Trying strange foods

[@thenorup]

The Beige philosophy: Try stuff! If it's good it's good, If it's bad, you got a good story.

[@JohnMiller-zr8pl]

And less is it too bad so you can't tell the story because you have expired.

[@shoopdawoop111]

beigepilled and lindymaxxing

[@MarkusMahlberg]

The "Beige philosophy" should be printed on a shirt!

[@Dream_Spark]

​​@@MarkusMahlbergyou should email him about it, hopefully he's drunk and goes along with it.

[@bader3677]

I dont know what you did to the old lindybeige but thank you for uploading daily

[@edspace.]

I'd imagine the biggest challenge in throwing a dinner party is balancing angle and momentum so none of the guests spill anything in the flight or landing.

[@Jamie_kemp]

Very good

[@recursor9469]

Oh man, it took me a second to get this. Well done.

[@edspace.]

@@Jamie_kemp Thank you very much.

[@edspace.]

@@recursor9469 Thanks, I wasn't sure whether to go with this or "is to find a trebuchet large enough".

[@Dee-nonamnamrson8718]

​@edspace. Trebuchet brings to mind more of a "flinging" motion. Catapult, on the other hand...

[@deefman123]

"... and besides I NEED the calories" 😅😂

[@kotzpenner]

Me in University getting offered random lunches

[@sgtflintlock6904]

My Rule is that I'll try anything Three Times. If I don't like it the first time, it's probably just new to me. When I try it the second time, I actively look for something to like. If I don't like it the Third time, then I probably just don't like it.

[@erwinlommer197]

If something doesn't taste good it could also be that it is not done right, it could be some way it is under or overcooked, too much or too little flour etc.. That being said if it just doesn't feel like there is anything there at all I'd not even try second time. It also depends on the cost though. If I'm at some situation where I can cheaply try something without losing chance to try something else I'd give it a second try.

[@sidgarrett7247]

While in Norway we had some kind of fish soup or stew, smelled terrible but we were hungry and damn it was good, filling and delicious. I can’t remember what it was called, probably because I couldn’t pronounce the name of it.

[@Olfan]

There's a difference between not very appealing and outright disgusting. There may be other people who love it, and good for them, but if your stomach starts turning just thinking of trying it, just abstain.

[@Monkey-fv2km]

That’s a good rule

[@stevechopping3021]

I try liver or kidneys just to see if my tastes have changed, but no they are still disgusting.

[@An70ny]

You definitely can "want to do something you don't want to do." For example, I don't want to go to work but I want to get paid, therefor I want to do something I don't want to do. Or, I don't want to eat the bad food but I do want the anecdote about it later so I DO want to eat the bad food. I could go on... Loving these vids!

[@steemlenn8797]

Lindy, please make a video of you eating Surströming! Outside. With clothes you no longer need.

[@brianartillery]

I have tried it - the taste is surprisingly enjoyable - however, the smell is incredible. In a very, very bad way. The fact this is under your nose as you are eating it spoils the experience somewhat. Even my friend's cat wasn't interested. I once had a job that took me into an abattoir to pressure wash various parts, including gullies. Compared to the minging ronk of Surströmming, it was a perfume shop. Even putting a layer of raw horseradish on the fish could not hide the stench. To get rid of it, my friend buried it with bonfire ashes in his garden, and we then put petrol in the empty can and set it alight. Only after it had cooled down, was it consigned to the bin.

[@BruceArtwick]

If he does then I hope he will try it the right way, not like people usually do to film clickbaity videos.

[@cadenceclearwater4340]

The older I get, the more important _interesting_ is over _appealing._

[@Peatingtune]

I find I'm headed in the opposite direction. Perhaps it's a result of plunging head-first into a foreign culture on the other side of the planet and remaining there for many years, but now I yearn for the safe, comfortable and familiar. I'm all burned out on interesting.

[@christineshotton824]

Hear, hear!

[@Arkantos117]

The older I get the less interested I am in novelty.

[@longshotkdb]

@@bradleythebuilder8743 read it again guys... Think about it.

[@longshotkdb]

Absolutely.

[@markfoth1226]

What did the cheese say in the mirror? Haloumi

[@bchin4005]

This goes in the repertoire, I have a friend who is obsessed with cheese, she'll love it 😂

[@MadNumForce]

I don't get it...

