Picky eaters
Should be forced, at gunpoint, to eat an andouillette sausage

I tried one of these last time I was in France.

On the first mouthful, I was all "Wow - this is delicious! It's the most intense pork flavour I've ever come across - yummy!".

On the second slice: "Hmm, this is maybe a little too intense. It tastes a bit like pigs themselves smell. Like that big sweaty boar I saw at the agricultural show as a kid. Still tasty though."

Third slice: "Gosh this is a bit too intense. Like the smell of a pigsty or driving past a pig farm. it tastes like... oh no."

Fourth slice: "don'tthinkgofpigshitdon'tthinkofpigshitdon'tthinkofpigshit"

Fifth slice: "No, this just tastes of pigshit. Nothing I eat after this will be as bad as this is becoming.".

I didn't try a sixth slice, but I did get more than halfway through it. I could tell my waiter was impressed.

I have friends who turn their noses up at celery and parsnips, FFS - get some andouillette down your neck and you'll be snarfing back parsnips with a twinkle in your eye - "at least these don't taste of pigshit - YUM!"
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 15:15, 12 replies)

Revolting
My wife ate one on a trip to France a few years ago. Not at a fine restaurant, not at a charming rural bistro, not even at a farmer's table. She got it from an Autogrill on the motorway. I warned her. I warned her again. "You won't like that, babe, it's very strong."
"Shut up, I want a sausage."
"You won't enjoy it."
"Yes I bloody well will, look, it's clearly delicious."

She bought it, and scarfed the lot. The look on her face pretty much mirrored your experience but, God bless her, she's incredibly stubborn and wasn't going to prove me right.

I had to drive the next four hours with the windows down, feeding her polos and wrigleys from an endless supply I bought on the way out. I didn't kiss her for two days afterwards, but she managed to breathe on me at every opportunity.

Disgusting.
( Scrumper, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 15:28, closed)

*click*
For inducing stifled office chuckles.
(ThatNiceMan thought he was being funny, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 15:38, closed)

Yep. We had an evening flight home that day
But checkout of our hotel was 11am. So we had to kill three or four hours in a rather fine Parisian café and I had the genius idea of ordering one. I'd recently bought an organic farm-shop pork joint over here, and it smelled about the same - just very porky. It was only on eating that it revealed its piggy faecal charms.

I didn't feel ill, exactly, but I did have a spot of indigestion on the plane home. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was disgusting, just an almost Olympically heroic to acquire taste. Like most Olympic sports, utterly pointless - who really needs to be good at the triple jump except triple jumpers. Who needs to be able to eat andouillettes when other sausages containing appreciably less pigshit are also available?

If any B3tan was the poor unfortunate sitting next to me on the EasyJet flight from Charles de Gaulle to Bristol, I apologise profusely for my pigshit-scented burps.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 15:42, closed)

My brother was once fed chicks'n'chips at a Staffordshire workmate's home.
When he learned that the 'chicks' were battered and deep-fried pig intestines, he found that no matter how hard he tried to swallow them, they repeatedly slid back up. His very gullet rejected them. That was a very long meal.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 18:29, closed)

I think it's rather nice.
Arguably an acquired taste for most, but I seemed to have acquired it already the first time I tried it. If you like aged blue cheese and/or anchovies you'll probably like andouillette.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 15:51, closed)

Agreeing with you there.
An acquired taste indeed.
Some people just aren't up to the job.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:08, closed)

Having tried andouillette,
I still think celery is shit.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 18:51, closed)

Some picky eaters have a valid reason to be so picky.
Like myself, my health situation requires me to be incredibly picky!
(anonymousreality tickled your fancy on, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 21:00, closed)

Just trying to get my head around
a complaint about picky eaters, where 90% of it is a complaint about how awful something you ate was, and how you'll never eat it again.

Personally, I wouldn't consider a sausage with shit in it a challenge, I'd consider it as food contaminated with shit, and order something else. call me picky if you like.
(username failed moderation, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 9:33, closed)

But there is no shit in it.
(MayorBoris, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 16:30, closed)

Precisely.
But don't stop the facts from getting in the way of a good moan...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 28 Sep 2011, 13:30, closed)

in the link
While hot andouillette smells of feces, food safety requires that all such matter is removed from the meat before cooking. Feces-like aroma can be attributed to the common use of the pig’s colon (chitterlings) in this sausage, and stems from the same compounds that give feces some of its odors.
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 13:39, closed)