BTW, I once gave ECB cookies when she was here in Denver and never heard if she liked them. Bug her about that, would you?

If you get it overripe? Dear gods. And don't get me started on artificial durian flavour.

But it really is worth the time to try and find a good one. I'd still suggest eating it outside, some people just can't get the subtleties of the smell. ;)

@everyone else: I will not be eating pickled fish products. Period. And if the cookery only involves opening a can...meh.
I'm looking for a more involved project. I was thinking maybe deep fried coke. Or pork stuffed pork.

Taco Stuffed lobsters would be a close second but I just don't think I can afford tacos on my salary.

A detailed description exists in Bohumil Hrabal's book "I served the King of England," so for the best account, read that book, but here is a summary from memory:

- Boil several hundred eggs.
- Stuff twenty turkeys with seasoned stuffing.
- Baked them.
- Stuff two antelopes with baked turkeys.
- Fill extra space in antelopes with boiled eggs.
- Bake the antelopes.
- Stuff camel with antelopes.
- Insert fish in the camel’s belly, and again use boiled eggs to fill the extra space.
- Season strongly.
- Grill the camel on charcoal in large courtyard.

Slice cross-sections with a sharp knife.

Serves 300

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I can't attest to it as I am a vegetarian, but if you do it, please take photos.

They're just like the media weasles who enjoy coopting inspiration and jacking off into their gym-sock worldly incite, aren't they?

Okie dokey, Airy-head and Jonad, now it's time for to bend over and make lil pooh pooh for the people. There you go, squeeze!!! grunt!! Oops! here it cums.

Mmmm, doesn't that look good, with a hint of garlic (did you swheeties have corn for dinner?), ok let's get you cleaned up with the New York Times. There, a wipe here, a wipe there, See? The NYT is really full of shit now.

Alright, you've done well, you very hungry experimentalists. We've got a great snack for you. It's called 'Bloody Stool in Newsprint.'
Just pick at it like we do at Pommes Frites next to Neumos.

Last night, Slender means played an alright show, but the fries while waiting in line were the highlight. In fact, darling463 brought along her tape-echo machine and blared her polyrhythmic sample of "How was it?"

Hallucinatory drones of the three words layered in cacaphony, the rpm's chosen by Cagian chance. Very cool, and the concert goers dug it.

How waSiT Wow washo it OW wa I t How Ewa i is Wa sdi T HOW s a wwwwwit waHoaw w as It
-- totally cool, possibly triumphing the end of XTC's 'Complicated Game"

Yes, the game, You, SPOOL and ASSt, ARE THE loozers

Great ideas! I probably can't get ahold of a whole camel for cheap but stuffing something sounds like fun.
I'll have to see if I have any takers for an iron chef competition.

I miss the William Shatner Iron Chef.

Hakarl, Kumis, Shirako

I tried Hakarl in Iceland, Kumis in Kyrgyzstan, and Shirako in Japan. The only one I would willingly eat again is shirako, though I'd choke down another swig of kumis if I was in a ger and it would be impolite to turn it down (all I can say is: you can taste the horse). I'd starve before I went near hakarl again, though if it was close to the end I might use it to put myself out of my misery.

Of the three, the only one I am certain is available in Seattle is shirako. When it's in season they serve it as a special at Maneki, and I believe Uwajimaya sometimes has it (if not, you'd have to buy it from a specialty seafood wholesaler). But you'll have to wait: the season is late winter (shirako: it's the taste of the holiday season!)

Lutefisk!

nothing like a sticky, stinky bowl of FERMENTED SOYBEAN!
the smell is similar to dirty socks, and i have no idea what it tastes like, because i refuse to eat it. like any other disgusting, smelly food, some people love it.
any asian food market will carry it.

Also, FYI, it's spelled a lot of different ways -- peondaegi, bondegi, beondaegi. It's pronounced "bone-day-gee" (hard "g", not "jee").

After all, nothing beats trying to eat something when you're not sure if it's a plant or an animal. Not to mention that sea cucumbers vomit up their internal organs to scare away predators (and then regrow them) and breathe through their anuses. How can you not want to chow down on that?

http://www.fewmets.net/articles/friscokid/colacake.html

I believe the proper title is "cocoa-cola cake," but the thing involves Coke and *buttermilk*. I've never dared to make it myself.

@38 - Ooh! Thank you! I'd totally forgotten about Hard Gay!

I vote for natto, too.

For bonus points, go find some asafoetida. It's absolutely horrifying raw, but when you cook it in a dish, it adds a really nice depth to Indian dishes - sort of the way that fish sauce finishes off Thai and Vietnamese food. Do not, under any circumstances, leave any of it in a car. Or your house. Or the office. When it's fresh, it smells like an onion that got forgotten in the back of a cupboard and turned to mush over the course of several months. And that's putting it mildly.

Great post Jonah and Ari... as always!!

I always think "methane" when I smell it.

When he can't get it fresh (it's easy to drop over $50 on fresh durian, apparently) he gets some...canned? and whips it up in a jar, which he walks around eating and subjecting us to.

If there's ever a gas leak in our office, no one will catch on.