alt_edLook, it's the Orble food delights tour!
July 16th 2008 05:25
Hungry?
Actually, don't answer that just yet...
How many of you have tried Escamoles? C'mon raise your hand if your a fan of Escamoles...!
Escamoles are the eggs of the giant black Liometopum Ant, which nest within the root system of both the Maguey and Agave plants. Collecting this Mexican delicacy is a job requiring skill and experience, and one must avoid being bitten by the highly venomous ant.
Next up on the Orble culinary confessional is 'Casu Marzu', possibly one of the most disgusting foods I've ever heard of.
Casu Marzu, is a sheep's milk cheese hailing from Sardinia, Italy. This sweaty lump of rancid cheese is deliberately infested with Piophila casei which is more commonly known as the "cheese fly". This results in a maggot-infested heap of S%#! in an advance stage of decomposition. The translucent larvae are able to jump over 6 inches into the air! The taste alone is enough to burn ones tongue, not to mention that the larvae can pass through the stomach undigested, often surviving long enough to breed in the intestine (where they like to bore through the walls, causing vomiting and bloody diarrhea).
This stomach turning bog food is illegal in Sardinia... the only place where people 'want' to eat it!
How about soap? Industrial strength of course- it come's in the form of Lutefisk, from the land of Norway.
Lutefisk is a traditional Norwegian dish featuring cod that has been steeped for many days in a solution of lye, until its flesh is caustic enough to dissolve silver cutlery.
For those of you who don't know, lye (potassium hydroxide/sodium hydroxide) is a powerful industrial chemical used for cleaning drains, killing plants, de-budding cow horns, powering batteries and manufacturing biodiesel. Contact with lye can cause chemical burns, permanent scarring, blindness or total deliciousness, depending on whether you pour it onto a herring or your own face. Odd though it may be, lutefisk is more popular in the United States than in Norway- What the HELL are you yanks doing with it?
It's not all bad though, next up is a simple Korean wine. Baby Mice Wine to be exact!
What better to wash down your gelatinous lumps of lye fish than a nice chilled cup of dead mice? What better indeed.
Baby mice wine is a traditional Chinese and Korean "health tonic," which apparently tastes like raw gasoline. Little mice, eyes still closed, are plucked from the embrace of their loving mothers and stuffed (while still alive) into a bottle of rice wine where they are left to ferment.
What better way to drown ones sorrows than with a glass dead fetus juice!
Hmm, sticking with the cute, and cuddly theme, lets move onto Pacha.
Pacha is an Iraqi delight. Of all the dishes, this is the one most likely to be mistaken for a threatening message from the mob. It' a sheep' head. Boiled.
Pacha only reveals its terror gradually, the more you eat it, the more bone is revealed, until you give a final burp and set your cutlery down beside a grinning ivory skull. Its hollow eye sockets stare back at you with a look of grim damnation.
Behold, for our Orble food delights tour has reached it's final destination... Drum role please
It's Balut!
Balut are duck eggs that have been incubated until the fetus is all feathery and beaky, and then boiled alive. The bones give the eggs a uniquely crunchy texture.
They are enjoyed in Cambodia, Philippines and the fifth and seventh levels of hell. They are typically sold by street vendors at night, out of buckets of warm sand. You can spot the vendors because of their glowing red eyes, and the faint, otherworldly sound of children screaming.
Wait, it gets worse ...
... Because you're never going to look at an egg the same way. Tell yourself that every time you crack open an egg from now on you won't be half expecting a leathery wad of bird to come flopping out into the skillet.
Yes, balut is upsetting on about a half-dozen levels. Sure, all meat eaters know on some level that the delicious chop on your plate used to belong to something cute and fluffy, which gambolled in the sun during the brief spring of its life. Most of the time, it' perfectly possible not to give a shit. But, when you're biting into something that hasn't even had a chance to see its mother' face ... well, it' different.
... Still hungry? Bon appetit!
Actually, don't answer that just yet...
How many of you have tried Escamoles? C'mon raise your hand if your a fan of Escamoles...!
Next up on the Orble culinary confessional is 'Casu Marzu', possibly one of the most disgusting foods I've ever heard of.
Casu Marzu, is a sheep's milk cheese hailing from Sardinia, Italy. This sweaty lump of rancid cheese is deliberately infested with Piophila casei which is more commonly known as the "cheese fly". This results in a maggot-infested heap of S%#! in an advance stage of decomposition. The translucent larvae are able to jump over 6 inches into the air! The taste alone is enough to burn ones tongue, not to mention that the larvae can pass through the stomach undigested, often surviving long enough to breed in the intestine (where they like to bore through the walls, causing vomiting and bloody diarrhea).
