Fat Sauce! Ruin unhealthy foods for me forever!

I work for a Japanese company, and I was talking to my Japanese friend Mimi, who has lived in the US for many years, about some of the foods that we Americans have come across on business trips that horrified us... If you're curious, do a google image search for Natto or Iriko. She was totally delighted with my bewilderment that people actually like eating something that looks like someone let the bait pail dry up after fishing.

It occurred to me that it might be really interesting to know if we Americans eat anything that she finds disgusting. After all, it seems pretty normal to me! Here's what she said:

"The candy you eat. It has so much color. You put it on cakes and color washes off onto the icing. And your tongue. What does it look like in your insides?"

Accurate. I will never look at Skittles the same way again.

"You put peanut butter on apple. Apple isn't sweet enough? You have to add more? Oh and with jam!" I asked if peanut butter on banana was gross too and she literally squealed in horror.

So, I am not going to knock the PB combos, but she did have a point about adding sweet to sweet.

Then she said this, which I'll never forget. "Gravy! I don't understand. You roast meat and the fat comes out and makes it more healthy. So why do you scoop up all the fat and make a sauce and put it back on the meat? And then put it on potatoes too! It makes no sense to me."

She's got me there. Why do we put fat sauce on our meat? I think she's forever ruined gravy for me and that's probably not a bad thing.

So there you go. If you want a different perspective on the way you eat, ask someone of a different culture. They may ruin some of your favorite diet busters. And if they do, please share so they're ruined for me too!