What’s the grossest thing?

A friend of ours on the field once wrote a humorous letter to his financial supporters that we found gratifying. He said that if you ask a group of missionary kids, “What’s the grossest thing you’ve ever had to eat?” you will get all kinds of different answers, depending on the country where they’ve grown up. An MK from the Philippines will say one thing, somebody from Bolivia will say something else, somebody from the Congo something else.

But if you follow up with the question “So how did you get it down the hatch?” the kids will all give you the same answer: ketchup!

Source: Burnham, G., & Merrill, D. (2004). In the Presence of My Enemies. Tyndale House PUblishers, Inc., p. 53.