Need some help: Cruel foods
 

I may have a side gig doing some writing for a fairly popular site (read: not mine),
and I have an idea for an article involving delicacies that require really cruel methods for production. The first two on the list are veal and fois gras, but i need more.


Anyone know of any foods (anywhere in the world) that use horrific acts of cruelty to make?

For the record, I'm the guy who started the thread making fun of hippies crying over old-growth deforestation and off-handedly referred to them (in jest) as "Eco-fags", so dont worry that I am suddenly working for PETA.

fuck - the lobster man !!

it gets cooked alive !



and you should see the way the chinese prepare crab ..

while its alive they shove the eye stalks into its head, then use this indentation to rip them in half like a hamburger ..

saw this happen right in front of me ... bottom half still has the legs moving around ... then i was expected to eat it afterwards.



was pretty tasty to be honest

nice... :)

I will need to find some references. Do you know what the crab dish was called?


I need to find out how long a lobster lives after it is dropped in teh water. if it is dead in a few seconds then it wont qualify.

That crab one is awesome though :)


i should do some digging... Didnt cheeba post something a couple of years back about dog farms in korea?

here's a good one:
Iki zukuri

"Live Sushi"



They take the fish, live from the tank, cut it to pieces, reassemble it artisitcly, then serve it to you, all while its still alive (i'm sure it dies at some point and the nerves just go apeshit)

Monkey brain ala Faces of Death is nasty..

What about the way they prepare eel on the Iron Chef? Drive a spike through its head into the cutting board and then slice it all the way from head to tail. I suppose it would die pretty quick but heres a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFhpBJfm0o

it was just a simple ginger and onion crab - done on the BBQ i believe.

it's not a particular dish - its just the way the crab is killed before eaten.


(it was my girlfriends dad that did it - right in the kitchen sink)
he just shrugged his shoulders - thats just the way its done ..

there's no way i'll ever click a link you post - ever !!

i dont care if you say it's a video of your first public strip tease ... i wont believe you ! :D

whaaaaat? It's not even gross, or puss related or even a rick-roll.

Edit: Wow, that sums up my internet video viewing pretty well.

i can look at the groosest thing possible in a movie - if it's fake ..
but i cant deal with anything real..

i accidentally cut the end of my finger badly last year ..almost sheared 1/2 of it off - nail and everything - i couldnt look at it until it was healed.

it didnt even hurt that much... i just couldnt deal with the sight of it .. shudder !

I am a dire hard old iron chef fan :) I am very familiar with their pik eel practices.


If you want to see something outright disgusting in iron Chef, look up the stingray battle. They are also alive when they tear into them, and that is more blood and organ meat on camera than eli roth's entire carreer.

you know I'm looking that up right now. haha. I don't remember that episode though. Strange, I thought I had seen all the old Iron Chef episodes. Hate the American version though. Bobby Flay can go die in a pit of bbq sauce.

Interesting that you mention Bobby Flay - a couple of nights ago I was having trouble sleeping, so I turned on the TV and started channel surfing. Came across Bobby Flay's Throwdown. He challenged a Philadelphia cheesesteak maker to a throwdown - of course the guy from Philly won. Did he really think he could outdo a guy from Philly on a cheesesteak?! :rolleyes:

Of course he did, because he is an arrogant douchebag.

bobby flay is an anatomical oddity: he is an ass and a dick at the same time, like some sort of homoerotic Giger creation....

I have 150 episodes i grabbed from bittorent :)

the old Digital Distractions site that hosted them has been down for a while, but the torrents are still out there and ISOHunt has quite a few.


Any more sick foods out there? I found some more (A page on Korean Dog farms), but I need more, Im hoping for 10 total.

I remembered this little baby (literally), from Raynes old thread. Pretty damn cruel if you ask me.

Baby Mice Wine

From:
Korea.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p.../micewine1.jpg
What the hell is it?
What better to wash down your gelatinous lumps of lye fish than a nice chilled cup of dead mice? What better indeed.

