TCKs: Adventurous eaters!
I think you all will enjoy this article as much as I did 
Taqwa
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12 Comments to “TCKs: Adventurous eaters!”
June 10th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Haha, wow, those kids are crazy..
I’m not that crazy of an eater. I mean, I can’t eat veggies. I hate them. However, I *will* eat frog legs no problem. And I think I’ve had camel before? I like meat. I don’t like veggies.
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June 10th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Me? I eat veggies, seafood (fish, however? Its weird…but i’m, starting to develop a taste for it). But i can’t east oysters because when i was trying one, my cousin said to me “Don’t hear it scream.” And ever since the, i can’t do it.
Meat? I’m not crazy abt. I very rarely eat steak. Birds are good tho.
Edited because it’s I’m and ‘tarting’ is not a word, its starting.
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June 11th, 2008 at 12:16 am
I eat anything really. Except the *really* bitter vegetables. Bittergourd and Brussel Sprouts, anyone? I can’t stand them. Everything else is fair game though, as long as it’s professed to be edible. I’ve tried just about everything I’ve ever had in front of me.
And no veggies Kristine? Tsk! Young people these days. Plus it’s the North American influence, if I’m any wager! I’m thinking the reason Americans pop so many bloody vitamin tablets is because they don’t get enough of it naturally. Come to Europe, where it’s fresh, clean and naturally produced!
I loved the article by the way. And in reference to the paragraph above, I found this hilarious:
“So when I read of American parents who hide spinach in brownie mix and serve it for dessert (“Your kids will never guess,” Parents magazine promised), it spurs me to offer advice to my compatriots back home.”
Spinach in brownie mix? Are you KIDDING me?
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June 11th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Haha, I love that article! At first I didn’t realize the picture was anything “odd” (in American standard) and then I realized they were white kids using chopsticks eating red hot spicy looking Chinese food. It is an awesome picture
We need more of that in the US.
I actually turned down an offer for scorpions on a stick when I was in Beijing and now that I think back I regret for not trying (especially after I discovered my TCKness, gotta live up to it! LOL).
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June 11th, 2008 at 12:29 am
I’m generally a vegetarian…I say this because when I’m travelling I sometimes have a hard time keeping a healthy diet so I occasionally eat seafood…I’m pretty much only a strict vegetarian in the US and Europe…especially in the US…I get sick after a while bc of all the meat (full of hormones and steroids mmmmmmm)…I like everything, and I will try everything once (regardless of what it is if it is served to me)…and unlike kristine i LOVEEEE veggies.
I don’t get the bribing thing mentioned in the article…. in my family it was more like the Italian mom’s dad…you eat everything you’re served…don’t leave the table until you do…and oh god if you say “I don’t like” to ANYTHING (even if it’s not even served that night) you’re in trouble (and will get a double portion of it tomorrow night).
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June 11th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Cute photo.
This should be the norm rather than something news worthy though…we have a long way to go!
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June 11th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Speaking of scorpions on a stick…
My friend recently moved to China, and went to Beijing for a while.
For the first time in her life, she tried Scorpion on a stick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oayM9s7ji4
Edit: She’s saying in German something like:
So, people know that I’m picky with my food, and that it can be painful. … Never again chicken, mmmm. *laugh* Like… potato chips. And look, there are still 3 more. 1, 2, 3.
Sorry, it’s not that clear and my German’s not perfect.
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June 11th, 2008 at 5:03 am
The scorpians don’t look that bad though- would rather have them on my plate than running around alive
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June 11th, 2008 at 5:33 am
I actually really wanna try scorpion….never had the chance to try it….i’ve heard it’s good.
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June 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Some of the food mentioned in the article such as pig ears and cow lungs are too normal for me. My grandfather used to encourage me to eat every part of everything that “has its back facing the sky”. What I dare not try are chicken bottoms, wine brewed with rats (my grandma used to have these bottles of “wine”. you can totally see the rats inside… grandma said someone gave these to her as gifts…), monkey brains of still alive monkeys… OMG
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June 30th, 2008 at 7:59 am
I ate catfood.
WOOT
I think Brice should try it too.
i think i’ve heard of all the food in the article, after all im chinese =)
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June 30th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Awesome article - loved it, loved it, loved it!
I remember when I went to a local’s restaurant with my family in Hawaii - we were the only white people in the entire place, and everyone there literally stopped eating and stared at this tablefull of white kids who ate with CHOPSTICKS! LOL
We should start a list on here of the weirdest food we’ve eaten (or the normal food which others around us consider weird).
I consider most stuff I’ve eaten pretty normal, but it freaked lots of non-TCKs out: raw and dried squid, raw shrimp, raw and smoked octopus, tripe, cuttlefish, eel, whole dried fish (yup, head, eyes, everything) etc etc. Of course I’ve also had moose, reindeer, caribou, and muskox… live ants… and raw whale blubber with the skin. Whale skin is an inch thick, no joke - it tastes very good actually, quite nutty.
One of the only things I could not bring myself to eat was whole rodent. It was two muskrats or something,the size of jack russel terriers, given to us as a gift, completely whole but skinned. Yep, two entire skinless red, glistening, bloody dead rodents, with claws and bulging eyes and bared teeth, and we were supposed to pop them in the oven and then… ugh. We buried them secretly under some trees.
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