Monday, February 4

 
Ray's List of Weird and Disgusting Foods

You might not want to be eating when you read this list, a worldwide compendium of every awful comestible on earth. Naturally, one person's disgusting food is another's delicacy, a case I can make most pointedly when seeing that cheese curds ended up on the list for the United States (a nation so large it gets broken down by geography) in its Midwest region. In fact, I would quibble with every item attributed to the U.S. Midwest, either because it's not really that bad, to my taste, (like "sliders," those tiny steamed hamburgers from White Castle, or Jell-O salad), or because the food didn't originate in the Midwest (like fruitcake. Take it back, England!). Other foodstuffs on the list have no such gray area, including jellied eel (England). Curiously, many items are either cheese (Gorgonzola made the list, shockingly)or sausage (no surprise; you never know what's lurking inside that
casing, or even where that casing originated).
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