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in bad taste
in bad taste on my way to a meeting about the potential merger of my agency with a much larger one i was tuned in to NPR and the man that wrote the book (title above)was on. the food item he was discussing atm was civet coffee from the rain forest. apparently the civets eat the coffee beans and since they don't really digest them, they poop them out in whole bean form. the natives harvest the scat, roast the beans and sell the coffee fro $600.00/pound. and there's a waiting list...up to a year! second item he discussed was a cheese from sardinia. a soft cheese imbued with gazillions of very tiny maggots, almost microscopic. he says they change the texture of the cheese and the taste....apparently the health department has put the kibosh on selling this cheese but it is made locally and can be purchased ...for a price..... a side comment he made was that as he leaned over the closed container, the smell was pungent but what struck him was the sound....little maggots jumping up and down... okay - i've a fairly adventurous palate...will try most anything....... but, poop coffee and maggot cheese....shudders You cannot conceive the many without the one. |
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Ya know, we... If you could pump a few of them maggots into them beans... you could have jumpin' civet poop. You think maybe them maggots are psychedelic? If I was payin' $600/lb for coffee... that stuff had better do a whole lot more than just keep me awake past 10am! Solar...
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Ya know, we... If you could pump a few of them maggots into them beans... you could have jumpin' civet poop. You think maybe them maggots are psychedelic? If I was payin' $600/lb for coffee... that stuff had better do a whole lot more than just keep me awake past 10am! Solar... I would never drink the coffee either, but I was told by someone who has tried it (said they depoop it well through some special process...Yeah riiight!) and it actually tastes like the smoothest coffee ever...of course it would, it's already been digested once! The maggot cheese makes me want to puke.
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That some people would pay that kind of money for something gross and exotic has always puzzled me. Rather like caviar not being hugely tasty in my opinion, yet costing so much. It's the culinary equivalent of the emperor's new clothes. Meanwhile, in the Sahel, for the sake of a few cents per capita, children are starving to death...... warm xx
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I think I'm gonna go barf up my breakfast now...
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I wouldn't pay ten cents for it. I make great coffee and nobody or no thang shat it first. Worms in my cheeze?! Shudder! If it moves in my mouth it's not staying long. I'm with smartass there. I once offered a friend some beef tongue. He said, "EEEEEwwwwww! Do you know where that came from? I wouldn't put that in my mouth!!" I asked him, "Didn't you eat eggs this morning?" smile
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Oh dear...lol
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7/11/2007 4:28 pm |
Cultural differences aside, GAG ME!! How about some bird's nest soup? The swift that builds the nest does it all with it's own saliva... yummo... not! Not all who wander are lost.
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I remember these in the market in North Malaya when I was a kid. They are as gross as they sound! I never realised they had a name. Mind you I remember a monitor lizard being sold off in lots and then butchered so quickly in the market that its heart was still beating after all the cuts had gone. They clearly didn't eat the heart - maybe they were squeamish about it? warm xx
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7/16/2007 2:35 pm |
Poop coffee, huh? Um, as long as they don't include the creamer? I'd think about it. But at 6 hundred a pound? Just a sip please... Amazing the things we eat compared to the rest of the world. I wonder what In our diet others would find, um, repulsive? ~
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