I was at a BBQ quite recently and we had roast chicken for lunch. Everyone started shrieking about what parts of the chicken they wanted most. Me? I’m a wing gal. Others, they like a leg. Each to their own. My aunty likes the Parsons Nose which is essentially the chicken’s butt. It’s gross (I’m not entirely convinced that it’s even edible) but it’s her weird thing that she loves that everyone else hates.
This got me thinking about some of the things that I like that other people hate.
You know those things that you tell people you love and they go ‘Ewwwwww!’????
Here’s my top 6.
1. Burnt food
I prefer most of my food to be over cooked, with a nice crispy side of charcoal thank you. Chips that have been over-cooked in old oil until they’re the colour of butterscotch and they hurt your gums when you bite into them, sausages that are unrecognisable black, turd shaped logs and chocolate chip cookies that are dark brown and crumbly at the edge. Delicious!
2. The bottom bunk
I think most adults are savvy enough to choose the bottom bed in those unfortunate but necessary grown-up-bunk-bed-sleeping situations but even as a child I’ve been a massive advocate of the bottom bunk. For starters I’m a chronic toilet go-er AND a heavy sleeper which makes a full bladdered stumble-down-a-ladder very dangerous in the middle of the night. I also just find it unessessary to sleep up that high. All my teachers in primary school thought I was very mature for not fighting over bunk beds but I think the term they were looking for was ‘evolved.’ The top bunk sucks and I just figured it out way before everyone else.
3. Looking at gross things
I love all gross things. Plastic surgery documentaries, pimple squeezing YouTube videos, roadkill, Embarrassing Bodies episodes where they show bulbus diseased body parts that are completely unidentifiable. Most people dry retch at the word ‘pus’, but me? There is nothing that will make me click a link faster than if it contains the phrases ‘world’s grossest’ or ‘most infected’ in it.
4. Tequila
I must be the only person in existence to have not had a bad night on tequila. I’ve got friends who can’t even SMELL the stuff lest they prematurely end their night with their head in a toilet. I adore tequila. It’s liquid sunshine. If someone is offering tequila slammers, I’ll be second in line… right after Mama Smaggle who would have thrown small children out of the way to elbow her way to the front of the queue.
5. Ke$ha and Pitbull’s song Timber
This song popped up on Spotify when I was on the treadmill one day and I started bopping away to it and I MAY have added it to my favourites list. I then discovered it’s one of those songs that’s really daggy and only pathetic people like it but by then it was too late. It was already added to my Pump It Up Carly! exercise play list so… soz about that.
6. Throwing up
I do not understand people who say they don’t like throwing up. There is no relief in the world more satisfying than a good spew after you’ve been feeling wretched for 6 hours. Obviously the act of throwing up isn’t all that pleasant but it’s usually so quick and the subsequent relief is extraordinary. If I’ve been bent over a toilet for the better part of an evening with food poisoning, it’s pretty safe to say that throwing up would be my favourite thing in the world at that precise moment.
Over to you…