Just when you thought you'd seen the grossest Asian food...

[Archae]

Someone told me about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_Egg

(urp) (gag)

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. Yep. For some reason my people eat festering duck embryo.

It's the grossest thing ever!!!


I don't get it at all. It can't taste good. It doesn't look good. It sure as hell doesn't smell good.


:puke:

[Hugin]

2. *faint*

You need to put a warning on this thread.

:spew:

[xchrom]

3. that's all i needed to know -- i'm not looking.

besides i'm not pretty when i faint.

[philosophie_en_rose]

4. *Warning* Do not click that link.

No one needs to look at balut.

[xchrom]

7. i believe you -- and i'm not going

through the indignity of fainting and having my skirt splayed above my head.

perhaps i've said too much.

[Hugin]

6. This just knocked "Chilled Monkey Brain" off of my list.

However, if it were a matter of survival... I'll take mine fried, please.


Edit: Add deep fried...

[xchrom]

8. deeply, deeply fried.

[Archae]

19. I did.

n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. I don't know, the Japanese eat whale sperm.

That's still the highest on my gross list. Though I'd probably eat that before eating any kind of insect, so maybe I shouldn't say that whale sperm is the grossest.

[xchrom]

9. YOU COULD HAVE GONE ALL MOTHERFUCKIN DAY AND NOT SAID THAT!

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. And I damn near did - posted at 11:45 pm Osaka time

I almost made it through the whole day without saying that... I should have waited another 16 minutes.

[xchrom]

11. lol -- now i have the fuckin shudders!

eeewww blech blech blech

[Hugin]

13. I can see no nutritional reason for eating that...

Even if I were starving.

Grasshoppers remain at the top of my list of "Non-food Items"

They are the yickiest... Tastes like eating old cold chewing tobacco.

*cringe*

[philosophie_en_rose]

12. Really???

:puke:

[crispini]

18. Fried crickets are GOOD.

They taste like popcorn. With legs.

[TK421]

14. Proof that people will eat absolutely ANYTHING...I just threw up

in my mouth

[WritingIsMyReligion]

15. And I had to go look, of course.

:puke:

[Generic Brad]

16. It doesn't have to be Asian to be gross

Try lutefisk some time. There's nothing like month old white fish that has been soaking in lye the entire time.

[Neoma]

17. Meh, it's edible.

Possibly.

[GoneOffShore]

20. Tried Jumping Cheese?

It's an Italian cheese that actually has maggots crawling on it.

Supposed to be delicious. Haven't tried it.

Have eaten pigs feet (not pickled), brains, liver, kidneys, tripe, tongue, heart, foie gras and oysters. Not all at the same time, of course.

And no, the manufacture of foie gras is not cruel. I've been on the farms, and the ducks and geese are NOT ill treated.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. Okay, those farms weren't cruel. What about other ones?

There's plenty of photo & video proof of the cruelty at a factory farm. Those animals are treated horribly and it's extremely unsanitary.

[GoneOffShore]

24. With ducks & geese raised for foie gras

the point is not to stress them. Otherwise you don't get a good product.

Ducks and geese don't have a gag reflex, gorge themselves naturally before migration, and imprint on the people that feed them.

Yes, factory farming is bad. Hence, we eat free range chicken, grass fed, pastured pork, lamb and beef. Not only are the animals humanely raised, but the taste is better and the nutrition content is higher. Same with vegetables.

It's the whole buy fresh, buy local thing.

Remember, if you want to look at farmland, you have to eat the landscape.

[Lady Effingbroke]

21. mmm....

Natto...

[maveric]

22. Aside from Lumpia, Adobo and Pansit, Filipino food is nasty!

Blood suace for chicken?