my 400th post!

[zarahjoyce]

...in honor of this monumental event, let me share a link with you. Not coded so you'll know what you're going to read:

http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_the-6-most-terrifying-foods-in-world.html

For the record, I don't know if #1 being #1 should amuse or insult me, because that thing is delicious. Ha.

Comments

[littledelusion.livejournal.com]

I think I'd be scared to eat it. (although I have eaten dog, so...) (I thought my dad was joking)

I spent half the page with my hand slapped to my face. Baby mouse wine. From Korea. I'm terrified to ask my parents about it.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

It's very good! I don't eat the chick, though; I usually hand that over to my dad or brother.

But god, that baby mouse wine. Ughhhhhh. I'll have nightmares over it :( :( :(

[littledelusion.livejournal.com]

If you don't eat the chick, do you eat the shell?

I KNOW RIGHT. I'M TERRIFIED TO BE KOREAN RIGHT NOW.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

No! You take the shell off of the egg before you eat it :D

[littledelusion.livejournal.com]

Then what's left to eat?

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Well, there's the chick, the yolk sac I think it's called (which is my favorite part), a hard white thing that most people throw away (although you can eat it too, it just tastes bland) and the sabaw or juice which is extremely good.

[littledelusion.livejournal.com]

Ahhh I see. Honestly, it still sounds creepy but I think I would be okay with trying it. (I don't get why it's number 1, I think baby mice wine (D8) and rotting, acidic fish sound so much worse)

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Even I thought it was creepy-sounding when I typed my response to you :D And I agree so hard! At least eggs are part of a normal diet; it's just that this one's a duck's and in a more advanced stage of development. Those who thought it was gross? They said it wasn't that bad once they've tasted one.

But baby mice wine... asdfdgjjlkl;. It's just so horrible :(

[littledelusion.livejournal.com]

Brrrrr.
This whole thing reminds me of this: http://humon.deviantart.com/gallery/11134763?offset=72#/d2gdg8t

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

I adored that! Thanks for the link!

[littledelusion.livejournal.com]

Haha, no prob.

[the]

Oh.

Oh my.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Reading that list is one of the highlights of this day :D If you ever drop by our country, we're definitely going street-food eating. Balut is just the beginning.

[the]

Then where does it end, Zarah? Where does the madness end?

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

It will end only when I say the magic words

and only I know what they are Andrew

[the]

lmao you're a hoot.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

I LIVE TO SERVE YOU MY LADY

[reetinkerbell.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your 400th post! :D

I was going to read the article and even opened the link in another window, but then I saw some of littledelusion's comment and I just went HELL NO! Because yeah, gross.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

:D!

GO READ IT, I BEG YOU. It's... enlightening!

[reetinkerbell.livejournal.com]

I can't stand gross things, especially not gross things people actually eat, so no.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, I guess :D

cracked.com do offer a lot of entertaining reads though!

[ice-cobalt.livejournal.com]

Numbers 5-2 (or 2-5? XD) are entirely gross, but as I'm Pinoy I'm not at all weirded out by balut. XD

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

My brother and I were talking about it, actually. I think we're not weirded out by it because we're used to the concept - but if you really think about it, balut is kind of disgusting. Hee.

[pips-n-chiaw.livejournal.com]

Balut doesn't deserve to be #1! the cheese and the mouse wine are grosser. I agree, balut is good! I used to eat it as a kid. Now I'm kind of turned off by the crunching of bones but otherwise it's yummy. Like you, I like the soupy thing then give the chick maybe to my dad. It's been years since I've had, though!

My Canadian flatmate agrees that the cheese and wine are grosser, hehe. Though her face went funny when I described balut.

-Chiara

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that list is just fantastic and gross at the same time. And yeah, balut is really disgusting to describe, isn't it?

I like penoy better, though. Have you tried that?

[pips-n-chiaw.livejournal.com]

I prefer balut. :) Pips prefers penoy though, I think. :) wow, it's been years since I've had balut, hehe. Not that I've really been missing it, hehe, but perhaps I'd eat one- maybe not the chick- if someone gave it to me right now, hehe. :) we would sometimes give some to our dogs as treats, particularly if one of them was sick (our askals, I mean, hehe) so I guess they must be quite nutritious!

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

I think they are! :P

[steelthorns.livejournal.com]

Considering most of those dishes are highly treasured in their native countries (and abroad - certain sections of Seattle have pro-lute fish pride graffiti), I think you can chalk the writers up to being huge babies.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! True!

[etapa.livejournal.com]

While balut sounds, uh, creepy (to me, at least), I suppose there are worse things than that.

It's not the first time I've heard about baby mice wine (I read about it in a book) so I'm not utterly surprised. And they make wine with snakes, too. Creepy...

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Nah, it sounds creepy because it definitely is :P

I think I'm more grossed out by the idea of baby mice wine than snake wine or any other kind of wine because... yeah. Baby mice. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[etapa.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Fwiw, how they even think about drinking it is beyond me.

Though I have to acknowledge that one made out of dog saved my dad once. So... maybe I shouldn't be in position to say TOO much?

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Out of a dog? Haven't heard about that yet!

[etapa.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know too much about it, but I'm assuming you have heard that in Korea they eat dog (not everyone, and surely not just random pet...)? Well, they make something out of it, and it's used as medicine to help someone sick and/or malnourished, IIRC. Not something you'd find at your regular grocery store (or drugstore), that's for sure.

[zarahjoyce.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. Yeah, that is definitely something new there, to me. Some people in the Philippines also eat dog (I think we have a notorious reputation for that, sadly) but to the best of my knowledge, no one ever does something out of dog/dog meat other than cook and eat it.