On: A street snack that has baffled botanists

[q-rews]

My logic is: If others eat it, it’s fine. It also helps to eat it with someone who’s somewhat familiar with it.

My first time in Thailand I ate a disgusting salty soup with a spoon. It turns out you’re supposed to dip vegetables in it. What I did was the equivalent of eating ketchup with a spoon, except it was many times more flavorful.

Now I love it: น้ำพริกกะปิ

[CarelessExpert → q-rews]

> My logic is: If others eat it, it’s fine

People used to eat radium, inhale mercury, and play in piles of asbestos before we came to understand their long term health effects.

You might want to rethink this.

[q-rews → CarelessExpert]

That risk is fine to me. I meant it more as a “people eat it, so it must be likable” than “people eat it, so it won’t kill me.”