Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s staff cut off a USA Today interview question about the grossest food he has ever eaten, moments after he admitted eating “stuff I find on the street.”

“…I will literally eat anything… I don’t have a gag reflex,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Chambers. “When I travel, I’ll eat, you know, even stuff I find on the street, you know, street vendors, cooking.”

“Like, is there stuff that you’ve eaten that people are like, wow. You ate that,” Chambers asked.

“You mean, like, something gross? Or?” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replied.

“Yes. Maybe gross for others. Yeah. Not for you,” Chambers said.

“I’m getting a signal not to answer that question,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, shutting down the line of questioning.

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    10 hours ago

    Remember how Ukrainians always say “We are so lucky they are stupid”

    We should say same thing about this admin, and just keep getting people doing together consistently.

    The country will get better and reclaimed from this lunacy with more people doing.

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      I don’t see what’s stupid about eating food from street vendors.

      Unless you just completely took the click-bait headline at face value and thought he was talking about literally eating food off the street. And if that’s the case, maybe you should look in a mirror before calling anyone stupid.

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    Lol what the fuck? Food trucks are “food off the street”? These chucklefucks are so goddamn disconnected.

    That’s usually GOOD FOOD. Sorry they don’t serve caviar or raccoon penis you ritzy, worm-fucked assbasket.

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    Rfk Jr is insane but the title is waaaay out of context.

    “you know, street vendors, cooking.”

    He’ll eat from a food truck!

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      He was stopped by his staff before answering whether he’d eaten food found in trash cans. Kennedy has snorted cocaine from toilet seats so trash cans are a step up.

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      Maybe, but most people don’t have a gag reflex when eating food from street vendors.

      He’s saying people would normally gag on the stuff he’s eaten.

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        I’ve had stinky tofu from a street vendor, which is both a fairly normal food and absolutely something that might cause a person to gag.

        (As for the grossest thing I’ve eaten: one time, I found that beetles had infested my stash of buckwheat, so rather than letting them have it, I cooked it and skimmed them off when they floated to the top. I wouldn’t do that again because I’m a vegetarian now…)

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            Sorry to disappoint you, but I was in Taiwan. It did smell so bad while the vendor was still out of sight that I thought my friend was pranking me by leading me to an open sewer or something.

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              Oh yeah, it still smells terrible but for some reason the Changsha variety (it’s kind of fried and black) is delicious. They add some broth and chopped garlic and chili peppers on top.

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                The one I had was actually pretty tasty, but it tasted like ordinary (but well made) fried tofu. I suppose I should be grateful that it didn’t taste the way it smelled, but I admit I was a little disappointed.

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    14 hours ago

    Imagine telling someone in 1960 that the ultimate destiny of the Kennedy dynasty would be “eating stuff they find in the street”.

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    This man is insane:

    In an interview with Rosanne Barr, he seemingly without emotion said,

    “So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van, because I was gonna skin the bear,”

    “It was in very good condition and I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator.”

    “I had to go to the airport, and the bear was in my car, and I didn’t want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad,”

    “the little bit of the redneck in me” thought I have a bear carcus and a bike I need to get rid of, why not put both “in the bike lanes.”

    “I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea,”

    “So we went and did that and we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it, or something.”

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      “I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea,”

      Riiiiight. The excuse of college kids caught in an embarrassing scenario, that’s totally legit reasoning.