[Sca-cooks] Balut

[Aurore]

Still stomach turning.  Aurore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] RE: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #2483 - 16 msgs


> Aurore skrev:
>
> > > No, put *those* eggs down, they have been sitting in the nest long
> enough
> > to
> > > turn into Balut. No, you cant play toss the egg. If you want eggs, you
> > will
> > > have to find them when they lay them or go to the store.
> > >
> > > margali
>
> > It's scary when I actually know what Balut is.  Don't care for the
sicken
> > idea of another culture's idea of snack food.
>
> Actually, it's not really a snack food- it's a thing done by Filipino men
> who have a snoot full- a test of macho. Most Filipino women (according to
my
> informant, a Filipino woman) watch the men get tiddly and eat the things,
in
> great admiration, then go into the kitchen, or outside, and giggle about
> idiot males....She told me that she wouldn't eat one of the damned things
> for any reason, and this is the lady who taught me how to cook and eat
fish
> heads, bones and all....
>
> Phlip
>
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