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Sure. If you want to dedicate your life to researching and figuring out what under your deck is worth cooking and edible, then go for it. The point of a professional chef who has dedicated their life to such a thing is that they can change the way you think about food through their art.

Has there been a ketchup reference yet? I'm about to make one.

I agree, but I also think it's just in people's head and societal norms. That's fine, but folks need to realize they're just living within a culinary construction of their society, and they should be a little more open minded that weird shit could taste good. As I said, what's freaking weirder than milking some other animal and slurping it down, or, even stranger, letting that animal's milk spoil to the point of having mold growing on it then eating it?

But we don't blink an eye at the above because we grew up with it.

I wouldn't say it is necessarily cool. Earlier I posted a pic of their "flower tart." It looks like someone picked wildflowers and shoved them into a pita pocket. That's not food. That's not something that you charge people money for. That's something a four year old does in the back yard while waiting for lunch. Look, I have four siblings. Decades ago, while we were all very young, my brother tricked my sister into eating a mud pie. This became one of those familial stories that we refer to often because it highlights my brother's mean streak and my sister's tendency to be gullible. They both still possess these traits and we think that we should have recognized this even then. Now you'll have me believe that my brother isn't occasionally an asshole, rather that he's a master chef. I'm not buying it.

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I would like an honest breakdown of legitimate 'that is the best thing I've ever tasted' versus 'wow, they actually made that edible, perhaps tasty even' with some of those choices.

I'm friends with a prominent chef with all the bona fides. And he'll bring things to SuperBowl and seasonal parties that are a little twee, but mega ****ing tasty. Things where you go 'I thought I'd had beef before' or 'I didn't know that was possible with a toast point.' Things that just explode with flavor. But he's never come by with painted plates or bugs or shit cooked in artisinal hay.

Do you think what the four year old does tastes good? I would bet that what the chef at Noma did does. I bet you would eat it and say, "Holy shit. I can't believe that a bunch of flowers in a pita tastes like this."

I have tried eating flowers. I did not like them.

Once again, watch the Bourdain episode. He tastes stuff at Noma, and you can absolutely see the shock and surprise on his face as he tastes it and is surprised in the way it tastes. You could dismiss it as acting, but I'm enough of a believer in the credibility of Bourdain that I take his reaction at face value.

So you believe all flowers taste the same? Never eaten stuffed squash blossoms?

Squirt some ranch on that flower gyro. Then I'd try it.

I wish I'd gotten the chance to eat at El Bulli.

LMAO

Awesome.