Natto is delicious.
Natto is delicious.
I am making sausage and kraut with granny smith apples right now.
On my honeymoon, we went to New Orleans and I tried the escargot. I vowed then and there that I would try anything one time.
I’ve pretty much stuck by that; although I now have a small list of foods I don’t have to try again, and won’t.
For the record, I love Kim Chee, and have never found a cheese I didn’t like.
I am unlikely to find any of the scary cheeses in this country.
Disgust seems to go beyond basic emotional reactions to something more evolutionary about survival. Probably in genetic memory of various cultures as what is safe and what isn’t.
Oh, and I absolutely love Natto, putrid aged cheeses, Durian, and all that disgusting stuff- except Surströmming. Something about fermented fish (other than fish sauce) that I can’t take.
Only thing worse is my disgust at all male homosexuals, ugly lesbians and any other weird perversion (animals, furries, child molesters and rapists).
Mmmmmm... disgusting!
Reminds me of Mitt Romney!
I’m convinced that there are some foods that you simply have to grow up with in order to eat, while others you can learn to tolerate, or even love...
For instance, I was bought up in a Jewish home, and grew up eating pickled (raw) herring, gefilte fish, kishke, and brussels sprouts (not strictly a Jewish thing, I know, but it seems most kids hate them). To this day, I love them all.
On the other hand, the first time I ever had Chinese hot and sour soup or dumplings, I couldn’t stand them. However, they weren’t disgusting to me, and eventually I got to really like them, and in fact have to have them both any time I get Chinese food.
On the other hand, last weekend I went to a Chinese restaurant known for their “traditional” Chinese food, and tried a number of dishes. Two I wouldn’t even put on my plate, one I was able to choke down, and another I had to spit out into my soup bowl, it was so disgusting! I was one of only 3 or 4 white people in the restaurant. There were at least 25 tables of Asians there, many were families.
But many of my non-Jewish friends feel the same way about gefilte fish, herring, and brussel sprouts.
Mark
I’m with the Asians on the cheese thing. Never liked it, and melted? You’d have to put a gun to my head to get me to eat that nasty stuff!
Wrong. I've eaten many a strange creature but none have emoted such disgust as having the Kenyan tribe squatting in MY house.
I went to China in late ‘76 on a 6 month business trip. At the first banquet in my honor, we were served sea slug. My God, that was the WORST thing I’ve ever eaten in my life. There was a good reason the other Westerners at the plant called it “Firestone” — it had the same tread marks on top and the same texture and toughness.
“along with joy, surprise, anger, sadness and fear—but it is the only one that has to be learned”
B.S. I have a 15 month old - fear is something that must be learned....
and their rationale on “disgust” haha - not even close, it comes much earlier, in the food stage... losers have no idea..
I'm a pretty adventurous eater myself but sauerkraut and horse radish are two things I simply cannot eat without gagging. That natto looks like something I could give a try.
Disgusting edibles were invented so that boys can gross girls out at school!