View Full Version : Eating Balut for the first time (baby duck eggs) Gross-out Factor applied!!!
DarrylR
05-06-2009, 7:17 PM
nomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom
Top it off with salt and munch munch munch.
Step 1: Poke a Hole
Step 2: Sip Juice
Step 3: Add salt, chilis, calamansi juice etc for toppings.
Step 4: NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMONOOMOMONOMOMONOMONOMO
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AFLAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Fishy_Fun
05-06-2009, 7:20 PM
:eek: :lipssealedsmilie: :headshake2: :confused: :22_yikes: :jaw: :crazy: :jaw-dropping: :yuck: :hypnotized: :y220d: :barf:
DarrylR
05-06-2009, 7:22 PM
:eek: :lipssealedsmilie: :headshake2: :confused: :22_yikes: :jaw: :crazy: :jaw-dropping: :yuck: :hypnotized: :y220d: :barf:
My thoughts exactly :X.
Dwarf Puffers
05-06-2009, 7:25 PM
I don't think of you as a person anymore. I think of you as a whack-o.
rinmouse
05-06-2009, 7:33 PM
Well if you think about it, it's not that strange. People used to collect wild bird eggs for food, certainly most of those were fertilized and at some stage of development... Still. Not being the biggest fan of even regular run of the mill unfertilized eggs, I doubt I would enjoy! How did you like it?
NeonFlux
05-06-2009, 7:36 PM
Lol Brings back memories..waay back when I was a little kid, I had some with my dad q:
I haven't eaten this stuff since I was 5 years old. I forgot how it tasted like D: Prolly like pan fried eggs
DarrylR
05-06-2009, 7:37 PM
Well if you think about it, it's not that strange. People used to collect wild bird eggs for food, certainly most of those were fertilized and at some stage of development... Still. Not being the biggest fan of even regular run of the mill unfertilized eggs, I doubt I would enjoy! How did you like it?
Tasted mushy/chewy/feathery didn't savor it just wanted to swallow it so it can be gone :S.
Oh, Darryl, you're such a pessimist. Balut is supposed to taste good as soon as you eat it right after you buy it, not reheat it.:silly:
DarrylR
05-06-2009, 7:45 PM
Oh, Darryl, you're such a pessimist. Balut is supposed to taste good as soon as you eat it right after you buy it, not reheat it.:silly:
:silly::silly::silly::silly::silly::silly:
Dwarf Puffers
05-06-2009, 7:45 PM
I maintain whack-o.
Oh, Darryl, you're such a pessimist. Balut is supposed to taste good as soon as you eat it right after you buy it, not reheat it.:silly:
"Are we human... Or are we dancers..."
(Lup's favourite dancin' song :dance:)
invertebrater
05-07-2009, 3:01 AM
im viet/french, vietnamese people eat balut too but we call it hot vit lon (has accent marks). i like to eat it but only the ones with small duckies in it and lots of yoke.. the yoke is the best part! it's very good. umm we sprinkle salt and pepper.. sip the juices.. then dig in eating it with some assorted mints.. seeing those pictures makes my mouth all watery.. :d~
I maintain whack-o.
I'm glad someone agrees with me.
"Are we human... Or are we dancers..."
(Lup's favourite dancin' song :dance:)
Both. I'm a human and a dancer. You're neither.
Reefscape
05-07-2009, 3:29 AM
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snoopy65
05-07-2009, 4:40 AM
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I couldn't have said it better!
bettabrat
05-07-2009, 4:44 AM
OMG that is NOT a food group! :barf:
You guys are such pessimists.;) They're not bad. Just eat as soon as you buy the heated duck eggs or you'll never get a chance to taste the actual goodness.
Dwarf Puffers
05-07-2009, 6:19 AM
You guys are such pessimists.;) They're not bad. Just eat as soon as you buy the heated duck eggs or you'll never get a chance to taste the actual goodness.
I'll heat it til it explodes in your microwave. Then I won't eat it.
ChrisK
05-07-2009, 7:27 AM
Excuse while I hurl!!! How was it :lol:
I'll heat it til it explodes in your microwave. Then I won't eat it.
Don't knock it 'til you try it, kiddo.;)
coach_z
05-07-2009, 7:30 AM
I have not been grossed out in a very long while. that just grossed me out. ew!
Who put the tags that I'm a whack-o?:banhim:
coach_z
05-07-2009, 7:37 AM
it appears that tags are being auto-generated now adays.
Vicious_Fish
05-07-2009, 8:03 AM
I'm sorry but that's nasty.
DarrylR
05-07-2009, 8:28 AM
OMG IS THERE AN DUCK IN THAT EGG!??!!??!!?
o wait this is my thread... I forgot. >_<
Nice!!!!!!!!! lupin's a whack-o (http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/tags.php?tag=lupin%27s+a+whack-o) tag!
