OMG! Iron Chef tonight is using ---- natto! ***disgusting**

[Rabrrrrrr]

Which has to be one of my most hated of all foods. I find natto utterly disgusting, both in smell, taste, and especially in texture. I almost threw up the first time I had it. My partner loves the shit, and I can always tell when she's opened a container of it, even hours later.

:shudder:

I'm glad I'm not one of the cooks on Iron Chef tonight, cuz I'd have to give up as soon as the food was announced, saying, "I'm sorry, but I'm can't even think of that shit without wanting to throw up, I'm sure as hell not going to come up with 5-7 ways to cook it in the next hour."

[GOPisEvil]

1. My mom is Japanese, and I'm not sure what that is.

:D

[GOPisEvil]

2. OK, now that I see it, I know what it is.

You're right, that's some vile shit!

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. It's fermented soy bean in a pasty substance,

and when you pull on the beans, you get a long stringy viscous thingy that looks like snot and smells worse.

Remember when Harry pulled his wand out of the troll's nose? That is exactly it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Clarification - the fermentation makes the stringy shit,

it's not something that's added to the soybeans, so it's not really "in", as I said in the post; it just is.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. You should ask he if she likes it - it's a real love/hate kind of food,

like oysters or lutefisk. Either you love it or you hate it.

[GOPisEvil]

8. I've never seen her eat it.

It sounds like the kind of thing she wouldn't be into.

[Redstone]

4. The fuck is Natto?

You need to be more specific, even if it bothers you to do so.

The "Japanese" reference in another reply tells me I may not be happy that I asked you for specifics, but....

Redstone

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. See my above post to GOPisEvil

[Redstone]

9. OK, I got it. Trust me, you are NOT overreacting.

That's some purely vile stuff.

I'd have to be REAL hungry before I'd consider THAT to be actual food...

Redstone

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. That is the nastiest crap EVER. My wife, who introduced me to all manner

of awesome sushi goodness, talked me into trying this once and it was horrific. Of course, she talks about what a wuss I am but won't eat it herself, LOL.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. The natto sausage could be tasty. And I'm curious about the Coke dish.

That might be tasty as well, though not necessarily.

[GOPisEvil]

13. That coke thing is quite intriguing.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Sure, you just came back from LA. Of course you think coke is intriguing.

:7

[GOPisEvil]

15. *sniff*

What? Huh?

:P

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. You need a towel to handle that nosebleed, Mr. White?

[GOPisEvil]

18. Ooooh...Reservoir Dogs!

Right?

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Never saw that movie.

Sorry!

Sometimes I surprise myself with the movies that I haven't seen.

[GOPisEvil]

20. If you don't like blood and cursing, don't watch.

:D

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. One of the great flame war topics

on gaijin newsgroups and listservs is "Natto: Is It, Or Is It Not, Completely Disgusting?"

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. I love the Japanese square omelette pan

so one can make rolled omelettes.

So much more exciting!! I wish I had one.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Judging by looks and my own sense of how things taste, I think the winner:

will be the challenger.

I also think that the Cola flavored desert thingy is going to be more of a hit than people might expect - I should think it would have a similar (though obviously not the same) flavor of sweetened azuki.

[GOPisEvil]

22. Well, I always hate the tasting and judging.

All that flowery language and such. I almost never find out who wins.

[LizW]

23. Do you ever wonder who the first person was to decide...yeah, this is food

Some comedian, I can't remember who, did a bit about that. Like, who was the first person to open up a raw oyster, see a gray, mucousy, slimey blob inside, and go, "Hmmm. Gray, mucousy slime. I think I'll eat it."

:rofl:

[Beware the Beast Man]

24. I had to look it up.

That may be the grossest-looking food I have seen since balut.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

25. I love it over raw tuna or in a handroll with just a shesaw leaf