That secret mastication love affair that typically nobody knows about. The hotel-room tongueasm that you sneak in when your significant udder is not around. The late night office treat that only you and your secretary know about. That culinary blowjob that only you would swallow.
Mine goes to canned, pickled fish. As much as I am a purist at heart when it comes to food, I admit defeat in trying to replicate pickled fish that tastes as good as the Ocean Fresh version from Namibia (which I'm quite sure is anything but ocean fresh.) I just cannot replicate the flavours as they do, even though it is merely a Cape Malay curried pickle - I also think the canning process adds considerable flavour to the end product. There is only one way to have it - on freshly toasted bread seasoned with chilli flakes.
So what weaknesses do you have, that others find a little odd?
Rollmops? Fried chicken feet? Tripe? Haggis? Mopane worms? Snails/escargot? Ceviche? Stinky, bacteria infested, unpasteurised blue cheese? Spam/bullybeef? Pigs trotters? Oysters (yes, some find them disgusting.) Dried fish, almost like fish biltong (they sell this at Mariner's Wharf in Hout Bay[still the best fish and chips in the world].) Scrapple? Natto? Baby food (I know some mothers who eat more than their kids.) Bamboo shoots? Black pudding? White pudding?
Although your proverbial piece of meat on the side doesn't have to be weird in any way - it could be something as normal as bobotie, which non-South Africans find an odd combination. Or are you more of the adventurous type, who's tried Hungary's infamous pigs blood and scrambled egg dish, and fallen in love with the culinary swine? Yes, this dish consists of fresh pigs blood in a hot pan and adding eggs - then scrambling. I'd try it I reckon. After all, I love black pudding...
Mine goes to canned, pickled fish. As much as I am a purist at heart when it comes to food, I admit defeat in trying to replicate pickled fish that tastes as good as the Ocean Fresh version from Namibia (which I'm quite sure is anything but ocean fresh.) I just cannot replicate the flavours as they do, even though it is merely a Cape Malay curried pickle - I also think the canning process adds considerable flavour to the end product. There is only one way to have it - on freshly toasted bread seasoned with chilli flakes.
So what weaknesses do you have, that others find a little odd?
Rollmops? Fried chicken feet? Tripe? Haggis? Mopane worms? Snails/escargot? Ceviche? Stinky, bacteria infested, unpasteurised blue cheese? Spam/bullybeef? Pigs trotters? Oysters (yes, some find them disgusting.) Dried fish, almost like fish biltong (they sell this at Mariner's Wharf in Hout Bay[still the best fish and chips in the world].) Scrapple? Natto? Baby food (I know some mothers who eat more than their kids.) Bamboo shoots? Black pudding? White pudding?
Although your proverbial piece of meat on the side doesn't have to be weird in any way - it could be something as normal as bobotie, which non-South Africans find an odd combination. Or are you more of the adventurous type, who's tried Hungary's infamous pigs blood and scrambled egg dish, and fallen in love with the culinary swine? Yes, this dish consists of fresh pigs blood in a hot pan and adding eggs - then scrambling. I'd try it I reckon. After all, I love black pudding...
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