[@markfoth1226]

@MadNumForce you should it lovely cheese

[@moritzfuchs29]

I generally agree, but there are so many foods that take a lot of will to eat. Think of fried spiders, or Balut. Balut is a fertilized developing egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten from the shell. Those are two things I wouldn't eat.

[@Lilitha11]

I really enjoy trying new things. I would have no problems with this for most things. If it was like eating a live tarantula, then I might pass though.

[@bgclo]

My grandmother, in an effort to get us kids to try new things, told us that there was an "ancient Chinese" proverb that went: "if you try a new food and you like it, you will live an extra 90 days." Not a grand achievement at only an extra 3 months, but to a kid, an added bonus. And it worked. We kids were more willing to try a new thing with this silly encouragement in mind, even if deep down we knew it was bunk. Grandmothers FTW.

[@mickkelly6389]

The museum of leprosy is an island off the coast of Crete. They were shipped there, to make the best of it.

[@ProgressivePatriot28]

I LOVE trying new and "weird food". In fact, it also makes me want to try it more.

[@johnnorth3351]

I came to learn how to dance "The Lindy" and stayed for a few hours for the eclectic content. I had it in the background and when I came back I realized I wasn't listening to John Cleese :)

[@simonolsen9995]

Once upon a time long ago, after many, many hours making very very good Phillipino friends in a small bar on a tiny Pacific island, I enthusiastically tucked into a hard boiled egg that was offered to me in the semi darkness illuminated by the flashing light of a disco ball. So it was that I discovered Balut. The slow realisation as my brain registered the taste and texture...

[@Sgtspork]

Haha, I live in Philadelphia and we have the wonderful Mutter Museum at the Physicians College.. it's not far off from a leprosy museum but infinitely more cool and amazing.. I mean, 40lb colon! Lady who turned into soap!

[@lucidmoses]

Yup. At a restaurant I ordered Cubed pig lung. It just tasted like pork but the texture was wiled. Like trying to chew an uncutable spurge. You'd bite it and it would flatten to almost paper thin and then just bounce back undamaged. Very weird. But I now know why it was cut in little cubes.

[@richiehoyt8487]

Ughh! You _ordered_ this?!! EDIT: To be fair, I've probably had this ground up in pepperoni, baloney etc. - and at a much more agreeable price point, as well! That, though, is why I now try to avoid your 'mystery meats'!

[@melskroon]

There's actually a great leprosy museum in Bergen, Norway. The stunning girl behind the counter alone was already well worth the visit!

[@thijsrikkerink6333]

Hide glue might be a great dish

[@rook9714]

that's just called jelly

[@BrianStewart126]

I don't know what we did to deserve so much beige, but I'm here for it.

[@macker33]

My dad used love pigs trotters, the local name we have for them is crubeens and they are considered a delicacy.

[@Hrochnick]

In my expeirience, if something is described as a delicacy it means that it is at best an aquired taste (i.e. it's not nice, but you get used to it) and at worst, absolutely disgusting.

[@steveblack6910]

I've had to subscribe, owing to the leather armchair/lucid Rowley Birkin-ness of it all. Quite the tonic!

[@JoeyTaylor-zh7pg]

hello sir, just wanted to say your videos are truly special and always pick up me spirits. blessings be upon thee if indeed blessings there be

[@wowdude8710]

Any time I have an opportunity to try something wacky I usually give it a go. Even things I have had in the past I will usually try a second or even third time just to make sure it wasn't JUST THAT PARTICULAR first bit I had that was bad, but the particular food in general

[@Sugleknug]

This is so interesting. Flashing memories of when Salman visited my closest neighbor, when both of them were highly relevant writers. Rest in peace A & P.

[@SpiceAndFox]

It depends on how unappealing it is, but I would rather decline and be unpolite than vomit over the table.

[@TheChessRunner]

What is really the chance you are going to vomit from the first bite? There is some food I really have hard time eating. But I will know directly and then just politely decline to eat further after couple bites. I think that is always better than not trying.

[@amosbackstrom5366]

I believe there are some Norwegian dishes that taste better on the way up, which is not saying much...

[@MarkusMahlberg]

I think the squeaky cheese you mentioned is Halloumi - which I like. Different people, different tastes.

[@callumcooper1606]

i love you lindybeige but cannot tolerate halloumi slander - i would recommend frying it with pepper and rosemary

[@theangel666100]

Honestly WTF. Maybe the halloumi in england is bad. But its one of the tasties things in the world

[@George_Bland]

I'm with you Lloyd, something I haven't had before is always a reason to have it!

