Bluegill at mantua

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Hook, cook...don't look.

I like it!  

I wish I would have known about the hook - cook - don't look - philosophy years ago. I might like oysters if I had not "looked"

Yeah, there are a lot of foods that you sometimes gotta wonder...who was the first person to ever try that?  And why the heck did they go back for seconds?  And then why did other people have to do it also?  Amazing. 

Back in the days when I worked on fishing boats out of southern Cal we had a saying...about the queasy folks who got seasick.  We called it "Capistrano syndrome"...return of the swallows.  There are more than a few "acquired taste" edibles that often produce the "reversed peristalsis" reaction the first time someone is brave enough (or pressured enough) to try them. 

On the other hand, it is amazing the stuff folks will snarf down just to show off.  I have eaten just about every kind of food imaginable...animal, vegetable or unidentifiable.  And if I like it, I don't much care what it looks like.  But I don't go out of my way to gross other folks out by eating something just for the effect it has on others.