Food For Thought
Have any of you out there tried any really unusual food, such as those featured on Extreme Gourmet, Survivor and Fear Factor? I myself haven't and I don't intend to. So far, the unusual ones I've tried were monkey's brain (when I was young) and rabbit thighs (which I tried more than 10 years ago).
I remembered watching a documentary about how a South African tribal group hunted giant tarantulas for food. It showed them searching through a thick forest, digging on certain grounds for the spiders, and how they caught them with their bare hands. It also showed how the spiders were spreaded "nicely" over the fire to be cooked. Then I saw how the tribal group peeled away the spiders like how we would peel prawns and crabs. EEKS!!! The final straw came when I saw one of them use a spider leg to pick his teeth! SOMEBODY HELP ME!!! However, nowadays, spiders and other creepy crawlies are considered delicacies in some countries, and many people are putting their taste buds to a test by trying them out.
On one episode of Fear Factor, contestants had to eat raw bull testicles. As bulls are huge animals, you can imagine the size of their thingy. Just watching the contestants eating them can put you off anything big and round. Some other episodes also featured contestants eating live roaches and worms, and you could hear them burst in the contestants' mouths, not to mention their "juices" squirting out of them. This reminded me of my dad telling us that during WWII, when food was very scarce, he had to catch cockroaches and rats from dirty drains for food.
Boy! I really take my hats off these brave human beings, and you too, dad! I could never be as brave as you all!