A quote that came to me via Val Littlewood; rather apposite as I was reading a short piece on Taiwanese cook & food TV programme presenter Eddie Huang where I came across a similar feeling reply when he was asked “what was the weirdest thing you ate?”
The worst food I’ve ever had in my life was in Mongolia. Funnily enough, my favourite place I have ever been is the Gobi Desert. It’s beautiful and the people are great. But they didn’t get spices until the 90s so they are still figuring shit out. Eating a boiled sheep’s head and a sheep’s eye there was hands down the nastiest thing I’ve ever put in my mouth.
You don’t have to eat everything; and you don’t have to like everything that you do eat. If the thought of eating sheep’s eyeballs makes you gag, that’s 100% OK. Simply steer clear of them. Just don’t bad-mouth any culture that does choose them as part of their national cuisine. That’s their choice — not yours — to make.
