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Thanks but no! I'll just eat my popped corn and be happy! :lurk:

If you want to see the beating heart there are videos on youtube. Pretty freaky!

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Some of those videos probably came from the markets in Taiwan. In fact, during the demonstration, they had a camera with a macro lens trained onto the procedure and they were piping the close ups over several monitors.

It was a little squeamish for me, even though, as a kid I used to butcher live chickens from our own yard. I won't go into details on that either. It's hard to imagine that I had blood on my hands at one time.

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I've killed chickens and ducks for food while on a farm for 6 months with my uncle. He taught me the neck twist method after I failed with the axe! What a mess that was!

Speaking of chicken.....

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I watched the video "Faces of Death". The link was just under the 10 worst foods Mitchel posted. It shows the monkey brain ritual. I had to look away from some parts of the movie. YUK
We just talked about the monkey brains couple months ago but I forget what thread. I mentioned that Johnny Mathis said he ate this in some country (maybe 30 yrs ago) & Tog explained how they did it.

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Patty you'll be happy to know that the creator of faces of death later admitted that the monkey brain scene was staged, according to some blog person I read anyway.

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Does that have the bones in it? It must be like the bones in sardines - soft.

Butchering a chicken, I used a sharp knife, and I pluck the area of the neck clean because the blood had to be saved for a certain recipe. I don't remember exactly, but I think I was successful on first try. I remember having a foot on the its feet, a knee on the wings, left hand firmly holding the head to expose the plucked area, bowl with uncooked rice to catch the blood. (Oops, I lied didn't I? I just went into detail.)

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Talk about videos/movies, get yourselves a copy or rent the 60s movie "Mondo Cane" (It's a dog's world). They show a lot of kinky food in that movie that made famous the song, "More".

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LOL Chong the chicken killer!

From what I understand that can is full of home style goodness!

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It tastes very good right from the cob. We get about 5-10 clumps of this fungus on random corn plants each year. (We only grow ~10 rows total and each row is ~30 feet in length if I am remembering right. Maybe 50 foot)

Maybe it is supposed to be cooked, but just out of curiosity I have tried it raw a few times!

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Maybe in his article, they did. The picture in your link shows the full body. In the "food of kings", they show the "objective" through a hole in the table, just slightly larger than the cutout crown. After the objective is consumed, the rest is cleaned and cut up, and cooked into a stew. And the drinking continues.

I don't care, but I still think that it's the thought that counts.

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Goodness! I had to wait for the monkey business! I was going to say something which is not so believable and I think it will top any list, but after 2 lines, I gave up. It's so gross, if you must know, please PM me for it. Ptui! Totally sick!

Bird Nest soup from the swallow species is a truly delicious dish as Chong said if one knows how to prepare it. These days it's if one can afford it! Here it is just a hot item that it is even sold in small bottles. Now they are all cultivated with buildings which replicate their nesting conditions. However, they are not as high quality as those from the wild. The birds are still free ranging but return to these man made roosts for the night.

Heard of Cobra's bile, blood and venom with wine?
I think this was also a Vietnam war era thing. The locals believe that the first two items are great but with the venom thrown in it's the best. Word of caution though, if you have a break in your gastrointestinal tract, the venom can get into your system. I have said in an earlier post, it's not the bile or the blood which does any good, it's the herbs in the wine. Cobra's blood is one of the filthiest. It has lots of parasites it got from eating frogs. Guess not many people know about this, ha?

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I read that part too Mitchel, but I wonder if the creater just said that. It sure looked real to me!
Now I remember where it was posted about the monkey brains thing. On my old thread about "backyard critter trappings"! Started out with cooking squirrel, coon & possum & then it got hijacked & Tog started this thread ha ha.
[Tog]:
..."Goodness! I had to wait for the monkey business! I was going to say something which is not so believable and I think it will top any list, but after 2 lines, I gave up. It's so gross, if you must know, please PM me for it. Ptui! Totally sick!"
C'mon Tog, say it! Curious minds want to know!! Do you think the monkey brain scene was real?

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Man, I've always wanted to try corn smut(what it's called here) and never had any plants develop it. Considered a huge delicacy in Mexico. Maybe I'll put some feelers out at the farmers market when they start up. Then again flights south of the border are probably going cheap nowadays.

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This how I feel about this, knowing how cheap animal lives are there and the zero concern for their well being, money will give you any slaughter scene.

Sometime back I sent some pix of the slaughter house for snakes in the reptile skin trade to Orang Puteh aka Bob. To most of you, the pix looks very sick. To me those pix were nothing more than PG rating for a film. I have walked into such places at 10.30am and the floor already have a 2 inch thick carpet of clotted blood. They do like 1,000 -2,000 reptiles a day. So what's 1 monkey life worth? :waving:

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Tog, I believe what your talking about involves cannibalism. Yes, very disturbing!

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Can someone explain to me in detail about this Cuitlacoche or Huitlacoche? How does the corn develop it or can it be cultured on the corn?

First time I heard of it. How is the taste when raw as Taylor said. And how is it cooked and what is the taste then? Kinda cool thing which maybe I can do here for fun.

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Mitchel, not unless you compare simian genetics and ours. Are you ready for this.... please take it lightly and don't fall off.

I was at a Karaoke lounge many years ago and they had a bunch of Chinese mainland girls working there illegally. Somewhere through the conversation on eating weird stuff one of the girls said in their village, it is a belief that very young children are given cooked human flesh to boost their health, etc.. she admitted that her mom told her when she grew up she was fed it. I wasn't shocked cos I thought I am a seen it-heard it all type of guy but felt kinda weird about her and her group of friends from the same village.

Ok, if you guys can't take this post, say it and I will delete it. Just want you guys from the west meet the east head on. If y'all are curious out of cultures' sake, there another story I can add.

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Get me the recipe.

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It's a fungal disease of corn that turns kernals into something resembling a mushroom. Never had a chance to eat it though.

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:ha::ha::ha::ha::ha: Cool :ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:
I mean the pix of you and the stuffed cobra!
Thanks for the corn fungus intro, I need more info...