How many of you have been to, or know the culture of, the Philippines or Cambodia?
How many of you have sampled the (in)famous balut?
If you have, you'll know why this image (courtesy of the blogger at Come And Make It) led to an instant attack of visual indigestion . . .
I can't think of anything more calculated to utterly destroy Peeps' market share!
Peter
(P.S.: My wife's response was "Not just no, but HELL, NO!!!")
From wikipedia-
ReplyDelete"People have questioned the ethics of eating balut.[6] Ethical concerns are most often attributed to the presence of a fertilized embryo within the dish, given the fact that the egg has not yet hatched nor been given the chance to hatch."
To quote that famous duck - "Boy, I sure am glad that humans don't do this to their young."
That is an affront against the Lord and heaven itself cries out in horror.
ReplyDeleteYeah,
ReplyDeletewhen in the philipines it was the one thing I ended up declining eating. :) lol
Anything used as the awful horrible mess to put in the mouth for CPO Initiations is way too horrible for anyone to eat. Ick!
ReplyDeleteAs one who has been to the PI many times and attended a couple of initiations at the Cubi Point Chief's club the memory of tht particular smell comes back. Fortunately MY initiation was in Hawaii so no baluts were involved.
DeleteHave to agree with your wife on this one. Hell no!
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