Baby mice wine is a traditional Chinese and Korean "health tonic," which apparently tastes like raw gasoline. Little mice, eyes still closed, are plucked from the embrace of their loving mothers and stuffed (while still alive) into a bottle of rice wine. They are left to ferment while their parents wring their tiny mouse paws in despair, tears drooping sadly from the tips of their whiskers.

Wait, it gets worse ...
Do you wince at the thought of swallowing a tequila worm? Imagine how you'd feel during a session on this bastard. Whoops, I swallowed a dead mouse! Whoops, there goes another one! Whoops, I just puked my entire body out of my nose!

And another

Balut

From:
The Philippines
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...duckfetus1.jpg
What the hell is it?
Behold, for our journey of horror reaches its destination. Balut are duck eggs that have been incubated until the fetus is all feathery and beaky, and then boiled alive. The bones give the eggs a uniquely crunchy texture.
They are enjoyed in Cambodia, Philippines and the fifth and seventh levels of hell. They are typically sold by street vendors at night, out of buckets of warm sand. You can spot the vendors because of their glowing red eyes, and the faint, otherworldly sound of children screaming.

Wait, it gets worse ...
... Because you're never going to look at an egg the same way. Tell yourself that every time you crack open an egg from now on you won't be half expecting a leathery wad of bird to come flopping out into the skillet.

Yes, balut is upsetting on about a half-dozen levels. Sure, all meat eaters know on some level that the delicious chop on your plate used to belong to something cute and fluffy, which gambolled in the sun during the brief spring of its life. Most of the time, it' perfectly possible not to give a shit. But, when you're biting into something that hasn't even had a chance to see its mother' face ... well, it' different.

ferretchucker, you RULE.



I beleieve i will be using both of those :D



did you write the synopsis for both of them, or did they come from somewhere else?

If i am lucky enough to get the greenlighton the article and it gets published, i will be posting a link, just FYI to everyone.

That's what she said! :p

Glad you can use them. I thought they were pretty sick. And what about frogs legs? They rip off the legs then throw the frogs into a pile to die.

I'm really in the mood for BBQ ribs now. Hmmm.... meat.

Or some delicious and delectable foie gras with some bread.... hmmm...

I was waiting for you to say something :)

"Evil never tasted so good." should be your personal catch phrase.


Oh, and I am incapable o flistening to "Eraser" without thinking of your avatar.

You know I can't resist a good food thread. :D

Annd... I have found my new title. ;)

Bad news, turns out some of what I was going to use already exists on the site in question, so the article is stillborn. Not enough examples to make it work... damn.


For the record, two of the suggestions here are actually from the site in question, which sucks. I didnt say what it was for (was hoping for a big reveal), so i guess this was inevitable.

Thats okay, this was one of 12 ideas i had, so no biggie :)

What about good old veal?

Baby calves penned in so thightly, they can't move... so the muscles don't get tough



and I'm dying to try balut, that shit looks awesome!

He mentioned veal in the first post...

I take it the two were mine. I got them off a website. Shame about not being able to write it.


As for veal, I'm not sure about America, but recently in Euroe laws changed and now Veal is merely Calf meat. Not white calf meat, not lived in the dark calf meat but ordinary, red, calf meat. Similar idea to lamb.

That's the only reason I tried it in Tenerife. I was surprised at how much I liked it...

yeah. After a quick look-see by one of the editors, the only ones I had listed that really qualified were veal and fois gras, and I just couldnt come up with more. They need a minimum of 6 things...


So i have moved on to easier things :)

You mean your editor didn't think ripping off frogs legs and leaving them to die, or breaking a life crab in half is cruel?

those arent necesarrily the norm in either case, and that leaves me with 4 things when i need a minnimum of 6.

Its not a big deal, i have a laundry list of ideas i am working through :D

My latest invloves cryptids :)

Oh well.


Good luck with your next project.