Would You Eat It? Yes or No?

[Mini Mia]

Balut

Balot

Balut Balot

Feel free to keep this thread going with other strange food delicacies you come across.

[Phalon]

Absolutely not.

[Spock]

Nope. I don't think I could get past the smell.

[Mini Mia]

How would it smell? It's a fresh egg that's been boiled. Wouldn't it smell like a cooked duck?

[Spock]

When I think of Baluts, I think more along the line of the Century Egg.

[Mini Mia]

Oh, yeah. I recently learned about them too. I wouldn't eat one of them either.

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[Phalon]

I would try it, just for Katina.

As for the woman in the video...she is very cute, she is sweet, but she is also pregnant. That would explain why she liked it so much; pregnant women eat weird stuff.

[Mini Mia]

I hadn't paid any attention to that.

[Paladin]

Oh he!! no! It would ruin food in general, and would probably keep me from eggs permanently. And I love deviled eggs.

I had a friend on another board who was being treated for cancer around Thanksgiving. She cooked a traditional Thanksgiving meal which means turkey. Unfortunately, the chemo treatments tended to make her sick and she had that reaction while the turkey was cooking. She's never been able to eat turkey since, it always comes back up on her. She says it's almost certainly a reaction caused by the association to that one time, but she can't get past it. Actually, having to smell a cooking turkey isn't the most enjoyable thing for her either.

[Mini Mia]

I used to add peanut butter to ice cream sometimes. One time right after eating it I had the flu bug and tossed it. The thought of putting peanut butter in ice cream gags me.

[Paladin]

Same thing! Can you eat peanut butter ice cream if you don't mix it yourself?

[Mini Mia]

I haven't tried. It's been years now, so it might not irk me to do it again.

[Spock]

There is a Reese's pieces chocolate and peanut butter Magic Shell topping available that I quite like. That might be the way to go ...

[stepper]

If you have Reese's pieces, I suggest you keep them completely separated from the yuck above and enjoy them as intended.

[Mini Mia]

Ooh. Sounds delicious. Thanks, Spock.

[Mini Mia]

Pieces or a liquid topping? Or both? 2-minute drill.

[Mini Mia]

Geoduck







www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Geoduck

www.google.com/search?q=Geoduck

[Phalon]

Geoduck is used fairly often as a "mystery basket ingredient" on the Food Network show "Chopped". It's very weird, and even obscene looking, but the way I've seen it used on Chopped is usually sliced up and cooked in a stew-type dish. I'd probably eat it that way, as long as I didn't have to look at the entire thing whole while I was eating the stew.

Interesting though to see the actual word "Geoduck"; I recognized the thing on sight, but never would have known what it was based on only the spelling - on the show it's pronounced "gooey duck".

[Mini Mia]

I kept hearing it as Gee-Oh Duck in my head, and it took me a second to realize when the video person said Gooey Duck, they were talking about the clam.

[Phalon]

As per the article, a Reddit user recently asked non-Americans what they think is the most disgusting American
food....and as an American, I totally agree with everything listed!!! Well, almost everything - I do like Chicago-style pizza (I love any kind of pizza!), and ranch dressing. And to clarify, Cincinnati Chili is an acquired taste! American chocolate is on the list, but the brand of chocolate I eat is listed as an exception - generally American chocolate (aka milk chocolate) is too sweet for most people.

www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/apologize-advance-non-americans-think-211602902.html

[Mini Mia]

I prefer milk chocolate. Dark chocolate is too bitter for my tastes.

[stepper]

Me too! Maybe it is the result of growing up with it instead of darker chocolates. That's what my taste buds prefer. That and saltwater taffy.

[Mini Mia]

Our environment has a lot to do with what we love to eat, versus what others love to eat. I lived in Jackson, MI from 6 months to 5-1/2 years. My family talks about how disgusting the tap water is there, and I loved the tap water. When we went back on vacations, my parents would complain about the water, and I was thrilled to taste it again.

I’ve been told that it takes 10 consumptions of something before you come to like/love it. A friend of Dad’s would put a spoonful of foods the kids didn’t like on their plates and they had to eat it before eating anything else. I did that with green peas. I loved my long hair, and when I’d read that vitamin E was good for hair, and was in green peas, I started forcing myself to eat them whenever they were on the school menu. They were nasty at first, and I wolfed them down as fast as I could before eating the rest of my meal. And, yeah, it took about 10 times before I loved eating it. I love green peas now.

I hated mayonnaise as a kid. It gave me a gag reflex, even when I was lied to and told it was Miracle Whip. I also hated tartar sauce, only recently learning it is made with mayonnaise. But, over the years, from not realizing that some foods contained small amounts of mayo, nor getting a gag reflex from it, I slowly grew to like it, somewhat. I can’t eat a large amount of it, like I can Miracle Whip, but it no longer makes me want to throw up. And I can now eat tartar sauce too. I also used mayonnaise on my hair at one time, when I read it was good for your hair. And I’m wondering if absorbing it through my skin, or smelling it while it was in my hair, helped me to not be sickened by it anymore. I also learned, in the last year or so, that Miracle Whip is a sweetened version of mayonnaise, so perhaps that also helped in me growing to be able to now eat mayonnaise without gagging. Whatever the reason, I’m glad I can eat it now.