[@Hrochnick]

I was with you until Halloumi... the point is to grill it, fry it if you must, and it is absolutely deliciously like that!

[@render1802]

A job I worked at a few years ago had me in the company of several Chinese nationals, all of whom I got along very well with. We regularly shared foodstuffs for tasting purposes, and I made a point of trying everything. Encountered some things I didn't care for, but found some stuff I really loved. The weirdest thing was pickled, shredded jellyfish. If you'd have told me nothing, I'd have thought it was a just really crisp sauerkraut! Not scary in the least. I like broadening my horizons. :) I do have boundaries with wild mushrooms or anything potentially lethal like pufferfish.

[@sevenproxies4255]

I'd say yes to that question. I have some hard lines I don't want to cross, like eating snails, mussles, caterpillars/worms or anything that contain bowel waste in it (as strange as it may sound, there is a kind of stew they make in the philippines that unironically contains cow dung as one of the ingredients) But I'll try out most exotic and seemingly unappealing foods at least once, just to see what they're like. Snake wine, scorpion wine, monkey brains, stuffed sheeps head etc. Never tried them, but i'm curious to, and wouldn't pass it up if offered.

[@nobodyanderson4353]

Tripe, my father used to eat it with salt and vinegar. Vile, the look and furry texture and smell. Its enough to make your teeth curl. It could make a fly throw up.

[@nottarealguy3954]

It's great in a soup like Vietnamese pho

[@stamasd8500]

Tripe soup is one of my favorite dishes. De gustibus.

[@theangel666100]

To your thoughts on tofu. There's more to an enjoyable tasting experience than flavour. You can put the yummy sauce on anything, sure, but nothing else has the texture of tofu. Or rather textures as you can get many types of tofu. Fried spongey tofu in soup that has absorbed the soup is delicious, and there's nothing else that i know of that's similar. also tofu does have flavour, that many people enjoy. I had more to say but im at work

[@puretestosterone9614]

I love KZbin for letting me listen to an old man(sorry) ramble on. Thank you.

[@chrisleffler6490]

100% agree, definitely doing the polite thing, definitely trying a new thing 🤷🏻‍♂️ not looking appealing isn’t a consideration if you’ve been invited to eat 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@WeAreASecret]

Trying new stuff is my favourite thing!

[@TillyOrifice]

"Try stuff" is a damned good rule for living.

[@JohnMiller-zr8pl]

With Lindybeige there is enough people to organize, make and entertain the guests.

[@borismelev8957]

I'm genuinely in awe that pig's trotters are a fancy dish in England. Yet I'm not surprised.

[@MichaelWatts]

It was the rich flavour of our cuisine and the beauty of our women that made the English the greatest seafaring nation on earth

[@SimonFrack]

They’re just really rare to see. Not exactly fancy in of itself.

[@stephenflook9403]

You really need to try surströmming some time with a group of friends. It's hilarious to watch everyone start gagging and maybe even vomiting the moment the can is opened! It's a true test of willpower just to taste it.

[@davey1602]

The dinner party in Carry On Up the Kyber was a success, but I don't think I'd try that ;)

[@Spartan0430]

I'm a picky eater that doesn't really enjoy much food so... probably not for me. I do try new foods, slowly, but it takes effort. Thankfully my friends and family have learned this over the years so they have stopped getting offended. They'll still try to get me to try new stuff on occasion, which I do appreciate, but they won't have an issue if I refuse. It's always a funny triumph for them when I actually enjoy the food lmao.

[@petersmith2112]

I once around a leper island on a small cruise I took on a lads holiday, the chap told all about it (and it was fascinating to me)

[@tobiasfroeba5277]

Maybe an interesting question would be a really "weird" dish by conventional standards - like the norwegian Smalahove (although the pictures dont look too bad)...or the monkey brain dish from Indiana Jones - I think I would have to contemplate that one...

[@crazypetec-130fe7]

Agreed 100%! You might be surprised to discover the most delicious thing you've ever tasted in your life, so step out of your comfort zone and experience something new and different. Also, I've been to USAF survival school, so I'm wiling to eat anything. And if you're wondering, the best sandwich I ever ate was roast moose tongue. Lean! Juicy! Delicious!

[@johanponken]

I have now expanded my understanding of the word "rant".

