Meet the UACPA Board

MEET THE EXECUTIVE BOARD What is the Weirdest Food You Have Tried?

Stacy Weight President

"I don’t consider myself very brave when it comes to food. The weirdest food I have tried was at a business meeting where there was some peer pressure to try escargot. I only had one bite, but that was enough to tell me that was the first and only time I would ever try that particular delicacy."

Dustin Wood Vice President

"I am very picky in the foods that I choose to eat and don’t eat anything that I don’t want to try. The one thing that came to mind when considering this between me and my wife is that my daughter used to ask for strawberry jelly to eat hot dogs covered or dipped in strawberry jelly. That was always weird in my mind."

Katrina Baird Member-at-Large

"I think all the seafood I’ve ever tried is weird (lobster, crab, shrimp, sushi, squid, tuna, oysters, clams, eel, etc.). God hid these animals at the bottom of the ocean for a reason... I’m OK to leave them there." Ray Langhaim President-Elect

"We lived in the Philippines for a few years, and one night at a family buffet, I tasted the most tender and delicious meat called Lengua. I ate it all and told my wife that I was going back for more. She laughed at me and said 'do you know what it is?' and I said beef. She said it was ox tongue. Needless to say I could not eat any more of it."

Aubrey Bickmore Neeley Treasurer

"The weirdest food I've tried was while vacationing in the Bahamas: fried conch. Google it. I would not recommend it."

Chris Skousen Member-at-large

"Pig intestine stew, served on beans and rice. This particular recipe was very spicy and had a fantastic flavor. It was very fatty and incredibly chewy."

Eric Greene Emerging Professionals

"While in South Africa on a trip, I was at a restaurant and was told that I really needed to try the ostrich steak. Needless to say, it didn’t taste like steak, and I still don’t know to this day what ostrich tastes like." Jay Niederhauser Immediate Past President

"I am pretty conservative so I don’t eat a lot of weird food. Probably the strangest that I have eaten would be tripe and guinea pig in South America and alligator in Louisiana. Of course, they all taste like chicken! I did buy a case of 15 different flavors of Spam at the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota, most of which were pretty good!"