{"id":2226,"date":"2002-07-23T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2002-07-23T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2002-07-23T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2002-07-23T16:00:25","slug":"dont_ask_what_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/23\/dont_ask_what_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t ask what the cones are made of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"I scream, you scream ...\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/oxtongue.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"96\" border=\"0\" align=right \/>There&#8217;s no accounting for tastes, different strokes for different folks, and open-mindedness aside, let&#8217;s face it: there&#8217;s something just damned <i>wrong <\/i>about a culture that would actually produce <i><b>ox tongue ice cream <\/b><\/i>(<i>gyutan aisu<\/i>).  Complete with a cute little logo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mdn.mainichi.co.jp\/japano\/0207\/ice-cream\/1.html\">The Wacky World of Japanese Ice Cream<\/a>.  Crab, shrimp, wasabi, corn, and (shudder) more.  Be afraid.  Be very, very afraid.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wannabegirl.org\/archives\/000065.php#000065\">Wannabe<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no accounting for tastes, different strokes for different folks, and open-mindedness aside, let&#8217;s face it: there&#8217;s something just damned wrong about a culture that would actually produce ox tongue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4675,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/25\/i_scream.html","url_meta":{"origin":2226,"position":0},"title":"I scream","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Jul-03 2:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And next on the hit parade: ice cream. 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