Tasks / Death Kava
Eat a food that frightens you.
1 to 100 players
10 points
Level 0
Created by Peter Garnett
67 completed :: 131 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
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Chilled monkey brains, Dr. Jones.
I was hoping nobody would bring up that particular dish. X_X
I'd actually really love to collaborate on this with some of you folks. There are few foods I fear.
I'm with C.M.
When I'm back in town, you and I will try to come up with a food that is frightening.
Then we will dine.
Coming this fall:
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I'm not in LA so I can't make it - but I'll be happy to suggest things to eat if you like.
Please do! I'll see if we can involve a few non-players as well. You know, just because.
Monkeys' brains, while popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not commonly found in Washington, DC.
They're not bad but i'm not sure where you'd find them in SF. . .Try the mission since they eat them in Mexico. . . I ate them in Oaxaca. They're called Chapulines. . .
Jellyfish, candied scorpion, grass jello, squid snacks.
Tried.
Still frightened.
I dare you guys.
I kinda wanna try everything everybody's mentioned.
Squid snacks? Not like calamari you mean? I think I know what you mean. That's not a good smell. I'll try them.
That grass Jello sounds good though.
squid snacks taste like the bottom of a fish tank in which something died.
I've had grass jello.
But not live chicken.
Find me some fugu, and I will eat it.
That would be pretty exciting. Seriously though, why with the nearly-dying tasks? Can't we just eat some really thrilling fish-sticks?
We will ride Viper and eat still frozen fish sticks.
I've eaten fugu. It's OK.
Kinda tangy.
Yeah, I'm down with chocolate-dipped haggis, and fugu-kebabs, but I can't hang with this giant food thang. Competitive eating, to me that's scary.
I've had one of those.
Not all by myself though.
It was good.
I think the art has been refined since that original fear developed. BEHOLD!
This one scares me because I want to try one.
Named for Luther Vandross, the Luther Burger is a glazed Krispy Kreme with an all-beef patty, bacon, and fried egg on top.
I think I'm gonna make one of those tonight.
If I can't make one of those in Vegas, where can I?
If you do, let me know how that goes.
If you have time, there's a nice Mexican restaurant across the street from the El Cortez hotel. They got a nice taco plate.
Whoa there, chief, that's no donut. That's a bagel if I've ever seen one.
You haven't constructed a Luther sandwich, but that there is a fine "Superfly" Snuka.
That is not, in fact a Krispy Kreme donut, it is an Albertson's brand donut. And it tasted more like a bagel than a donut, but it was a donut, strange as it was.
Well, then I think you've invented the "Vegas Vandross".
It's funny that this comment was made, as this is actually what I am attempting to do for this task. Should be up in a few days. I'm rather terrified.
That looks delicious. So so very. I feel like the flavors wouldn't intermingle so much as complimenting each other whilst they retain their own glory!
I'm shocked that nobody has mentioned Casu Marzu yet. I defy anyone to find a scarier food.
OH HELL! I saw this on the travel channel, then promptly turned off the tv and went outside to cry and ride my unicycle.
Yep, that is pretty scary. What about those eggs with chicken foetuses inside? That's scary too.
Raw quail eggs or a spider, just you watch me, I'll do it.
I was already fed uma sashimi (Japanese raw horse meat) by one of my host families in Japan. It's going to be hard to top that one. I dare someone else to try uma sashimi though.
Andouillette -- pig bowel sausage. Luckily I'm not eating mammals, currently.
Durian
Hákarl, aka putrefied shark, a traditional Icelandic food. Fairly much anything this list of foods eaten at Þorrablót .
For anyone brave enough to try. This caused me literal, rolling upon the floor paroxysms of laughter. Canine members of the household scampered over to lick me on the face and ask if it was time to call 911.
On a food-related mailing list I frequent somebody mentioned a friend of his receiving Hakarl as a Christmas gift and asking him what to do with it. Said friend mentioned that his instinct was to bury it, but the person on the mailing list pointed out that this strategy had already failed.
I totally wish I could try one! i'm putting it on my goals list
I had a durian smoothie once. It was good. I fear no durian.
I've eaten durian buns before, but never the fresh, raw, plain fruit. It's on my try list as well, partially because Andrew Zimmern has been unable to eat it, after three separate tries.
It doesn't scare me, but molded jello salad with stuff in it does. (Western congealed animal jello -- I've eaten Asian jellies and they don't squick me out as much as suburban, mid 20th century, American cookbook fare).
there was some durian chocolate. so tasty.
there is some actual durian sitting in my fridge, right now, just waiting to be eaten.
in fact, i'll be right back.
I actually had some at Journey to End of the Night in Oakland, in June. It was at one of the checkpoints, part of a weird food roulette thing, but I was a chaser so I didn't need to eat anything. Needless to say, I did anyway. People say that durian's a love-it-or-hate-it kind of food, but I disagree: It was okay, but I didn't really see the appeal.
I tried to eat this but failed. It was absolutly too disgusting, I had to leave the room and didn't feel like eating for the whole day.
Another shameless use of the already thankless work of webcomic artists for the purposes of a task.
Two quick reminders, for those of you squicked out by this task.
- There is a difference between something frightening you and something making you want to vomit, although you will see occasional overlap.
- It is perfectly acceptable to eat a food of which you have an irrational fear.
Cool, that is more like what I am doing.
I don't see the need to turn this into "what is the worlds most disgusting food".
I used to have irrational fears of quite a few foods but have over come most of those fears at some point or another simply by being very hungry. And by many foods I probably actually just mean avocados. I really can't remember. No wait!My father terrified me with 90 year old tofu when I was 6.
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SO MUCH OF IT.
simply because something is easy doesn't preclude it from being sufficiently brilliant.
or sufficiently disgusting.
no force on earth can make me eat mushrooms
XD i guess if this task is ever done by my lot, i would be the punished of the punishers XD
I've eaten a lot of odd foods such as jellyfish, chicken feet and pig ears. The thing I'm most afraid of eating would have to be a deep fried twinkie... Instant heart attack... I think deep frying something that could last through a nuclear holocaust and then consuming is just asking for trouble.
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I can eat all sorts of raw fish,
and yet scrambled eggs
scare me. Why is that?
Especially with ketchup.
If it was safe to eat, no matter what it was, even if i was frightened of it, i would eat it.
That sounds rather disgusting and wrong but thats just the person i am. MWAHAHA!
=D
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I fear no food. :-(
Already had:
-cow hearts
-sheep brains
-jellyfish (in a delightful salad even)
-tongue
-various organs and gut of most barnyard critters
Someone help me find a fearsome, or at least flashy/fun food in SF... I'm thinking something uncooked out of chinatown, perhaps at the fish market where the fish is so fresh, it is still twitching, even headless....
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What scares me most is the idea of collaborating on this, and one of you loonies picking what I have to eat.