434 - Rotten Reviews Of Exotic Foods, Creepy Pets For Ms. Rose, and A Song In The Mind Is Worth Two On The Kate Bush Tape

[9:55 AM] Mr. Blue:

On Bizarre Foods yesterday (an old rerun) he ate fish that had been fermenting for 5 years

Funazushi

This is a guy that enjoyed raw horse meat, squid eyes, and some boogery thing growing out of drift wood...

He said this was one of the foulest tasting things he's ever had

[9:58 AM] Mr. Silver:

They did that to Pilkington on Idiot Abroad

[9:58 AM] Mr. Blue:

I remember that

It's pretty crazy when even Andrew Zimmern can't handle it

I've only seen him give an out-right negative review of food a handful of times

Even the bug-infested cheese got two thumbs up

Another weird one: horse mane.

Not the hair but the meat of the back of the neck the hair grows out of.

Had the consistency of a cold block of cheese. He said it was good: like buttered bacon fat

[10:00 AM] Mr. Silver:

You read the history of this stuff and the rice process is claimed to have been a way to preserve fish.  Well...it doesn't. 

[10:01 AM] Mr. Blue:

No

He said the smell was 90% rotten rice and 10% rotten fish

[10:02 AM] Mr. Silver:

He went for the casa marzu, huh?  Blech

[10:02 AM] Mr. Blue:

It wasn't casu marzu specifically, but it was something like that

He actually started sharing it with other people in the restaurant

He got someone to eat it before telling them what it was or pointing out the bugs... and they liked it

Okay.. maybe it was casu marzu...he was in Sardinia

[10:03 AM] Mr. Silver:

There are some bleu-like varieties that have the little bugs living it it, yeah.

Never get it legally here, but I've seen video

[10:04 AM] Ms. Rose:

I can't watch those shows. Barf reflex is too sensitive.

[10:04 AM] Mr. Blue:

You can get the cheese mite ones, I think, because they're microscopic

[10:04 AM] Ms. Rose:

I actually think I might throw up right, just reading about it. :&&

[10:04 AM] Mr. Blue:

Sorry

[10:05 AM] Ms. Rose:

LOL

[10:05 AM] Mr. Blue:

MS. ROSE DO NOT READ THIS.
He ate a still-beating frog heart too

[10:06 AM] Ms. Rose:

HAHAHAHAHA!

I fainted once during one of those "true stories of the E.R." shows. That was like a dozen years ago.

"And now, we will use this giant metal tool to gently remove the..." *hits the floor*

I fainted all eleven times I had my ears pierced, too. Fainted twice for the tongue piercing.

[10:06 AM] Mr. Blue:

The funazushi would still be interesting...like eating history

It's like the culinary equivalent of visiting a concentration camp

[10:07 AM] Mr. Silver:

(Host) "Let's see what fish tasted like back through history...starting with what has been rotting in this box for the last 5 years." (apprehensively pushes box towards camera)

[10:07 AM] Mr. Blue:

"The Japanese have continued the tradition for 18 generations. Nobody knows why."

[10:08 AM] Mr. Silver:

Exactly

[10:08 AM] Mr. Blue:

The guy making it was the 18th generation of his family that owned the place

since 1600-something.

[10:09 AM] Mr. Silver:

(Host) "This dish - which is exotic, expensive, difficult to get right, a health risk to eat, and absolutely awful smelling and tasting - keeps being made like...like...the Japanese are starving cavemen or something."

(Host in Japanese museum) "This humorous vase from the Edo Period shows restaurant visitors hanging over a rail, puking out a week’s worth of meals.  The accompanying vase shows the same party in filthy clothes happily paying for the privilege."

[10:11 AM] Mr. Blue:

Hahah

[9:35 AM] Ms. Rose:

I think we need to adopt one of dese: http://mentalfloss.com/article/90509/13-furry-facts-about-pallass-cat

[9:36 AM] Mr. Blue:

Supposedly they smell really bad

[9:37 AM] Mr. Silver:

Cute fuzzy stink bomb

[9:38 AM] Ms. Rose:

Despite being a self-proclaimed Crazy Cat Lady, I have never heard of these creatures.

