Live eels - what have you eaten?

[UKBob]

Ive always wondered how long it takes an eel to die, when you swallow it live. I dont eat seafood personally, defo not life catches :eek: but many cultures consider it a delicacy.

[T5-R]

It's amazing what some cultures consider delicacies that we find revolting, and vice versa.

I remember hearing years ago at uni (whether it's true or not, I can't verify) that there's a tribe in the Amazon jungle that eat live spiders as delicacies, but find the concept of eating eggs (ie: the unborn) unthinkable. Yet we think nothing of it and fry them, scramble them, etc... eggs..not spiders

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[timmy30]

UKBob said:

Ive always wondered how long it takes an eel to die, when you swallow it live. I dont eat seafood personally, defo not life catches but many cultures consider it a delicacy.

D'ya mean eels or elvers?

[Plotloss]

Nothing too outlandish, usual odd meats, osterich, kangaroo, alligator, shark, snake etc but looking forward to the Fugu kiss of death next year (hopefully)

[diddyman]

I drew the line at locusts...

[r988]

Plotloss said:

Nothing too outlandish, usual odd meats, osterich, kangaroo, alligator, shark, snake etc but looking forward to the Fugu kiss of death next year (hopefully)

Those are hardly weird foods, I used to eat those sorts of things all the time.

Also an egg is not really the 'unborn' more like a chickens period I still eat them anyway.

wheres the really gross stuff like monkey and bat heads, various animal testicles, sheep brains and so on?

[cosmoschick]

UKBob said:

Ive always wondered how long it takes an eel to die, when you swallow it live.

Yeah me too!

[Tank Slapper]

r988 said:

Also an egg is not really the 'unborn' more like a chickens period I still eat them anyway.

Anyone following the Chinese food thread yesterday - Balot (or balut) is a Phillipino delicacy which is a partially incubated duck's egg. ie, an egg with a chick inside. Ick.

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[wedg1e]

Christ only knows. The way my mother cooks, it could be anything at all

[timmy30]

r988 said:

wheres the really gross stuff like monkey and bat heads, various animal testicles, sheep brains and so on?

Iceland economy frozen beef burgers?

[cotty]

You want ketchup with your ginnie pig

[Liszt]

Had calves brains fritters when I was a lad. Parents didn't tell us what it was until after we had seconds.

It was actually very nice in a light tomato sauce.

[blindswelledrat]

cotty said:

You want ketchup with your ginnie pig

I also ate that exact meal in Peru. im sure it was the sampe guinea pig. tasted fine but couldnt get over the squeamishness at what youre eating.

[mutt k]

cosmoschick said:

UKBob said: Ive always wondered how long it takes an eel to die, when you swallow it live. Yeah me too!

Anyone else thinking "Alien" and not just the bit at the end with Ms Weaver in her smalls

[BliarOut]

cosmoschick said:

UKBob said: Ive always wondered how long it takes an eel to die, when you swallow it live. Yeah me too!

They're not eels, they're tadpoles

[B17NNS]

hate eels

reminds me of 'Im a celebrity'

Eel Helmet

[EmmaP]

Ate dog and lamb's brains in Hungary. The dog was a bit chewy on account of being quite old. The brains were rather tasty though.

[UKBob]

timmy30 said:

UKBob said: Ive always wondered how long it takes an eel to die, when you swallow it live. I dont eat seafood personally, defo not life catches but many cultures consider it a delicacy. D'ya mean eels or elvers?

Eels. I'd never eat my elders. Unless I won a red letter days canibal excursion.

cosmoschick said:

UKBob said: Ive always wondered how long it takes an eel to die, when you swallow it live. Yeah me too!

Ohhh, psychosis!!

I mean psychic! You'd have to be good at swallowing though.

[mr clive]

mutt k said:

cosmoschick said: UKBob said: Ive always wondered how long it takes an eel to die, when you swallow it live. Yeah me too! Anyone else thinking "Alien" and not just the bit at the end with Ms Weaver in her smalls

Eels are just to chestbursterish for me to eat them at all let alone live

[jconsta6]

I'm a very fussy eater, but stupid am usually the first to step up and try something...

When on holiday in Trinidad, did a tour of a park and the guide stuffed a twig in a termite mound... Ate a stick of live termites.

Before anyone asked - they tated just like carrots... and I fing hate carrots!

Odd having the little fella moving around in my mouth... Podie - nob gag required isle 1.

Cheers,

JC