Exotic Food Explorer Mugs

"Ostrich."

Try our frogs' legs.

'Pickled squid in bean sauce again? Your wife still taking that exotic cooking class?'

"Oh Darling, you're spoiling me! I've never tried tropical fish!"

Specialty Items

"Vindaloo hot enough?"

Nothing like traveling hundreds of miles to immerse yourself in art for the sole purpose of killing time between meals.

"From right to left, you have your tekkamaki, your futomaki, and then your yamaimo roll. The little pile of pink stuff is ginger, the green one's wasabi. And, of course, you already recognize your vodka martini."

'Is this still America?'

"I can't go much longer without your asking why I'm vegan."

'Do you want your zebra de la margola rare, medium or well done?'

And then in Italy. . . "But I really don't like bubblegum gelato."

"Being vegan or vegetarian isn't enough anymore. From now on I will only cook stuff I stepped in on the sidewalk."

"Hey, …. what's not to like?"

'How was your holiday?' - 'Fantastic! Great weather! Great food! No illness!' - 'So, back to work tomorrow, then?' - 'Yeah, I guess so.' - 'Lousy, germ free holiday.'

"Everything is dandy--and our intestinal biomes are joyous."

"And exactly how is the peanut-butter-and-jelly prepared?"

"I think the 'Exotic Recipe' diet will make me lose weight. I'm running all over town trying to find the ingredients!"

"Perhaps you wouln't have declared so many places 'worth a detour' if you'd held the map right way up!"

"Who shaves the fennel in your family?"

"I can deal with the conceptual art and electronic music, but what are these hors d'oeuvres supposed to be."

Pastrami in the wild

"Young man, the world is your oyster, but for God�s sake avoid peanuts, soy, milk, eggs, wheat, fish, tree nuts, and chocolate."

'This is my kind of Chinese...A chocolate double fudge fortune cookie!'

Journey of a sandwich through the digestive system.

'It's the LAST time I volunteer to organise the staff Christmas meal, I've spent three days trying to find a 'traditional' lacto-vegan Christmas menu.'

'Sorry Sir, you've had enough,'

"She doesn't eat raw zebra... Where can we get Alaska wild salmon in cream truffle sauce in the middle of Africa?"

The Fault of the Fowl

"You know they're trying too hard when the chef's special is Corn Dogs Bordelaise."

'It's an acquired taste!'

'Use by June 2007. Gah' - 'Use by July 2007. Double gah.' - 'Best of a bad bunch...'

You have no experience eating lobster? Before I spend time showing you how, do you have experience tipping?

'What the devil is that?

"I'm sorry, but Chef Scott feels he's moved beyond that concept."