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Midwesterner Cyndi Taylor is unable to find "good" bratwurst in Florida.
R.J. Brown replied:

> You really should avail yourself of something much better
> than German baloney drowned in boiling beer.

Amen brother.

"Brat's" are the big thing around here in Illinois too.  My first
company picnic I went to, everyone was raving about one of the V.P.'s
brat's and how good they are.   I like grilled sausage type stuff
(remember, I moved from Texas, where everything is smoked or grilled),
so I was looking forward to trying out this midwestern type of thing.
Hey, I'm an open-minded kind of guy, especially when it comes to food.

I go to the food table and find these really gross-slimy-dripping-wet-
smelly-pale-beige-swollen weiner things, looking and smelling a bit
like the bloated remains of the drowned gray squirrel I pulled out of
my swimming pool the other day, except the sausages didn't have any
hair on them.  It was about the nastiest tasting stuff I'd ever had
(the bratwurst, not the squirrel), possibly beating out some of the
weird unidentified stuff I sampled at a Chinese Christmas party in
Houston one year.

And I'm someone who thinks stuff like "natto" (slimy & very strong
flavored Japanese fermented soybean snack), dried "ika" (cuttlefish
snack, like beef jerkey but *much* fishier in taste), seaweed-wrapped
rice balls, and "calpico" (a bizarre Japanese cultured milk/yogurt
drink) taste really yummy.  Though I'll eat sashimi, I'm not quite as
hip to it as Bob Brown is; he pops raw tuna in his mouth like they're
potato chips.

Richard "culinary sacrilege in the midwest" Masoner