Mmmm…Wasabi.

The foreign cousin of horseradish tastes disgusting. My house had a Wasabi eating contest today, and after seeing that a few of the contestants had “chickened out” after small quantities of the stuff, I decided to get their motors back in gear by having a bit of it myself. I went through four fingers worth of the stuff (a line of Wasabi squirted along the length of my index finger) before I burped and felt horseradish gas go up my nose. It burned for a little, but the worst effect is the stomach gurgling that lingers long after the spice has left your mouth.

Ugh. This stuff was so terrible that I can assure the world that I will never again even contemplate trying Wasabi. What a terrible condiment.

On an unrelated note, I did try sushi for the first time. It was the stuff from the cafeteria, which I am told is quite terrible. However, I didn’t mind it. In fact, I thought it was quite good. It was some seafood and cucumber (or some similar vegetable) wrapped in rice. And it tasted like rice pudding (due to the heavy quantities of the rice wrapping). It was quite good. And if the cafeteria stuff is supposed to be bad, I can only imagine how good the good stuff is. Mmmm.