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ventaAnother day for pointless curiosity... how are you at eating things when you don't know what they are? I made sausages at the weekend (post on the topic coming soon), and offered some pieces of cooked sausage to colleagues to see if they could guess what was in it. Both happily chomped down on mystery food without any info. I regard this as completely normal, but am aware that some people would never do it.
So... in the poll below, I'm asking about whether or not you'd eat mystery food I gave you. This is not just a meal I've cooked, this is something "mysterious" I'm inviting you to try. I'm aware some of you probably trust me, and some of you barely know me. Let's assume I'm someone you know well enough to know won't poison you, or feed you fag-ash-and-spider sausages for a laugh, but not someone whom you feel you know well enough to place special trust in.
Let's also assume that I know about your dietary requirements, so I won't give you meat if you're vegetarian, I won't feed you pork if you eat kosher, and I won't give you wheat if you're coeliac. I have perfect knowledge of your dietary requirements, even if they're quite complicated :) I don't know about your likes and dislikes, though, so won't guarantee not to feed you aubergine if you really hate it.
[Poll #1907455]
I feel there's quite enough options already, if you want to be all snowflakey, you can do it in the comments ;)
So... in the poll below, I'm asking about whether or not you'd eat mystery food I gave you. This is not just a meal I've cooked, this is something "mysterious" I'm inviting you to try. I'm aware some of you probably trust me, and some of you barely know me. Let's assume I'm someone you know well enough to know won't poison you, or feed you fag-ash-and-spider sausages for a laugh, but not someone whom you feel you know well enough to place special trust in.
Let's also assume that I know about your dietary requirements, so I won't give you meat if you're vegetarian, I won't feed you pork if you eat kosher, and I won't give you wheat if you're coeliac. I have perfect knowledge of your dietary requirements, even if they're quite complicated :) I don't know about your likes and dislikes, though, so won't guarantee not to feed you aubergine if you really hate it.
[Poll #1907455]
I feel there's quite enough options already, if you want to be all snowflakey, you can do it in the comments ;)
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Date: 2013-04-10 11:04 am (UTC)I like food in general, particularly interesting food. Usually the worst that will happen is I might not like it - and how would I know that unless I tried it?
This usually works out fine. There was that one time that
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Date: 2013-04-10 11:10 am (UTC)He was completely aghast that I would put a thing in my mouth when I didn't know what it was. I guess it having tentacles didn't help :)
I was working on the assumption that if it was in my seafood linguini, it was fundamentally an edible thing that people who like seafood liked. So had no problems at all eating it, even without introduction.
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Date: 2013-04-13 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-10 11:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-10 11:15 am (UTC)People should stop doing this to me :)
(Or I should learn that there are only about 200 real people in the world and get over it...)
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Date: 2013-04-10 02:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-11 06:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-11 07:36 am (UTC)It was a hilarious practical joke. And I still eat food you give me ;-)
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Date: 2013-04-10 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-10 11:18 am (UTC)My friend Ashleigh summed it up quite well when she said "Why don't you just say you are allergic to food!"
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Date: 2013-04-10 11:30 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-04-10 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-10 11:32 am (UTC)I think the single weirdest food I've ever eaten was a G&D's petition-flavour, of port and stilton. Even forwarned, your brain sort of went:
Yup, port ice cream, I can understand that.
Might have made more sense as a sorbet, really.
Nice, though.
CHEESE
Every time.
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Date: 2013-04-10 11:55 am (UTC)But then I grew up in an eating food of each other's plates / ooh try this thing I am eating type family (a lot of people are aghast at our food swapping antics in restaurants).
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Date: 2013-04-11 06:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-04-10 12:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-10 12:51 pm (UTC)You should try this (http://justhungry.com/japanese-country-style-stewed-eggplant-nasu-no-inakani).
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Date: 2013-04-10 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-10 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-10 04:15 pm (UTC)So if you offered the mystery food because it was vile, I wouldn't eat it; if you offered it with an assurance that it wasn't vile, I probably would.
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Date: 2013-04-10 06:20 pm (UTC)Also, I doubt I would ever have tried deep-fried fun-size Mars Bars if it hadn't been for an ancient and crusty barman in an ancient and crusty pub in New Cross bringing round a tray of them and refusing to tell anyone what they were before they tried them, but I'm glad I did.
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Date: 2013-04-11 05:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-11 09:31 am (UTC)On the plus side, this does mean I'm great for trying out experimental cuisine on because my threshold for edible is so low. Plus I get some seriously weird food combo cravings* (that usually turn out to be exactly as vile as you might suppose), so am not easy to deter.
*Not at the level of pica or anything like that, more "Oh, I wonder what marmite and ice cream tastes like. Hmmm, let's give it a try". (It does not taste very nice)