Subby forgot to include White Caste's sister, Krystal - just as evil on your bowels as you would expect.

Most cultures have some kind of fermented food. If Natto is anything like Sauerkraut, I'm sure it's pretty tasty. The question is can you put it on bratwurst?

I worked with this Egyptian guy, and he had something that looked like a lump of shiat, smelled awful and he heated it up in the microwave and then ate it.

People make what they think is good food. Good food goes "bad". People are disgusted because they adapted to be repulsed by potentially harmful substances. People eat "bad" food out of desperation because it's better than starving, and decide it tastes pretty good. They then try to find ways to make the "bad" food on purpose. What's the mystery here?

Wouldn't surprise me if most of the shiat mentioned in that article originated as drunken bets.

Kimchi.

/loves me some kimchi.

doglover: -1

Natto is freakin' awesome! repulsive

FTFY.

I've had natto served to me at a kaiten-zushi joint in Tokyo, and while I like soybeans and soybean products in general, the texture and taste of natto was like licking bean-flavored snot.

The worst thing I've ever eaten, though, is rotten fish in South Korea. It's a regional delicacy from Cholla province, where they wrap the fish in rice then bury it underground. My last night in Korea before I flew back to the States, my adult class took me out to dinner at a high-end traditional restaurant in Seoul that served old-school cuisine like dog and so on. Rotten fish was one of the dishes they ordered. Koreans are very proud of their culture and they were legitimately trying to give me a good send-off, so I had to smile and eat that rancid fish while doing my best to suppress my gag reflex. God, was it rank!

I love most Korean food, like kimchi, bulgogi, bi bim bop, kalbi, and so on, but they have some other foods that just gross, like bondaeggi, which are boiled silkworm larvae that are sold as a snack on the streets of every Korean city. The taste is similar to escargot, if you like that sort of thing.

Dog stew, on the other hand, is kinda fatty but good.

Aarontology: I've had food borne parasites before.

sushi?

Generation_D: BorgiaGinz: doglover: -1

Natto is freakin' awesome! repulsive

FTFY.

I've had natto served to me at a kaiten-zushi joint in Tokyo, and while I like soybeans and soybean products in general, the texture and taste of natto was like licking bean-flavored snot.

The worst thing I've ever eaten, though, is rotten fish in South Korea. It's a regional delicacy from Cholla province, where they wrap the fish in rice then bury it underground. My last night in Korea before I flew back to the States, my adult class took me out to dinner at a high-end traditional restaurant in Seoul that served old-school cuisine like dog and so on. Rotten fish was one of the dishes they ordered. Koreans are very proud of their culture and they were legitimately trying to give me a good send-off, so I had to smile and eat that rancid fish while doing my best to suppress my gag reflex. God, was it rank!

I love most Korean food, like kimchi, bulgogi, bi bim bop, kalbi, and so on, but they have some other foods that just gross, like bondaeggi, which are boiled silkworm larvae that are sold as a snack on the streets of every Korean city. The taste is similar to escargot, if you like that sort of thing.

Dog stew, on the other hand, is kinda fatty but good.

Probably just trollbait but if you truly want to eat dog, you probably ought to get the out of America, plenty of people would be happy to see you to the door too.

You must be illiterate because if you bothered to read the post you'd see I ate it in SOUTH KOREA, which is not in America.

But you probably have as solid a grasp on geography as you do on reading comprehension.

lexslamman: Kimchi.

/loves me some kimchi.

Seconded. Just had kimchi for lunch last week, with some tuna.

Generation_D: BorgiaGinz: doglover: -1

Natto is freakin' awesome! repulsive

FTFY.

I've had natto served to me at a kaiten-zushi joint in Tokyo, and while I like soybeans and soybean products in general, the texture and taste of natto was like licking bean-flavored snot.

The worst thing I've ever eaten, though, is rotten fish in South Korea. It's a regional delicacy from Cholla province, where they wrap the fish in rice then bury it underground. My last night in Korea before I flew back to the States, my adult class took me out to dinner at a high-end traditional restaurant in Seoul that served old-school cuisine like dog and so on. Rotten fish was one of the dishes they ordered. Koreans are very proud of their culture and they were legitimately trying to give me a good send-off, so I had to smile and eat that rancid fish while doing my best to suppress my gag reflex. God, was it rank!

