A Filipino Delicacy

Do you know what balut is?  J. Bowen does, now, but I’m not certain if he has ever partook of one.  I’ve had a couple, or three, in my days wandering around the Phillipines.

"BALUT, for those still blissfully ignorant non-Pinoys out there, is a fertilized duck egg. It is commonly sold with salt in a piece of newspaper, much like English fish and chips, by street vendors usually after dark, presumably so you can’t see how gross it is. It’s meant to be an aphrodisiac, although I can’t imagine anything more likely to dispel sexual desire than crunching on a partially-formed baby duck swimming in noxious fluid. The embryo in the egg comes in varying stages of development, but basically it is not considered macho to eat one
without fully discernable feathers, beak, and claws. Some say these crunchy bits are the best. Others prefer just to drink the so-called ‘soup’, the vile,pungent liquid that surrounds the aforementioned feathery fetus… “

I can’t say I miss having them available to me.

Thanks to J. Bowen, at No Watermelons Allowed for providing the link to this piece, at Chem Blog.

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