Entry tags:

disgusting food, vegetables, writer's block

Writer's Block: Eat Your Vegetables

i spent the better part of three years living in japan.... a land that we've come to associate with such fine n' delicate cuisines as sensual sushi, miso soup, and warmed sake poured from an intricately patterned raku pot... yeah, well, lemme level with you.  while i love my former foreign abode, traditional delicacies not found outside the country pretty much include ANYTHING scraped off the bottom of the ocean.

particularly icky things that have been in my mouth are as follows:

fish head soup
fish eyeballs
deadly blowfish
every kind of marine ovary
crab brain pate
various shellfish (alive and wiggly, slowly flame-grilled to death on the table before me)
shark fin
sea cucumber (think giant slugs)
RAW lobster (oh so squishy)
RAW horse (not from the sea, but disturbing)
RAW chicken (let's not talk about it)
chicken knuckles (crunchy!)
whale (yes, endangered species)
and (shutter) fish semen sushi (i swallowed, wink wink)

but, if this post is about vegetables only, then i'm guessing the worst would be "natto", a common breakfast food.  consisting of fermented soybeans in a slimy, sticky white goo, it smells not unlike 3-week old gym socks.  often times, 'tis mixed with raw egg and onions, and eaten over rice... for breakfast.

i'll take spinach n' brussel sprouts over that any day, thank you very much.

*cody*