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Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:10 am  |
| Molly wrote: |
Considering I'm regularly forced socially to eat smoked pigs ears and snouts, not to mention duck tongue hot-pot - can't say it even raises an eyebrow - I'm still a user - oink
(apologies to any vegetarians) |
 I thought I had it bad with raw horse meat. |
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Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:13 am |
| Lifeplyr01 wrote: |
What the heck is blood pudding?? EECCK!
I am the type of gal that won't eat ANYTHING that is relatively gross! I was in NY City last weekend and we stopped into a deli type restaruant for a quick bite. I got some fish and rice. Can't remember the name of the rice dish but it has seafood in it. Well lo and behold I'm sifting through the rice and come across the usual, shrimp, scallops, bits of fake lobster AND two small SQUID!! 
AAAHH, I immediately freaked and took it out of the rice, tentacles and all. Was sick to my stomach thereafter. Thank God I'm not stranded on an island, I'd starve to death.  |
Best not to come to Japan. |
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Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:26 am |
| sichuan blood stew's actually very palateable |
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Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:58 am |
| Lifeplyr01 wrote: |
| What the heck is blood pudding?? EECCK!? |
Sorry, it's actually called "black pudding". I grew up eating this quite often as a kid (quite popular in some European countries) but then I found out what it was. It's called black pudding because the blood goes black after the process.
From http://www.sausagelinks.co.uk/black-pudding.htm: "Black pudding is boiled pig's blood in a length of intestine. In the UK our puddings are usually bound with cereal with suet or cubes of fat added. European puddings are lighter because they are often made with cream instead of cereals. Black pudding is especially popular in Northern England, Scotland and Ireland. The heartland for black puddings must be Lancashire." |
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Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:25 pm |
| Oh yes...black-pudding with lingonberries...in Sweden we eat that too...maybe that's why I'm vegetarian now |
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Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:54 pm |
lol it looks like this discussion of gross ingredients has turned into gross foods.
well here's my two cents.
when i was in china for a family reunion, my grand aunt and uncle had the rule over what food we'd eat. and boy i do not like cold dishes like pig an d cow intestines or just cold cucumber with vinegar and garlic stuff.
i sometimes even find eating meat to be unstomachable, if that is a word, especially if i can taste their distinct 'flavours', my throat just clamps shut. |
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Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:38 am |
| melissa49 wrote: |
| ...and the time that mum thought she was biting on a peice of chocolate in a home-made milkshake that was actually a cockroach!!! |
This made me feel queasy just reading it... If that happened to me I don't think I'd be able to have another milkshake. I have a very unhealthy fear of cockroaches that developed when I moved to Australia and saw the size of the cockroaches here (and found out that they could fly! - usually fly AT me). |
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Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:00 am |
| They fly?? Are you sure...maybe that's a QLD thing, as far as I have always known cockroaches just crawl around |
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Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:02 am |
| Nope, they fly in Japan too!! It is freakin' scary... |
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Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:07 am |
| melissa49 wrote: |
| They fly?? Are you sure...maybe that's a QLD thing, as far as I have always known cockroaches just crawl around |
Well, they *do* crawl. What I meant to say is that they *can* fly and *do* fly quite often. Coming from Eastern Europe - that was news to me! Trust me though, even down south they can fly. I had my first "experience" with a cockroach flying at me when I lived in Canberra |
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Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:33 am |
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Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:55 pm |
Well ladies I surely didn't think by starting this thread we'd end up talking about cockroaches. LOL
I'm originally from Florida and we have flying cockroaches that are really called palmetto bugs. Years ago I was at a party when I was in highschool and lo and behold one of those damn plametto bugs flew after me and chased me around!! Naturally all the kids thought it was hysterical as the beer had really started to go to their heads!! What a site to see!
It seems as though I have been enlightened to the culinary delicacies of the world. Thanks, but err, NO THANKS!! No blood pudding for me!!!
I wonder though if Fibronectin is REALLY beneficial to the skin ? |
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Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:34 pm |
It's true that cockroaches fly. When I was in the Philippines, they crawled everywhere and they sometimes all come out at night during mating season. They are also HUGE! 2 inches at least. The biggest I saw was 5 inches! It's terrifying that these little ugly monsters would fly around and they would fly at you if they get agitated. They also reek and they bite. They will also crawl up your feet and your leg when you're asleep, it's gross and nasty! They also leave egg casings and fecal matter everywhere including your food it's disgusting. There was no escape from them except to attack them yourself and kill them or they will end up with you in bed or in your food!
Oh, i almost forgot, my sister was driving one time when a 2.5" roach crawled inside her pants which made her scream and swerve the car from left to right because she was trying to stop it from crawling up to her groin with one hand while trying to drive with the other. She finally caught it just from the inside of her thigh by grabbing it through her pants. Can you just imagine the roach struggling with its legs pressed and scraping on your thigh and trying to bite you? She grabbed it so hard that she crushed it and roach goulash seeped through her pants <gross!!!>. She managed to pull over and take her pants of to get rid of the nasty cockroach.
And going back to yucky ingredients in skin products. Well isn't urea from urine? They collect urine supplied in large jars in the men's room and then later in the day they take the jars to a lab. And do you actually think that they just throw away the foreskin of men and boys from circumcisions? Some of which are used for cosmetics (and in case you're curious, some of which are cultured to be used for burn victims). |
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Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:46 am |
My gosh, that was more information than I needed...ever! 
Wasn't feeling great before, but now......
So very sorry for bringing up the cockroaches (which btw I will never quite look at the same again) |
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Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:07 am |
oh, I am just about to throw up.....  |
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Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:55 am |
| Lifeplyr01 wrote: |
Ok you all are gonna freak, well I did anyways.
