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SCANDINAVIA - FOOD FESTER

Swedish supplies of this year's batch of fermented baltic herring are running out. Anyone who doesn't wanna miss out on some raw fish that has been left to fester in piss for a year (no joke), you better book a table quick!

Pics: A guide to eating rotten herring

NEW YORK - LOOSE ENDS

Cow-eating correspondent Darren Gold just wrote us last night with some big news:

“Ever since putting together the article for the Food Issue, one thing I missed has been really nagging at me: cow dick. Its omission wasn’t for lack of effort. I called every local Vietnamese restaurant I could find a number for in search of some wang, and even learned their word for it, but was met with nothing but stern gazes (I assume) and curtly shouted denials. Writing it off felt sort of like cheating, so when a friend of mine called last week to tell me he had eaten at a place with penis on the menu, I figured it was a matter of honor and dignity to head over there and get some inside me.

NEW YORK - COLONICS

We had colonics yesterday. Can you say, "Life-changing epiphany"? Wow. From now on it's a living foods diet, oxygen supplements, and Hatha yoga daily. The best thing about a colonic is...

SOUTH JERSEY - FOOD OF THE GODS

We were just in South Jersey for the weekend and holy fuck do they know how to eat. First you go and get the perfect hoagie (that's what a hero, grinder, sub, etc. is called in the Philadelphia area). The only rule of thumb to finding a brain-meltingly perfect hoagie down there is to choose a deli with a heavy Italian last name. The more vowels in the deli name, the better your hoagie will be. Also, just order an Italian hoagie. Don't do some namby-pamby "chicken salad with fresh greens and dill mayo" bullshit. A hoagie is best kept simple.
Your side dish will be a bag of Herr's brand potato chips (Herr's is another proud Philly institution). We selected "Philly Cheesesteak" flavor to really bump it into overdrive. These things were ridics. They tasted like those "steak and onion" crisps you can only get in the UK.
Wash it all down with root beer. Our local deli, run by the Tarello family, has their own brand. (The hometown pride factor is going into the fucking red here, huh?)
Dessert is cherry water ice. Not "Italian" ice. In Philly and South Jersey, it's called "water" ice. And if you really want to fit in like a local, pronounce "water" like this: "wooder."
We had this exact meal three times in two days this weekend and are feeling like a million bucks! I have never been more ready to watch The Sopranos in my life.

THE SYD AND CAKE

Our buddy Syd just sent over this cake cooking lesson. Apparently it's part of a video series he does, which includes lessons on Vietnamese food, eggs, and other delights. Who knew he had time to do this outside of running Frenchkiss and playing in Les Savy Fav? It's actually good cake too, he served them to us during a wild game of Kariki.

JIMMY KIMMEL’S FAVORITE FOOD

VICE correspondent Jimmy Kimmel writes: "I used to have a small collection of these. Potted Meat Food Product. I guess it’s just generic Spam, but I love the cans so much. You just don’t see honesty like this at the supermarket. It doesn’t even call itself 'food.'"

VENEZUELA - EATING PIRANHAS

Noah Wall (a.k.a. one-man band Jukeboxer, as seen in our Education Issue) just got back from a heavy experience at a jungle eco-resort in Venezuela. “Heavy” as in he fished for piranhas and then had them cooked up on the spot. Apparently it’s really dangerous. “You just throw a string with bait on it into the water and pull. There are hundreds of them in there,” Noah says. “If you fall into the water, you’re a goner.”

LONDON - EATING THE SHIT OF SQUID

In Soho, Eastern Europeans have taken control of more than 85 per cent of the vice trade, including installing brutal new protection rackets on a lot of the smaller restaurants. This has affected the area's many sushi bars to the extent where they're being forced to serve things like "squid guts" so they can get more value out of their produce.

Our intern Wendy said: "I ordered a bowl because I like eating weird stuff. The chef winked at me when I asked him for it, as if to say 'You're in for a treat'."

AUSTRALIA - JERRY HSU LOVES KANGAROO

We have a long held tradition at Vice in Australia of taking anyone and everyone who comes to visit from overseas out to eat kangaroo at a local pub called the Napier.

Jerry Hsu and all the enjoi guys arrived a couple of days ago for an exhibition that we’re hosting. Jerry totally loved the dinner. Now they’re all really keen to go roo shooting so we’re trying to hook it up. They have no idea what kind of hell they’re in for.