As many of you know, I am lucky enough to spend my Friday mornings with JT Morgan on his First Edition show on 1420am WCOJ. Some good laughs about food news in the West Chester area is a great way to start out my morning. If you haven’t listened, you are missing out on unique discussions, contests and overall crazy happenings. Like this past week when JT actually threw up on the air. And yes, I think it was my fault.
On Thursdays I compile a list of a few local food-related happenings and recent articles from other WC Dishers and put together a rough agenda for the show. And, because it’s me and because I’m a dork, I always want to have some sort of game to play. And because it’s Halloween, it had to be a “scary” game.
I was inspired by an article I came across about the world’s six most terrifying foods (Warning: it may be offensive to some readers for language and content) and thought it would be a fun idea to do a game with the scariest foods that I could find at Wegmans.
When I arrived at 8 am Friday morning I gave JT breakfast (as I always do) and his friend Dan, who was visiting the show. I went over our recent wcdish.com news and then explained the rules of my scary game.
I would ask JT and Dan food questions that were relevant to Halloween. When they got them right they were safe. When they got them wrong, I made them say “Trick or Treat” and I’d dive into my bag of scary food.
The first food that JT got was a bag of dried squid from Japan (God bless the International food section at Wegmans). He took a bite of the dried, white, shredded substance after declaring that “it smells like fish food” and chugged some water to help it down.
Seconds later, his face turned red and he began shaking his head. Dan and I laughed and JT ran to the trash can. JT swears that he was choking because it was stuck in his throat. I know that it was just really that bad and he couldn’t handle it (that’s right JT, I said it). Fortunately, the microphone picked it up, so I will be able to podcast it as soon as I can for you all to hear (if you can stomach it).
Some of the other scary foods enjoyed Friday were potted meat, canned octopus, boiled peanuts and Gefilte fish in jellied broth. It did create quite a scare for my friends at WCOJ and we had an awesome time. Mission accomplished.
The Final Dish: Tune in to 1420am WCOJ to hear how funny JT is every morning. Make sure to tune in for food fun Fridays from 8 am-10 am.
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