Midweek Miniblog: 5 Weird as balls things I have been made to eat in no particular order

5: Natto

Fermented soy-bean that are so fermented they have strings of mould that stick them together. This is a direct quote for a teacher “No one in Japan really likes them, but old people think they’re good for our health so we eat it just to keep them happy”

Grossness score: 4/10 Not as bad as everyone says, it just tastes like mouldy dust

4: Sea Urchin

Someone went diving, saw something that looked like Godzilla’s haemorrhoid and decided to cook it’s eggs. Because Japan

Grossness score 5/10; Tastes okay, just looks like a diseased tongue on top of rice

3: Nankotsu

The Japanese equivalent of popcorn chicken, however this is made with THE FUCKING CARTILIDGE! If you want to moan about the pink sludge that goes into chicken nuggets, take a bite of what that shit before they process the hell out of it, and then go and enjoy your pink sludge.

Grossness score: 7/10; For both the disappointment of this not being a chicken nugget and the fact that I don’t like eating deep fried stones.

2: Deep fried insides

On bar menus this is literally a choice! In my basket of goodies I had pig kidneys, chicken hearts, some brain (animal unknown though most likely pig) and some intestines. If it comes from an animal in anyway shape of form, the Japanese will deep fry it.

Grossness score 8/10; The mystery of it all makes it so much worse when you realise that you've now gotta chomp your way through a large piece of brain. Also, pigs kidneys, when whole, taste like piss.

1: Ice-cream

Yeap, ice-cream. Hey I'm all for some weird ice-cream flavours. Sweet-corn, potato, carrot, vegetables various etc. They’re kind of quirky. But I draw the line, at fucking meat ice-cream! So far I've only had the chicken ice. Deep fried chicken ice-cream is in no way shape or form a good choice. But a teacher very kindly brought it in for me after I said I quite liked eating weird food! (NEVER EVER SAY THIS TO A JAPANESE PERSON, THEY SEE IT AS A CHALLENGE).

 I was then informed of some other options; Raw Horse-meat (though apparently you can only get this in Kumamoto), Whale (though not very popular any more and they hadn't seen it for a while) and squid (still around apparently) I will now endeavour to find these weird as shite ice-creams and let you know what happens…

Grossness score 8/10; It's just, so unholy to icecreamyfy meat, and it tastes like fried chicken that's been dipped in a puddle, put in the freezer and then squeezed out a Mr Whippy machine.