Modern Vespa

Century egg.

That's five.

Wow!
Live & learn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

(Although they do say that that bit about horse urine is a myth )

Re: Century Egg. I once bought a couple of these (they weren't a hundred years old, possibly a lot less) as a surprise gift to my Uncle. I wanted him to eat at least one of them.
He didn't even crack the shell, just took a sniff and was repulsed.
Ok, I thought what do I do now? I threw one and it hit concrete, I swear I saw a mushroom cloud come out of the egg... glad I didn't cop any of the fall out.
We buried the other in the compost bin.

Meh, no big deal, I've eaten those many times as a kid. A lot of Chinese and Taiwanese people like them.

Smelly tofu, now that is nasty smelling stuff.

Century Eggs are good, though I suppose for the average Western pallet, prolly pretty shocking to the taste-buds.

Now pigs feet...bleh...all those little bones...

But the skin and tendons are devine, no? I love pigs feet, yummmmm.

i had smelly tofu when i was in taipei... not bad... wouldn't try century egg... i did eat pidgon in china... and other weird foods.

i STAYED away from black pudding when i visited england. too hung over for congealed pigs blood...

now sea turtle is gross... tastes like an aquarium... i had it in a soup in new orleans before katrina.

still.... century egg scares me....


-cheers

So they'll eat their broccolli I torment my kids with stories on how their Grandpa used to eat pigs feet...

PIGS FEET!??? they squeel.

Oh yeah, I tell them, they come in jars, like pickles, and you gotta like suck 'em between the toes (with accompanying sucking noises)...

They seriously don't believe me.

I'm going to have to buy a jar as a secret weapon

all i can say is... people knowingly eat snails. I no longer care about grossing people out. SNAILS. i don't care what you call them. Sentient boogers encased in a crunchy shell not something a sane person should eat.

Snails, you're fretting about people who eat snails?!

The trick is that they fill the shells with garlic & butter and just about anything inside would taste good

What I don't understand is how people can eat sea slugs

L -- is that thing smiling at me?

there are plenty of ways to get a garlic and butter fix with out resorting to eating snot monsters. inexcusable.

Yup... it may not be too bright, but it knows it looks poisonous

I don't know... for my money banana slugs are worse

(unfortunately I couldn't find the "Cooking with Banana Slugs" book on-line)

Vaulting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irQw68cMD7A

Javelin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8L_1Lww8Ao

http://shellcollecting.tribe.net/thread/240db251-f8ef-4cb5-aff2-24f848a73efb

"Dear Brian and Tom,
In the late 1970s and early 1980s I ate slugs. As far as I know, none
of the land slugs are poisonous. However, the digestive gland (which
occupies about the posterior third) of at least some of the species is
foul tasting, so I advise removing it before consumption. It is
relatively easy to remove after cooking by making a longitudinal slit in
the tail, and peeling the skin back, then either pulling off or cutting
off the dark-colored digestive gland.
I recall that Arion rufus in the Pacific Northwest had a foul-tasting
digestive gland. My recollection is that the digestive gland of Arion
subfuscus in Michigan was not as foul tasting. I shared a banana slug
(Ariolimax columbianus) with someone in Washington, so I don't know if I
got the digestive gland or not, but I don't recall any foul flavor - but
I did get the crunchy shell. I have also had Deroceras spp and Limax
maximus, and don't recall any foul flavor.
It is a VERY good idea to cook land mollusks before eating them, as
they are good vectors for human parasites. Cooking them will kill the
parasites. The people on reality TV shows who eat live slugs are taking
chances with their own health.
Slugs tend to have more slime than snails (probably defensive, since
slugs can't hide in a shell). An easy way to remove the slime before
cooking is to put the live slugs into 50% vinegar 50% water. The
solution is fatal to the slugs in a few minutes, and in the process,
they exude most of their slime. Also, when you are boiling them, change
the water after a minute or two to remove further slime. One recipe
advocates adding a bay leaf to the cooking water to improve the smell.
After they are cooked (and the digestive gland removed, if necessary),
you can use the slugs as you would clams (e.g., slug chowder); be
creative.
While I am mostly a vegetarian, I advocate eating of pest slugs.
Eating slugs from the garden is biological control, with humans being
the predator! Slugs are like escargots with the shell already removed!By
eating slugs, we can turn pests into something desirable. "

mmmmmmm...... slimey snot!


-cheers

I AM THE KILLER OF ALL THREADS!!!

BWWAAAHAHAHAAAAA!!!

Here's part of a banquet we were treated to in China this January. The ones on the left are fried bee larvae, the ones on the right are fried meal worms.
Yummy. Tasted like fried dough.


Gag reflex suppression- FAIL!

Striptease fail... wait for it, wait for it.... wait for it....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q_RXCgtKIg

Gift from Grandma FAIL




Truth in advertising FAIL




Quench my thirst FAIL




Entice my sweet tooth FAIL




Hello Kitty FAIL




Place to catch a quick wink FAIL





Truth in advertising: the sequel FAIL

I just made this myself... Other than adding the notations, I didn't photoshop it at all.

More

Here's my own submission (chloe the cat):

I'm actually crying at the coolpis. Bill x Sorry I can no longer articulate.

It might be hard to make out, but the employees at this McD's *REALLY* like the band STYX:



Spelling FAIL, but then again, who doesn't love STYX???

Renegade still rocks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXhuso4OTG4

LOL

the bus runs on oil fail.

Spell checking FAIL:



Bridle hair? An equine salon? FAIL:



"Opperation" FAILure:


TOADal FAILure:

what if he's saying "who needs oil? I do, i need the bus to get to work" counter anti-oil brainwashing ftw!

Doppler Fail

wahoo

The Doppler fail is perfect!

Another classic

Final Answer?

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