POOP FLAVORED CURRY

     To know me, is to know that I have an obsession with poop and all things about pooping. Hence, the book I wrote, S**T Happens, now available on Amazon.com with #2 now being written. Anyway, if there was any restaurant that desired "crappy" reviews, it's Curry Shop Shimizu in Tokyo, Japan.

     The eatery opened earlier this month with the house specialty being "poo-flavored curry." Yup! That is what is pictured here. Just to be fair, though, the dish doesn't contain any actual poop, just natural ingredients like green tea, bitter gourd and cocoa powder, which when combined, looks and tastes similar to human defecation. Okay, I do not want to know how the original writer of this story even knows what human defecation tastes like. I said that I was obsessed with poop! I never said I wanted to know what it tasted like. 

     To enhance the illusion, the poop curry is served in a porcelain bowl and mean to resemble a bedpan. The poo-flavored curry is the brainchild of executive chef Ken Shimizu, who designed the crappy dish to remind people of his other line of work as a male porn actor who has eaten feces in some of his films. Ew! That's like one boy, one bowl. (Two girls-one cup reference.) 

      None of the Japanese publications reporting on the poo curry have actually said that it tastes like crap, but even if the food is better than it looks, sounds or smells, Curry Shop Shimizu will have an uphill battle to fight convincing customers to have a bite of the dung replication. The restaurant's own market research suggests that 85 percent of people would never go based on the description of the food, which doesn't at all mean that poop doesn't have a place at the restaurant table. 

     Toilet-themed restaurants where guests sit on toilets and eat non-poop-flavored dishes out of bedpans are popular all over Asia, and is starting to bloom here in the U.S. Well, that explains my fetish with poop! In October 2013, the Magic Restroom Cafe opened it's doors in the City of Industry, California, where it sells appetizing menu items like "golden poop rice," a "black poop" chocolate sundae, "smells-like-poop" braised pork over rice," and a "bloody number two" which is a vanilla-strawberry sundae. These restaurants sounds like a lot of fun. I wouldn't go there on a first date, but it could be fun for the whole family! I was just wondering, though; why is there no corn in any of these recipes? Isn't corn a staple with poop? That would make it even more disgusting to eat. After researching, it seems Magic Restroom Cafe has closed its doors. Oh poop!