What is the food item Balut?
Correct answer: Fertilized bird egg embryo
Portia
How utterly disgusting!!
SquareDot
If this was the only food on offer, I would gladly starve !
Jabroni
I wish I hadn't read the description...
Globular Martian
Yuck! Definitely not something I would eat. I don't mind unfertilised eggs, but not one with a newly formed chick inside.
Clidge
The answer left out the part about burying the eggs in the sand to incubate them. Only knew this because of my husband’s naval service in the Philippines. Yeah, he never got drunk enough to eat them.
Cait
maymay, Then why not just eat unfertilised eggs? Why deliberately fertilise and incubate the eggs to create an animal just to eat it? Unnecessary
Cookie little
No thank you!
David
1565 or 1885? That's quite a spread of uncertainty.
PerkyLin
Cait, That poor little bird embryo! Do they steam it alive? Ick!
Coo
Only if I was on the verge of starving to death and nothing else was available
UNIK
I’m pure vegetarian 🥗
LiezlDiane
It's good,just don't look if you're eating the one day old chick(that's what I do to avoid the creepy feeling,lol)
despina
okay, it's the first time hearing this, but I got it right
Kathrina
My dad and my family are Philippino so we eat them
Jen
Nothing about it even looks appealing. GROSS 🤮
Deedee
Asians will eat anything.
Owen
I love that w/salt
Ritu Raj
ritu. raj
jay
Rosie-knees, so it's better to breed cows, chickens, pigs, lambs to eat ? what is the difference ?
PerkyLin
maymay, But they aren't forced to eat the poor thing! They do it deliberately and there u
are other food available to eat!
Yang
this is from the Philippines and it's good. #proudtofilipinostreetfood
Cait
Player #28793782, Unfertilised eggs are available to them, no need to create an animal just to kill it
Zjan__310
hey it may sound disgusting but dont judge it before you try it people these days always judging before they even try...
BamaBell
I have to thank Andrew Zimmern's tv show Bizarre Foods for knowing this answer !
maymay
Rosie-knees, because many in that "part of the world" have lived through famines and starvation and war. It is hard to dismiss anything edible when you have no choices. What is amazing is how delectable these foods are, when others dismiss them! Give them a try!!