Food Challenges i.e. Would You Eat?

[OtakuLoki]

Just a little game.

Each poster is to answer the previous poster's challenge, with a simple yes or no answer. And then post their own challenge.

So a sample exchange might be:

Poster #1: Would you eat peanut butter and pickle sammiches?

Poster #2: No way. Would you eat eggnog pasta?

Poster #3: Yes! Would you eat Guinness Stew?


Of course I intend for people to be a bit more challenging than those examples.


Would you be willing to eat Haggis?

[Exy]

Would you be willing to eat Haggis?

Absolutely, I've heard it tastes good and really it's just a kind of sausage. I love sausage.

Would you be willing to eat veal?

[OneCentStamp]

(right off the bat, there's nothing I wouldn't at least sample, unless it would obviously kill me or make me very sick)

Sure, I'd try haggis!

I can and have eaten veal.

Would you drink kopi luwak?

[OtakuLoki]

My objection to the kopi luwak is not that it's been passed through a civet's digestive tract, but that it's still coffee. But I'd try it. Just a small serving, though - that stuff is too dear to waste on someone who doesn't much like coffee in the first place.

I'm quite willing to eat veal, though I haven't for years.

Would you try balut?

[OneCentStamp]

Wow, OtakuLoki goes for the nuclear option very early in the thread.

*deep breath*

OK, yeah, I'd try a balut. Lots of hot sauce, though.

Would you eat a whole raw habanero?

[Exy]

Would you eat a whole raw habanero?

I doubt I could, although if I was drunk enough I could probably be talked into trying.

Would you eat bird's nest soup? Keeping in mind that the birds in question make their nests out of dried saliva.

(Also, balut, I forgot about that. I don't think I could eat that. I'm not squeamish about my food, in terms of what it is or the cleanliness standards of the establishment but there's a line, and I think balut crosses it.)

[OtakuLoki]

I'd be willing to try bird's nest soup. I've heard enough good about it, that it's a bit of a temptation. What I wouldn't be able to do would be make it myself, and then try it. There's something comforting at times, about letting someone else do the prep work from some of the challenging foods out there.

Would you be willing to eat Rocky Mountain Oysters?

ETA: I have about six habaneros sitting in my fridge waiting for me to next make refried beans. I really had to think long and hard about that one...

[OneCentStamp]

Have eaten RMO, and I suppose I would again if it were on a dare (which this thread clearly is).

Would you be willing to eat a hundred year old egg?

[OtakuLoki]

I'd be willing to try 100 year egg, I think. I've heard it tastes like avacado, and would like to find out whether that were true.

Would you eat the tequila worm?

[Marsilia]

I love tequila! How many drinks do I get before the worm?

Would you eat shrimp if you had to dehead them?

[Exy]

Would you eat shrimp if you had to dehead them?

Yeah. I just don't have any empathy for arthropods so it wouldn't really bug me.

Would you eat dog?

[PapSett]

Nope, it would make me feel like I was eating one of my own. :-(

Would you eat head cheese?

[AndrewRyan]

Anthony Bourdain says head cheese is really good. Of course, he also likes foie gras. But I'd try it.

Would you eat a tarantula?

Like these people. ==>

*shudder*

[OtakuLoki]

No, I don't think so.

For some reason I make a distinction between sea bugs, which I love, and land bugs, which intimidate me when presented as food.


How's about a nice scorpion lollipop?

[OneCentStamp]

No, I don't think so.

For some reason I make a distinction between sea bugs, which I love, and land bugs, which intimidate me when presented as food.


How's about a nice scorpion lollipop?

That's a very interesting distinction, and I make it too, now that you mention it. If you handed me that same lollipop with a small shrimp or some sea bug of similar size in it, I would probably chow down. But that scorpion grosses me out.

Next: Fugu, anyone?

[Nrblex]

Assuming I magically knew it had been properly prepared, hell yeah! Otherwise...better get me drunk first.

Nattō?

[OtakuLoki]

I am not eager to try natto. But I've heard enough about it to not be scared by it, either. Sure I'd try it. ( , on the other hand, I think is a bit beyond me.)

Going back to the mammals: Would you be willing to eat monkey, with the assurance that the species involved is in no way endangered?

[Inner Stickler]

Sure. If I'm willing to eat cow and pig and chicken, there's nothing different about monkey. I'd like insurance that it's not a vector for weird diseases, though. (Didn't HIV get us through monkeys?)

Would you eat a live earthworm?

[Hatshepsut]

Depends on what was at stake. Sure, if you were holding a knife to a loved one telling me you'd slash them if I didn't eat the earthworm, no problem, I'd gulp down a bucket of them.

Otherwise, no.

Would you eat sea cucumber? It's considered a delicacy in some places I've been. In Micronesia they pound it to a paste with rocks (apparently is is quite tough and rubbery if you don't do that).

[Cluricaun]

Sure, I'll try anything once. I wouldn't have an expectation that it would be any good, but what the hell, pound me out some cuke.

Now I know I wouldn't try casu marzu or how ever you spell that Sardinian maggot ridden cheese. Would the next poster?

[Nrblex]

Hell to the N. O.

Would you eat this kitten?

[OneCentStamp]

Oh god no. I saw that shit on Travel Channel once and it gave me the fuckin' chills. :shock:

Sorry, that was in response to Ryan. No, I wouldn't eat cat either. Eww.

Anyone for some fresh, stump spanked chitlins?

[Cluricaun]

Chitlins are like eating rubberbands seasoned with sweaty hippie armpits. So I have and would again.

Would you eat duck blood soup?

[Cluricaun]

Chitlins are like eating rubberbands seasoned with sweaty hippie armpits. So I have and would again.

Would you eat duck blood soup?

[Orual]

Considering how my dad insists that duck's blood soup is a) part of my cultural heritage, and b) delicious, I'd be willing to give it a try.

Would anyone around here eat fish that's served up still living?

[Exy]

Would anyone around here eat fish that's served up still living?

Nope, although I read a description of eating raw prawns that made it sound tasty. (Apparently the Koreans do it too, because I think it was a discussion of a Korean specialty.) I still couldn't handle it, however tasty they might be.

I got paid $3 to eat a live moth once in high school, though. (It wasn't the first time I disrupted history class, either.) Would you eat a live moth?

[AndrewRyan]

Nope, although I read a description of eating raw prawns that made it sound tasty. (Apparently the Koreans do it too, because I think it was a discussion of a Korean specialty.) I still couldn't handle it, however tasty they might be.

I got paid $3 to eat a live moth once in high school, though. (It wasn't the first time I disrupted history class, either.) Would you eat a live moth?

A live moth! Gross, I would never.....oh, well I guess for 3 bucks I would.

Would you eat a still beating cobra heart, like Andrew Zimmern?

[Nrblex]

A live moth! Gross, I would never.....oh, well I guess for 3 bucks I would.

Would you eat a still beating cobra heart, like Andrew Zimmern?

Yeah, sure. I'm pretty sure the act of eating a still beating cobra heart spontaneously turns your balls to admantium.

Who wants lutefisk?

[OtakuLoki]

Who wants lutefisk?

Do we get to specify good lutefisk? I mean I've heard wildly differentiated reports on the stuff. Ranging from "odd, but possibly palatable," to "OMG - this has to be a trick played on a poor tourist!" I'm willing to try the first variety.


However, you've got real gonads if you're willing to consider trying surströmming.

Surströmming is sold in cans, which often bulge during shipping and storage, due to the continued fermentation. When opened, the contents release a strong and sometimes overwhelming odour, which explains why the dish is often eaten outdoors.

Doesn't that just scream Yummy?