I Am Not Leaving until I Eat This Thing by John Edge - Essay Example

This article by John Edge describes how Edge, a person who disliked and had never eaten pickled pig lip in his life, ate the pickled pig lip for the first time. Edge was in a bar, drinking his favorite beer, the Bud when he resolved that he wouldn’t leave the bar without eating the pickled pig lip; John had seen the pickled pig lip being carried by the bar workers from the lorry parked outside the bar into the bar when he resolved.

The article describes in detail how Edge managed to eat the pickled pig lip despite finding the mere thought of tasting the pickled pig lip nauseating. It was the conversation that Edge had, earlier in the day, with Lionel Dufour, the proprietor of the Farm Fresh Supplier Company, the Company that specialized in the making of the pickled pig lip, concerning the use of pickled pig lip as human food, that gave Edge the courage to taste the pickled pig lip. In the conversation, Dufour had reassured Edge that pickled pig lip is a very good human food.