[@kenbrown2808]

I have a list I'm building of things to try next time I visit the UK.

[@ietsbram]

Pretty much agree, except of this one thing i saw... A hairy spider the size of a hand being dipped alive into oil, covered in bredcrubs, dipped in oil again and served 30 seconds after the process started.......... No thank uuu

[@mishkamcivor409]

I have dietary restrictions (voluntary) but presumably if I have been invited to a dinner party I'd already make that clear before hand, so assuming then that the food met those requirements then sure I'll try it, I like trying new food even if its not necisarrily good

[@alan2here]

Water snails are nice as is, so is halloumi, and neither really survive a sauce or a fried/breaded/battered taste, so just have them as is, same with raw salmon.

[@himtraldi]

one of my best friends invited me last christmas to a swedish christmas dinner (I'm danish) his family said they have this weird swedish tradition of dipping the sweet rye bread in the ham water I responded I'm all in when you said weird tradition. the bread becomes a savoury condiment. also when trying Uzbek palau in kazakhstan, my friend asked what i was eating, i said "I have no idea, I'll figure that out as I eat. try new thing!

[@JB-ml7xe]

Ahh how bliss to see a Lindy video uploaded 14th it’s ago

[@doctorofart]

As hard as it is I did this. In Hawaii. Raw sashimi. With wasabi Oh my, I never had such an amazing taste and texture before. It was amazing. His brother had caught the fish. Then I got a fish dish his mom made and it too was incredible. I thought I didn’t like fish because my only experience before was salmon patties with canned salmon.

[@LarryCroft111]

About pig's trotters - you might want to try "zimne nóżki". It's a eastern-european dish out of it with carrots and onions for a lot of flavour. It's a bit like this British jelly eel, but diferent?

[@Crobertg10]

Lindy should try some mexican food from Oaxaca, grasshopers with the occacional crikets, lol ive had them pretty good.

[@bishop9757]

On the semantics I can see how it works. At work we have a dish called Salmon crumble which sounds like a fish based dessert which is unappealing to me but I wanted to try it to find out what it was.

[@richardsmith579]

I’ve never fancied sheep’s eyeballs, so I politely declined these, especially since most of the rest of the sheep, and the rice, was so perfectly cooked. I’m not hugely into innards either, but I was full by then and the coffee was delicious.

[@promiscuous675]

Thank you. At home i am a picky fadish eater, but if I am visiting someone and a meal is prepared for me I eat it, I eat all of it, I say thank you, and I remember to praise the cook.

[@darrinrebagliati5365]

As someone with severe allergies, I have a different experience with this question. While I would love to try new things, first I would need to have a few questions about the ingredients answered. Some things the consequences are easy to deal with while others are near fatal. But in general I like to try new things if/when offered. And if it falls into the category of things that I can eat, I would have to try several different cooks versions of it to be sure if I did or didn't like it. I've seen 2 cooks using the exact same ingredients in the same kitchen make 2 different tasting meals.

[@SanityVideo]

I would argue that tofu is more of an ingredient than a kind of food and though you might not like the ingredient it's a little like not liking wheat. Tofu soaks in flavor a lot and can be cooked to very different consistencies. Admittedly there's usually a little recognizable texture no matter how you cook it and a subtle flavor but I'd argue it takes more than one dish to know you don't like all tofu.

[@seanfaherty]

I’d want to but there are times when I have not even brave enough. Cod tongues and Moose Bumgut for instance.

[@jonathanreedpike]

Life is too short to eat anything I don't want to, politeness be danged.

[@Kaaxe]

He keeps reacting like "pfh this question is too easy and obvious" And I still have no idea what his answer will be. I could easily see him answering something like "the question states it looks strange and unappealing, of course I don't want to put it in my mouth!"

[@LiverpoolfanINchina]

My work served cold pigs trotter with pickle ginger , not for me, apparently it’s a local delicacy

[@tedferkin]

You've obviously had bad squid, shame it can be lovely cooked correctly Tofu, yep I have the same opinion Halloumi, I love the squeaky cheese. In fact I love that people know it as squeaky cheese, the first time I heard someone mention it as such, it gave me a good laugh. Never had snails, so cannot comment, but I have heard they are generally chewy and not a great deal of taste.

