Illinois Chicago Mission

Super crazy, but when I was on my mission, one time this lady cooked beef in a bedpan for us. It was atrocious.

Okay, craziest food I had, I served in an English speaking mission so I didn't have too many experiences with crazy food. I think the craziest food I probably had was, in the south side of Chicago, well in Hyde Park which is like the south side, there were a lot of Nigerians and so we had different types of Nigerian food. So one of the ladies made us what's called puff puff which was actually really good, it's like this deep fried bread thing. Really really good. But the craziest food was probably, we had catfish one time for Thanksgiving, this Nigerian family had us over and it was just a whole catfish, eyes and everything that we just would open up and we put stuff on top and me and my companion shared one. They gave us utensils but they ate it with their hands so I was like, I'm just going to eat it with my hands. So that's probably the craziest thing that I had was catfish for Thanksgiving. So, yeah.

Probably the craziest food that I had on my mission was a soup that had chicken feet in it. Like literally the bones like chicken feet. The next craziest thing was a seafood soup that had octopus tentacles in it and a bunch of other crazy things but um yeah and then I also had um cow tongue and cow intestine tacos but they didn't kill me. I'm still alive and yeah.

The craziest food I ever ate while I was there was something that is called blood soup. It is a Filipino food where it is made by boiling the intestines of a pig in its own blood. It's actually a lot better than it sounds but it was funny how I actually ended up eating it was I was brand new to this area and the elder that I had replaced the week before he had requested the member to make that because he wanted to try it and then you know he got transferred and I show up and they're like oh well you're just gonna have to eat what uh this elder wanted to eat and I'm like all right well what is it and then when they told me what it was and how they made it I remember just in the back of my head thinking like you just gotta you just gotta make them feel that good about themselves you just have to eat it no matter how bad it tastes but it actually turned out being pretty good