you ever eaten intestines? Yes.
81. Have you ever eaten kidneys (a.k.a. "sweetbreads")? Yes.
82. Have you ever eaten brain? Yes.
83. Have you ever eaten tongue? Yes.
84. Have you ever eaten an eyeball? No.
85. Have you ever eaten a testicle? No.
86. Have you ever eaten a foot? Yes.
87. Did it look recognizably like a foot while you were eating it? Yes.
88. Have you ever killed an animal and then eaten it? No.
89. Have you ever killed a bird or mammal and then eaten it? No. I've seen them killed and then eaten the meat, though.
90. Have you ever given an animal a name, and later eaten it? No. If it's got a name, it's a pet. I don't eat my pets unless I'm under siege or something.
91. Have you ever eaten lutefisk? No. Which is kind of amazing, since I live in MN.
92. Haggis? No.
93. Blood sausage? Yes.
94. Black pudding? Yes.
95. British sausage? Yes. And I'm just going to take one more opportunity to note: SCARIEST FOOD IN THE WORLD.
96. Marmite? No.
97. Scrapple? Yes.
98. Chitlins? No.
99. MREs? No.
100. Have you ever eaten something completely unfamiliar (e.g., you were in a foreign country, and ate some food presented to you without knowing what it was)? Yes, several times while in Nepal. If my host family was eating it I figured it had to be edible.
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Date: 2008-08-14 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-14 05:41 pm (UTC)I was disappointed in Lutefisk. It wasn't bad enough to be horrible or good enough to be surprisingly tasty. It was basically just fishy gelatinous goo, which isn't all that interesting.
Sea Cucumber should be on more of these lists. I'm not eating that again.
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Date: 2008-08-14 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-08-14 05:55 pm (UTC)Mmm, now I want a soft-shell crab sandwich. I really love those. White toast, mayo, lettuce, tomato, and eight crispy legs hanging off the sides. Perfection.
...Wait, I guess I have eaten brains, if crab brains count. Do crab brains count, if you euphemize them as "mustard"?
I am surprised by some of the things you haven't tried. I assume that you're only counting as "caviar" the black sturgeon roe kind, given that you're an enthusiastic sushi eater. I tend to think of any fish eggs as caviar. (Salmon caviar is my favorite.) Also: cactus is very much worth trying, especially the prickly pear kind called nopales. Yum.
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Date: 2008-08-14 05:58 pm (UTC)And you just now reminded me, I HAVE tried both cactus and sweetbreads. The sweetbreads were on a tabletop grill at an Argentine steakhouse that closed (alas) about a year after they opened, and the cactus was on a similar tabletop grill at a Mexican place.
And crab brains. I should've thought of that: I had a soft-shelled crab sandwich just last night...
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Date: 2008-08-14 05:59 pm (UTC)This is just like college all over again.
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Date: 2008-08-14 06:05 pm (UTC)neck with strangerseat some sweetbreads.no subject
Date: 2008-08-14 06:35 pm (UTC)I do need to try more dairy stuff, though. Adventures in cheeses and milks.
Truthfully, I'd take deep fried scorpion on a stick in a heartbeat over organs.
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Date: 2008-08-14 06:10 pm (UTC)Also, now I am hungry for sushi!
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Date: 2008-08-14 06:28 pm (UTC)I have 52 and some of those things I don't know what they are, e.g. how do soft-shelled crabs differ from ordinary ones and what is scrapple and MREs?
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Date: 2008-08-14 06:35 pm (UTC)"What is scrapple" is probably best answered with, "you really don't want to know," but it's sort of a sausage-type stuff that comes in bricks and originates in Pennsylvania. It's much mushier and less chewy than most American sausage.
MRE = Meal Ready-to-Eat. I think these days they probably come in vacuum-sealed plastic but once upon a time they came in tins, and they're served to American armed forces who are in the field. They also sell them at outfitters; some people use them as backpacking food or hunting/camping trip food.
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Date: 2008-08-14 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-14 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-14 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-14 07:53 pm (UTC)Personally, I think tofu is mainstream enough these days that I might have replaced it with, say, headcheese.
