OK, so they’re consumed directly, not ground up or smashed into paste or something?

I’m not sure that’s a very good measure of fear, though.

If you showed me an average jump-scare-infused “horror” flick of the variety that gets tossed out by the film-making industry every five minutes or so, you’d see my blood pressure and heart rate spike each time, but five minutes after the end I’d likely not even be able to identify that film it was I’d watched.

On the other hand, The Thing (the John Carpenter version) keeps me feeling unsettled each time I think of it (and has the occasional starring role in my rare nightmares). During the movie, though? Maybe a blood pressure increase, and a slight increase in heart rate. But nothing compared to the jump-scare fodder.

The USA doesn’t have an administration any longer.

It has a regime.

Boiled peanuts are the second best way to make peanuts! (The best way is roasted in red clay.)

Buy a jar and go to town. (Equivalently, though I’ve just made every Brit and Aussie wish my death, go with Marmite.)

You don’t have to worry about wasting it. If you don’t like it, it’s very good wood filler as well. (Indeed for my purposes that’s its prime usage.)

Blood products (including blood sausage/black pudding, duck blood “tofu”, etc.) react very badly with my stomach. I like the taste fine, but I really hate tasting it, along with any other food I’m eating with it, twice (if you get my drift).

If you’re not eating black licorice (made from actual licorice root!) with double-“salt” (it’s not really salt…) are you really living!? Salmiakki forever!

I still have no idea what capers are used for. I see them in delicatessens all the time, but I don’t buy them because I have no idea what I’m supposed to do with them.

I was with you on the chocolate until the pop rocks. Wut.

Yeah, coriander is great if you’re not stuck with those genes.

I’m the polar opposite. Steak tartar makes me gag and the highest quality sushi I ever ate barely reached “meh”. (Normal sushi falls into the “let’s just slide this in the garbage bin when nobody is looking” camp.)

Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking.

Then I remember most people don’t think.

I mean there’s tea that you can buy that’s aged about 30 years. That stuff is horrifically expensive because the capital outlay with ZERO return on it is massive. (I drank a tea that was actually 99 years old once, back in about 2003. It cost roughly twenty bucks in 2003 money for a thimble-sized teacup’s worth. Yes, it was worth it.)

You can also get liquors that are aged 25+ years here. Again, it’s hugely expensive because of the outlay vs. return ratio.

And both of these only work by also selling younger versions: for the liquors 3 years and for teas anywhere from a year on up.

A hundred years? And yet you sell them for a price of about $1.5 for ten? (First search page on Taobao, randomly selected shop: https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=683692822495)

Lotus root and spare rib soup.

So with someone who doesn’t understand how reality works. Got it. 🤣

Oh, apparently I’ve been misinformed.

If I ever get the opportunity again, then, I’ll give haggis a try. The prospect of kidney just had me not even bother trying because, well, kidney and I don’t get along.

I tried to watch that but I couldn’t figure out at all what was going on. I eventually just turned it off I was so lost.

What did I miss?

The only thing that gets to me in haggis is the presence of kidney. I can’t stand kidney. The rest is fine.

皮蛋 a.k.a. “century egg” or, more boringly, “preserved egg”.

I get it. I really do. Everything about these from the colour to the texture to the aroma to the flavour is highly alien to most people’s tastebuds. (It took me ten years to warm up to them myself!) But now that I pushed through it, they’re one of my favourite things.

…edited to add this picture for those who are unfamiliar:

It hinges on whether Canadians will continue to tolerate Americans in general or not.

Signs point to “no”, if prevailing trends are anything to go by.

Why don’t you stay in your homeland and fix the problem you had a hand in creating instead of exporting it?

The fact you’re using “fee fees” unironically says enough about you that I’m pretty sure that Canadians don’t want you. We have enough assholes, thank you very much.