Yuck!

[Guest fountainhall]

Given the numbers who eat sushi and sashimi around the world, that risk must be infinitesimal I'd think. Mind you, if it was fugu fish I'd run a mile. Although it has to be prepared by chefs with a special license, it seems a few people in Japan still die every year!

[Guest abang]

I am speaking from a Chinese Cantonese's point of view.

At most Chinese (wedding) dinner, shark fin is often the 2nd dish after the cold cuts.

Most people do not know how to "enjoy" it. 

They simply add vinegar and pepper to the broth.

 

 

Well, actually I stopped consuming Shark's Fin for the past ten years or so.

Why?

Of course, the brutality of shaving the fins of the poor shark, leaving the poor fish to bleed to death (slowly)..

 

 

Hidden information for all to know:

Shark fins do not have any nutritional value.

Unlike Bird's Nest (taken from the saliva of sparrows) is consumed because it improves the respiration system.

 

Yucks to those who still consume shark fins...

Fortunately the days of such gastronomical threat are numbered.

In fact, Peninsula Hotel (the great dame in Hong Kong) has banned it and taken it off the menu)   

[kokopelli]

Poisoning from raw fish is not uncommon; the worst being the worms/parasites that can contaminate the fish.

 

http://www.examiner.com/article/parasites-raw-fish-should-you-eat-sushi-ceviche-or-raw-shell-fish

[KhorTose]

Poisoning from raw fish is not uncommon; the worst being the worms/parasites that can contaminate the fish.

 

http://www.examiner.com/article/parasites-raw-fish-should-you-eat-sushi-ceviche-or-raw-shell-fish

Yes, but i will die happy KoKo.  I too love Maguro, and I not only like it raw, but slightly cooked like America's blackened Ahi.  I could eat maguro all three meals of the day.

[kokopelli]

Sorry Khortose; death from the worm parasites is a most unpleasant way to go to sushi heaven.

[Guest anonone]

When in Thailand, I only eat Thai food.  Trying to keep as local as possible.  In all honesty, it took a couple of trips for my stomach to adjust, but pretty much eat everything without ill effect now. 

The only exception was a druken stop at the hamburger wagon late one night...couldn't resist. 

 

Som Tam - delicious...and has to be really spicy.  Good to order on the street or beach and watch them prepare right in front of you. 

 

Insect cart - have given it several tries.  Not my favorite.  Best when fried up with some garlic and scallions...crispy goodness.  Only downside is the legs tend to get stuck in between teeth 

I haven't tried the scorpion yet.  I think I need to be a little drunk for that one. 

 

I enjoy some sushi and shashimi. BF loves it and uses more wasabi than can be beleived. 

 

I have not come across a true YUCK food in Thailand.....

[kokopelli]

Although not quite a delicacy this "food" is yucky but healthful and does wonders for the intestinal track. Sort of described as resembling chocolate milk and is used to treat a form of bacterial infection known as Clostridium difficile bacteria which is highly resistant to antibiotics. Only one or two helping of this milk are necessary to provide lifesaving nourishment to the patient. Anyone want to guess as to the nature of this chocolate-like potion? Bottoms up!

 

Seems there is something good to say about certain aberrant practices such as anilingus and coprophagia.

[KhorTose]

Seems there is something good to say about certain aberrant practices such as anilingus and coprophagia.

You've got me what the above has to do with it, but Cdif is quite common in hospitals, and where I worked they treated it with powerful antibiotics and a power they mixed with liquid called Questran.

[kokopelli]

The link below explains all. Actually this potion would normally not be ingested in the normal manner but either injected through a tube into the stomach or administered analy into the intestinal track. I did say it was yucky. One might suppose that direct ingestion of this remedy would be equally effective.

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/health/disgusting-maybe-but-treatment-works-study-finds.html?ref=health

[Guest thaiworthy]

I accidentally bought some toothpaste yesterday that is absolutely vile. Truly YUCK in every sense of the word. The last time I bought toothpaste it was brown, an herbal concoction, and I thought that was bad enough.

 

But when I bought this Colgate brand, I thought I was safe. No brown toothpaste this time. No. Then I noticed the box:

 

SALT!

 

Yikes, who puts salt in their toothpaste? Colgate in Thailand, does-- apparently. So I tried it, and yes indeedy it tasted salty. I almost puked. Gotta read labels more carefully.

 

If ever leave this country it will probably be over what I put in my mouth. Wait. Let me re-phrase that . . .

[Guest fountainhall]

I should have mentioned earlier that one food I just can not eat is oysters in any shape or form! Most of my friends love oysters and will zoom straight for them if we are eating at a buffet. The first time I tried one, I was told not to chew it - just to let it slip down my throat. Well there are other things I'll happily let slip down my throat (!) but this oyster got stuck, and I nearly gagged on it. Since then, I have always avoided them.

[Guest Jovianmoon]

If ever leave this country it will probably be over what I put in my mouth. Wait. Let me re-phrase that . . .

 

Well there are other things I'll happily let slip down my throat...

 

I love double entendres - keep 'em coming!

[Guest thaiworthy]

I should have mentioned earlier that one food I just can not eat is oysters in any shape or form!