[@OneOneThree-wl7ml]

I agree. If we assume it is actually a food that people eat and poses no immediate or long term danger to my health, i would try it, even knowing full well i wouldnt enjoy it

[@stevewindisch7400]

When traveling in foreign lands for business, it is wise to go along with the offers or suggestions of your colleagues or Customers at meals. So in Mexico City I once had ants fried in butter and garlic. It was OK, anything cooked that way will be tasty. In Kuala Lumpur, I did balk at the honor of being offered the delicacy of monkey brains served in the skull. Luckily I was not derided for it, I gather Westerners always passed ;)

[@nowthenzen]

I am sad Lindy ate pigs' trotters bc I listened to his detailed account of eating pigs' trotters.

[@patrickm.warren55]

Aah you sir are a true Englishman. Etiquette alone trumps all. Please may I have more of the glue croquettes.

[@wimpow]

I regret not going to the parasite museum in Tokyo. Maybe I do it this year.

[@mrentity2210]

I also tried to read Midnight's Children without success. I think "magical realism" is the only complete genre I have consistently failed to find anything other than dull. If you define it specifically, and not just as "magic (or weird magic-esque stuff) exists but people don't note it as unusual". 100 Years of Solitude, and Midnight's Children are the only specific examples I can remember enough to name (though I've read many others), and they are both *terrifically* dull books where almost nothing happens over a long period. Which is basically my experience with that whole genre. Any literary greatness seems to be buried under a graduate degree's worth of ambiguity and metaphor just because. It's like they all read Dickens and said "let's do this, but with a weirder plot that goes nowhere. Also ghosts and magicians."

[@JS-wp4gs]

You say that now but wait until the person hosting the dinner party is hannibal lecter or lucas werner. Might be better off with the cannibalism than the microwaved cheesy cucumber slices and it sounds like you had badly prepared squid

[@disorganizedorg]

Depending on the dish allergies would be a concern, especially for someone prone to allergic reactions. I encourage moderation when eating anything new. I made that discovery with fresh water snails, though that might have been a neurotoxin from another organism.

[@jmlupoludowicy1239]

I wouldn’t eat live animals or insects, so no living tarantula for me, however good the sauce might taste! Last week I was in the centre of France and ordered Oeufs Meurette off of a menu. I had no clue what the dish might be and thought… how effed up can eggs be that I wouldn’t eat them? They were delicious poached eggs in a red wine sauce with mushrooms. Who dares wins! On the topic of mushrooms: you can eat any mushroom you like, some types only once though! 😅

[@CapitanBreakfast]

I just can't take it anymore, I had to stop my study just so I can clarify this for you Lindy. Most of these foods (that have taste, not tofu...) are like smoking tobacco, but from a pipe rather than a cigarette.

[@tokul76]

"Presented to me for my entertainment" Or curry presented to you for their entertainment.

[@princecharon]

Tofu is useful to bulk up a dish with more protein, when you don't have something that you'd like to use instead (or not enough of whatever it is) - indeed, I suspect that was its original culinary purpose. Otherwise, it's useful as a meat-substitute if you don't know any vegan recipes but have a vegan guest.

[@bchin4005]

The reason to have squid again is because well fried calamari with a nice marinara sauce is delicious 😂

[@williamwallacedebruce9221]

"euch thats terrible have you any chips?".

[@jasonanthonywilper]

Tastebuds evolved for a reason. Nerves are expensive tissue. If we don‘t like something its very probable that its not good for us.

[@merpius]

I can't bring myself to try balut. But most things I am interested try at least once.

[@jannepeltonen2036]

The point of Halloumi: you basically stir fry it. The point is saltiness, greasiness, a little aftertaste that makes it differ from all the other things that basically taste like fat & salt. Tofu is an ingredient. A nice texture and some well-digestible protein. But nobody in their right mind would take a piece of tofu and just put it into a sauce. That's recipe for a disaster. A horrible culinary experience. (You slice it thin and fry it in lots of good-quality oil. Or you crush it into a tofu ball batter and prepare as you would meatballs. Or you cube it into tiny cubes, fry those for a while, and simmer in a huge amount of soy sauce, and eat as a tasty & filling salad ingredient.)

[@TheHylianBatman]

For me, it depends on the smell and the look. I'll TRY anything, but only if it's unknown and doesn't immediately put me off by smelling odd. And I wouldn't eat everything if I didn't like it.

