Word: offal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TAKERU KOBAYASHI Eating champ breaks record by downing 50 1/2 hot dogs without puking. The economy is bad, the PM is limping, but Japan is No. 1 in offal-eating...
...well as for men's overconfidence in their ability to get lucky and their unwillingness to ask for help in any language. Couples will dine that evening at a three-star Michelin restaurant, where, no matter what they order, they will be served six courses of variously prepared offal, and their credit cards, when they attempt to pay, will be denied...
...what they want, and thankfully so, since my efforts alone aren't enough to keep tripe on the menu at Pho Pasteur (hey, I'm trying). But recently a New Yorker article exposed a group of Manhattanites who have banded together in order to indulge their clandestine love of offal, which proves that offal-eating is generally looked down upon in the States as inherently unclean...
...concede that taste is subjective enough that people may just not like the taste of organ meat. My issue is with those people who pull faces at eating certain parts out of some false notion of intrinsic 'uncleanliness,' and, worse than that, to consider the very act of eating offal beyond their ken, beyond their realm of comprehension. I call this the 'how could you eat those parts?' school of thought: some people seem to take it as a God-given fact that anyone who eats anything that looks like the original animal or comes from an 'unclean' part...