A few months back I ordered a moisturizer from EDS and requested a sample of the much loved Cellcosmet Eye Contour Cream. My parcel arrived and I thought I had struck gold (that's how excited I was to get the darn sample). 
Must say that I am really liking it, but no review as of now. Here's where the OMG comes in.
Tonight I decided to actually READ all the ingredients rather than glance at them and I came across an ingredient called "Hydrolized Fibronectin". Not being familiar at all with this I decided to look it up in my skincare ingredient dictionary (otherwise known as my second bible). Without going into detail about what it does and how it feels on the skin,etc. let me just tell you guys what the last sentence states in the book.....(drum roll please) 
Fibronectin is manufactured from ANIMAL BLOOD.
WHAT??? Say again, you have got to be kidding? Umm, what animal?? Ok knuckle head, like it really matters!!
Nope my dear ladies, and gents, that's what my well trusted, handy-dandy ingredient book says.
Ya'll freakin yet??? 
Have to say I still love it and will use it. Sheesh, tell me I'm not nutty.  |
If you eat meat why not use the same types of products on your face? It's probably a by-product of the food industry, if that makes it any better, I don't know.
I don't eat red meat or pork. I don't like how it settles in my tummy and takes a long time to digest, I feel all sluggish. It's been 12 years now I haven't eaten beef or pork. I do eat chicken though and fish. I tried for a few months to not eat any meat at all and I realised I was dreaming about fat, juicy chicken breasts. This with eating high iron vegies and lots of vitamin c foods with it for high absorbtion and high protein legumes so I gave it up. I just love chicken!
I wouldn't have a problem putting animal blood on my face. I would hope it was sanitary though, which I'm sure it is. |
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Sun Aug 07, 2005 10:43 am |
I think cockroaches is one of the nastiest, ugliest and stinkiest creatures on earth. You can actually smell them when they fly by or at you, i felt like throwing up!
You guys ever watched Fear Factor? They actually made contestants eat these bugs!
Fear Factor 1
Fear Factor 2
Fear Factor 3
Fear Factor 4
   
On another note... A Cave-Dwelling Tasmanian spider may soon be spinning out a new food preservative. Hickmania troglodytes or Tasmanian Cave Spider has an unique chemical in its silk which is highly effective against bacterial and fungal infections. When it was isolated and properly understood, it could outperform existing food additives, Hobart zoologist Niall Doran said.
The African cave-dwelling spider is the ugliest looking spider I have ever seen. Check it out here:
http://fracture98.blogspot.com/2004/07/now-thats-spider-man.html
And Joe Rogan of Fear Factor actually made this sweet prissy little girl eat two of them!
  
http://www.nbc.com/Fear_Factor/tales/408_spiders.shtml
OK PEOPLE! YOU CAN THROW UP NOW!! |
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Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:13 am |
Ok, I'm done! No more talk from me. Sorry to bring up the Fibronectin deal. Too much info on this thread that will MAKE ME HAVE NIGHTMARES and be sick to my stomach!
btw. I saw those episodes of Fear Factor. No amount of mullah could entice me to eat cockroaches or spiders. 
Carry on ladies if you wish. Tata for now. |
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Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:18 pm |
| I don't fancy cockroaches, but deep fried bees are tasty. |
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Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:32 am |
| I've split this from the Cellcosmet thread because it got way o/t (sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned the creepy crawlies!) plus there was potential there for people who had a fear of cockroaches to stumble onto discussion they may not appreciate |
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Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:08 am |
| My son informed me that some cockroaches can hiss like a cat or a snake. I think Id have a heart attack if I walked into the kitchen one night, turned on the light switch and found myself confronted by a hissing cockroach! Thankfully, the last few places that Ive lived, cockroaches of any kind have not been a problem.... |
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Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:28 am |
| Im not sure if this thread jinxed me, or what, but I hadn't been too traumatized by any yet this year...until today. I was just walking home and saw this shadow moving towards my foot; *very* quickly. I didn't know what it was but decided to run away anyway. The thing then decided to fly to try to get me!!! It was completely possessed!! I finally managed to get away from it, but it was frightening. |
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Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:54 am |
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What the heck is blood pudding?? EECCK!
I am the type of gal that won't eat ANYTHING that is relatively gross! I was in NY City last weekend and we stopped into a deli type restaruant for a quick bite. I got some fish and rice. Can't remember the name of the rice dish but it has seafood in it. Well lo and behold I'm sifting through the rice and come across the usual, shrimp, scallops, bits of fake lobster AND two small SQUID!! Shock
AAAHH, I immediately freaked and took it out of the rice, tentacles and all. Was sick to my stomach thereafter. Thank God I'm not stranded on an island, I'd starve to death. |
That was probably Paella, I'm guessing. My family loves those little squids. At Christmas last year we got them in a salad and all of them men were eating them whole. I must admit I was a little disturbed by the entire spectacle -- couldn't quite bring myself to go through that.
Here in NYC we have huge flying cockroaches but we call them waterbugs. They like being around water, and sometimes they crawl up through the drainpipes from the sewer and whatnot. They are very very hard to kill. It is a terrifying site seeing them fly right at you! They are huge and ugly and have horrible patterns on their backs and I hope to God I never see one again!!! I had a friend who actually had one crawl up her leg. ACk!!! |
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Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:19 pm |
| An easy way to kill them is to just put dish soap on them. |
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Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:36 pm |
| You know....that makes a lot of sense -- just suffocate them. I usually end up smacking them with a metal bowl but it's a rather greusome task. :/ Thanks for the advice!! |
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