[HN Gopher] Just What Is Balut? The Controversial Philippine Str...
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       Just What Is Balut? The Controversial Philippine Street Food
        
       Author : 4monthsaway
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2022-09-13 19:28 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | stevage wrote:
       | I don't really understand the shock and horror I'm meant to be
       | experiencing here. If you're ok eating boiled egg, and ok eating
       | cooked chicken, I don't really see the issue. Certainly more
       | palatable than raw egg, in any case.
        
       | DrWumbo wrote:
       | Not sure what is supposed to be controversial about balut. The
       | article reads like an American boy experiencing another culture
       | as a gross thing you do on a dare with some wikipedia bits
       | mangled in.
        
         | sdwr wrote:
         | No? I cringed reading it. Eating whole animals instead of
         | individual muscles is one thing, getting to them mid-gestation
         | is a whole other level of body horror for me.
        
           | Larrikin wrote:
           | Poultry is regularly prepared whole. Thanksgiving turkey,
           | Peking duck, and simple roast chicken. A Cornish hen can
           | easily be polished off by one person. Chicken eggs are
           | regularly consumed. There isn't anything weird about Balut,
           | just that it's unique.
        
         | mc32 wrote:
         | The only thing that would concern me is whether it's spoiled
         | --"rotten" and things are coalescing and not fully formed yet.
         | 
         | That said, US-based people I've know that are from the
         | Philippines also think it's a bit odd and do not consume it and
         | they treat it as a joke to shock "the American".
         | 
         | That said, It's not too much different from raw oysters, which
         | I also will not eat.
        
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