Saturday, May 2, 2009

How Bizarre is Bizarre?

It is kinda funny, how almost everytime I'm not blogging, I am bursting with a zillion things in my mind to write about , and the moment I seat myself in front of the monitor, I am almost at a loss of thoughts ....if there is such an expression at all, in the first place....

Hmmmm.... let's see...... I think I am going to discuss the show "Bizarre Foods" this time.... Oh! and the host Andrew Zimmer........
The only thing I ask, every single time, I see him up there chowing down on goat scrotum or fish eyes ..... even worse fish face (with its mouth wide open), is, ....... "What in the world is he thinking!"
The show, being called what it is, it shouldn't come as a complete surprise that there be a reasonable amount of "gross" ness associated with it, but owing to the fact that it does occupy a prime slot, lasts a whole hour and gets retelecast almost every time the channel runs out of fresh ideas, one expects to see something a little more pleasant from time to time, ....don't you think?

I remeber seeing this one episode, where in, he tries out this fruit called "Durian" some where, in the Philippines, i think...
And for people who don't know.... durian is like the jack fruit, only much worse (btw, that's an understatement) in taste, texture and smell .......
I remember the king of bizarre eats not being able to get it down his throat! ......
Ok, I give it to him..... the Durian supposedly is one of the most obnoxious fruits ever...... even natives sometimes have a split take on this one..... but dude ....how bad can it get ?.....it is after all, only a fruit!!.....

Well at least it has'nt been cut off of a live, anesthetised cow in front of your eyes, like the ------- you ate last week !.... ok sorry people, didn't mean to get all graphic on you, but now you know, how much worse it would've been seeing this thing on television ........ oh and over dinner!

Hey, don't get me wrong, I have absolutely nothing personal against the guy, really...... on the contrary i find him quite pleasant for a man with such "not so pleasant" tastes! .......
Seriously fella! .....you do not have to go around chomping on every organism, dissected, with all its parts marked out in order to make this thing interesting ........ really....... get a hold o'er yourself!

It wouldn't be fair on my part not to mention the bright side to this whole thing though ...... Before seeing that "anesthetized cow" episode I mentioned earlier, I was blissfully unaware of people with such tastes ...... well atleast , now i know.....
But, is that really such a good thing?





2 comments:

  1. Hey I really agree with you! Even the Ad for bizarre food makes me feel like throwing up.. I just close my eyes or search for the remote to change the channel immediately or just simply run out of the room! hahahha

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  2. Shwetha,
    thanks for stopping by the blog.
    Its nice to know I'm not the only one around that feels this way :)!

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