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Date: 2008-08-14 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-14 08:16 pm (UTC)6463, with another 3 "probably"s and a couple of "it's quite possible I ate this in my childhood and have blocked it out"s.And also I don't know what MREs are.I haven't eaten cactus, but I have eaten prickly pears that still had the prickles on and had to be de-booby-trapped before eating (that was the year we lived in Spain, which is also where I may well have eaten blood sausage and possibly bunny rabbit).I'm intrigued that artichokes, a staple vegetable in my family when I was growing up, are on this list. Tofu, starfruit and dandelion greens likewise don't strike me as very exotic.
I have not eaten moose, but I'm not sure how I escaped -- we had friends when I was a kid who used to shoot a moose (just one) every year and keep it hanging up in their garage all winter. They made moose steaks, moose sausage, moose burgers... I have, however, eaten buffalo (in the form of burgers) and lots and lots of fish with the heads on. And lutefisk. And liver. And vats of sushi and sashimi.
Now I'm hungry.
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Date: 2008-08-14 08:34 pm (UTC)Now I'm an adult and my husband hates them, so I don't make them very often. I should make one sometime, though, just to let the girls try it. The mechanics of eating them are entertaining enough that I think they'd enjoy the process.
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Date: 2008-08-14 10:01 pm (UTC)My husband hates artichokes, too, and my daughter categorically refuses to eat anything green, so I don't eat them very often these days, either.
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Date: 2008-08-14 09:18 pm (UTC)When I was a kid, we fished a lot during the summer. I have caught and killed and cooked several kinds of fish, and crabs. I've eaten morels that I've picked in the wild, probably the safest wild mushroom, because false morels aren't dangerous, just not very tasty. I've eaten duck feet when I lived near Chinatown in San Francisco. I've tried most organ meats, and I am very fond of tongue. For some strange reason, it has become expensive - it was poor folks food when I was growing up.
I made dandelion wine with friends a long time ago. It was not very good.
Some of these I can't really remember - the things we try at the State Fair!!
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Date: 2008-08-14 10:04 pm (UTC)I wonder how many people would say "no" to veggies I eat fairly regularly, though, like turnips.
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Date: 2008-08-18 01:29 am (UTC)There was this culinary fad for beets on a message board I post at last year, that was followed by a fad for turnips. Someone tried beets and raved about how awesome they were and then everyone else decided to try them. (They're readily available and cheap, so why not?) Someone went looking for beets but brought home turnips by mistake, and said they were positively ambrosial, which set off the sub-fad. It's kind of a funny thing to watch happen.
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Date: 2008-08-14 10:17 pm (UTC)I find it funny for some reason that you blanched at scorpion-on-a-stick, but not at lobster, which is basically an EVEN BIGGER bug that crawls around in the mud. Not my favorite sea creature.
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Date: 2008-08-15 02:46 am (UTC)I think the list needs more exotic non-meat foodstuffs. Thousand-year-old eggs, bitter melon, passionfruit, cherimoya, quinoa, scotch bonnets, rollmops ...
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Date: 2008-08-18 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-15 04:56 am (UTC)And if you want we might be able to solve that MRE issue. I believe we have some kicking around the house somewhere...if the quartermaster will let the boxes be opened.
And the big thing I couldn't get past was pigeon. My mind kept going 'Rats with Wings'.
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Date: 2008-08-19 05:05 pm (UTC)*sigh*
And, the thing is, I have no desire to sample any of the items I have not eaten. (Oh, well, maybe two or three, but no more than that.)
I have had caviar a couple of times, was not impressed... but I grew up looking forward to the spring time shad runs because I believed that shad roe was one of the most delicious foods ever.
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Date: 2008-08-20 09:48 pm (UTC)I wrote a paper on entomaphagy in grad school, but I never indulged in it myself.
Raw Oysters
Date: 2008-08-21 11:07 pm (UTC)Several years ago, the state of California made a requirement that all imported raw oysters must be pasteurized and since that requirement was put into place there have been NO FURTHER DEATHS in that state.
In order to affect change, consumers need to only accept oysters that are SAFE through post harvest processing or through being cooked. Consumer demand drives the market and the industry would be forced to provide oysters that did not lead to unnecessary deaths.
The website www.rawoysteralert.com has a wealth of information available and also explains how you can help in making the consumption of oysters safe for everyone.
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Date: 2008-09-02 03:46 am (UTC)1 pepper down. 12 are ripening on the vine. There appear to me more blossoms turning into fruit daily...egads.