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Nerves of Steel Prerequisite In Earning Gourmet's Title
By Carol Heller
Compared to some of KU's gourmet s. mothers - to - be cravings for such strange things as strawberry and pickle salads seem tame.
One roommate fixed ice cream sundaes with peanut butter and honey toppings every Sunday night. She kept a great jar of peanut butter in her desk expressly for this purpose. Another roommate borrowed the peanut butter to garnish bananas for snacks. Still another roommate dipped into the peanut butter to spread it on toast and onion sandwiches.
WE LOSE our sense of adventure when it comes to eating exotic foods such as scrambled eggs and brains, chocolate-covered ants, fried caterpillars, golden-browned grasshoppers, rattlesnake tidbits, sweetbreads, chilled octopus and tongue on crackers. Even the thought of anchovies on pizza makes us shiver.
How do other students summon the nerve to sample such delicacies? Many of them dip into the strange dishes openeyed and eager. Others have to play tricks on themselves before they can taste the foods.
"You should try fried frog legs sometime," a fellow student advised us the other day. "I never thought I could eat them, but it was simple.
"I ordered them in a nightclub where it was so dark I couldn't see what I was eating. Then I plopped them into my mouth real fast while the floor show was going on," she explained.
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A WOMAN over at the Public Relations office explained how she happened to try toasted caterpillars.
One man used to nonchalantly order a hard-boiled egg with a bowl of green jello. The poor waitress never knew whether to take him seriously or not. They stammered around awhile and invariably came back from the kitchen with the report that they had no green jello today.
"I thought they were snails," she said.
Many students with strong stomachs and nerve amuse themselves by inventing strange dishes to tease restaurant waitresses.
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But when he ordered a gnat's kidney on a tea leaf, the waitresses just walked off indignantly. . . .
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Another nervy character enjoyed ordering two raisins over drive-in cafe megaphones.
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YOU HEAR a lot of jokes about food, too. This was one of the biggest flops we ever heard:
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"Sir, you must have misunderstood me. We have no buns today, but I'll be glad to bring you a cup of tea."
"I'd like a cup of coffee and a bun," said a man to the waitress as he seated himself at the counter.
"Sir! I told you twice we have no buns today! But I'll be glad to bring you a glass of milk."
buns today, but I'll be glad to bring you a cup of coffee," answered the waitress.
"Oh, that's okay. Just bring me a bun and a glass of milk instead."
"Well, in that case, bring me a bun and a cup of tea."
We remember once, when we were a little girl, of sitting at the table for two hours because we refused to taste roast beef heart. When at last it became clear that we might sit there all night, we secretly began to conceal bites of heart in our napkin. It worked fine until we stood up and the bites of heart tumbled down on the floor...
"Oh, how stupid of me," exclaimed the customer. "I'll just take a bun, please."
"I'm sorry, sir, we have no
... baked lamb, creamed cauliflower, and squash pie. We were too old for the napkin bit this time...
Another time we went to dinner at the home of some distinguished friends. What did they serve? Everything horrible
IF YOU come from a family with a father who likes peanut soup and a brother who eats catsup sandwiches, you never have a chance with a squeamish stomach.
Yes, we have no bananas today.
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