Skill Up 14: Never Again
Oct 06, 2021•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Is there a specific food you don't want to eat or a restaurant you don't want to visit ever again?
For me, I have both. For food, I'm not really a picky eater but this food is something I would not dare eating again. Have you heard about Balut? Here in the Philippines, Balut is a very famous snack. It's a duck fetus. Yeah. You heard it right. It is a hardboiled duck egg with a partially developed 16- to 18-day old duck embryo inside.. I dared eating it once as a challenge for myself because of my curiosity about what it tastes like and why a lot of people love eating it. And I have to say "curiosity kills the cat"
I really don't feel like eating it because it seems like I'm going to eat a raw duck. Still I did it. When I put it in my mouth I felt its feathers brushing into my tongue and when I started biting it I can hear the sound of its small bones cracking inside. It's so gross. But for the sake of the challenge I made for myself I still swallowed it.
Now, I'm still eating Balut but just its soup and the egg yolk but not the fetus. Never again.
For the restaurant, I really love eating out but there's one restaurant I've visited wherein they have forgotten the word SANITATION. Which is one of the most important things a restaurant should have. So, here's what happened.
After our volleyball match in college I went out with my teammates to celebrate by eating out so we went to this restaurant. I can say that at first, I was so impressed by the interior design because it's native and it feels like I'm in the forest but the nightmare begun when we started eating and I felt something sharp in my mouth so I took it out and in my surprise, I saw a small portion of a steel wool. Yeah, you are thinking about the exact object. It's the one you use for washing the pan or other kitchenware. Seeing that caused me to lose my appetite and stop eating. And the worse thing that happened is when the bill arrived and I saw how expensive that unclean food was so I felt like they have overcharged us but still I didn't complain since I don't want to make a scene in the place.
I am a foodie so experiencing these two really disappointed me.
What about you? Do you have the same kind of experience or you have worse? Mind sharing it to me?
As a challenger, don't forget to include these three in your story.
1. PICKY - (adj) Someone who is picky is difficult to please and only likes a small range of things.
2. FOODIE - a person with a particular interest in food
3. OVERCHARGE - (verb) to charge someone either more than the real price or more than the value of the product or service
