This month, Good News Wants to Know... What is the strangest or most exotic thing you’ve ever eaten, and where were you at the time? While on our honeymoon in Napa Valley, I told a server at a stunning restaurant to bring me the absolute best thing on the menu. He brought me one of the best meals I’ve ever had! Later I found out I ate “sweetbreads” and just about passed out when I learned what sweetbreads are… that is the thymus or pancreas of a calf or lamb! Karen Granger, Director of Community Relations, 4KIDS Palm Beach Other than a goldfish during rush for the fraternity, squid, which is a delicacy eaten in the Greek islands on the Mediterranean. I can honestly say that I’m not into “exotic” and neither of these changed my mind. William C. Davell, Director, Tripp Scott I’ve travelled extensively through Africa and SE Asia and oftentimes been invited to dinner. I learned early on when it comes to food, if you don’t want to know the answer, don’t ask the question. Bill Tolia, President, BrightStar Care I got to spend time In Libera a bunch of years ago. Rule #1: eat what’s in front of you. A few nights in we were served a warm and salty stew. About two bites in, Pastor Doug told us it was monkey soup. To this day I have absolutely no idea if he was being serious. Also, I broke Rule #1 that night. Bob Denison, President, Denison Yachting I entered a radio morning show's pickle eating contest thinking that it might lead to my big break (which it actually did!). We were all handed a jar of pickles and told to eat as many as we could in 60 seconds. Determined to win, I polished them all off, but because someone else was doing the same I drank the juice in the jar too. Pickles may not be strange, but the way I felt for the next three days certainly was. Brian Mudd, Program Director \ Host of The Brian Mudd Show, iHeartMedia The most exotic thing I have eaten is pigeon pie. I was in the 1200 year old medina in Fez, Moracco. We went to dinner with a local who asked if he might place the order for us. I said yes! It was delicious. I am sure I would have never ordered it myself. Char Talmadge, Executive Director, Rescue Upstream Growing up I never had the opportunity to eat sushi but tried it first in college in Boston. I also thought that escargot (snails) and octopus were exotic, until I tried them. The one thing that I have eaten that stands out is sweetbread, which is made up of the throat, gullet or pancreas. Chip LaMarca, State Representative, Florida House District 100 While living in Colombia, my team from the Ecuadoran border region invited me to a “BBQ.” It is always fun to spend the day with “the boys,” but this time, they served up Cuy, aka Guinea Pig. Good times! Christopher C. Simpson, President and CEO, CBMC International That’s an easy question for me. The most exotic things I have ever eaten were DOG in Sapa, North Viet Nam in 2013 and whale as a boy in Cape Cod (before they were put on the endangered species list). Neither of them was very appetizing! I’ll stick to stone crabs and tenderloins if I have my choice! H. Collins Forman, Jr., P.A. I have two foods that stand out as the most “exotic.” The first would be glass eels eaten in Cascais, Portugal, and the second, fresh cloudberries (not lingonberries) with ice cream topping off a reindeer dinner in Stockholm, Sweden. Both were amazing. I did a hard pass on barnacles in Portugal but wish I had tried them. Craig D. Huston, Summit Achievers The most disgusting thing I ever ate was when I was in a fine restaurant in Mexico City while recruiting students from the Universidad de Valle de Mexico to enroll in courses I helped design and taught at Lynn University. The teachers who were treating me to dinner insisted I try the large, roasted ants that were soaked in garlic and oil, a real delicacy for them, but way too crunchy for me. Just an aside: while ministering to unreached people in the headwaters of the Amazon in Peru, I didn't have the stomach to eat the large roasted slugs that the guys on our team did (that would pop open in one's mouth) or the Toucan or the monkeys we were served by the tribes. Deborah Cusick, FAU Campus Volunteer, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship The strangest or most exotic thing I’ve ever eaten was possum. I was a young preacher, and my first sermon invite was out in Belle Glade. Scared silly, I preached through the Prodigal Son text, gave a short invitation and closing. Church Family promptly moved the pews, set up tables and brought out tons of home cooked food. Being the guest, I ate a bit of everything. Then on the ride home, I found out that I had eaten a home cooked special - possum. Needless to say, a cane field on the side of the road was my pullover spot to ‘unsettle’ my stomach. Sweet people, strange food. LOL Dennis DeMarois, Executive Director and CEO, Gathering Palm Beach County I am quite squeamish about certain foods and once when I was a child my parents tricked me into tasting a frog leg. When they told me the truth and my stomach turned and I cried, they vowed never to trick me into something like that again. Even today I will hardly try an unknown vegetable let alone a mystery meat. Dolores King-St. George, President, King Communications and GraceNet Radio William “Bill” C. Davell Bill Tolia Bob Denison Brian Mudd Char Talmadge Chip LaMarca Wants to Know… - Karen Granger -
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