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Paradoxically, in our neighborhood we get pistachio flavor only in spumoni, where however chocolate and strawberry aren't among my faves and therefore, Olly and Jackie (or for that matter, anybody else who cares about such weighty matters), if you have any pull with Stater Bros, Albertson's, and possibly Von's, I urge you to Fwd this message to appropriate authorities in CA's Victor Valley
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During a stay in Scotland, I was also served haggis. The hosts were clearly expecting at least a discreet recoil. But I found nothing especially revolting in it, no more than in the Sicilian "focacce".
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I can top all of youse. I ate my mother's cooking until I ran away from home at the age of 16. Actually I walked because I was too weak to run. I was 68 inches tall and weighed 91 pounds, and the doctor said I only weighed that much because I was a bit big-boned.
Mom never met a recipe that she could not and did not ruin. The happiest day of her life was the day she got a microwave oven so she could ruin food faster. I would have loved any of the foods listed above, no matter how outlandish. She even tried to fry frog eggs once! It's too bad she's not alive, she could make a fortune cooking for Kirstie Allie.
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Hey, Olly--how come your site lists pistachio ice cream in with things like fish eyes, cicada, and venison tongue?
Dunno Jackie, pistachio ice cream isn't all that big a deal down here not when you can have goody goody gum drops and hokey pokey. But it's the Freaky Native Sushi and the Bee bum juice thats got me thinking.
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TFallF- While diving off Koh Chang, Aramis touched two large, live examples of that ocean-dwelling cucumber thing, but has never wanted to bite on one. Thanks for vindicating that reluctance. 
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Tried haggis once also but found it simply offal . 
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...people keep telling me, "oh, it's just because you've been to a bad sushi place - you have to come with me to MY sushi place and you'll see it's great"...
There are some among us who want to take a fire hose to such oafs.  Here is an excerpt from an obscure, unpublished work:
Now, liver is one of those healthy things to eat, but is supposed to taste bad. Unlike other things, liver continued to taste bad even as I got old. But there is just no reason to wreck the flavor of anything on purpose, such as by adding cilantro or cumin. “Oh, it’s good” may have been an adequately convincing argument for things like turnip greens, but it does not cut the mustard [of course that had to get in] in the spice world. There is no way starving people anywhere in the world would be thankful for that stuff. I have found I am not the only one to think cilantro is vile, so do not put it in my soup thinking it is just my imagination. Also remember that cumin tastes like dirt. Anyone who thinks to ask, “How do you know what dirt tastes like?” must never have been four years old. Finally, I call on backing from the Old Testament. In Deuteronomy 4.3, it says, “Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.” Obviously that also applies to Yeti and Sasquatch, even without cilantro.
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Tried haggis once also but found it simply offal .
I wish I'd said that. 
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Now, liver is one of those healthy things to eat, but is supposed to taste bad. Unlike other things, liver continued to taste bad even as I got old.
Well, there's some folks think celery tastes good. Ya just can't reason with some folks.
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Actually almost all organ meats are not good for you, liver being especially so. The liver filters poison out of the blood stream and IIRC some of the poisons are stored in perpetuity. So when you eat the liver you are eating stored poisons.
And the cholesterol levels in most organs!!! To die for.
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