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Action. They're just really chaos on the water at this point. Danger. She's
your captain and she's fearless and you gotta be fearless too. Adventure. Next
thing I know my sailor is diving into the ring and the crowd is getting louder.
Your listening to Sea Story
Episode 14, "The Cockroach."
my name is Kassim George. I'm a CTTC from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
and this is my Sea Story. I've been in the Navy going on 24 years and I've been to
Thailand, Japan, Hawaii, Curacao, Aruba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Greece, Italy ,Spain,
Croatia, Dubai, Seychelles, Bahrain, Iraq , and Kuwait. I love food, I love to cook I
think I can beat Bobby Flay if he hears this I'm hoping he takes me up on the
challenge. I think I'm pretty adventurous when it comes to trying food, I'll eat
anything as long as you don't tell me what it is. So, we pulled into Korea, this
was when I was stationed on the John S. Buchanan, one of our OS friends of mine
were out on a tour and they had a jar of these cockroaches, maybe
about the size of your thumbnail. We saw all the locals basically just going up
and eating them and we were like "you want to try" and I was like "I'll try if you try"
so we were gonna we can do it together.
We went up paid for our cockroach and then we both ate the cockroach.
I've stepped on plenty of cockroaches before and I've seen this stuff that
comes out it's not really appealing. I didn't chew mine I just took it down I
don't know how that was gonna taste so I just swallowed. I'd hope it tastes like
chicken, yeah I don't think any of us liked it it's just we did it it's
one of those things you do and I don't think anybody actually admits they like
it. I don't even think the locals admitted they liked it because they were
looking at us when we ate it and they were like are you gonna eat that for
real I was like yeah. You get to experience that stuff in the Navy. One
of the weirdest things I've seen especially in Asia, I've seen it in
Vietnam, seen it in Japan, seen it in Thailand and they actually put venomous
snakes into liquor bottles. This process is done while this snake is
still alive so you basically put a live cobra
or whatever into a bottle of liquor and this animal is trying to get out so you
know he's spurting out this poisonous stuff and all this stuff is just sitting
in that liquor. So, you get there and they're selling it by the bottle and
a bunch of guys would buy this stuff. I never tried, its one of the things
I think poison huh I'm gonna say no. If you're more adventurous than me you can
go out there and try some of that habu sake in Japan or that Cobra in a bottle
of liquor, don't be afraid to try things. I love going to different places and
just trying different meals, different cuisines, different spices, and the Navy
has allowed me to do that. I've experienced a lot of different cuisines because of
the opportunities the Navy has given me to travel and just experience different
cultures. I think that's one of the greatest things that the Navy offers us.
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