I love most Korean food, like kimchi, bulgogi, bi bim bop, kalbi, and so on, but they have some other foods that just gross, like bondaeggi, which are boiled silkworm larvae that are sold as a snack on the streets of every Korean city. The taste is similar to escargot, if you like that sort of thing.

Dog stew, on the other hand, is kinda fatty but good.

Probably just trollbait but if you truly want to eat dog, you probably ought to get the out of America, plenty of people would be happy to see you to the door too.

Why? I own 2 dogs, and while I would never eat them, if I were in Korea and had the opportunity to try dog, I would. If you're that butt-hurt about a good solution to a dog overpopulation problem, maybe you should leave America

Generation_D: RexTalionis: Generation_D: Probably just trollbait but if you truly want to eat dog, you probably ought to get the out of America, plenty of people would be happy to see you to the door too.

I've eaten dog before in China. Just because I have eaten it doesn't mean I hate dogs, or that I'm planning to steal your dog from your house and eating it. When in Rome

Pretty pathetic excuse. Maybe when in Iran you can beat some women for violating sharia law too.

If I ever went to Iran, I'd be trying to make women violate sharia law, persian chicks are farking hot.

doglover: BorgiaGinz: I've had natto served to me at a kaiten-zushi joint in Tokyo

Am I supposed to be impressed or something? Ooh ahh, you've visited Tokyo. I've had hangovers here longer than your visit I'm sure. More importantly what kind of misbegotten churl orders natto at the kaitenzushi?

That's like going to a steak house and asking for the salad only, thanks. I honestly can't remember ever eating it at a sushi joint. Natto is the perfect breakfast food, though. You serve up a nice frothy with mustard and soy sauce over rice and it's all good baby. Delicious. Sure it smells like old feet, but so does fine cheese.

There's no reason not to eat it. Dog meat, on the other hand. You're trollin' and I have to hand it to you, you're far less clever than I originally thought. And that's an accomplishment.

Blech, you can have natto. I find it utterly repulsive.

Why do you think the dog meat comment is trolling? Have you even been to South Korea? Dog meat is a traditional food there, but it is regulated by the government and only sold in licensed restaurants. Moreover, the dogs are bred specially for food--Koreans don't just snatch puppies off the street.

If you eat cows or ducks, or sheep or pigs, then you can't biatch about people eating dogs. Have you eaten veal? Then you ate baby cows. Stop your crying, you pussy.

doglover: There's no reason not to eat it.

Other than the obvious one: natto is farking atrocious.

BorgiaGinz: doglover: BorgiaGinz: I've had natto served to me at a kaiten-zushi joint in Tokyo

Am I supposed to be impressed or something? Ooh ahh, you've visited Tokyo. I've had hangovers here longer than your visit I'm sure. More importantly what kind of misbegotten churl orders natto at the kaitenzushi?

That's like going to a steak house and asking for the salad only, thanks. I honestly can't remember ever eating it at a sushi joint. Natto is the perfect breakfast food, though. You serve up a nice frothy with mustard and soy sauce over rice and it's all good baby. Delicious. Sure it smells like old feet, but so does fine cheese.

There's no reason not to eat it. Dog meat, on the other hand. You're trollin' and I have to hand it to you, you're far less clever than I originally thought. And that's an accomplishment.

Blech, you can have natto. I find it utterly repulsive.

Why do you think the dog meat comment is trolling? Have you even been to South Korea? Dog meat is a traditional food there, but it is regulated by the government and only sold in licensed restaurants. Moreover, the dogs are bred specially for food--Koreans don't just snatch puppies off the street.

If you eat cows or ducks, or sheep or pigs, then you can't biatch about people eating dogs. Have you eaten veal? Then you ate baby cows. Stop your crying, you pussy.

Don't hurt his feelings, he'd rather see puppy mills crank out genetically defective puppies so that the owners can run a business and make profit. USA USA USA.

Generation_D: Its just like the humane society, only with a lot more death. Delicious.

So it's more like PETA, then.

Another gross food I've tried is balut in Manila. Balut are duck eggs that are allowed to develop and then are boiled, so you have a little duck fetus in a shell. To be honest, I didn't love the texture, but the taste wasn't all that bad.

