Unfamiliar Foods Quotes

The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

Contrary to popular belief, I eat all types of food. Fried food is my least favorite.

As a kid, I'd never have avocado. You'd get some melon and the odd fresh peach. But avocados? Mangoes? I'd never had a mango in my life.

As a kid, I was always picky about food; if it didn't 'look right,' I wouldn't eat it.

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

For me, some things, like, I just don't want to know what they are before I eat them. Like, if you're going to start feeding me, like, sexual organs of animals, or, like, a monkey's brain or something - I'll eat it. Just don't tell me what it is until after I've finished it.

I've never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

Most people won't order tripe in a restaurant, but it can be fantastic.

I'll eat anything. I ate antelope once in Swaziland. I didn't know what it was until I'd started chewing it. Everything tastes like chicken though doesn't it? It wasn't bad.

I used to delight in eating the most exotic meat on the menu: I'd have the snails, camel, squid or anything else that was going.

I don't think I can eat emu.

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.