Summer Reading Club 2014: Funny Business Theme #3 Tween: That’s Gross! – Yucky facts, revolting rhymes, disgusting foods, and repulsive habits Program Title: Gross Trivial Pursuit Prepared By: Janice Harris, Thompson Nicola Regional District Library System Categories: You can use recipe cards to make “sets” / matching card games for some of the categories below. One half of the cards has the “food”, for example, and the other half has the country of origin. Or, they can be made into activity sheets or discussions. They can also be left as "fact sheets". (1) Would you like fries with that? – Match foods considered a delicacy to the country that enjoys it Blood mixed with milk – The Masai tribe of Kenya Hedge eels – China & France (Hedge eels are actually snakes!) Pigs feet (Smoked or pickled) ‐ Southern United States Frog’s legs – France Cheese with maggots – Sardinia Fried Tarantula – Thailand Roasted Spiders – South America Grubs ‐ Australia (2) Tastes Like Chicken! ‐ Name non‐traditional foods that are said to taste like chicken‐ rattlesnake, frogs legs, turtle, alligator, kangaroo, termites (3) You Ate What?! – Match descriptions of food processing to the food Bacon – fat from swine, soak in brine, leave to dry, fry, fry, fry Egg – A bird’s embryo Bird’s Nest Soup – A soup made from a Swiftlet’s nest which is made of spit and found in caves in Asia Head Cheese – The head of a farm animal is boiled, the meat is scraped off and with the stock forms a jellied meat loaf. Haggis – Sheep parts mixed with oatmeal, fat and spices and cooked in a sheep’s stomach lining Blood Pudding – A sausage made from congealed blood, fat, grain and spices Cheese ‐ Slimy as worms, made by germs, grows green fur, sharp as a burr, stinks like feet, worse in the heat. Mushroom pizza – Dough with curdled milk and sliced up fungus on top (4) Oh No You Didn’t! – Match the eating customs to the country/area Slurping your noodles loudly ‐ Japan (compliments the cook) Leave food on your plate – China (an empty plate means the host didn’t provide enough) Don’t leave food on your plate ‐ Philippines (wasteful) Burp loudly after a meal – Egypt (it compliments the cook) Eat only with your right hand ‐ Middle‐east (left hand is for body cleaning!) (5) Bug Buffet – Name types of bugs commonly eaten worms, grasshoppers, termites, locusts, grasshoppers, ants, grubs, spiders, pupae (6) Green Eggs and Ham! – Foods that are aged before eating. 36,000 year old steppe bison – scientists tried the meat which tasted like mud Parmesan cheese – can take more than two years to make and age 1,000 Year Old Eggs – Actually only weeks/ months or a few years old, eggs are preserved in a mud mixture of salt, lye and wood ash Traditional Kimchi – Cabbage is buried in an urn and left to ferment Cha – Fish left to spoil in milk Nuoc mam/Rakorret/Garum – Fish buried in salt and left to rot Alternate Activities Blindfolded, Hands‐on Guessing Game – spaghetti/worms, grapes/eyeballs etc. Make up your own disgusting recipes, rhymes or poems. These can be posted in the library for all to enjoy! Discussions around the most disgusting thing you ever eaten or seen anyone eat. Participants could even write this on "postcards" to be displayed. JUST SHUT YOUR EYES and THINK of CHICKEN ‐ a poem by James Solheim Everyone says they taste like chicken‐ That fried in butter they’re juicy lickin’. They say if I’d just try a bite I’d end up eating the whole dang night (gulping them down like candy bars). Well, I don’t care if movie stars Come and feed them to me on toast. I’ll never convince myself the roasted jiggle on my tongue is meat The human mouth was meant to eat. And don’t try hiding it in stew‐ I’ll know it’s frog whatever you do Fun Food Facts Have you ever eaten seaweed? It is an ingredient in many products sold in North America such as ice cream, frozen foods, cakes, pies, hot fudge and salad dressings. Yum! Resources: Claybourne, Anna. 100 Most Disgusting Things on the Planet. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2010. Colwell Miller, Connie. This Book Might Make You Gag. Minnesota: Capstone Press, 2012. Solheim, James. It’s Disgusting and We Ate It! New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998. Federman, Rachel. The Gruesome, Disgusting and Absolutely Vile Gross‐o‐pedia: a Startling Collection of Repulsive Trivia You Won’t Want to Know! New York: Skyhorse Publications, 2012.