Fried grasshoppers in Guangdong, China, OTOH, tasted like fried hair. I've also had snake blood cocktails in Taiwan (meh), and boiled snake in China. The snake was served in a fairly high-end joint, and when it arrived at the table the chef had put the snake meat in the skin, wrapped around a small branch on the platter. Probably the most artistic presentation of a meal I've ever seen. Didn't care for the taste, though. Had to dip it in sauce to get it down.

DjangoStonereaver: I'm glad so many people profess to find sliders 'disgusting'.

More for me that way.

/First solid food I ever ate

The onion chips are pretty legit too

doglover: Can and do. I'd post a picture but it's almost midnight and it would be grainy. Suffice it to say I like natto this much too:

That looks entirely too much like a certain kind of Japanese fetish pr0n that I wish I could erase from my memory. And now I have an all new reason to be revolted by natto.... lol. Thanks for that.

RexTalionis: BorgiaGinz: Fried grasshoppers in Guangdong, China, OTOH, tasted like fried hair.

I thought it was good, to be honest with you. You know what's even better? Deep fried baby softshell crab, which, as I recall, was still being sold as a snack while I was in China in the 80s. Also good - deep fried silkworms.

Deep-frying makes just about anything good.

Haven't had the softshell baby crab fried, but I have had it marinated in soy sauce and baijiu. Yum! I would definitely like to try the deep fried version. I never warmed up to silk worms, but deep frying them would be interesting.

Generation_D: Girion47: Generation_D: BorgiaGinz: doglover: -1

Natto is freakin' awesome! repulsive

FTFY.

I've had natto served to me at a kaiten-zushi joint in Tokyo, and while I like soybeans and soybean products in general, the texture and taste of natto was like licking bean-flavored snot.

The worst thing I've ever eaten, though, is rotten fish in South Korea. It's a regional delicacy from Cholla province, where they wrap the fish in rice then bury it underground. My last night in Korea before I flew back to the States, my adult class took me out to dinner at a high-end traditional restaurant in Seoul that served old-school cuisine like dog and so on. Rotten fish was one of the dishes they ordered. Koreans are very proud of their culture and they were legitimately trying to give me a good send-off, so I had to smile and eat that rancid fish while doing my best to suppress my gag reflex. God, was it rank!

I love most Korean food, like kimchi, bulgogi, bi bim bop, kalbi, and so on, but they have some other foods that just gross, like bondaeggi, which are boiled silkworm larvae that are sold as a snack on the streets of every Korean city. The taste is similar to escargot, if you like that sort of thing.

Dog stew, on the other hand, is kinda fatty but good.

Probably just trollbait but if you truly want to eat dog, you probably ought to get the out of America, plenty of people would be happy to see you to the door too.

Why? I own 2 dogs, and while I would never eat them, if I were in Korea and had the opportunity to try dog, I would. If you're that butt-hurt about a good solution to a dog overpopulation problem, maybe you should leave America

I'm glad everyone has such elastic morality that its OK to love dogs in one place, but OK to round them up and kill them for food someplace else, or keep them alive in cages til the happy shopper comes along to pick one out. Its just like the humane society, only with a lot more death. Delicious.

Is this the part where I mention that I've eaten whale while in Iceland? As well a rotten shark.

in China, "chefs can serve you monkey brains from a living monkey sitting at your feet with its skull carved open."

Dear Sucker:

The "Faces of Death" videos were not factual documentaries.

RexTalionis: I don't think I can't eat casu marzu. Not because it's disgusting, so much as the potential for parasitic infection from cheesefly maggots are too great.

Also, they will jump right for your eyes.

One night a buddy and I were out drinking in Seoul, and he bought some of the boiled silkworms. I tried one and didn't care for it, but he was chomping them down. The problem was that we were a couple of yangnoms and didn't know that you're supposed to suck them out of the cocoon. He ate an entire tray of these things and ended up puking out what is best described as the human version of a hairball.

notmtwain: Herz describes the neuroscience of disgust, which involves the basal ganglia and anterior insula of the brain. She writes about disgust-related illnesses like obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is basically nonstop disgust, and Huntington's disease, which makes a person disgust-blind. People with Huntington's are "less offended by the smell of feces" than other people, frequently can't identify what the sounds of retching signify and can't name the emotion behind facial expressions for disgust, though they can identify facial expressions for every other emotion. And this inability to recognize disgust occurs very early in the disease - in people carrying the Huntington's gene, even before they show any other symptoms.

We might all have Huntington's!

Someone should send a doctor over to 4chan.