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The Herald of the Apocolypse ([personal profile] devilgrrl) wrote2006-12-11 03:33 am
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Mm, rotted fish

There is something on Taboo about gross food. Currently, there is a lady who is making something called "stinkheads". It involved burying fish in a pit for two weeks, letting botulism flourish, and then eating them. Apparently, they are creamy.

What I find amazing is that this show does not feature my mother-in-law. Sandi does much the same thing, except instead of burying food outside, she puts it in her freezer. I imagine if medical science were to study my inlaws, they would find such a concentration of toxins that they could cure death and Republicanism. Actually, not Republicanism because Steven ate there for years and still votes Republican occasionally. He has some of these hard-won immunities. I don't.

When we were first dating, I attempted to eat things Sandi cooked. Invariably, I would become ill. I kind of assumed it was because my stomach hated me. Slowly, I just stopped eating things there. Then came the day I understood: Sandi gave us hot dogs for 4th of July. Originally, I assumed that she gave us a block of permafrost that she claimed were hot dogs. I chipped away at the ice until the semi-opened packet of weenies. Steven tried to suggest we cook them for dinner, but I was skeptical. I continued to chip. I saw the date of June emerge. Then: the year. Sandi had purchased these hot dogs back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

I immediately contracted food poisoning and died. Then I informed Steven that I would never, ever eat anything that came from his parents' house again. I love my stomach that much.

A couple months ago, Steven decided to clean out the cupboards and the freezer. After throwing out chicken that had seen the Civil War and something that might have been cow, might have been mammoth, he found cans, bent out of shape from gases and the contents begging to be set free to take over the world, hiding behind somewhat recently expired food. When he went to throw them out, my mother-in-law yelled at him. She said they were still good.

I think the canned goods have been talking to her a little too much recently.

[identity profile] pinkdamselfly.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
This just made me laugh a lot. Sorry. I couldn't help it.

Then I informed Steven that I would never, ever eat anything that came from his parents' house again. I love my stomach that much.

[identity profile] wishuponakate.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
hahaha. This entry has me cracking up. Very funny.

[identity profile] mrseff.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
My dad is a bit like that... his fridge is a frickin' museum of mold. He keeps jars of jam that only have a film of jam in the corner because they were my grandmother's last jams before she died. Milk is only ever to be found in a solid state; mini tinfoil packs contain the missing link between dinosaur and homosapien.

YUCK!

[identity profile] sarakenobi.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I JUST VOMITED A LITTLE THX!

[identity profile] princessbunny.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha, she's like David Sedaris' dad. Have you read Me Talk Pretty One Day? There's a story in there about his dad that mirrors this.

[identity profile] mermaidinblack.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like my Mum's kitchen, except that she doesn't actually eat the old food, it just accumulates and takes up space... is it something to do with that generation? Dunno.

[identity profile] justsurvive.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
yuck.
vaguely sounds like my nasty mother in laws cooking. and her cupboards have things that are back from when justin was in highschool(8+yrs ago when they have a 6mo expire date).

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I really am trying to lighten up my blogging. There are a million funny inlaw stories. Or the time Steven burst out of our bedroom, in the middle of the night, insisting the PHONE was RINGING. (It was not.)

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's true, too. Like the time she served a piece of old leather masquerading as london broil. Steven never gets sick because the botulism fights off all intruders.

[identity profile] papayarain.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha ... ew!

[identity profile] wickedshadow.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL! Quick, hide those damn mason jars O_O That is some scary stuff.

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you ever wonder how people can eat things like that and live?

My father actually has eaten beef even though it "tasted funny" and then wondered why he became ill. My mum was really pissed at him for that.

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Just doing my daily duty.

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I've got to read that. I keep looking at it in the bookstore and thinking about it.

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe the whole Cold War thing? Bomb shelters?

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It's that the grossest? Steven found things back from 1991 when he was cleaning out cans. I really wonder how they've survived eating this stuff.

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
On the up side, if we ever need an untapped source of Botox for Hollywood, we're aces.

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-11 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd hide them, but I would be afraid they'd creep back to their homes in the middle of the night.

[identity profile] thesiren.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
My grandmother is like that. I refuse to eat at her house. The warped cans I can especially identify with. Ew. And ham that smells like it died in the ice age (but hasn't been kept that well frozen). I saw outdoor markets in Vietnam cleaner than her cupboards.

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Were you lucky enough to experience the Cockroaches in Vietnam? One of our friends lived there and has spoken many, many times about them.

I thank Providence that my inlaws are Jewish and do not eat pig products. I can't imagine the horror and carnage that would ensue.

Perhaps your grandmother and my MIL could do lunch and their expired produce could plan its Unholy Plot to take over the World?

[identity profile] amity26.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
I really do think our MILs were separated at birth. This is another thing they have in common. I try to avoid eating any food that my MIL has prepared if at all possible. I was sick for three days after eating some of her Thanksgiving leftovers. Thankfully she is getting to the point where she doesn't really like to cook much anymore.

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly, Sandi is convinced she is a gourmet cook. She tried to give me cooking tips once, when Steven and I were first dating. I forget what she called the recipe, but it involved her boiling hamburgers, potatoes, and carrots in water and ketchup.

[identity profile] thesiren.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's pretty hard not to experience the cockroaches in Vietnam.

[identity profile] devilgrrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder what would happen if they were to mate with the mould in my house...