OH NO! I HOPE THAT'S CHEESE!

While drinking breakfast, I clicked on a helpful video. It was an eye-opener. Most of the young people in the video were just so charming, up-beat, and game for almost anything the makers threw at them.
I have a renewed appreciation for their age-bracket now.
Might even consider associating with them.
Under the right circumstances.

[*Drinking breakfast: Strong coffee, two cups. Can't stand food for the first three or four hours of the day, and certainly not a typical greasy pan-fried assortment of blah.]

Notice that there's a bottle of bourbon.

And stuff to eat.


AMERICANS TASTE EXOTIC ASIAN FOOD


[SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lK475dxZds.]


All told, that's just five things.

Chicken Feet
Natto
Durian
Balut
Sannakji


The first one is easy; just simmer them with soy, garlic, rice wine, and ginger, plus a little sugar, till dark, rubbery, and packed with flavour.
Nom nom nom.

The third item is educational. Fruit with a killer attitude. You haven't lived till you've tried it. But there is actually no need whatsoever to go there, and you can enjoy the rest of your life to the fullest without ever doing so. You might be better off if you didn't. Even with chopsticks.
I haven't had it in over a decade, despite it being easy to find in San Francisco, nor do I miss it in the slightest.
Some life is over-rated.

Natto, Balut, and Sannakji: oh hell no.
Absolutely not, incredibly nasty.
There are limits, dude.

I come from a culture that consumes eel, raw fish, blood sausage, organ sludge, horse meat, and deep fried hockey pucks, among other rare things. So I  understand the appeal of absurdity on a plate, and unusual comestibles do not inspire me with existential angst.

In the slightest.

I've even eaten haggis.

But Natto, Balut, and Sannakji are icky.


REALLY OPINIONATED, A LITTLE DUMB


[SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMJI1Dw83Hc.]



I'd rather eat partially decomposed congealed glandular exudate from ruminants, infected with brevibacteria.

It's kind of a whitish thing.

Cultural.



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