Blog Post 2 Creativity

     In this week's Creative Blog I wanted to share an exercise I read about in a book from class called Caffeine for the Creative Mind by (Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield). The creative exercise was called I'll Take a Double Scoop of Pay-Toilet Please. In this week's exercise I was tasked with coming up with the nastiest flavored ice cream that you can imagine. Not only that, consider what you would serve it with. What would the cone and the toppings be made out of to complement your filthy flavor. 

Thought’s

    My first thoughts about this exercise was that this was going to be interesting and fun. The first thing I asked myself was what do people find disgusting and the answer is a priority of things that can often influence our cultural norms, personal experiences and biological instincts, for example, rotten food, bodily fluids, insects, or vermin, poor hygiene, and even certain textures. For example, I have family members that do not like the texture of eating raw oysters. But I personally love to eat them although I definitely understand what they mean because it is in fact a slimy texture to eat.  
 

Challenges

    One of my biggest challenges in this exercise was literally trying to think of these nasty flavored ice creams without making myself feel sick in the process. I can relate and see why certain things like rotten food may make people disgusted because the smell and appearance of spoiled food can trigger that response. Also things like bodily fluids like vomit, feces, and mucus are often seen as repulsive due to hygiene concerns now when it comes to insects or vermin. I think that that is a common thing us humans share no matter what place we come from on this earth. Many people find bugs or rodents unappealing, and it most likely has to be because of their looks and association with disease. As is poor hygiene, bad body odor or unclean, living conditions can bring up strong feelings of disgust. Even including things like certain textures can have the same effect on certain people. Some people are sensitive to specific textures such as slimy or gritty substances. same effect on certain people some people are sensitive to specific textures, such as slimy or gritty substances.

Success

    For this exercise I decided to go with certain types of foods that I have had some type of experience with for example like rotten or spoiled milk. I have personally tasted rotten milk when I was younger only to the simple fact that I would never pay attention to look for expiration dates and I remember how disgusted I felt immediately. For me personally it was such a vile taste that has scarred me for life. After that experience I always tend to look at expiration dates on not only milk but most perishable items. Some ice cream ideas I come up with consist of a combination of spoiled vanilla ice cream with toppings like live insects. Maybe german roaches because I have been to peoples houses in the past that had a roach infestation that I have immediately felt sick and disgusted. I remember how I would not even want to eat or drink from a glass where a household of roaches would be present in. But I don't know that's my personal opinion because there are many people who are not as grossed out of certain things that I find repulsive.