Disgusting Animal Parts People Eat

Years ago when I was in college in Chiang Mai, I remember every single minute of that one particular night I stayed over at my friend's condo. We were studying late and all of us were pretty hungry. A few of them volunteered to pick up "something" to eat.

I cheered. I was excited for a late night meal.

Good 45 minutes later, they were back with several plastic bags--there were several unidentified items in there looking unidentifiable. Turning out, there were organs....every single organ indicated in a dictionary. Before I was able to pull myself together, these organs were sliced and cut into pieces mixing with all kinds of herbs and spices. The process of cooking took less than 20 minutes, but I swore it was the longest 20 minutes in my life. The smell was unbearable. I didn't remember anything else, but my head poking in the toilet puking my butt off. I didn't remember what time I had left shorting after several vomitting activities.

And I keep on wondering.....up until today.

How can many stand eating offal(s) a.k.a animal organs a.k.a. brains, lungs, livers and disgusting list goes on. Not only these parts look nasty, they seem to taste and worst of all smell disgusting as well. I don't judge the eater, but I judge the meat. Call me superficial. I judge the way they look (if a piece of a lung were a person, it would have been one ugly dude).

May be I'm not immuned to these inside-the-animal parts. I can't appear to be around them or I'll end up getting myself killed over puking. The one and the only part I've eaten was a tiny bit piece of liver and that was because my parents made me to when I was like 5!

Why do people like eating them? Why are they so special?