Strangest meat: dried squid as a snack, like a chewy, fishy Funion. OR “Road Goat”– a piece of goat meat on a stick, bought through the bus window in Kenya. OR pig skin push-pops in Vietnam.
Strangest dessert: “poisoned” spice cake in Uganda-definitely tasted like poison-we sneakily threw it out the window when no one was watching. OR this sickly sweet mixture of what looked like eyeballs, alien snot, jelly fruit squares, corn flakes, black beans, and dried coconut in Hanoi, Vietnam. There really was coconut, black beans, and jelly fruit squares, but I have no idea what the eyeballs and alien snot really were, besides disgusting.
Favorite local cuisine: Ukraine. Mmmm borscht. OR Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam-love me some noodles, rice, and pho!
Best street food: Thailand or Guatemala.
Most liquor consumption: Vietnam during Tet Holidays. Them, not us! They got started at breakfast, doing shots of homemade “wine” which I’m pretty sure was moonshine, and they kept going all day.
Nicest McDonalds: in the train station in Bucharest, Romania. This place was crazy nice, plus it was the first AC we had encountered in a while.
Best food experience: Shepherds Pie with a Pear Bulmers from O’Sheas Pub in Dublin, Ireland. OR chicken salad with a strawberry smoothie from Cafe Javas in Kampala, Uganda.
Worst food experience: fish soup at training camp. They were trying to “prepare” us for food to come on the race.
