vomit inducing local delicacies
We here in Hawaii have a delicacy called "poi", which is made of beaten and mashed up taro root, and is incredibly vile. It has a gluey consistency, and a color thats sort of purplish brown, with greenish grey overtones. Local custom dictates that newcomers must be made to try it, under pain of ostracization and being thought unsympathetic to local culture, which supposedly is greatly superior to all other cultures, simply because we have nice weather most of the time. DO NOT ever under any circumstances try this stuff...it makes English cuisine look positively wonderful by comparison (i KNOW, b3tA is a British Thing, but still...).

Also, SPAM is considered a great delicacy hereabouts. One of the funniest things I've ever seen was a note stuck to the refrigerator door of one of my cronies, which read: "Honey, don't eat the Spam Casserole...we're having company for dinner". I've declined every invitation to eat there since.

ETA: My Irish grandparents used to try to make me eat all sorts of dreck, like the ever popular Bangers and Mash or "Bombers and Trash" as my siblings and I used to call it. Not for me thanks!
(eggman59, Tue 13 Jul 2004, 9:56, Reply)