Post by Ella
No pictures of yucky food, I promise.
The entrance ticket is a barf bag.
And if that isn’t enough, there is a tasting bar at the end where you can play Disgusting Bingo.
And partake in a Chile Challenge where the heat ranges from 1.2 million scoville units to off the charts at 7 billion (although it was all chemical so we don’t know which peppers the extracts came from).
I wonder if that guy lost his hair from the Chile Challenge?
I wonder!
Wait a minute … disgusting root beer? Or maybe it is made from real roots. Salty licorice doesn’t sound bad either, salty caramels are good.
They also had Twinkies.
Several things: root beer seems to be an American thing. When Moira first came to the United States she was anxious to try root beer, thinking it was some sort of beer. She had no idea it was sweet, and she thought it “disgusting.” To this day, she says it tastes like mouthwash.
The Dutch are very fond of salty licorice. I’ve tasted it. My verdict: disgusting.
Stinky bishop is a cheese… and a very nice cheese, in fact. Though strong.
And Vegemite is the Australian version of Marmite. I would say they both are an acquired taste. Moira’s son David, between the ages of two and three survived on buttered toast and Marmite.
Root beer was actually displayed as a “dangerous” food because of the carcinogenic properties of the sassafras root (now replaced by artificial flavors). And probably the smell of the aptly named “stinky bishop” led to it being classified as disgusting. I do remember Vegemite. It is an acquired taste. To be spread sparingly.