Spicy Duck … What?? Nope, Can’t Do It Yet.
Posted on 17 January 2008 under Food Blogs, Gifts, Snacking
I was going to title this post, “Beware of Asians Bearing Gifts”. Then I remembered … I kinda asked for these gifts.
Oops.
Back on January 7th the lovely Jaden of SteamyKitchen.com posted a blog entry she titled, “Friendship in the Form of Duck Necks“. She wrote:
In addition the duck neck and duck feet, I got dried squid, lots of seaweed snacks, duck tongues and duck gizzards. Anyone want to try? I’ll send you a snackity snack if you agree to try it!!!
I had the audacity to write a comment which read:
Me, I’ll try anything once! Sometimes twice. Often, manytimes. Who’da’ thunk it?
See, that was my mistake. I believe I meant what I wrote at the time I wrote it. Dear Jaden gets upwards of 400,000 page views each month on her blog, along with teaching classes in Asian cooking, cooking on the morning show on the local ABC affiliate station in Sarasota, and appearing in this month’s Sarasota Magazine. She gets over 100 comments on each blog entry she posts. What would be the odds of her shipping me some of …
Her email was almost instantaneous, as though my pinging her blog programmatically triggered a response:
email me your address! I’m sending you some.
On Monday Terry, our postmaster, told me I had a package. Smiling and rather sarcastically, I asked, “Is it Spicy Duck Necks?” Terry looked at the package and asked, “From Jaden?” Of course, I happily opened the back right there, dumped the mylar packages on the post office’s counter, and dramatically read the labels of the packagas for anyone within earshot. Some faces turned positively green.
I photographed the packages for the above photo, complete with Jaden’s lovely business card.
That’s as far as I got.
My stomach has prevented my hands from opening the things. The hands just keep putting them back in the package Jaden had sent them in.
I invited 13abc’s Zack Ottenstein for dinner Monday evening. I even went so far as to make every possible attempt to get him to try these snacks with me.
I’m not sure if he was laughing at me. If he was laughing with me, I know I wasn’t joining in.
So, here they sit. Still unopened.
Spicy Chicken Claws.
Spicy Duck Necks.
Spicy Duck Tongues.
Spicy Duck Giblets.
17-year-old John was in China this past summer. Just now I said, “John, you were in China this past summer. You ate a lot of stuff you’d never ate before. Why don’t you and I try these Spicy Duck Necks?”
His reply?
“Ummm … see, I ate that stuff because I made it a point never to ask what the name of it was. Ignorance is strength.”
Damn kid’s too smart for me …
So, they wait. Adam will be here this weekend. Maybe he’ll try them with me.
Why wait for someone else?
See, then I don’t have to eat all of it if I don’t actually like it.
Sigh.
Beware of Asians bearing gifts. At least, that’s what I’m doing for now.
Yeah, I’m a wuss. Deal with it.
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17 January 2008 @ 5:22 pm Posted by Tonya
Talking about pinging…Dave can we get some love in the form of…oh, I don’t know…a link to Knoah on the sidebar? He loves ya you know.
Can’t ya help the little people? 
17 January 2008 @ 5:30 pm Posted by Dave
Hon, I thought it was already there! It is now … make sure to hover your mouse cursor over the title so you can see the description.
17 January 2008 @ 6:00 pm Posted by Tonya
So, do the Chicken claws actually look like claws? Cause I’m thinking that would be a GREAT photo op for Knoah! Imagine, 18 years down the road, pulling out the photo of him chomping on a chicken foot with a caption saying “I am so hungry, look what I have resorted too…” Come on, you know your curious!
TASTE IT!
17 January 2008 @ 7:53 pm Posted by JEP
Okay, this means we expect an update on Monday after YOU & Adam nibble on these delicacies!
17 January 2008 @ 8:27 pm Posted by Dave
Tonya, I get the feeling these are REALLY spicy! Probably not good for one-year-olds!
JEP, we’ll see how that goes!