What food have you never had but are dying to try?

Golf trips sound like a much better and less dangerous consumer of cash.

Maybe not...I have to share this with you. It wasn't a trip mind you, but we were playing "honey golf" last Sunday with some good friends. He's a 22 HCP, and wasn't playing well at all. Len asked if he could "make one suggestion." Our friend said, "Yes, please." Len: "Just finish your shot. You are stopping at impact." On the next tee, a 150 yd par three over water our friend swings and somehow lets go of his iron. Thank god Len ducked in time (good reflexes because he was standing pretty close!) but it still winged by his temple and missed by a fraction of an inch. The next three holes, I was shaking so badly (for seeing his life flash before my eyes) that I played like a 22 myself. Very scary.

[Jenise]

A bunch of cannibals caught a comedian and roasted him for dinner. Afterward, one commented, "I thought it tasted kind of funny."

I've had moose....tasty. The menu at a nice restaurant in Green Bay had a sort of north woods mixed grill that included moose. I believe the other meats were deer and lamb.

Mike,

Was the restaurant called Hinterland?

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"No," replied the Chief, "THINGS go better with Coke."

Ouch!

Mark Lipton

I presume you heard of the cannibal who passed his brother in the jungle...

I alluded to this in my post about the Congo. For the record, I really do not have a hankering to try human steak; it was just a food I could think of which I haven't tried, knowingly. I wasn't looking for city pigeons, either, only I think I ate a couple by accident in a Chinese restaurant. God knows what you could conceivably eat in New York restaurants without knowing it.

Searching the web a bit, I came onto Some blog, called Martin’s Blog. Martin mentioned the supposed “case of William Buehler Seabrook, a journalist with the New York Times who traveled extensively in West Africa. Fascinated with the concept of cannibalism, he persuaded a medical intern at the Sorbonne (the University of Paris) to give him a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy man killed in an accident, which he cooked and ate, describing is as follows:”

"It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have."

[David M. Bueker]

Romulan Ale

I've always had a hankering for Klingon gagh: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Gagh

I presume you heard of the cannibal who passed his brother in the jungle...

I alluded to this in my post about the Congo. For the record, I really do not have a hankering to try human steak; it was just a food I could think of which I haven't tried, knowingly.

Then how about flesh water. A classic example of Engrish.

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This photo was taken this past weekend at Matsumoto, Japan. I had just eaten lunch at another restaurant that had pickled bee larvae (hatchi-no-ko) on the menu. I regret not ordering it now. I asked a Japanese coworker this week about it and she said that it was a specialty of Nagano prefecture. From what I could find, other than this dish, insects are not a standard dish in Japan.

A bunch of cannibals caught a comedian and roasted him for dinner. Afterward, one commented, "I thought it tasted kind of funny."

A bunch of cannibals caught two Catholic missionaries and put them in a large pot of boiling water. The chief walked out of his hut and exclaimed "You idiots! What are you doing? Can't you tell they're friars?".

This photo was taken this past weekend at Matsumoto, Japan. I had just eaten lunch at another restaurant that had pickled bee larvae (hatchi-no-ko) on the menu. I regret not ordering it now. I asked a Japanese coworker this week about it and she said that it was a specialty of Nagano prefecture. From what I could find, other than this dish, insects are not a standard dish in Japan.

Yes, the Far East can widen your palate. Possibly the most interesting thing I "ate" was squeezed snake. You take a large, live snake, which is hanging by the tip of its tail in a firm clamp, and slit it the length of the body. Then you take your hand and squeeze it starting near the tail and sliding your fist the length of the snake to the head, so that you milk out all the juice and guts into a waiting glass. To that bloody mess, you add brandy and drink the concoction in one big gulp. I have also enjoyed live fish, which is deep fried with a wet towel wrapped around the head, which is kept above the oil. When placed on your plate, the gills continue to function as you consume the cooked part. And of course, drunken live shrimp, bathed in a bowel with 150 rum and then lit up with a match. At the height of their dance, they are placed on your plate. When Americans turn their noses up at dishes such as sushi, I am bemused.

The concept of cooking and eating creatures while they are still alive leaves me cold. It seems unnecessarily cruel and disrespectful. I'd avoid this like the plague.

The concept of cooking and eating creatures while they are still alive leaves me cold. It seems unnecessarily cruel and disrespectful. I'd avoid this like the plague.