This stomach turning bog food is illegal in Sardinia... the only place where people 'want' to eat it!
How about soap? Industrial strength of course- it come's in the form of Lutefisk, from the land of Norway.
Lutefisk is a traditional Norwegian dish featuring cod that has been steeped for many days in a solution of lye, until its flesh is caustic enough to dissolve silver cutlery.
For those of you who don't know, lye (potassium hydroxide/sodium hydroxide) is a powerful industrial chemical used for cleaning drains, killing plants, de-budding cow horns, powering batteries and manufacturing biodiesel. Contact with lye can cause chemical burns, permanent scarring, blindness or total deliciousness, depending on whether you pour it onto a herring or your own face. Odd though it may be, lutefisk is more popular in the United States than in Norway- What the HELL are you yanks doing with it?
It's not all bad though, next up is a simple Korean wine. Baby Mice Wine to be exact!
What better to wash down your gelatinous lumps of lye fish than a nice chilled cup of dead mice? What better indeed.
Baby mice wine is a traditional Chinese and Korean "health tonic," which apparently tastes like raw gasoline. Little mice, eyes still closed, are plucked from the embrace of their loving mothers and stuffed (while still alive) into a bottle of rice wine where they are left to ferment.
What better way to drown ones sorrows than with a glass dead fetus juice!
Hmm, sticking with the cute, and cuddly theme, lets move onto Pacha.
Pacha is an Iraqi delight. Of all the dishes, this is the one most likely to be mistaken for a threatening message from the mob. It' a sheep' head. Boiled.
Pacha only reveals its terror gradually, the more you eat it, the more bone is revealed, until you give a final burp and set your cutlery down beside a grinning ivory skull. Its hollow eye sockets stare back at you with a look of grim damnation.
Behold, for our Orble food delights tour has reached it's final destination... Drum role please
It's Balut!
Balut are duck eggs that have been incubated until the fetus is all feathery and beaky, and then boiled alive. The bones give the eggs a uniquely crunchy texture.
They are enjoyed in Cambodia, Philippines and the fifth and seventh levels of hell. They are typically sold by street vendors at night, out of buckets of warm sand. You can spot the vendors because of their glowing red eyes, and the faint, otherworldly sound of children screaming.
Wait, it gets worse ...
... Because you're never going to look at an egg the same way. Tell yourself that every time you crack open an egg from now on you won't be half expecting a leathery wad of bird to come flopping out into the skillet.
Yes, balut is upsetting on about a half-dozen levels. Sure, all meat eaters know on some level that the delicious chop on your plate used to belong to something cute and fluffy, which gambolled in the sun during the brief spring of its life. Most of the time, it' perfectly possible not to give a shit. But, when you're biting into something that hasn't even had a chance to see its mother' face ... well, it' different.
... Still hungry? Bon appetit!
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Comment by Anonymous
Comment by Morgan Bell
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ewwwww
Comment by RubySoho
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"Sweaty lump of rancid cheese".
I can't stop laughing.
Comment by alt_ed
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And Morgan, c'mon i know you'd love some baby mice flavored passion pop! lol
Comment by RubySoho
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They are enjoyed in Cambodia, Philippines and the fifth and seventh levels of hell.
Comment by Louie
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Comment by Morgan Bell
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if your flatmate is still stealing all your food perhaps this is the kind of stuff you should be keeping in the fridge?
*vomit*
Comment by Cibbuano
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If you look at the Wikipedia page for that maggoty cheese, you'll see that it's supposed to be eaten with goggles on. Apparently, the maggots can jump up to 6 inches!
Comment by What's Your Story?
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But baby mice?
*throws up*
Comment by alt_ed
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And what's this about Balut not tasting bad? WTF? lol
Comment by Kim L
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Where do folk come up with these ideas??
Great post... disturbing and nauseating... but a great read.
PS; Actually, I think the real question is ..... How did an ANT get that big????????
Comment by James Rickard
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Angling Fish
Comment by alt_ed
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I lurrrv vegemite, and man it has to be better than escemoles right?
And James, don't worry it makes me feel ill too!
Comment by Mountain Fog
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And you missed some; deep fried large adult tarantulas, a favourite in the Phillipines, dipped in a simple batter, quickly deep fried, and you select from a big basket of them..yum. oh, and South Korea at the Olympic Games, served real hot dogs... real... hot.. dogs.. then there is the monkey brains dish...
fog
Comment by alt_ed
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Actually, the more you dig the more you find, and there's heaps more really grosse sounding/looking/jumping food out there... lol