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#23 ·
I do find it funny in the world of food and drink how there is always this need to find the most esoteric, obscure weird stuff in the search for something that tasted good. Eggs buried in the ground for years and then dug up and eaten, birds nest soup, surstromming (putrid herring) and yes even in the search for a coffee with a distinct flavour we have......Kopi Luwak. One of the worlds most expensive varieties of coffee it can reach up to 150 USD per pound. It is made from coffee berry beans that have been defecated by Civets, small mammals native to Southeast Asia.

Hmm wonder what the tasting notes of that one are, and the aroma on the nose is?
 
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Pompeyexile said:
I do find it funny in the world of food and drink how there is always this need to find the most esoteric, obscure weird stuff in the search for something that tasted good. Eggs buried in the ground for years and then dug up and eaten, birds nest soup, surstromming (putrid herring) and yes even in the search for a coffee with a distinct flavour we have......Kopi Luwak. One of the worlds most expensive varieties of coffee it can reach up to 150 USD per pound. It is made from coffee berry beans that have been defecated by Civets, small mammals native to Southeast Asia.
Balut has got to be the worst
 
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Now that is disgusting. A fertilised egg with an almost completely formed chick inside. I can understand if someone is starving to death and all they can find is something like that and have to eat it to survive, but how the heck does it become the norm for a lot of people. Let's be honest how many of us would if offered one to try would say 'Yeh go on then I'll give it a go'?

But I guess one man's disgusting is another man's yum! I hate fish anything that comes from water (except cress) to me it all smells and tastes of rotting decay. I can't even eat a Birds Eye Cod fish finger or a prawn and as for crab.....the devil's food! Others though love all things fishy.

I love coffee I love to try different beans for the different tastes but I'm just not that curious to want to know what the flavour of something is that has been shat out of a cat's arse and have to pay a fortune for the privilege.