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Jenni
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 Posted: Mon, 21st Mar 2005 22:46 Post subject: Foods of the worlds |
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Been looking about for some terrible foods of the world. Can anyone beat this one:
Balut
Instructions for eating balut:
1. Boil water gently in a pot, and put the balut in it for a few minutes.
2. Untwist the salt and put it in a dish. (A dipping dish, the kind used for soy sauce or patis, works very well.)
3. Hold the balut upright and, with the underside of a spoon, make a crack at the top of the egg.
4. Chip away pieces of eggshell with your finger until you have a hole about the diameter of a finger. (This could be bigger, it depends.)
5. Sometimes you'll see some kind of gauzy membrane. Pierce it.
6. You can peek inside the balut now and see broth. Is this albumen? (I always preferred to think of it as amniotic fluid.)
7. Tip the egg to your mouth and suck out the amniotic fluid.
8. Continue removing the eggshell. Depending on how you cracked it open, you may then see an undifferentiated mass of stuff that feels like slightly runny, soft-boiled egg in texture. Dip the stuff in the salt and eat it.
9. Or you may encounter a hard, spherical section that looks like a seed. Throw that away. (My godmother swears that it's all calcium and good for you, but it's tasteless and hard for me.)
10. Or you may finally get to the jackpot: the duck fetus. You may pick it up by the head -- at which point the body unrolls from its fetal position and its little legs dangle -- dip it into the salt, and pop it into your mouth.
11. Wash down with a cold bottle of San Miguel beer. (I think I may have been drinking it with milk when I was in elementary school -- now that sounds disgusting. Balut and milk...)
Answers to frequently asked questions:
1. Yes, you can feel the feathers on your tongue.
2. As a former American professor discovered, entering a pitch-black closet so you don't have to see it makes no difference: you can still smell the faint, slightly gamey, deliciously menstrual aroma. (Also see #1 above.)
3. No, the duck's eyes are closed.
4. Of course it's dead.
5. No, I have never been able to buy good balut in the United States, and I won't try to. One time my schoolmate Tim (can't remember his last name, but he lived in Mountain Province once and was studying Heidegger and Japan for his dissertation), Jenny Franco (I wonder where she is now), and I drove to Queens to Roosevelt Avenue to buy Filipino food. I bought a six-pack of San Mig and two balut eggs, which were simply horrible -- they were all pinkish and looked under-incubated, and they tasted rotten.
6. No, you can't pop the whole thing in your mouth. To begin with, there's too much, unless you have a big mouth. You have to separate the balut into its component parts to appreciate it, and that requires reverent contemplation of the duckling, forever asleep.
7. Yes, it tastes great and I miss it.
Mmm tasty!
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OH MY GOD!!!! 
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_SiN_
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| Posted: Tue, 22nd Mar 2005 01:12 Post subject: |
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What skid said :O
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Dirtpaw
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i would never, ever, put that disgusting thing in my mouth. i'd leave it to steve-o kind of people.
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