[@geennaam1201]

It depends, if im out for dinner im hungry i need some food i often go for the things i know i like I dont want to send something back order something else wait 15-30min while im hungry and my company is eating But on the other hand i work and am friends with a couple of indonesian woman who often bring me things i havent even heard of Love that, i also have my own food so im not dependent on it for my nutrition and more often than not its great

[@CrankyBonesGaming]

as someone with Celiacs disease, this gets very conolicated and its also starting to feel rude to ask what is in everything

[@JackVermicelli]

I would think canollis would be right out.

[@CrankyBonesGaming]

My little sister is baking some might fine cakes that are gluten free

[@LuxisAlukard]

My social psychology professor once read culinary recipes to whole class and they where exotic and unusual. She read how to prepare horses tounge and most of us said we would not eat it. She replied "wit, my mistake - it was cows tounge" and then less people were against it. I would try both :)

[@Gillsing]

We used to eat cow tongue at grandma's summer home when I was a kid. Pretty tasty. The tongue is a big muscle atter all.

[@chrisj683]

If the individual offering the food is eating it, the guest must eat it- in the manner the individual offering it is. (If eating curry with Malaysians, not only eat the cartilage, but chew it like gum briefly.)

[@nanorider426]

Once during a trip to Romania twenty odd years ago I tried "Lung Soup" from a cow. It was....interesting. It needed salt, a lot of salt.

[@Monkey-fv2km]

I once ordered "assorted meats in pigs blood" in a Chinese restaurant. One of the meats was lung…interesting indeed, but it was so spicy I couldn’t tell the flavour. The other meats were intestine and spam. Couldn’t taste those either.

[@nanorider426]

@@Monkey-fv2km It was white blobs of nearly meat but not quite. It tasted of nothing.

[@lilacheaven222]

I would've never tried cow eye hadn't my grandmother simply shoved it in my mouth. And even knowing I do like it it feels icky in my mind, haha.

[@McFlingleson]

I'll try just about any food other than dog or cat meat because most of my good friends over the years have been dogs and cats. Other than that, I'll have to be careful with anything high in carbs or sugar because I have diabetes, but I would limit those kinds of things, not avoid them entirely.

[@hydrusavitus]

I'd say what is meant by "not appealing" here is it doesn't look/smell good, i.e. it looks/smells dodgy, if not outright bad. Quite some foods fall into this category, while they may taste far better than their looks/smell implies. I think the point of the question is whether you would taste despite the looks/smell.

[@brianartillery]

I was brought up to NEVER say I didn't like something unless I had tried it, and did not like it. I have an exceptionally small list of foods I do not enjoy as a result. I'm 60, and still discovering new foods - and enjoying them, too. I have been annoyed by people who have said, and not jokingly, either: "I haven't tried it, but I know I won't like it." That's just weak, I'm afraid. I was always intrigued about eating raw oysters. Given one to try, I found that I did not like it - in fact, I'd go as far as to say I hated it - not so much the taste, but the texture, which I liken to a cross between snot, and a rubber band. I have since tried them cooked, in a 'Po' Boy' sandwich, with Crayfish, and yes, I enjoyed that immensely. But to turn something down without even considering trying it, is a big no, from me. It's rude, it's a tad cowardly, and it shows a tremendous lack of imagination.

[@jamieblanche3963]

I'd go to the Museum of Leprosy just so i could say, "Yeah... what a rip off" :D

[@montarakid1943]

I'd probably be willing to try it unless it was pizza...with pineapple. 😆

[@HanasDad]

The worst food I got offered by Japanese friends was Shiokara (salted fish guts 塩辛) twice in my life. I choked some down when I was younger. But, in my old age I was offered it again... I decided to fake eat it rather than tell them I won't eat it. I am glad I never traveled to a culture that eats bugs or dogs so I don't have to consider what I would do

[@TheRealInscrutable]

I don't are what it sounds like. What does it look like. That's the important question. Also important is what was it when it was alive. Otherwise "nope" is the correct answer to ANYthing. For me the list of nopes include most fish, all beverages with hops, animals with the wrong number of feet (2 or 4 are the only correct numbers), many fermented things. Anything similar to a bullet egg.

[@fdert]

there was one time I declined food, and that was in ecuador. they cook guinea pigs they call it cuy. I was at a party and was offered some, but it just didnt look right... good thing I didnt try it, my father got sick the next day from it!

[@UkDave3856]

The point of haloumi is that it’s freaking delicious