Hurley
05-07-2009, 8:42 AM
hmmm....doesn't look all that appetizing but I would give it a try at least once. I don't think I would like the feathers or the bones. But, I've eaten some unusual things...
biggdadyapisto
05-07-2009, 9:06 AM
i don't know if you eat it when the bones have developed. i would definitely try it iv tried some weird stuff and some that were worse than that the next weird thing i want to try is the live octopus on the Japanese street markets and of course fugu.
Bethany1979
05-07-2009, 9:15 AM
I'm always up for trying new things, and don't get grossed out easily, but, if I onened an egg and saw a lil ducky fetus in it, there is no way I could eat it. I would feel too bad. However, if it were unfertilized I'd be game!
paperdragon
05-07-2009, 9:28 AM
Heh, I wonder how my sis would react if her Vietnamese in-laws served that.
jptjpt
05-07-2009, 4:47 PM
Haven't tried balut. Only into duck feet, not duck fetus. Have had fugu (poison puffer) in Tokyo, in 91. They filetted the whole fish and laid the paper thin meat slices in a nice pattern on the chopping block. I looked over to the fish and the thing was still breathing. They ended up cooking some of the bones in a soup. You have to go to school as a chef for at least 8 yrs before you can even touch one of those fugu to serve it. One wrong cut and your clientelle could die. I had some fried catepillar in Burkina Faso. My wife showed me some pics of fried mountain spider when she was in Cambodia recently. That'll be the next thing I try.
DarrylR
05-07-2009, 4:50 PM
I would say anything fried I would likely eat.
The balut was mushy and the look itself was belch.
BoCoMo
05-07-2009, 5:00 PM
lol - I wasn't going to comment until I read the Tags applied to this thread - lmao
You have a nerve, Darryl.:irked:
Slappy*McFish
05-07-2009, 7:09 PM
I wouldn't eat it.
DarrylR
05-08-2009, 12:59 AM
You have a nerve, Darryl.:irked:
I didn't tag you!!!!! The tag was there before I said it Luppers!
OMG IS THERE AN DUCK IN THAT EGG!??!!??!!?
o wait this is my thread... I forgot. >_<
Nice!!!!!!!!! lupin's a whack-o (http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/tags.php?tag=lupin%27s+a+whack-o) tag!
What did you post this for?:silly::banhim:
looney417
05-08-2009, 1:28 AM
what?! every east asian culture eats duck eggs, they eat duck too!
baluts also on the discovery channel, its part of the taboo show. in the Philippines, the locals say it has a pheromone to help you get laid.
it wouldn't be so disgusting to you guys, if you didnt' see the duck there. so just slide the animal to the side somewhere......and eat the yolk.
marinkafuschia
05-08-2009, 1:45 AM
wow! I've eaten my fair share of strange and truly revolting but I'm not to sure if I could eat the duck fetus. I mean I looove duck but little wet fetuses with all the feathers and skin, nope. I'll stick to my bugs and weird things from the sea!
NeonFlux
05-08-2009, 1:52 AM
what?! every east asian culture eats duck eggs, they eat duck too!
baluts also on the discovery channel, its part of the taboo show. in the Philippines, the locals say it has a pheromone to help you get laid.
it wouldn't be so disgusting to you guys, if you didnt' see the duck there. so just slide the animal to the side somewhere......and eat the yolk.
ROFL!! :perv: What the heck!
Dwarf Puffers
05-08-2009, 5:47 AM
Who put the tags that I'm a whack-o?:banhim:
Wow, I don't know! And they called Darryl a whack-o too!
You have a nerve, Darryl.:irked:
Yes, you do, Darryl!
Star_Rider
05-08-2009, 11:36 AM
well I dunno.. it doesn't look that bad.. I guess you just have to get over the gag factor(mental)
heck I eat raw oysters (pacific) some are really big and.. well they look like something that fell outta an ox's nose. ;)
DarrylR
05-09-2009, 1:56 PM
Raw oysters are delicious!
Kashta
05-09-2009, 2:26 PM
It is a cultural thing. Wouldn't be disgusting at all if it's something we're raised with.
7620le
05-09-2009, 2:27 PM
omg love these stuff...:D
no lie ahahah
Arturo
05-09-2009, 2:39 PM
I have tried it, it's not that bad once you get over it mentally. I added pepper,salt and also had a beer with it. Saw it on fear factor and had to try it for myself.
fineexampl
05-09-2009, 3:07 PM
i would just wonder where one buys balut.
hmm...wonder if the Asian market has it. they have "1000 year old" eggs, so why not?
Dwarf Puffers
05-09-2009, 3:10 PM
Raw oysters. Delicious, but disturbing to swallow.
DarrylR
05-09-2009, 4:19 PM
Mom bought the balut at an asian store.