I know. Don't worry. Western values are homogenizing Asia. Aisan cities are beginning to look like Cleveland. Soon it will leave the Chinese and Japanese people cold, too.

The concept of cooking and eating creatures while they are still alive leaves me cold. It seems unnecessarily cruel and disrespectful. I'd avoid this like the plague.

Oysters?

Oysters?

Had a half dozen once. Over-rated - only 4 of them worked....

I think that oysters run afoul of the rule of animal advocacy that to be worthy of your indignity and in order to get a foundation in your honor, you have to be a cute animal like a baby seal. The uglier they are, the less likely anyone will object to their mistreatment.

You could possibly pot warthogs from the back of a Landrover or walk through fields of slugs, wearing your golf shoes without arousing a peep of objection, but touch one hair on the head of something really cute, and they'll be ready to lynch you.

You could possibly pot warthogs from the back of a Landrover or walk through fields of slugs, wearing your golf shoes without arousing a peep of objection, but touch one hair on the head of something really cute, and they'll be ready to lynch you.

Yes, we have touched on this before. I wonder if Matilda swats flies. I don't. But it is an aesthetic thing; an armchair philosophy. I, like everybody else, kill and maim millions of animals (inadvertently) anytime I hike throught the woods. I am really careful not to step on toads, though; they are so cute; unless, like a princess, you had to get up close and personal.

Oysters?

Had a half dozen once. Over-rated - only 4 of them worked....

I think that oysters run afoul of the rule of animal advocacy that to be worthy of your indignity and in order to get a foundation in your honor, you have to be a cute animal like a baby seal. The uglier they are, the less likely anyone will object to their mistreatment.

You could possibly pot warthogs from the back of a Landrover or walk through fields of slugs, wearing your golf shoes without arousing a peep of objection, but touch one hair on the head of something really cute, and they'll be ready to lynch you.

I ate a dozen and only nine worked.

Would you mind walking on my snails?

Would you mind walking on my snails?

The crunching sound would get to me, and it is getting harder and harder to get ones valet to clean ones shoes after a good slug stomping session.....

That is why scientists mostly stick to flies (Drosophila melanogaster), worms (Caenorhabditis elegans) and yeasts.

Even mice can get people all upset, and thanks to evolution we know that most of the biochemistry and molecular biology going on in mammals are also going on in the above species.

That is why scientists mostly stick to flies (Drosophila melanogaster), worms (Caenorhabditis elegans) and yeasts.

Even mice can get people all upset, and thanks to evolution we know that most of the biochemistry and molecular biology going on in mammals are also going on in the above species.

Don't forget the quintessential model organism, E. coli, Frank. In fact, today I'm on a grant application to the NIH on the annotation of the E. coli "unknowneome" with one of your colleagues, Guy Montelione. Small world.

Mark Lipton

"But touch one hair on the head of something really cute"...
And the reason why, given equal skills, the good-looking "cute" guy or girl, gets chosen every time. And why a 'cute' cuddly hamster is preferred oevery time over a Tasmanian Devil or a polecat...fact of life.

And the reason why, given equal skills, the good-looking "cute" guy or girl, gets chosen every time. And why a 'cute' cuddly hamster is preferred oevery time over a Tasmanian Devil or a polecat...fact of life.

I think "oevery" says it all. Evolutionarily, it starts with attractiveness to spur mating. Then we get rife with associative power. And we even get directly sexual with hamsters; some of us, anyway.

But how would you explain Mason Reese?

Covert says:
I wonder if Matilda swats flies. I don't. But it is an aesthetic thing; an armchair philosophy.

Yes, I do. Also mosquitoes, and various other nuisances. Covert, I am not claiming moral superiority. It simply seems to me if we are going to eat something, it would be respectful and humane to make sure it is dead first. Furthermore, I think it would be respectful and humane to ensure as far as possible that the creature has a good life, and is killed humanely with the minimum of stress and suffering. Neither an armchair, nor a soapbox. Just what I think.

Oysters?

No thanks.

[ And we even get directly sexual with hamsters; some of us, anyway.

Ebichu!!!! Do yourself a favor, Covert, and go to Youtube, and find your ideal mate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oruchuban_Ebichu

that's one sexy hamster

[Jenise]

that's one sexy hamster

These guys think so too: http://www.webhamster.com/