Bizarre Foods with Kelly

TiVo is a wonderful thing. Now that I have it, I can't imagine my life without it.

Sitting down to watch TV at a scheduled time?

Waiting through commercials?

Both are a thing of the past now that TiVo has entered my life. It lets me record shows that run at strange hours and check them out at my leisure.

One of the shows I've come to love as a result of my TiVo is a Travel Channel offering: Bizarre Foods.

The show blipped across my radar for a couple of reasons:

1) Just like me, Andrew Zimmern - the host of Bizarre Foods - calls Minneapolis-St. Paul home. He's got radio bits and TV bits and magazine bits all over the Twin Cities. I knew about him long before he started showing up in strange places and eating strange things on the Travel Channel.

2) By chance, I discovered that his show is actually produced by a company that is headquartered just down the street from my house. It's a Minnesota crew that cuts and edits his stuff into the show it eventually becomes.

3) Last fall, an email showed up in my inbox from a woman I never met. She was a staffer with Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods show and she was researching weird things he could eat in Chile.

After a bit of goolging, she came across my past blog entries about Chile. She sent me a message to see if I had any bizarre food suggestions for the country.

I told her that when in Chile, Andrew Zimmern had to eat a hot dog loaded with mayonnaise and avocado. I remembered that these hot dogs were everywhere and that both Quang and I were repulsed by them.

Actually, I'm repulsed by hot dogs any old way they are served, but Quang isn't. He loves them. Yet just one look at a Chilean hot dog, hidden under one whole inch of mayonnaise and another whole inch of guacamole, stopped him cold. No hot dogs for him.

But guess who did eat one?! That's right! Andrew Zimmern!

Finally, finally, the Chile show aired. It ran in the beginning of April and I just got around to watching it the other day. And he ate it! He ate it! He ate a mayonnaise-guacamole hot dog in Santiago, Chile!