Strange food cravings

[Davent]

I did a 3 month stint in southern Thailand in 2006 with my job. My Thai work mates took great pleasure in trying to shock me by providing my lunch everyday.They used to gather around me at lunch time and watch my reaction and watch with great pleasure as I ate my fries green ants, chilli scorpians etc. I always ate what they bought, but also hammed it up a bit for their entertainment. One day they bought me some Tom Yum soup. I love tom yum, so I was pleased, but the usual crowd had grown to double its usual size as about 15 Thai blokes gathered around to watch me eat it. It came in 2 plastic bags, one with soup, one with noodles and prawns. The soup looked like one of those Christmas globes, the ones that you watch the glitter float to simulate snow.....but chilli flakes. By Christ it was hot!!! I ate it, trying not to show pain, although the beads of sweat dripping from my brow, and and my blistering lips and facial expressions might have given me away! After I finished it, my leading hand came up to me, smiled and gave me an ice ice cream....he said, and I quote
" Dave, when you crap next.....first you crap tom yum, then you yell, hurry up ice cream!" Everyone cracked up, they ordered it extra hot of course.

 

[Davent]

 

[Ridge Runner]

Geez Dave that's a bigun, I picked up a log once and right near my chest there was one of the small ones walking across it within 2 inches of my chest, needless to say I dropped it real fast,

They say the smaller the type the worse their Bite ?

 

[Heatho]

Im such a chilli addict that my mouth waters when I read about people eating hot stuff, or even think about it.

Trouble is, the upper part of the digestive system soon develops a pretty good tolerance, but not the lower part.

If I eat a very hot meal, or enough industrial strength chilli sauce, I tend to suffer the next day!

In the worst cases, it feels like my bathroom is like one of those videos where the lava in Hawaii runs into the ocean.

A good chilli dish always burns twice.

 

[RM Outback]

I did a 3 month stint in southern Thailand in 2006 with my job. My Thai work mates took great pleasure in trying to shock me by providing my lunch everyday.They used to gather around me at lunch time and watch my reaction and watch with great pleasure as I ate my fries green ants, chilli scorpians etc. I always ate what they bought, but also hammed it up a bit for their entertainment. One day they bought me some Tom Yum soup. I love tom yum, so I was pleased, but the usual crowd had grown to double its usual size as about 15 Thai blokes gathered around to watch me eat it. It came in 2 plastic bags, one with soup, one with noodles and prawns. The soup looked like one of those Christmas globes, the ones that you watch the glitter float to simulate snow.....but chilli flakes. By Christ it was hot!!! I ate it, trying not to show pain, although the beads of sweat dripping from my brow, and and my blistering lips and facial expressions might have given me away! After I finished it, my leading hand came up to me, smiled and gave me an ice ice cream....he said, and I quote
" Dave, when you crap next.....first you crap tom yum, then you yell, hurry up ice cream!" Everyone cracked up, they ordered it extra hot of course.

That is funny :Y: :lol: :lol: :lol: they sound like a good bunch to work with.

 

[Davent]

Was a fun 3 months! That scorpian was an average size one, they walk around the bars with platters of them. They taste like a prawn....not much inside them, mainly just a weak prawn flavoured egg shell type thing. Didn't try the spiders.....they put me off a bit.

 

[Davent]

Was a fun 3 months! That scorpian was an average size one, they walk around the bars with platters of them. They taste like a prawn....not much inside them, mainly just a weak prawn flavoured egg shell type thing. Didn't try the spiders.....they put me off a bit.

 

[DetectingSA]

Was a fun 3 months! That scorpian was an average size one, they walk around the bars with platters of them. They taste like a prawn....not much inside them, mainly just a weak prawn flavoured egg shell type thing. Didn't try the spiders.....they put me off a bit.

You're a braver man than I :lol:

 

[madtuna]

Was never big on veggies as a kid as my mum boiled everything into a slop. Meat on the other hand was burnt into a dry slab. Everything was burnt or boil with no inbetween.

Not many veggies I don't eat now, about the only thing is baked beans. Love chilly and the hotter the better, when you can bend over and blow readable smoke rings it's a good chilly.

Favourite meats would be honey soy roo tail or a good camel steak.

 

[Moneybox]

I grew up just eating whatever I needed to survive. I had no interest in food until later in life now I enjoy a good meal and it's starting to show :/