February 22, 2012 11:37 PM PST
Not all that exotic, but still interesting. I had a Korean Aunt, who used to make the best "steak" in the world, along with a little cabbage dish called Kimchee. That's where the take a head of cabbage and do whatever it is they do it, spice and liquid wise, and then bury the jar in the backyard for a while. Like months.... Then out come the jar, off comes the lid (and you can smell this stuff, two rooms away) and a big helping goes on your plate. Well, I LOVE spicey food, and she knew that, so she put a big helping on my plate and stood back and watched....
I dove right in, cause I can eat red chili peppers raw, so I didn't give it a thought. Turns out, that I should have.
The bite I took, wasn't even chewed before the burning started, and the "fragrance" was all encompassing.
I chewed as fast as I could, and swallowed, while simultaneously reachin' for a drink of anything within range...
Big mistake, unless it's MILK! Cause that drink just spread the hotness out longer!!!
My Aunt, meanwhile is standing there, well kinda bent over, slapping her knees, cause she was laughin' so hard!
Then she says...and I kid you not, "You like-y Kimchee Pegee"? You like-y HOT???
Funny thing is, I ended up eatin' that whole helping. Cause after the initial burn...that stuff is AWESOME!
Ride Free
Tweek
February 22, 2012 11:44 PM PST
When I was in the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, & Escape course in the Army...we had to pass an exercise at the end of the course....for about 4 days we moved at night, hid during the day and then went into individual hide sites. During that time we ate out of dumpsters, picked soy beans from some farmers field, attempted to kidnap a dog but he was too fast. In my individual site I ate a nice big green grasshopper one morning for breakfast, a big healthy frog that I had to eat raw (couldn't start a fire) for dinner one evening, and various grubs and snails. What a tasty time that was.
February 22, 2012 11:51 PM PST
It must be either Fois Gras (which I love now) or Ahi Poke that I had in Hawaii. It was a totally weird texture thing....