Are you now, or have you ever been, willing to eat bizarre foods?

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Some people will cram banana, peanut butter, and mayonnaise sandwiches into their gullets as fast as the things can be made. What's your personal bizarre food, or the worst one you've ever heard of? What's the strangest thing you'd be willing to eat?

Me, I'm a dubious customer when it comes to new foods, so you know I wouldn't willingly eat anything with a bug in it for sure! I assimilate new taste sensations s - l - o - w - l - y.



-- Ann Monroe (monroe@chorus.net), June 01, 2000

Answers

I strongly feel that peanut butter can go anywhere, the same attitude that others have about salt. I put both peanut butter and syrup on my pancakes, and my husband found a peanut butter french toast recipe just for me. Peanut butter coleslaw is very good. I like lots of different ethnic foods, as long as it's not hot. I don't like to cry while I'm eating. My husband disagrees, and puts hot sauce on his eggs.

-- AJ (joijoijoi@hotmail.com), June 01, 2000.

Our "Eat Your Fear" party emerged from that very question. Guests brought all manner of exotiques and bizarrities -- from "Northwest escargot" to sushi that would make H.P. Lovecraft squirm to family recipes that would seem at home only where the family name was Addams. Meat dishes, vegetarian dishes, natural organics, sweets, desserts, beverages -- all categories were demonstrably capable of producing the most outlandish/adventuresome/whoozy-inducing/palate- surprising concoctions. Plus, each dish was a conversational ice- breaker, so the party was a success on all levels.

The evening culminated in the most gasp-provoking, eyeball-rolling dish of 'em all, a convection so vile in its contents and so noxious in its form that only the bravest among us could read its list of ingredients without fainting from terror or toxic shock syndrome. And leave it to a horror writer to bring the offending item: K.W. Jeter's box of Twinkies. Made the Northwest escargot (all natural!) a supreme favorite by comparison.

-- Mark (mbourne@sff.net), June 04, 2000.


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