The Friday Five
Dec. 28th, 2024 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaks1. What is the most adventurous food you've ever tried?
I suppose I usually classify "adventurous" as "things I don't normally think of as a food substance." In which case, my answer would be a tripe-based soup of some sort or the cricket chips I had at the fair once. The tripe gets points for being identifiably a non-standard body part, while the cricket chips get points for being a non-standard animal type. I don't actually think either of these is especially adventurous, though.
2. What is the most adventurous food you'd be willing to try?
I'd rather like to try the fermented shark thing they have in Iceland. That might be interesting.
It seems like most things held up as "adventurous" foods are either a) an attempt to gross out a person's sensibilities (species or parts not normally considered food, seemingly non-food preparation methods) or b) an attempt to eat something harmful (the hot pepper arms race). Neither of these interests me much, but I'm not sure what the alternative would be.
What's an adventurous vegetable or fruit? Durian? It doesn't sound very pleasant, but I'd be willing to try it.
3. Would you have a problem eating dog meat and why or why not?
As a matter of moral principle, I don't eat any type of animal I've kept as a pet. This is a rather wide-ranging category, including dogs, more unusual domestic animals, and several wild species. For me, the Venn diagram categories in my head of "food" and "pet" must have zero overlap.
That being said, this is purely personal. I don't think certain creatures are innately unacceptable as food. I'm more troubled by what's done with an animal while it's alive than what one does with it once it's dead.
4. For the most part, do you consider your diet to be balanced?
Yes, pretty well. It would probably be better to have even more vegetables in my diet, but they're well-represented. I'd also quite like to eat a wider variety of grains, not just mainly wheat-based foods. I'm going to try baking with rye soon!
5. Which is more appealing: being a vegetarian for the rest of your life or being a strict carnivore for the rest of your life?
Oh, vegetarian for sure. I like meat quite a bit. But there is no meat that would be worth giving up, say, raspberries or peaches or potatoes or asparagus.
I suppose I usually classify "adventurous" as "things I don't normally think of as a food substance." In which case, my answer would be a tripe-based soup of some sort or the cricket chips I had at the fair once. The tripe gets points for being identifiably a non-standard body part, while the cricket chips get points for being a non-standard animal type. I don't actually think either of these is especially adventurous, though.
2. What is the most adventurous food you'd be willing to try?
I'd rather like to try the fermented shark thing they have in Iceland. That might be interesting.
It seems like most things held up as "adventurous" foods are either a) an attempt to gross out a person's sensibilities (species or parts not normally considered food, seemingly non-food preparation methods) or b) an attempt to eat something harmful (the hot pepper arms race). Neither of these interests me much, but I'm not sure what the alternative would be.
What's an adventurous vegetable or fruit? Durian? It doesn't sound very pleasant, but I'd be willing to try it.
3. Would you have a problem eating dog meat and why or why not?
As a matter of moral principle, I don't eat any type of animal I've kept as a pet. This is a rather wide-ranging category, including dogs, more unusual domestic animals, and several wild species. For me, the Venn diagram categories in my head of "food" and "pet" must have zero overlap.
That being said, this is purely personal. I don't think certain creatures are innately unacceptable as food. I'm more troubled by what's done with an animal while it's alive than what one does with it once it's dead.
4. For the most part, do you consider your diet to be balanced?
Yes, pretty well. It would probably be better to have even more vegetables in my diet, but they're well-represented. I'd also quite like to eat a wider variety of grains, not just mainly wheat-based foods. I'm going to try baking with rye soon!
5. Which is more appealing: being a vegetarian for the rest of your life or being a strict carnivore for the rest of your life?
Oh, vegetarian for sure. I like meat quite a bit. But there is no meat that would be worth giving up, say, raspberries or peaches or potatoes or asparagus.
