Let me tell you about this thing I ate.

[theartlessmonster]

hi! food unites!

[YojimboMonkey]

I had some green curry last night.  It was pretty good--I think it's my favorite of the thai curries (there are like 5, red, green, yellow, mussamun, and panang).  Split the curry, basil chicken, larb kai and some beers (including some of my homebrews) with some (new) buddies.  Good times.

edit: also, hi Mary!  how ya doin?

[theartlessmonster]

i have to say one of my favorite thai things is actually thai iced tea, is that not the most YUMMERFICTASTIC thing ever? and re the green curry, the coconut milk made it CRAAAAZY good! try that.

and hi! i'm doing ok. arm seems to be healing up ok. i start PT next week. sucks not being able to drive though and i miss riding my bike like CRAZY.

[YojimboMonkey]

Let me tell you about this thing I ate

It was a taco de los ojos y sesos

That's an eyeball taco

Here are some shots of Damian and I sharing the taco





Here is a blurry shot of the taco itself.



It was... interesting. 

[girl]

Jim, that's eyes and brains.
WTF?!

[YojimboMonkey]

I copied/pasted too much.  It was just a taco de ojos

[girl]

Oh, that's fine then.

 

[YojimboMonkey]

There were also brain and tongue tacos on the menu but I figured eyeballs was enough weird for one day

[Good Intentions]

You see, I'd eat brain and tongue in a snap before eyes.

[diesel_powered]

 

I'm not sure I like where this is going...

[Good Intentions]

Tongue is a recognised delicacy, but baked brains is a good folk classic as well.

You could put some raisins in as well.

[jebreject]

fucking PUKE OH MY GOD

stay away from eyeballs

[dominic]

They've been licked. Why can't they be knibbled on?

[jebreject]

dude seriously no more talk about eyeballs before i have to curl up in the fetal position of the floor and shake uncontrolably

[Good Intentions]

[Gracelette]

When I was a kid, I used to love eating fish eyeballs. I don't really know why. But if my mum was grilling four for the family, I would get to eat all the eyeballs. I can't even remember what it tastes like.

Last night, I had dinner with some friends and was served a whole fish so I guess I had the opportunity to try it, but I did not.

In addition to the delicious fish, I was introduced to this weird Italian-style hummus, which is just chick pea flour and an insane amount of black pepper. It was pretty much the best thing ever spread on crisp toast. I'm going to try making it at home this week.

[jess]

I'd try whatever weird tacos generally, but the ones made of brains scare me a little bit because of the whole mad cow /prions thing.

[YojimboMonkey]

jeb, sorry dude, but somebody else posted a video they took that contained a shot of Damian biting into the eyeball taco.  He takes a big bite and a little piece of eyeball pops out the side of the taco.  It is totally awesome.

Mindy got a little uncomfortable yesterday when Damian was bragging about eating an eyeball taco to her vegetarian friends though.

I've had tongue tacos before but never brain.  I hadn't thought about that jess but that is a good point.  Still I'd like to try it though.

After the eyeball taco Damian and I split a gigantic Oaxacan tamale.  It was amazing.

[Andrew_TSKS]

i love the way damian is looking at the eyeball taco in the first pic. like "oh man, was this really a good idea? i'm having second thoughts."

[jebreject]

* jebreject shudders

[RoyBiggins]

I used to claim I wouldn't eat tacos at a place that didn't serve at least brain or tongue tacos, but I have never seen tacos de ojos.  That's crazy.  I ate some of a brain taco once in 8th grade. Didn't need to do it again.  But if they have brain, see, they probably have barbacoa and other things that are super tasty.

[YojimboMonkey]

Mindy had barbacoa from the stall where Damian and I got the ojos

[YojimboMonkey]

Eyeball-eating footage at 1:49 or so.  Mindy and Ian are in the background.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5gZRFSOBGA

There's also a picture of one of those Oaxacan tamales in there somewhere but I don't know that it does justice to the size of the thing.  It basically covers about 90% of a standard-sized paper plate. 

[El_Josharino]

I've eaten brain before! It's not bad. It tastes a lot like regular ground beef. The texture is somewhere between ground beef and scrambled eggs, which is kinda weird, but alright.

[Aglaya]

My friend makes something that is like enchiladas but is different.  It is delicious and invovles pouring half and half over the pan full of enchilada-like thing.  Very delicious.