Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s staff cut off a USA Today interview question about the grossest food he has ever eaten, moments after he admitted eating "stuff I find on the street."
"…I will literally eat anything… I don't have a gag reflex," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Chambers. "When I travel, I'll eat, you know, even stuff I find on the street, you know, street vendors, cooking."
"Like, is there stuff that you've eaten that people are like, wow. You ate that," Chambers asked.
"You mean, like, something gross? Or?" Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replied.
"Yes. Maybe gross for others. Yeah. Not for you," Chambers said.
"I'm getting a signal not to answer that question," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, shutting down the line of questioning.
60 Comments
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 208 pts · 35d
Rfk Jr is insane but the title is waaaay out of context.
"you know, street vendors, cooking."
He'll eat from a food truck!
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 78 pts · 35d
He was stopped by his staff before answering whether he'd eaten food found in trash cans. Kennedy has snorted cocaine from toilet seats so trash cans are a step up.
nullPointer@programming.dev · 35 pts · 35d
he also likes to play with dead racoon penis as well. anything is possible with this guy.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 33d
I read that the dead raccoon penis was about a special bone that they have, which is sought after in some circles, especially Moonshiners. It's used to somehow regulate the flow of the moonshine, and they prize their particular bone.
Apparently, that's what he was after. Once it's explained, it still doesn't make any sense at all.
He's just a weirdo among weirdos. THAT makes sense.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 33d
they place it on the output pipe of the still, it directs alcohol flow straight down. So would anything curved, but they had to make it weird. you can buy them off ebay.
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 35d
Genuinely one of the smartest people I have ever met, a former professor with multiple doctorates, got his lunch every day by digging in the trash outside his building and piecing together a meal from half eaten leftovers. He'd microwave it to sterilize.
He also once gave me a fairly nice designer shirt (not the logo kind, actually nice), which he picked up at the bus stop covered in vomit, took home, and cleaned.
At one point, he walked into the lab with a clearly used bowl reeking of marijuana, said he found it in a trash can, and had us analyze the THC content and alkaloid ratios as an exercise, because he had a DEA license.
Lived into his 90s, was a self-made multi-millionaire, and spent his money on funding his research. Also he was fanatical about proper reduce, reuse, recycle. And he would get very pissed if you skipped those first two and went straight to recycle.
artyom@piefed.social · 4 pts · 34d
That's cool. Was he the Secretary of Health for the USA too?
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 34d
Nope.
But for all of RFK jr.'s many faults, I don't consider eating roadkill or stuff out of the garbage to be counted among them. Matter of fact, I consider both to be examples of not wasting food, which is good.
Killer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
Fresh roadkill? Alright probably safe, but the man has had brain worms so he probably isn't taking care in what eats.
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 34d
Eh, even bad meat that is cooked properly (burned to leather, basically) is edible...it just tastes like death.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 33d
No, but he's qualified, according to MAGA standards. Just one more question: Who won the 2020 election?
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 35d
Maybe, but most people don’t have a gag reflex when eating food from street vendors.
He’s saying people would normally gag on the stuff he’s eaten.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 35d
I've had stinky tofu from a street vendor, which is both a fairly normal food and absolutely something that might cause a person to gag.
(As for the grossest thing I've eaten: one time, I found that beetles had infested my stash of buckwheat, so rather than letting them have it, I cooked it and skimmed them off when they floated to the top. I wouldn't do that again because I'm a vegetarian now...)
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
Ok sure stinky tofu, durian. I don’t think rfk is talking about that.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 34d
Durian tastes far better than it smells. It smells like a dirty diaper.
Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 35d
Where from? If it's not Hunan (specifically Changsha) stinky tofu, it's not worth my time.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 35d
Sorry to disappoint you, but I was in Taiwan. It did smell so bad while the vendor was still out of sight that I thought my friend was pranking me by leading me to an open sewer or something.
Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 35d
Oh yeah, it still smells terrible but for some reason the Changsha variety (it's kind of fried and black) is delicious. They add some broth and chopped garlic and chili peppers on top.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 35d
The one I had was actually pretty tasty, but it tasted like ordinary (but well made) fried tofu. I suppose I should be grateful that it didn't taste the way it smelled, but I admit I was a little disappointed.
Cypher@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 35d
I recall an article about people adulterating stinky tofu with sewerage.
Could be the best food out there and I would still never touch it.
Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 31d
I recall multiple articles about salad being contaminated with sewage and killing people. You gonna stop eating leafy greens?
Cypher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 31d
Not in my country but good try.
Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 31d
There's never been an E. coli outbreak in your country in the history of ever?
Yeah, I don't believe you.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 34d
I have had Taiwanese coworkers, and I have tasted stinky tofu. As they pointed out, Westerners eat stinky cheese, so why be snooty? But I have to say my first experience of it was distressing.
Natto, on the other hand, I managed to get used to fairly quickly.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 34d
I tried to eat natto but I couldn't go through with it. The taste was fine, but the appearance was just too much for me. It was like eating a bowl of mucus.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
Chicken feet in brown sauce. The brown sauce wasn't even good
homes@piefed.world · 8 pts · 35d
As a 30 year veteran of food trucks, that is not a man you should be taking health advice from!
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 34d
Öh nö, höw will he sürvive
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 34d
Lol what the fuck? Food trucks are "food off the street"? These chucklefucks are so goddamn disconnected.
That's usually GOOD FOOD. Sorry they don't serve caviar or raccoon penis you ritzy, worm-fucked assbasket.
Peer@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 34d
This is just wishful interpretation of something worded poorly. The title is pure clickbait.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 34d
I'd rather eat the weeds on concrete than Taylor farms lettuce.
tigermountain@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 34d
Settle down everyone. He's talking about eating food from street vendors.
scutiger@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 34d
He's been known to collect roadkill. He'll literally eat things off the street.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 34d
You would have better chances with roadkill over anything from a vendor with lettuce.
Clbull@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d
Khlav kalash?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 33d
With crab juice.
wuffah@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 35d
This man is insane:
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 35d
Bear are disgusting. People get sick from eating bear. A bear needs to eat him.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 1 pts · 35d
Bear ham is delicious.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 34d
Riiiiight. The excuse of college kids caught in an embarrassing scenario, that's totally legit reasoning.
Mirshe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
He wasn't drinking.
He was high as fuck on cocaine, but he hadn't been drinking.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 33d
He was actually older than college age. Like way older. He was like 60. If he was college age, yeah that's pretty funny but it's also a problem and don't do it again, but 60?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 33d
"I wasn't drinking, I, uh, I was, um...the Designated Driver! Yeah, that's it! I was the Designated Driver. Not a drop to drink. Not. One. Drop. Yep, that's it. Designated Driver. That was me."
Batmorous@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 34d
Remember how Ukrainians always say "We are so lucky they are stupid"
We should say same thing about this admin, and just keep getting people doing together consistently.
The country will get better and reclaimed from this lunacy with more people doing.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
I don't see what's stupid about eating food from street vendors.
Unless you just completely took the click-bait headline at face value and thought he was talking about literally eating food off the street. And if that's the case, maybe you should look in a mirror before calling anyone stupid.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 34d
Dude would definitely eat a turd.
daannii@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
Dude definitely has eaten a turd. The question is human or animal or both ?
very_well_lost@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 35d
Imagine telling someone in 1960 that the ultimate destiny of the Kennedy dynasty would be "eating stuff they find in the street".
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 6 pts · 34d
the sound of an old lawnmower pushing through a pile of spaghetti-rfk jr voice
"Oh I do eat food of the street. In that we all live on the street of life. We are the life: bacteria, parasites, worms, skinbugs,... we are the road of life itself. It travels through us. We are the street itself.
Anyway I have no direct preference if it only got hit by the bumper or if it has been run over by a tire. Both are good."
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 35d
Marketed drama to keep us distracted.
Remember these guys are pawns. The real enemies use them specifically to distract you.
By participating in their marketed division theater you are an enemy too.
Understanding this is how we awaken and get humanity back on a natural path.
FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 35d
Is this a satire site? All their stories are about Donald trump and his entourage. All of them. Very outlandish headlines
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 35d
No.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/raw-story/
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
"May I interest you in a Blowfish Sushirito?"
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
Americans would really rather let this lumpy headed moron destroy their (already pathetic) healthcare system than revolt, huh?
ptsdstillinmymind@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 35d
Dumb white people especially men in America constantly fall upwards. This rapist like his boss are prime examples.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
Rich, dumb, white people fall upwards.
Poor, dumb, white people fall the same direction as everyone else.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 33d
who pays for gum? It's free under most subway seats.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 34d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AsQtt3wmPc
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 35d