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Bizarre Foods You've Eaten

^If just half the kids that read the books would buy one box each (whatever the content) it would make the manufacturer a millionaire so of course someone's making them!

Had the franchise been from Disney you wouldn't even have asked would you? :lol:
 
Not necessarily. Until a few years ago, jelly beans were unknown over here. I saw my first ones when I was in my late 30s. It always depends on whether the big companies dare to try introducing new things to us. Since we already have such a lot of sweets there is a big competition of other items or brands that already have a solid root in the market. That makes selling something new a rather risky enterprise.

We don't get that much of Disney franchise here either. They do try, but in other countries they have much more success. Partially, that might be because we have no Disneyland here. The closest one is in Paris - too far away and too expensive for families with kids.

I imagine that in other European countries the situation might be similar.
 
Rhubarbodendron said:
Not necessarily. Until a few years ago, jelly beans were unknown over here. I saw my first ones when I was in my late 30s.
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Wow... I thought jelly beans were pretty well known. As a kid growing up in the 1980's, I always thought it was cool that then-President Reagan was a big jelly bean fan.

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They don't "need" it, but it's likely for the difference in texture... otherwise you're just eating a gummy bean. IDK, lol.
 
Well, someone must've thought they needed it -or they wouldn't have put it on them. -It's just not my thing -I find it almost as 'wrong' as chocolate coating on ice-pops!
 
NebulaClassGuy said:
Wow... I thought jelly beans were pretty well known. As a kid growing up in the 1980's, I always thought it was cool that then-President Reagan was a big jelly bean fan.
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When I was a kid, Kennedy was President, the Beatles were slowly but surely becoming famous, a burger was known as a meatloaf-roll and cinnamon or orange-flavoured chewing gum was the latest achievement of the sweets industry :D
 
A week or so ago, I had bull's penis soup at a Vietnamese restaurant.

Just puttin' that out there.
 
teacake said:
There are few things I draw the line at, quite happy to eat live octopus for instance, but I would not eat an animal's penis.
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You'd eat a live animal, but not a dead penis? Actually, when I put it that way--I don't blame you.

For the record, it was like chunks of soft, translucent gristle. Some penis-like impressions (e.g. urethra cross-section), but overall not particularly phallusy.
 
I'd propably have only very few probs eating that but I'd never eat any animal that still lives. I find it horrible enough already that clams, shrimps and crayfish get cooked alife. With humans having spent and still spending most of their history perfecting their methods to kill each other, one should think they'd find a less cruel way to prepare their food.
 
DAYoung said:
You'd eat a live animal, but not a dead penis?
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The thing about a 'dead penis' is that if you stroke it it might rise again...

Rhubarbodendron said:
I'd propably have only very few probs eating that but I'd never eat any animal that still lives. I find it horrible enough already that clams, shrimps and crayfish get cooked alife. With humans having spent and still spending most of their history perfecting their methods to kill each other, one should think they'd find a less cruel way to prepare their food.
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It's not as if it's not being worked on -just isn't going to happen within the nearest of futures.
 
It's dangerous to eat alive animals. For example, oysters try to climb back out of your stomach. That's what I heard :shifty: ;)
 
DAYoung said:
A week or so ago, I had bull's penis soup at a Vietnamese restaurant.

Just puttin' that out there.
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I think I've had bull's testicles before, but I don't remember when. They're pretty common in some states here.

I've also tried salmon roes and other fish roes, especially the cooked ones. There's something about the texture, and they've got a briny flavor.
 
Gryffindorian said:
DAYoung said:
A week or so ago, I had bull's penis soup at a Vietnamese restaurant.

Just puttin' that out there.
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I think I've had bull's testicles before, but I don't remember when. They're pretty common in some states here.

I've also tried salmon roes and other fish roes, especially the cooked ones. There's something about the texture, and they've got a briny flavor.
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Sea urchin roe is the worst roe I've ever had. Yellow, slimy, and membranous.

As for bull balls, you ever hear of the Great Montana Testee Festy?
 
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