Food for thought...or not.

(No friend of mine.)


While I was sitting at a Chinese restaurant (a very good one, actually - PF Chang's at the Waterfront in Pittsburgh), I got to thinking about food I would not eat.
Probably because my father in law made the obligatory remark about the possibility of the food being cat. He even went as far as to say he had actually eaten cat when in Vietnam in the late 60's (ugh).

Anyhow, it brought to mind (because of a few menu items I cringed at) things I just can't see myself eating. And there is alot of disgusting stuff out there.


(Seriously, who the hell would EAT those?)

Now I'm certainly no Andrew Zimmer - and though a fan of Anthony Bourdain, he is also not my food eating role model.
So let's just skip all the things that most ordinary people wouldn't ever eat anyway- like bugs, monkey brains, animal penises/testicles/intestines, blood pudding, rats, cats, dogs, horses and any other unimaginable feast (that means camel, too, Bourdain!)...

Let's just go with what folks out there are actually eating that turns my stomach.

*oysters (looks like snot. might be.)

*escargo (that's snails, people! seriously! I mean, look at the picture up near the top of this entry. Makes my blood curdle at the thought.)

*caviar (quite a fancy word for fish eggs. If they just said fish eggs no one would eat them)

*lamb (because I like little sheep)

*veal (because I like little cows, dammit!)

*pigs feet (pickled like my grandfather used to eat them, or otherwise)

*liver (animal insides... just not cool)

*brussel sprouts (I'm willing to admit they look cute, isn't that enough?)

*celery (because it is stringy and waaayyyy to strong-flavored)

*pulp-full orange juice (without pulp, fine. Too much pulp and I'm gagging)

*sushi (what are we? cavemen? I believe fire WAS invented, no?)

*cottage cheese (I can't even get past what it looks like...)

*prawns (I actually can't say I've even eaten these, and they are probably good... but man do they look like the thing of nightmares. Come to think of it, so do shrimp and lobsters, but I love them...)

*head cheese (that should just be self explanatory)

*fatty meats, or just fat in general (my grandmother ate tons of this and lived to be 89. Go figure.)

*SPAM (I recently bought some, thinking ' oh how cool, I used to eat this when I was a kid ' ... then I ate it and thought.... 'maybe it wasn't SPAM I was thinking of...')

*canned peas (for the love of God why do they taste so UN-like actual peas?!)

Still hungry?

Let's get a pizza!