Food-related adventures

Sometimes there's a really good story there

For today’s prompt, write the story of the most adventurous food you’ve ever eaten. Explain what led up to eating the food, how it tasted, and what you did after you ate it.

Perhaps that means starting with a story about going to an important event, being served this food, then spending the rest of the night being creeped out by the taste. Maybe that means the time you were thrown off course by because you over-estimated what “very spicy” meant. Maybe you ate a part of an animal you hadn’t previously considered as food. Whatever it is, start with what happened before, build up to the adventurous food, and paint this picture for your reader.

(I’m a pretty adventurous eater, but my own response to this prompt is a work-adventure in South Africa that culminated in eating a grilled caterpillar. It twas somewhere between very chewy calamari and a burning tire.)