I pit people who tell me I eat "strange food"

Don’t you put hush puppies on your feet? Or, are your food interests really kinky?

Stop offending me!

And stop calling my balut and escamol smoothies strange!

I pit for than half the people in the world (a very conservative estimate) who can’t stomach fertilized duck eggs.

Dates aren’t food; dates are candy! They’re pure dessert! One of the treats of my childhood was when we’d drive 100 miles to Indio, to have date milkshakes. Yummy beyond all yummy!

If you like dates, try jujubes. When they’re fresh and firm, they’re like apples, and when they’re older and have dried some, they’re like dates.

how about you quit with the sneak bragging?

Your cultural imperialism and genocide make me sad. You are worse than Hitler.

He isn’t.

He didn’t eat meat, ya know.

I’ll stop if you’ll stop looking at me sideways when I pour Caesar dressing on my Raisin Bran.

I put Lea & Perrins on rice…and cocktail sauce over brussels sprouts…

The best was french-vanilla ice cream on top of a pepperoni pizza. Amazing how good that was!

Oh yeah, that’s a common potato chip flavor in Canada.

Ignorant is probably the most accurate descriptor. Most “American” food is either someone else’s ethnic food, or some sort of local adaptation of someone else’s ethnic food. I suppose new dishes made with alternative ingredients or Native American dishes are “American”, but most of what people think of as “American” isn’t.

Roast beef is stereotypical English food, French Fries are Belgian, coleslaw and doughnuts are derived from Dutch food, hamburgers from Hamburg Steak, a German dish, chicken-fried steak derives from Schnitzel, and so on, and so forth.

I think it’s more a frustration that people who are somewhat ignorant, benighted and closed-minded are casting aspersions on the OP for eating “weird food”, when in reality, they’re the ones with the real issue, not the OP. I can totally see how that could be frustrating. It’s like people who watch dumb sitcoms and sports non-stop making fun of people who play smart video games; frustrating and uninformed. You probably learn a lot more through playing video games than you’ll learn watching “The Middle” or “Everybody Loves Raymond.”

If’n I eats it, it ain’t ethnic.

More gopher?

You are an utterly tiresome little troll, and the paper-thin persona you’ve adopted disguises nothing.

They’re delicious when deep-fried. But you want young Hush Puppies, not older ones, which smell funny.

I’ve never had (or even seen in RL) durian, but by all accounts it smells like ass. So yeah, I vote that OP has weird tastes.

What isn’t?

Yeah. Once hush puppies grow up to be hush dogs, they’re not so tasty anymore.

Durian is the fruit of Satan.

It’s awful even before you taste it. Fresh, unopened durian reeks. In the Philippines, where this demonic fruit is horribly common, there are often signs in hotels asking guests not to bring durian onto the property. People who did so were often charged a special cleaning fee to cover the cost of remediating the ungodly stench.

Why did I google balut and escamol? Blech.

Then again, both would probably work well in durian chili.