Comments on: Would You Eat This? #1: Fish Balls

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:55:54 +0000

I’m starting an experimental steroid-dropping program in the Hudson and East Rivers, so . . . not for long.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:35:35 +0000

I love how classically Ohio that story is.

Your friend who’ll eat anything for any amount should come work for my company! These guys love a good food challenge. If she can do six cans of Yoo-hoo in under a minute, I can guarantee her $10. And a whole gallon of milk in twenty minutes will fetch her even more.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:31:41 +0000

Yeah, I mean, that’s really the sort of thing you just don’t advertise. If you want to slide a fish ball in next to my chicken meatballs or whatever, I may be curious and actually take a bite. But if you tell me what it is? Not a chance.

By: spaghedeity

spaghedeity — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:27:52 +0000

Wait, fish have testicles?

By: kylie

kylie — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:40:35 +0000

on my sixteenth birthday, a friend of mine who knows my phobia of fish gave me a can of fish balls as a present. the first thing i did was take them outside and set them on the deck so i wouldn’t have to look at them, but another friend who would put basically anything in her mouth for any amount of money decided to eat one for a penny. the friend who offered the penny threw it in the yard, and the friend who tried to eat the fish ball puked it up, and that is what my sixteenth birthday was like. true story!

By: Tracey

Tracey — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:30:45 +0000

I’ve seen “with salty fish ball” on the menu in a couple of Asian restaurants before. And boy, was I weirded out.

And, no. I would NOT eat this.

By: plumpdumpling

plumpdumpling — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:52:23 +0000

How weeeeeird. I guess we can safely assume this agent was German or Norwegian or one of those other -ans that grew up on rotted shark fin soup or whathaveyou.

I vote that we start a sport that uses fish balls as its centerpiece. Basketball, football, fishball.

By: Noel

Noel — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:27:34 +0000

Oh my goodness this reminds me of a great story. I used to work for a major insurance company in the underwriting department. Late one evening one of our underwriters was on the phone with an agent. In trying to describe how large his client’s tumor was, the agent said, “It’s about as big as a fish ball.” None of us at the time knew that a fish ball was an actual food that people willingly consumed, so we were perplexed and laughing hysterically. I mean is a fish ball really the first thing you can come up with to compare a TUMOR to? It’s safe to say I have never eaten a fish ball for that reason, among others.