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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 01:05 AM
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Poll question: Disgusting food deathmatch **(not for the weak-stomached)**
Edited on Wed Dec-28-05 01:08 AM by Beware the Beast Man
1. Smalahove (sheep's head)


2. Balut (fermented, partially fertilized duck egg)


3. Criadillas (pig balls)


4. Fugu (deadly Japanese urchin dish)


5. Hufu (soy protein designed to taste like human flesh)


6. Lutefisk (fish boiled in lye?)


7. Scrapple (ground-up pig parts)


8. Haggis


9. Hu-Hu (grubs)
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 01:07 AM
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1. Scrapple's image link contains an illegal code.
I think we all know why.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 01:08 AM
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2. Fixed.
:thumbsup:
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 01:36 AM
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3. Isn't fugu also specially prepared puffer fish?
The stuff where the blood is a powerful neurotoxin, kills a human almost instantly?
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 08:35 AM
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7. Yes, hence the "deadly" tagline.
Only licensed chefs are allowed to handle fugu.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 01:41 AM
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4. What I want to know is, who "discovers" these delicacies?
"Hey, Olaf, it's Ingomar. Do you still have that bucket of lye? Because I just caught some fish, and I'm looking for something to boil them in."


"Hey, Tukra, are you going to eat that sheep head? Because if you're just gonna throw it out... I mean, I'd eat it if you didn't want it."

"Yoshi, try some fugu... it's what killed my mom!"
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 01:42 AM
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5. I'll take Hufu....
They rest are >_<
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 01:58 AM
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6. A question about Hufu?
Edited on Wed Dec-28-05 01:59 AM by haruka3_2000
Who the hell figured out how to make human from tofu? I mean, I always firmly believed that you can make anything taste decent out of soy, with the exception of cheese, but HUMAN?!?!?!

In a sick way, I kind of want to try it though.
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:01 AM
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8. May I nominate a few more?
Surströmming: fermented hering. The smell is usually described as "a mixture of rotten fish, garbage and sewage".


andouillettes: Tripe sausages. Tripe not just as a casing, but also for the sausage proper.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:03 AM
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9. I ate Haggis when I was in Scotland.
It was really quite tasty.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:11 AM
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10. I'm not above trying it,
but it looks like a turd warpped in a condom. Sometimes, presentation is the key. :)
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:11 AM
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11. "partially fertilized duck egg" - how, exactly?
Partially?

Is that like "sorta pregnant?"
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:14 AM
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12. I stand corrected. They're boiled, not fermented.
Here's all the tasty details:
http://www.asiacuisine.com.sg/Nacws/1998/9/314/
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:16 AM
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14. That is extremely interesting - they are nutritious!
And they only take the eggs that aren't developing at normal speed.
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:14 AM
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13. You chose some good food, mostly :)
Smalahove, Criadillas, Scrapple, Haggis are fine with me. Wouldn't want to taste anything human-tasting (how in hell did they find out how human tastes????!), nor grubs. Andouillettes are sooooooooooo goooooood!

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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:18 AM
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16. I almost became vegetarian after compiling this poll.
I don't want my meal to look or smile back at me. In fact, I'd rather eat the hufu, and I'm not even a cannibal.
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:31 AM
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17. Ah, well, don't ever forget that meat means "animal". Eat
little and with respect. Meat isn't something that originally comes frozen in plastic bags. If you want to eat it you can see it in its original state, which includes heads and stomachs. I think it would be a shame to throw those parts away. If animals have to be killed don't waste any parts, at least. Moreover ANY part of an animal (well ok, no manes or hooves/horns for me) can be tastily prepared.

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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:47 AM
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18. Thank you for the lesson.
What, no pig's feet? Yum!
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:14 AM
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19. Sorry I got on your nerve. And I like pig's feet.
Didn't mean to lecture you.

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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 09:18 AM
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15. I'm surprised Gefilte Fish didn't make the list . . .
I'm sorry, but any fish that comes in a jar is NOT good food :P

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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 10:20 AM
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20. you forgot durian. and fermented fungus. and silkworm.
in fact, there's a lot missing here. there's a lot of disgusting vegetables, fungi, and fruits, as well. oh, and a few pungent fermented products like certain dairy products (fermented mare's milk with floating chunks of curd...) and several other insect products that can definitely go in.

pss: a lot of what's shown here is quite delicious. except for tripe, that stuff disgusts me. ewww, so chewy! and i like octopus! O_o
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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 06:44 PM
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21. I've heard natto (rotten soybeans) is pretty nasty
but balut's disgust factor is hard to top.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 06:55 PM
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22. Um...that list actually makes the lutefisk look GOOD...
comparatively speaking.

I saw a television show on other cultures' customs and taboos, and there was a segment on the balut. Yuuu-uuuck!
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Goblinmonger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-28-05 07:01 PM
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23. I usually win the "horrible things you had to eat as a kid" with
czarnina. Nothing like duck blood soup after a tough day at school.
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