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paperbag princess · Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Location: veggie hell

as one who doesn't eat meat, i don't understand why people don't eat the entire animal anyway. i mean, if you're going to kill it, you should at least make the most of it!

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

So you didn't tell them about prairie oysters then Ryleeys?

diver · Joined: 16 Jun 2003

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

Okay, everyone post... what's the most disgusting (sounding) thing you've ever seen on a menu in your home country?

peppermint · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 4:45 am Post subject:

toss up: either cod tongues or flipper pie- both Newfie specialties that are like most Korean food- dressed up survival rations.

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

rump steak.... and, it's delicious

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

i like the restaurant in itaewon that sells "BLIND GUT".

i always find the digestive system more appealling when it can't see.

diver · Joined: 16 Jun 2003

The most disgusting thing I have seen (but did not have the balls to even consider trying...in fact, when offered this meal I denied even knowing my balls...three times) was balut [sic]

I saw it in the Philippines. It is a fertilized chicken egg. You crack open the egg and a somewhat, mostly formed kind-of chicken is inside. You are supposed to swallow it whole. I think the eggis boiled first...but I am not sure that even makes a difference.

Ryleeys,

I have been in Asia too long. Your avatar looks like a menu to me...

Harin · Joined: 03 May 2004 Location: Garden of Eden

I've heard that Korean men eat placenta steak to fire up their sex life. Grosss......

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

Wow, brings back old memories of having them a few times. Didn't think much of them then and still do not think much of them now.

I guess one could rationalize it by thinking that it would be better to have them with soju then without soju. For I truely think I would need soju if I ever ate those yummie treats again.

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

do you ever notice that whenever you see something on a menu that turns your culturally superior palate green... that some korean will notice you blanching?

"oooh, you should try. very good for STAMINA!" or just "very good for health".

i've heard this said about boshintang, bundegi, squid eggs, various tonics that taste like a sugar-coated sweatsock... and it's a pretty weak sales pitch if you ax me.

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

I've eaten crickets in Thailand.
I've drunk snake blood in Vietnam.
I've eaten a steamed spider in Cambodia.
I've had "dove" (eg pigeon) in Laos.
Not to mention the mother of all things gross ... HAGGIS.

Trust me, Korea has nothing on some places.

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

Fire-roasted Koala. Yum.

Love to you all, Skinny