I wouldn't be interested, but the idea doesn't offend me -- long rocky mountain oysters? No problem. If an acquaintance went, it wouldn't change my relationship with them.

I don't think I'd be terribly interested. One of the reasons I have for looking for new dining experiences is to look for stuff I might like and want to prepare myself, and this appears to be even less repeatable than attending an endangered-species buffet.

I doubt I'd have any particular reaction to a friend wanting to go, unless upon their return they were expressing an unnatural obsession with repeating the dining experience.

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It would seem so gimmicky and "LOOK HOW TRANSGRESSIVE!" that I'd be uninterested. People like that want attention, but it's not my job to be impressed with them.

All that aside, the reason I don't eat Rocky Mountain oysters is the same reason I don't do chicken hearts---food texture is VERY important to me, as much as taste, and I'll gag on something that has an unpleasant texture, even if the taste is fine. The rubberiness of chicken hearts, the texture of tongue or liver (or frankly, most organ meats that haven't been ground)---slimy oysters, uni---absolutely can't handle 'em. I imagine our hypothetical chef's main dish, unless sliced paper thin or somehow otherwise altered, would be similarly unpalatable for me.

ETA: If a friend did it, not my problem---my boyfriend loves liver AND tongue---unless they became tiresome about "OH MY GOD I ATE A GUY'S JUNK, YOU GUYS, LOOK HOW I AM BOTH SOPHISTICATED AND EDGY AND JADED!" in which case you've just got that kind of friend and need to reconsider the relationship.

Edited at 2012-09-26 05:00 pm (UTC)

I wouldn't.

I would think way less of them. This might not be illegal but, in my view, this is not unlike enabling a mentally ill person's self-maiming or enabling a suicidal person.

Way not cool, yo.

Didn't he get cited for indecent exposure? I do find that rather funny. But basically I am with megazver; there is something visiting-Bedlam-to-laugh-at-the-loonies about this.

No, I have no interest in eating human flesh.

I mean, if I liked it, I wouldn't get to eat it again; if I didn't like it, I ate something I didn't like.

Also what others have said about maybe this being exploitative of the chef.

I don't know what I would think about someone else's choice to do it,as long as they disagreed with me about it being exploitative of the chef. If they felt it was helping the chef fulfill his dream and had good reasons for that belief, I probably wouldn't judge them.

If I was in a society where consuming bits of the dead was an important funerary custom, though, and it was made clear to me that the dead person's nearest and dearest really, really wanted me to join in, I probably would take the smallest serving compatible for politeness, because not hurting their feelings would be more important to me than not wanting to eat people.

Here from La Marquise. I liked your books and I'm sorry that there won't be more. Have you tried looking for a UK publisher? They struck me as being the sort of thing that would do better there than in the US.

That is quite an interesting question. I don't think I would, and I would disapprove of my friends doing so as well. There is clearly something wrong with the chef, and one should not be aiding and abetting lunatics in their lunacy. What other kinds of self-harm might he go on to next if encouraged in this?

Also that sort of public event is very vulgar, like the Diner En Blanc, and no well-brought-up person would go anywhere near it.

Edited at 2012-09-27 11:56 am (UTC)