 

I am not sure who, it might be Gaybutton, but he likes to recall a bath scene in the film Spartacus in which Roman patrician and general Crassus (Laurence Olivier) attempts to seduce his slave Antoninus (Tony Curtis), speaking about the analogy of "eating oysters" and "eating snails" to express his opinion that sexual preference is a matter of taste rather than morality.

 

So my question to fair Fountainhall therefore is-- since we do not like oysters, then how do we feel about eating snails?

 

For me, they are definitely on the YUCK menu, but snails are considered a delicacy in some cultures. To that I say, I sure am glad I am not that refined! And I have no idea which gender either is attributed to. But YIKES, I do like oyster stew.

[kokopelli]

I like the salted toothpaste! Refreshing.

 

And oysters on the half shell are the only way to eat them although it is permissible to chew them. I also enjoy fried oysters.

[Rogie]

Let's hear it from the snails's mouth - meet Mr Yuckie himself . . .

[Rogie]

I love the black / brown sludge that others abhor. There may be others, but the one close to my heart is Original Herbal Toothpaste from Twin Lotus. It's just fabulous, it's natural taste leaves my mouth feeling so invigorated. Anyone who's best friends with his toothbrush must know there's nothing can beat a good old rummage around the old toothy-pegs with a herbal concoction.

 

They also do a 'normal', minty one, which is quite good, and a salty one but I haven't tried that yet. Juries out on the salty one: TW dislike, Koko like.

[Guest thaiworthy]

Twin Lotus, that's the stuff, Rogie! The only saving grace for me was that it was in the bargain bin at Tesco Lotus. Bon appetit!

 

And Koko is an old salty dog, anyway. Must be how he got that way. I wonder if he garnishes his popcorn with mint leaves. He has it all backwards!

[Guest Jovianmoon]

I was thinking, are you sure it was salt in the toothpaste, TW? I only ask because the Japanese sometimes add Sodium Bicarbonate to their toothpaste, which is somewhat similar in taste to salt. Maybe it was Sodium Bicarbonate you were tasting. If so, very good for cleaning crap off your teeth (especially for a habitual coffee drinker like me), but not very nice to taste, I agree.

[Rogie]

I was slightly over-egging the herbal toothpaste in my previous post, but I really do like it. It doesn't list any source of fluoride on the label, and as that's a contentious ingredient I am happy about that. When I am home in Britain I use good ol' Colgate 'great regular flavour' (which does have fluoride!) in the morning and the herbal one at night. 

 

 

Colgate

Dicalcium phosphate dihydrate

Aqua

Glycerin

Cellulose gum

Aroma

Sodium monofluorophosphate

Tetrasodium pyrophosphate

Sodium saccharin

Sodium fluoride

Calcium glycerophosphate

Limonene

 

Twin Lotus herbal

Sorbitol

Calcium carbonate

Cuttlefish bone

Toothbrush tree

Sodium lauryl sulphate

Silicon dioxide

Orange jessamine

Peppermint oil

Menthol crystal

Eucalyptus oil

Sodium benzoate

[kokopelli]

I was thinking, are you sure it was salt in the toothpaste, TW?

The toothpaste I used, Colgate, had Salt written on the tube and it tasted like salt.

[Guest Jovianmoon]

The toothpaste I used, Colgate, had Salt written on the tube and it tasted like salt.

 

Definitely salt then, I'd say! Actually I went back and read TW's post and realised that he had also specified that it said 'salt' on the box. Which is a further indication that it is salt 

 

Sorry, I must have been asleep when I posted that question. My bad.

[Gaybutton]

You want yuck?  Try balut.  Look up some photos for yourselves.  It's too disgusting for me to even post a photo.

[Rogie]

I've yet to try this, and probably never shall after reading this item on Fox News.

 

 

How weird can a food be, you ask? Balut is way up there in the
ionosphere of weird, far past gonzo. Balut is fear itself. Though a
snack much beloved in the Philippines, balut to us is a torture
of an item, a bizarrely-conceived if not abjectly demonic dish. What is
it? Balut is an eleven day old fertilized duck egg, containing the
partially formed embryo of a duck, surrounded by egg. Imagine a tiny,
half-formed head, a bit of a beak, formative guts and bones and the odd
feather, all surrounded by egg and you’ve got balut. It’s not a pretty
sight.

 

 

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/09/12/eating-balut-going-too-far/#ixzz2KG6s6gfp

 

[Guest thaiworthy]

You want yuck?  Try balut.  Look up some photos for yourselves.  It's too disgusting for me to even post a photo.

 

I did look it up and i'm sorry I did. Thanks for sparing us. That has to be the all-time winner for this year's YUCK awards.

 

I've yet to try this, and probably never shall after reading this item on Fox News.

 

Ah, Rogie. If a picture is worth a thousand words, that quote accomplished same-same in less than a hundred! I may never visit Manila now for fear it will be served as the entree in tourist class aboard Philippine Air! Fortunately though, they do provide an air-sickness bag in the seat pocket for anyone brave enough to try it.

[Guest fountainhall]

When I first moved to Japan, the fad was to eat live baby squid! Apparently the feeling of something wriggling on your tongue added to the overall pleasure sensation. Yuck! I never tried it.