They have this stuff in Japan
called bean curd. We had a selection of oriental food stuffs given to us by a friend; oyster sauce, fish sauce and such like. With this pseudo-hamper was bean curd.

I went on a Japanese course a little while ago and remember the tutor, a native Japanese, saying that it wasn't very nice. With this in mind, I took a teaspoon and dipped it vertically into the curd by about 2mm -- at most.

With intrepidation, I tasted it.

I spent the next 30 seconds leant over the kitchen sink constantly retching. I daren't make a move for the toilet in case the situation got worse.

After a minute I dried my eyes and managed to stand upright, breathing deeply as I went. At this point I thought bean curd might not be for me so I put the rest into the bin, funnily enough.
(ThatNiceMan thought he was being funny, Thu 26 May 2011, 14:50, 6 replies)

Ha ha you buffoon
Wretch is a noun (An unfortunate or unhappy person)
Retch is a verb (Make the sound and movement of vomiting)
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Thu 26 May 2011, 15:05, closed)

I fix'd it.
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(ThatNiceMan thought he was being funny, Thu 26 May 2011, 15:08, closed)

Bean curd is tofu, it doesn't really taste of anything much,
it may have been fermented bean curd, which is good but a bit strange, like the blue cheese of the East.
( Zuowan, Thu 26 May 2011, 15:33, closed)

I was going to say the same thing.
Tofu tastes like whatever it's cooked with, or like nothing if eaten by itself. So maybe this was an allergy?
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 26 May 2011, 15:52, closed)

I think you mean natto.
Which, even to a Japanophile like me, looks like the most horrible thing on earth.

www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/japan/natto.jpg

Not like tofu sheets, deep friend and coated in sweet rice wine to make these: 1.bp.blogspot.com/_aeYUOpWnnGI/SWe1yi95skI/AAAAAAAAA4I/K47g3nzaicA/s400/inarizushi_E.jpg Inarizushi. *Drool* They're awesome.
( Bats, Fri 27 May 2011, 5:04, closed)

It may have been fermented bean curd
That stuff will make you um, whatever he did.
(Catomiagi is in with a chance, Tue 31 May 2011, 21:28, closed)