BALUT

I had one of these today. There's no thread about balut, but it seams like a pretty noize thing to eat, so this is where it goes.

Basically tastes like twice-as-rich egg yolk with a subtle hint of death. Anyone else ever ate a balut?

Oh god I'm still burping up this shit. Sometimes one gets the impression that they've eaten something that was just not meant for human consumption.

dont think i could do that

http://img6.travelblog.org/Photos/67353/268037/f/2221181-BALUT-0.jpg
http://img6.travelblog.org/Photos/67353/268037/t/2221207-BALUT-0.jpg

waht is it maed

Seriously, you don't want to know. I didn't know when I saw The Reverand's pic on the WDYLL thread, thinking to myself "oh it's some kind of starfruit or variation thereof", but I checked on Wikipedia and all I can say is bleurgh...

i've tried these once and i'll never eat one again.

don't eat the 7-11 balut it's the worst

insist on fresh balut

okay I thought I knew what this was and I googled it and I was right and oh god why would you eat that

way more likely to google a horrible serial killer than I am a disgusting food

filipinos believe it puts hair on your balls, so there's that.

A balut is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell.

the whole concept makes me want to go vegan

i love how they always tout these gross things for there ability to give you a much hard one.

thier abilty

Isn't that the rationalization behind every gross(-seeming) food in every country?

yeah, i'm saying

ha sorry, thought you were specifically talking about Filipino food

Tripe and onions, it'll put hair on your sack, lad!

My father in law is a fan and has teased my wife plenty of times growing up by slurping it down. I'm surprised the family didn't try to get me to eat it when we were in the philippines last Xmas. I might have tried it. I did try durian ice cream and durian chips. And ox tail in a peanut butter sauce is a regular meal at family gatherings. She's also been tricked into eating "chocolate meat" (blood stew) and I think her cousin was tricked into eating dog.

hey thanks dan i had planned on remaining unaware of what this was made

sorry, I thought you were just avoiding pictures

oh god why would you eat that

― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, December 3, 2009 8:45 AM Bookmark

Cause my Filipino roommate goes "Hey, you want to try a delicacy from the Philipines?" and I go "Sure!" and then I think to myself "Oh fuck. That probably means balut." But I had already said yes. There's also an element of outmanning my pops here, cause he always told me he would try just about anything except for balut. So now I got bragging rights, more hair on my balls, etc.

thought yall deserve a closeup

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs112.snc3/15956_1260427105540_1075536484_30827702_2955803_n.jpg

Pretty sure I would depilate my balls a hair at a time with tweezers before I would eat that. My hat's off to you sir.

i think some are more developed then others, with extra feathers and crap.

Yeah, I think they can go anwhere from about 1 to 3 weeks. This one wasn't very developed.

why did i bookmark this???

Glutton for balut punishment

was it crunchy? liquidy?

i mean the yolk alone looks pretty terrifying. i could only imagine how gross it gets when you're in beak territory

i would eat it

Not crunchy at all. Pretty much has the consistency of an egg, except for the embryo part which is a bit gooier. There's a bit of liquid with it and you are supposed to drink the juice before eating it.

I have video of this but I can't get it into a usable format.

is the bird fetus dead before you cook it? or do you just get any live egg

wdn't even enter the same room as tht thing

You boil it twice I think? Once when the egg is harvested and once before you eat it iirc.

The house still smells like balut. This is a problem.

wd u eat hundred yrs egg then?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/208902503_7c587bc15e.jpg

i would try it
many people have eaten these foods and they are not dead!

Century egg is where I draw the line.

it's not *actually* 100 years old

I've had balut about a dozen times but I think it's a regional thing being so close to Daly City.

Daly City is a suburb of San Francisco, just south of the city limits. There are more Filipinos living in Daly City than any other city in the world... except for Manila.

Thousand year old/Century egg smells bad but doesn't taste too bad. It's a chinese thing, not related to balut afaik.

yes

...except that they're eggs.

it's chinese

salut!

century eggs smell good! and are delicious

would eat a balut. think of it as eating lamb in an egg.

^^^ great image, would eat!

i don't think i could eat a lamb fetus

baby.

I love softboiled eggs though, that's the thing. eat that shit with a straw

this is where I would draw the line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e9VvN7pcNo

yeah i'm not into like challenge eating i just think if it's something people eat somewhere all the time it's not so bad to try at least once

mmm lamb egg