I feel like a Pallas's cat would eat my other cats. :S

[9:43 AM] Mr. Blue:

The round eye thing is cool

[9:43 AM] Mr. Silver:

Yes

"Your cat has funny eyes."

"He's not a cat, he's a demon familiar."

"Err...can I pet it?"

"Dead man walkin'..."

[9:44 AM] Ms. Rose:

"We named him Fluffy McSprinkletons."

[9:45 AM] Mr. Silver:

"Cute!"

"It means fluffy son of sprinkled disjointed skeletons."

[9:46 AM] Ms. Rose:

"He eats nothing but rats, Friskies Meaty Bits, and souls."

[9:46 AM] Mr. Blue:

Goats are weird with their rectangle eyes

[9:46 AM] Ms. Rose:

They ARE!

[9:46 AM] Mr. Silver:

The hourglass ones?  Creepy

[9:46 AM] Ms. Rose:

Goats are weird for a lot of other reasons too.

But those teeny little pygmy goats? Definitely need to adopt one of those after the Pallas's cat.

[9:47 AM] Mr. Blue:

Our neighbor had a pygmy

[9:49 AM] Ms. Rose:

One of the worst things I ever witnessed was when one of Trevor's dumb friends took us to his dumb parents' house for 4th of July. They had a tiny little goat and decided it was a good idea to put him on tether, pushed into the ground. The fireworks start and Baby Goatling gets so scared that he literally chokes himself on the tether, trying to get away. They waited until the fireworks were over before tending to his corpse.

[9:51 AM] Mr. Blue:

Gross

[3:18 PM] Mr. Blue:

And at the end of every month, go Google "What's coming to netflix in [next month]" because the 1st is when they add and take off stuff

[3:18 PM] Mr. Brown:

There are more categories too

I found some Canadian one

[3:19 PM] Mr. Silver:

Mostly we've been watching "The Crown", because that's why I was instructed I wanted to get Netflix

[3:19 PM] Ms. Rose:

Respect for Silver, declining... Getting lower... ...

[3:20 PM] Mr. Silver:

Hehe

We have SO much TV...

I even sifted through the new Netflix stuff and saw about 3 titles I wanted to watch.  Nothing I wanted was on it.

[3:21 PM] Ms. Rose:

We were going to watch the new Always Sunny last night. But then I drank too much and everything became clear, in an argumentative way.

[3:21 PM] Mr. Silver:

“Stranger Things”

“Robinson Crusoe on Mars” (spotted by accident)

“Le Voyage dans la Lune”

[3:23 PM] Mr. Blue:

Ohh didn't know that was on there

[3:23 PM] Mr. Silver:

Handpainted color, 1908... I watched that one

[3:23 PM] Mr. Blue:

Metropolis has been on my watchlist forever

[3:23 PM] Mr. Silver:

Metropolis was quite good. Better than I expected

[3:23 PM] Mr. Blue:

A couple Korean films too that are supposedly good

[3:24 PM] Ms. Rose:

It's "supposeovly" Mr. Blue. Gosh.

[3:24 PM] Mr. Silver:

Turn down la Lune...the music is interesting but nothing I'd pick for it and I'm a weirdo

[3:27 PM] Mr. Blue:

I bought the soundtrack to the silent Lorna Doone

[3:27 PM] Ms. Rose:

Those are great cookies.

[3:27 PM] Mr. Silver:

"110 minutes of silence"

[3:27 PM] Mr. Blue:

No really. The movie was meh but the hook they kept replaying was excellent. I guess it's a Japanese orchestra reconstruction cuz the original ST was lost

[3:28 PM] Mr. Silver:

True story, I bought a Kate Bush cassette tape for me and my dinosaur to listen to. 

And it had this track on it I'd never heard of from her before. And I followed her (anywhere) at the time so I was surprised I didn't know it.

Coolest title, and she had such interesting songs as it was.

I was really looking forward to it.

So when the song before - which I knew well - finished up, I sat up, adjusted the headphones, and waited.

Nothing happened.  

Waited.

Nothing. 

Apparently "Silence to Facilitate Programming" was not so much a sci-fi song title as a sound engineer's note.

(facepalm)