Rotten Skate, South Korea's 'Smelliest Food,' Peels Your Mouth Skin Off
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As a rule, I aim to be 100% nonjudgmental about other cultures’ “weird” foods. Like, why the fuck shouldn’t someone eat a roasted tarantula? I’d eat literally eight crabs right now. I would crack open their carapaces and use their own spiky toes to pick out their guts. A tarantula is basically the same thing, only SMALLER and not wet. How is that grosser? Chocolate milk is ground-up beans mixed with oily white water that squirted out of a cow’s tit. Weird is relative, dummies. People gotta eat.
But just because I don’t judge foods that are foreign to me doesn’t mean I want to put all of them in my own personal mouth. I’ve watched enough Andrew Zimmern to draw certain general boundaries: animals that are still alive, intestines that still have poop in them, mugs of hot fresh blood, rotten fish redolent of urine.