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April 30, 2002

Pidan

I think one of the things that make us local is by the type of food we eat. Normally, in most places, people start the day off with a plate of scrambled eggs, sausage and bacon, and maybe a couple of pancakes with good helpings of butter and maple syrup. Some would say such a breakfast is a death sentence, but that's not what this entry is about.

What this entry is about, however, are...

Posted by Haken at April 30, 2002 11:07 AM

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Posted by Linkmeister on April 30, 2002 12:19 PM:

You're really enjoying that new camera, aren't you? Grins...

 
Posted by Haken on April 30, 2002 3:26 PM:

You betcha.

I've been taking pictures for years lugging my Canon Elan around half the world, but the process of waiting to use up a roll of film (the opposite is when I shot 30 rolls of film on a trip to Europe), then dropping it off at Costco to have it developed, and finally scanning the pics is a bit tedious and costly, not to mention time consuming, for something as trivial as letting people know what I had for breakfast.

 
Posted by Linkmeister on April 30, 2002 3:32 PM:

Hoo boy, don't I know it! I've got a Canon AE-1 which still has about five shots left on a roll (I thought the damn thing was a 24-shot roll, but no) and I keep looking for subjects. I came back from Europe with about a dozen rolls myself, way back when. Cost me about half the price of the airfare to get it developed.

 
Posted by kreeesty on April 30, 2002 8:50 PM:

So, on the "thousand-year" eggs ... I haven't touched them myself, but there's a descriptive, very romantic story surrounding them in "The Hundred Secret Senses" by Amy Tan. Reading the book almost makes me want to eat them. Almost.

 
Posted by honukai on May 1, 2002 7:52 AM:

I'm with you on Fear Factor. Although I haven't personally eaten balut or 1000 yr old eggs, my grandma has, so knowing it is edible would give me the courage to eat it for 50k. On the other hand, watching the contestants eat those huge roaches the other week made my stomach curl. Could it be all those B52's I've encountered in my lifetime? THAT I could not eat, no matter what!

 
Posted by Haken on May 1, 2002 8:38 AM:

I'm sure the bugs are just as edible as anything else we might eat. What bothers me most about the bugs is that they're alive.

It's one thing to eat something that's dead, and I know for a fact that the only thing that's moving around in my mouth is my tongue, but when those little critters starts poking and prodding around in my mouth--fighting for its dear life--there's just something unsettling about it.

Who knows whether or not the bug won't do the same and take a bite of my tongue instead? What if it swells up to the size of an orange? Or worst yet, what if it'll get lodged in my throat, half alive, and starts scraping away at my windpipe and injects some larval stage of itself there?

So, as far as eating live big squishy bugs goes, no thanks. Though, I might consider it if they're dead--50K is worth that, right?

 
Posted by ali on May 1, 2002 10:00 AM:

Eeeewwww! Thanks for those thoughts there, Haken! :P Growing up in the islands, I've seen more than my share of those B52's but only recently did I find out (the hard way) that squishing them STINKS!

 
Posted by Stella on May 1, 2002 10:02 AM:

Eh, balut can't be all that bad. (Then again, I don't really eat much of it any more, and the last time I did it was at a restaurant in Manila where they peel off the shell and deep-fry the whole thing, duckling, yolk and all. Cholesterol city, yeeeeee-ha!) And "1000-year old" eggs? Mighty tasty with jook, if I should say so.

Which goes to my next point: Almost anything and everything tastes better when deep-fried. While I'd rather not do the whole Fear Factor thing of eating live, squirming bugs for all of the reasons that Haken mentioned, I did manage at one point to snack on a tiny pupu plate of seasoned fried locusts - again, none too tasty, but not bad either.

That said, given the choice, I'd still take the plate lunch over a plate of fried critters any time. ;)

 
Posted by honukai on May 1, 2002 12:23 PM:

Just hearing about how those roaches eek out some type of juice in their defense in your mouth is enough to nauseate me. And the antenae flickering around in there..can't even deal.

Now worms, that's a whole 'nother story. They actually are a good source of protein.

 
Posted by Stella on June 25, 2002 10:41 PM:

Apparently the producers of Fear Factor think that eating balut is not freakish enough for them. In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly,, Rich Brown, the "producer of all things gross and disgusting" for the show, describes the balut episode as a "Career Low." (WARNING: This excerpt contains a highly accurate and graphic description of balut.)

"...all six contestants devoured a balut egg (soft boiled, unhatched duck embryo with bones and feathers). 'It made us realize that quantities were significant, because one of the girls said she would have stopped if she had to eat two.'"

There's a snarky comment in here, but I don't think I should be the one making it.

 
Posted by Stella on June 25, 2002 10:41 PM:

Apparently the producers of Fear Factor think that eating balut is not freakish enough for them. In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly,, Rich Brown, the "producer of all things gross and disgusting" for the show, describes the balut episode as a "Career Low." (WARNING: This excerpt contains a highly accurate and graphic description of balut.)

"...all six contestants devoured a balut egg (soft boiled, unhatched duck embryo with bones and feathers). 'It made us realize that quantities were significant, because one of the girls said she would have stopped if she had to eat two.'"

There's a snarky comment in here, but I don't think I should be the one making it.

 
Posted by helen on August 17, 2002 10:02 PM:

I'm not much of a breakfast type of person. While I might eat some eggs and breakfast type of meats or pancakes once in a great while, I tend to eat stuff geared for the lunch time crowd like hot dogs, turkey sandwichs, hamburgers or spam musubi.

 
Posted by sally on January 31, 2005 3:15 PM:

well, I'm asian, and balut is a rare delicacy available at most of our stores. it's plenty edible. i'm serious, it's delcious. i mean, we eat it with some sauce, but even with out it, the natural juices (sorry, squeamish people) make it really good. so, seeing that one fear factor episode was pretty sad. yes, balut egg is not freakish enough for fear factor.

 
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