Unusual foreign food
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My boss has just come back from a business trip to Thailand where he picked up some of the local snacks for us to try, if you are passing that way I can highly recommend 'Biscuit Sticks, Thai Spicy Salad flavour'. Much better than the dried fish that the Japanese around here bring back, and not as bad as the Hamburger flavoured sweets he brought last time. Any worldwide snack suggestions that you care to recommend that you cannot get in the UK?
The French sell a boiled sweet that is apparently the mainstay of certain areas...
God-Forbid why but its a normal sugar boiled sweet that tastes like a toilet cleaner or U-bend Tablet . Quite Interesting if you have that kind of pallet.:-)
Its disguised in a light green wrapper, with a Jolly sounding name. Just to warn you if you ever feel near to being Hoodwinked..
If you do I recommend a quick dose of Bi-Carb and a Jar of Andrews to remove the lingering aftertaste..
Watch-Collector
God-Forbid why but its a normal sugar boiled sweet that tastes like a toilet cleaner or U-bend Tablet . Quite Interesting if you have that kind of pallet.:-)
Its disguised in a light green wrapper, with a Jolly sounding name. Just to warn you if you ever feel near to being Hoodwinked..
If you do I recommend a quick dose of Bi-Carb and a Jar of Andrews to remove the lingering aftertaste..
Watch-Collector
Edited by Watch-Collector on Thursday 22 January 22:51
Balut 
Interesting to think about though, at what point does it become acceptable to eat, does it have to have matured fully? It can't be that, because we eat lambs. Is it the idea of eating the whole bird that makes balut seem revolting to us? Whitebait anyone? Or is the cruelty associated with eating a part formed chick - I dare say it had a better 'life' than a battery hen.
I'm not advocating eating balut, just thinking out loud, is there a specific point when food swaps from being revolting to acceptable.
Interesting to think about though, at what point does it become acceptable to eat, does it have to have matured fully? It can't be that, because we eat lambs. Is it the idea of eating the whole bird that makes balut seem revolting to us? Whitebait anyone? Or is the cruelty associated with eating a part formed chick - I dare say it had a better 'life' than a battery hen.
I'm not advocating eating balut, just thinking out loud, is there a specific point when food swaps from being revolting to acceptable.
Yes its an interesting thought provoking topic I agree. Eating Caviar is probably in the same catagory as well, where exactly do you draw the line. Calves liver, Chateau Brion, what about Ortolan?? read this , its quite an issue in France and has been for centuries!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1562561/...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1562561/...
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