I don't know if it's spelled the same, but when I was in the Navy, a ballute was a rotten egg delicacy from the Phillipines; they were buried underground to ferment in the same manner as kimchee, as I was given to understand. May have just been a yarn.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know if it's spelled the same, but when I was in the Navy, a ballute was a rotten egg delicacy from the Phillipines; they were buried underground to ferment in the same manner as kimchee, as I was given to understand. May have just been a yarn.
ReplyDeleteHere it is! Balut.
ReplyDeleteI could not eat it. It would make me sad for the baby duck.
ReplyDelete+1 on Bob, Balut is the first thing I thought... And Baluts are NASTY....
ReplyDeleteWay to buzzkill. Poor baby ducks.
ReplyDeleteThen there's a game they used to play in bars in the Philippines called "smile."...
ReplyDeleteWell, enough about the Phillipines...