PeterParker · 31-35, M
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@PeterParker Now I DO like that!
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@Starcrossed I have never heard of Lutefisk. Oh black pudding - no. Pig's blood .. grooo.
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@Queendragonfly I have to ask. What does a maggot taste like?
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@LordShadowfire I didn't really know I ate them so no clue
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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
Worst as in most bizarre, or worst as in actually bad tasting? Because mine is kind of both. I was at Hot Topic one day, and I noticed they had bags of cooked crickets in various flavors. I bought a bag of barbecue flavored crickets.
Only I didn't.
What I bought was a bag of flavorless crunchy bugs covered in barbecue flavored powder to cover the fact that apparently crickets have no taste whatsoever.
Only I didn't.
What I bought was a bag of flavorless crunchy bugs covered in barbecue flavored powder to cover the fact that apparently crickets have no taste whatsoever.
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SandWitch · 26-30, F
East Indian food when I was in Columbo Sri Lanka for 8 weeks on business.
Everything in the upscale restaurant was laced with hot curried spice that was SO hot and so vile tasting, that you couldn't actually taste the underlying food itself.
At first I thought I had just mis-read the 'spicy' items on the menu and mis-ordered. After telling the waitress to 'hold the hot sauce' the next time I was in, she told me that it's mandatory to serve it on every menu item. This was because the restaurant had no food refrigeration and the reason for the 'spicy hot currie sauce' was to mask the smell of the rotten chicken so you could get it down your throat. Her words not mine.
I've never been able to eat East Indian cuisine ever since, even when I'm passing through UK where Indian restaurants are very prominent.
Everything in the upscale restaurant was laced with hot curried spice that was SO hot and so vile tasting, that you couldn't actually taste the underlying food itself.
At first I thought I had just mis-read the 'spicy' items on the menu and mis-ordered. After telling the waitress to 'hold the hot sauce' the next time I was in, she told me that it's mandatory to serve it on every menu item. This was because the restaurant had no food refrigeration and the reason for the 'spicy hot currie sauce' was to mask the smell of the rotten chicken so you could get it down your throat. Her words not mine.
I've never been able to eat East Indian cuisine ever since, even when I'm passing through UK where Indian restaurants are very prominent.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@cherokeepatti
Exactly a suitcase full... basically a large backpack full as I dragged my wheeled suitcase behind me through the airports. Nothing was safe to eat in India unless of course you were born and raised in India and had acquired natural immunity to the bacteria in their food supplies.
But I'm from Sweden and I brought most of my backpack food from UK or from Frankfurt or Zurich when I knew I'd be going back to my temporary home base in Colombo Sri Lanka for a week.
Exactly a suitcase full... basically a large backpack full as I dragged my wheeled suitcase behind me through the airports. Nothing was safe to eat in India unless of course you were born and raised in India and had acquired natural immunity to the bacteria in their food supplies.
But I'm from Sweden and I brought most of my backpack food from UK or from Frankfurt or Zurich when I knew I'd be going back to my temporary home base in Colombo Sri Lanka for a week.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SandWitch it is good that you were able to do that. There was a lady on EP who took a 2-year contract in China to teach English. She was always complaining about how most of the food was polluted that was sold in public markets, especially meat. Said the safest place to buy it was at large supermarkets but she had no car and would have to pay good money to take a taxi there and back. From what she said she was going to have to break the contract and return to Canada because it got to a point where she couldn’t stand it.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@cherokeepatti
Yeah, I mean I'm totally with her on leaving town over that. China is no different than India in that regard. I was in Colombo Sri Lanka which is a major city for the region. Sri Lanka use to be called Ceylon at the southern tip of India. There were 5-star hotels on the inside of the hotel property, but abject poverty just outside the hotel gates.
I resorted to eating only in the hotel, but even then the water bottles were recycled on the premises, which means the hotel staff refilled the water bottles from a water tap that did not dispense purified water.
Even brushing my teeth in the morning was impossible. I had to use Heineken beer from a bottle and I don't even drink alcohol! Imported beer from Germany was the only safe fluid one could put in their mouth because the water supply in India is contaminated. I would buy a dozen bottles of imported beer from the hotel bar and take them up to my room, but they wouldn't give me a bottle opener to take with me!
I had to phone my father at home in Sweden to ask him how the hell I get a bottle cap off a bottle of beer! He taught me a trick over the phone where I rested the edge of the cap along the edge of a square counter top and then hit the top of the bottle with my fist! Sure enough, the cap popped off!
So I asked him how comes he knows so much about beer? He told me that he learned it from my mom when he took her out on their first date! He said she was an expert at popping bottle caps off beer bottles on a fence posts! He later confessed to lying to me, but it made a good story at the time!
Yeah, I mean I'm totally with her on leaving town over that. China is no different than India in that regard. I was in Colombo Sri Lanka which is a major city for the region. Sri Lanka use to be called Ceylon at the southern tip of India. There were 5-star hotels on the inside of the hotel property, but abject poverty just outside the hotel gates.
I resorted to eating only in the hotel, but even then the water bottles were recycled on the premises, which means the hotel staff refilled the water bottles from a water tap that did not dispense purified water.
Even brushing my teeth in the morning was impossible. I had to use Heineken beer from a bottle and I don't even drink alcohol! Imported beer from Germany was the only safe fluid one could put in their mouth because the water supply in India is contaminated. I would buy a dozen bottles of imported beer from the hotel bar and take them up to my room, but they wouldn't give me a bottle opener to take with me!
I had to phone my father at home in Sweden to ask him how the hell I get a bottle cap off a bottle of beer! He taught me a trick over the phone where I rested the edge of the cap along the edge of a square counter top and then hit the top of the bottle with my fist! Sure enough, the cap popped off!
So I asked him how comes he knows so much about beer? He told me that he learned it from my mom when he took her out on their first date! He said she was an expert at popping bottle caps off beer bottles on a fence posts! He later confessed to lying to me, but it made a good story at the time!
