The SFW 'want/do not want' pics thread

[roy-nexus-6]

i totally buy that... it's amazing how many things i ate a s a kid... before i knew what they were. it's taken years and years to get past some of the 'knowing' and back to the 'eating'

I'm aware on an intellectual level that Chicken Nuggets and sausages are offal - but they don't look like it, so no problem. However, there is no getting around you're eating a duck in an egg when it is literally staring you in the face.

Presentation is everything. For example, the Rhino does look good!  Want

[zarn02]

i'm moving to korea for a year, in about a week or so.

i'm split on the merits of sannakji.

i think if i went to place that had it i might feel compelled to eat it, just to have done it.

i'm somewhat heartened that balut is apparently not a food found in korea, but i might end up visiting vietnam whilst i'm on that side of the world. i might also have to eat balut "just because i can."

and since i can't seem to link to a youtube video without posting it, in my inebriated state, here's the video i was going to link:

[NAKID]

Looks interesting, but those two guys are tools....

[NAKID]

Duck Blood Soup...

[zarn02]

Looks interesting, but those two guys are tools....

yes friend. yes, they are.

complete, and utter tools.

(and i'll try blood soup.)

[ROBsS4R]

WANT 

Foie Gras

[ROBsS4R]

WANT 

Wagyu Kobe Beef

[roy-nexus-6]

i'm moving to korea for a year, in about a week or so.

I lived in Korea for 5 years! The last girl in my signature line is a nice example of a beautiful Korean girl, so I hope you're single. Korea is a funny place - it is totally acceptable to walk up to a complete stranger and ask them "do you have time for coffee?"

Re food. You MUST have bulgogi. It's beef which you cook on your table on a little grill. It comes with rice and about a BILLION side dishes.

So. Once the beef is done, you take a salad leaf, add some rice, bit of this, bit of that, a CLOVE of garlic**, some beef (dip it in red bean paste first),.. then wrap it into a nice bundle: if it's small enough, you eat it whole; if not, bite it in half. While you are chewing, take a green pepper, dip it in the bean paste, and bite off half of it.

Simply some of the BEST eating you will have in your life - period.

** Koreans have been breeding garlic for 100s of years - hotter than red peppers.

Want, want want! 

[eyeboy]

Re food. You MUST have bulgogi. It's beef which you cook on your table on a little grill. It comes with rice and about a BILLION side dishes.



Want, want want! 

we have quite A good korean community here, lots of grill-houses etc... the Bulgogi is wicked! i love the cooking table deal as well... Bi-Bim-Bap!

also i am becoming a HUGE fan of Soju, sorta like Saki i guess.

not totally loving kimchee though...

[CromoMann]

I lived in Korea for 5 years! The last girl in my signature line is a nice example of a beautiful Korean girl, so I hope you're single. Korea is a funny place - it is totally acceptable to walk up to a complete stranger and ask them "do you have time for coffee?"

Sorry for the threadjack - Zarn - I hope you have a great time.   For me, Korea was like a paid vacation working on a fun job and getting expenses as an expat.  I have to say that my pool game became embarrassingly good (in the same way that if I could only bowl - I couldn't be proud of a 220+ average).  So while I strongly recommend you get out and experience the real Korean culture - the westerner area of Itaewon used to have some nice pubs, challenge pool tables and a very solid blues-man at a club called "Just Blues".  I haven't been there for eight years or so and I know a lot has changed, but this is where we typically hung out after work and on weekends when we stayed in town. 

roy-nexus-6 - when were you there and what were you doing?

Back on topic... sort of...
I worked off an on for 4 years in Seoul and while I never tried the dog soup (and they tell me it's lovely), I did get myself some fresh octopi and it was tastey.  I made it to the Philipines, but I didn't go out of my way for Balut either. 
Here's my favorite...
Yook Gae Jahng - spicey beef vegetable (especially with glass noodles)


do not want...


It may not be readily apparent, but this is a pizza that just happens to have corn as a topping.  One pizza eatery nearby our office Borameh (Seoul borough) left me with a now funny/then frustrating experience.  All I wanted was a pepperoni pizza... and that's what I ordered from the menu.  Crust, sauce, cheese, pepperoni... and corn??? WTF

Now, I'm not allergic to corn and I will eat it quite happily in most other dishes I can think of.  Possibly in some strange way to my Balut aversion - I did not want to eat corn on my simple pie.  My attempts escalated to the point that I learned the few short phrases to order "a pepperoni pizza with out corn, please" - to no avail.  I would bet that even today, some pizza eateries in Seoul still feel equally strong that pizza isn't pizza without corn and somewhere along the way, I gave up trying and just started getting into the great korean fare.

[Mac_48]

^How can you hate pizza?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

EDIT: rofl.....I just read the description

[roy-nexus-6]

roy-nexus-6 - when were you there and what were you doing?

I was working as an English teacher there. Omg, forgot about the corn on everything!

Home made rollercoaster for 1. Want!
http://www.damnfunnypictures.com/html/Backyard-Rollercoaster.html

[trenner]

Here's both want/do not want in one picture:



Burger.  Want.

Odd dining partner wearing helmet.  Do not want.

[Dana]

[DRKWNG]

In this picture:  Me sampling the fairs of a Lebanese restaurant while in Niger...  Mmmmm cow brains...