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One of my college room mates ate Balut for breakfast. Once he started the other guys started to bring it for breakfast. They thought they could gross me out but I've seen worse than fully developed chicks inside of eggs.
I remember Josh eating something like Balut when he was on Destination Truth. Now that was a guy who could eat anything, and he started gagging and throwing up.
All I know is, if I opened an egg and saw a baby bird in there, I'd drop it and run screaming.
I remember reading that when the Puritans came to American they considered lobster to be inedible and it was considered food only for prisoners and the very poor. Guess if you look at one first and have never tasted it a person wouldn't want to eat it.
A girl I graduated with spent her life's work with missionaries. The strange things she ate would fill a small thread. In the Seventies she was in the Amazonian jungles of Ecuador and wrote me this story:
They were hiking many miles out into the remote areas to establish a church. When they arrived the villagers were waiting for them and some of them had packages of folded banana leaves which they gave to my friend and her coworkers and made eating motions with their hands.
When they opened the leavers there were clusters of live grub worms writhing around inside. One of the missionaries said, "If we don't eat these we will be insulting their welcome to us. Will someone say a prayer?"
Another of them said, "Thank you for the food we are about to receive. Father, I'll eat these up if you will help me keep them down."
Real Beer Cheese smelled so bad to me I swore I would never eat it. I changed my mind during a College Fraternity initiation when I was forced to eat about four ounces of it. I loved it. To paraphrase "once you get past the smell it is great".
The canned Beverly Bulk Sausage.. Comes in a can.. Smells like dog food.
I enjoy squid.. Korean restaurant I go to, that's usually what I get. Never had it dried.
I never saw a Balut in Hawaii while I was out there. Squid, Octopus, etc.. Yes.. But never a balut.
That canned crab meat.. Now, I love the 'imitation' crab meat that you can get in the seafood section.. But that canned crab meat had a fishy smell that just wafted throughout the building. I threw the can away, then had to go get the trash bag and take it out to the dumpster and it was still several hours before the smell cleared.
Oddly.. Chef Boyardee is another on my no-no list. Disgusting stuff. I can't even stand to smell it 'cooking'.
Balut is fermented chicken embryo, in other words a fermented egg. It is not referred to as "a" balut, but in the collective. To some folks it's a treat.
Balut is fermented chicken embryo, in other words a fermented egg. It is not referred to as "a" balut, but in the collective. To some folks it's a treat.
I think it's actually duck, traditionally, right?
Anyway, I was talking with a co-worker and he's had it often; and said it's pretty good. He said he was going to bring me one to try. I was pretty excited. Reading this thread, I am reminded that I need to call him to remember to bring one in.......
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