I love food. I love talking about food. I love eating food. I love cooking and baking. I love the food channel. It's all wonderful. By that same token, I'm also a food snob. This seems to be a constant source of entertainment for most people who know me well. I'm not a picky eater by any means, I just like quality food. Is that so wrong?
Now, all that being said, it's come to my attention over the years that I eat some weird things. I never thought anything of it until someone would see me eating something odd or it would come up in conversation and suddenly I'd have a room full of people laughing and asking all kinds of silly questions.
So, now to get this all out in the open, to get it out of the way, to save myself a lot of time later - here is a list of the weird shit I like to eat. A lot of it is ethnic type food, which thankfully is becoming much more common and the rest is shit I picked up from my family.
Raw fish - I eat sushi on an almost regular basis. I love raw fish. Yes, I can hear your jokes from here. Thanks. Oh and this also means I eat quite a lot of fish eggs. Tasty.
Pickled herring - I'm german, what can I say? I also love Kraut and sardines. It seems to be a genetic flaw.
Smoked eel - I love smoked eel more than I love most people. Fuck you if you don't. More for me.
Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches - They're good. Seriously. Try them. Smooth peanut butter, dill pickle, bread. Seriously.
Perogies with peanut butter - the only thing in the whole world that goes together with perogies as well as sour cream is peanut butter. Would I lie to you?
Tofu - I eat A LOT of tofu. I actually like it. You would too if someone cooked it for you properly.
Red bean paste - there's a chinese bakery in town that makes a variety of buns, my very favourite of which is the red bean paste (or sweet bean paste). The only thing I love more than those were the red bean paste dumplings my favourite chinese restaurant used to make. Man, I miss then so much.
Black tree fungus - It's crunchy, it's chewy, it's delicious. Leave me alone.
Seaweed - I have two packages in my freezer as I type and I often go and pull out a piece to eat. Just seaweed on it's own. It's good. Really.
hmmm... that's all I can think of right now.
I can't be the only one who eats weird shit! I just can't!
11 comments:
That's weird food? Or maybe I just grew up asian...
Anywho, can't say I'm a fan of all of those, but sushi, eel, tofu, and seaweed can all be superb, and the rest are certainly fairly normal things to eat in lots of circles. I mean, if you get weird questions about red bean paste, you should just introduce people to pig's blood soup...
Agreed. Honestly, I don't think any of this shit is weird. It's stuff I eat all the time. But people are stupid and ignorant apparently because the questions I get... *sigh*
my husband likes all of that stuff but then he's a weirdo too.
I knew there was a reason I like that guy. I guess that means you can keep him.
i'm starting to wonder if you are not him...
Black Tree Fungus...???
I knew about the tofu and the PB & Pickle...
But... Black Tree Fungus?
Frozen seaweed?
Trust me, they're delicious. Would I lie to you?
I like sushi. My grandmother said something to me yesterday about finding a recipe and making my own. I don't know about all that. Can you make your own? Do you?
I make my own all the time. It's super easy. I've got you on Facebook don't I? I'll send you some instructions if you like.
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