Have you ever really thought about how cheese is made. It’s fermented ie rotten milk. If you are from a culure that does not eat any milk of any sort, it seems a little gross…milk is just breast-milk from another animal. Cheese is the rotten form. Yogurt is aged milk after being digested by bacteria.

I am just saying we look at somethings differently, cheese is just fermented breastmilk and yogurt the feces of certain bacteria — yes some people find that gross. (chew that over for awhile)

And remember most of the world is on a rice based diet, the amount of bread and no rice is weird. In Thailand, when I ate a salad(western style) for lunch by students couldn’t understand how I wouldn’t starve with just a salad and no rice for lunch and they thought it looked a little gross. They would never understand a low carb diet.

The most unappealing vegetable I’ve ever seen was the “radis noir” available at the Trois Mousquetaires supermarket I used to use when I lived in France. “Radis” means radish, but this isn’t one of the little red things you find in salad. It was over a foot long, looked like a rather phallic offensive weapon, and was usually rather muddy.

On putting “radis noir” into Google Images, the first link seems to be for a French “lick the produce section” blog entry! Here’s a translation of the beginning:

“In my basket this week, still no beetroot (yay!) but one of my worst prejudices as far as food is concerned: an enormous black radish. Let’s get a look at the beastie:

Yeah, it looks like a dead rat. The challenge is to cook it to make it a bit more edible, bearing in mind that its size (I’ve put a clothespeg beside it for comparison) means that might require several meals. And me, I just KNOW black radish is disgusting!”

Here’s the link:

http://lecoyoteseregale.blogspot.com/2007/11/tentative-dpuisement-dun-radis-noir.html

Looking forward to the Lick the Produce!

I like how you said about the store being so quiet because there is no PA system. I can totally picture that!!

You’re right, spiky vegetables are scary. In the summer you can buy these knobbly cucumbers on a stick as snacks here and even though I know it’s just cucumber I can’t bring myself to eat them.

The food that my students think is the weirdest, and are absolutely grossed out by, is cheese. Think about the process of making cheese for a second, and then remember that many Asians are lactose intolerant. So not only is it old, yucky, gross milk, but it makes them sick, too.

It doesn’t make me any less sad that it’s such a trial to find. But cheese.

On other notes, they think that we eat pizza for breakfast, hamburgers for lunch, and steak for dinner. No wonder we’re all so fat.

- Marshmallow frosting

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