So, what did Werner Herzog's shoe taste like?

[y_p_w]

I'm trying to stay ahead of this because I tried this before (including linking the actual documentary, which apparently is now deleted by whoever uploaded it to YouTube). But there was a little bit of salty language in the documentary. So I get it - don't post stuff that might have inappropriate language.

But yeah - apparently Werner Herzog had a bet with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris that he would eat his shoe if Morris ever managed to finish his documentary Gates of Heaven, about the pet funeral/burial business. The film was completed and Herzog lost the bet. His shoe was prepared by Berkeley restaurateur Alice Waters, and the consumption was done in front of a live audience at the UC Theatre in Berkeley where the movie had its premiere.

And documentary filmmaker Les Blank made a documentary about it, which the Criterion Collection has in its library.

I'm thinking more people today know of Herzog as an actor, especially his role in The Mandalorian. And there's even an action figure.

 

[jcy]

oh this is the guy famous for being in the tom cruise movie, right???

 

[Mainia]

I don’t think I would like it, I am not into “soul food”,

 

[RoadDukie]

Les Blank has done some pretty weird "Documentaries" in the past. I wouldn't expect anything less for this.

 

[y_p_w]

I don’t think I would like it, I am not into “soul food”,

For the joke to work, shouldn't that be "sole food"?

 

[Jetronic]

For the joke to work, shouldn't that be "sole food"?

for it to work, it needs a lot of tenderizing and spicing.

 

[y_p_w]

Les Blank has done some pretty weird "Documentaries" in the past. I wouldn't expect anything less for this.

And Errol Morris went on to direct some of the best known documentaries, including The Thin Blue Line and A Brief History of Time.