Weird Food People Eat

[sad_winslow]

Oh man, I love weird food. I'll try an awful lot of stuff once, usually twice. I get a lot of funny looks when I try something and go "OH GOD this is weird/gross, YOU GOTTA TRY THIS!" but anybody I can convince to try it, whether or not they thank me for the positive taste experience, at least usually ends up thanking me for the experience of trying something different.

The last thing I tried that's made everybody I know cringe was, I thought, pretty mundane, but still terrifies many people... headcheese. Which, well, if you don't know what it is... it's pretty much scraps of meat from a pig or cow's head that's been boiled and scraped; it's encased in gelatin (that's come out of the head as it boils) and sliced thin as a cold-cut style lunchmeat.

Surprisingly good, too, I have to say. It's spiced such that it tastes a lot like corned beef, and the texture isn't actually anywhere near as awful as I thought it'd be.

the durian tasting, on the other hand, kind of went in the opposite direction.