It's pretty crazy, but I think God designed me for Ukraine. I think this mostly because I haven't eaten a whole lot of foods over here that I dislike. Other than the soup-every-day-diet, which gets old sometimes, it's been great.... with two exceptions:
Holodets- Think chicken soup jello. That's literally what it is. the taste isn't what makes it hard to eat- it's the texture. You see jello. You expect jello. You get a somewhat-hardened form of (surprise, surprise- not) soup. Why would you want to eat soup instead of drinking it? I have no idea. I, personally, have never thought "Gee, why can't I eat soup with a fork? It would make life a whole lot easier." But they love it here.
Sala- Sala is pig fat rolled in salt. Not tasty pig fat, like bacon- just pig fat. If you don't know what you're eating, it probably wouldn't be all that bad, since most people eat bacon without thinking twice. But once you know what it is, there's no going back. The gritty salt coating does nothing to take away the fact that you're eating pig fat. Nothing can take away that knowledge. Some things in life you just can't un-learn.
Thankfully, I've been able to be polite about new foods, and am more than willing to try anything once. In the cases of these two foods, I've expressed to Valiya that we don't have these in America, and that I don't think I hate them- it's just so new that I don't even have the ability to process what it is I'm eating.
I just say "It's.... 'new'....".
I just say "It's.... 'new'....".