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Yesterday evening I posted a video to "Food Funnies" that was in poor taste. I am sorry @RadishRose. But, I want explain what happened. I know many here do not like Tik-Tok, but I do to see what it is like, the trends, what is important and funny to different people. I also have YouTube, and Instagram, and MeToo. I am interested in social trends in our ever changing culture. Media from all over the globe is being exchanged instantaneously . This "view" of our world is important now. Propaganda and differing and often combative and cruel media is happening also. We are bound to run into some stuff that we don not like ( for a variety of reasons. )
I deleted the post after doing some research on it. I will give a link to show what I found at the bottom. But, for now, I will share an article that puts my bad in some perspective. Food/animals are eaten raw by my people. I have tried oysters, and they are ok. But live ants, or frogs I have not tried
Around this big globe many cultures have many different kinds of food, that some of us find disgusting. Why? They don't. They eat this stuff all the time. So though is wasn't funny it is "amusing" and interesting to me. So, "Let me indroduce to you, the one and only "Eight Animals that are Eaten Alive".
These animals are considered a delicacy when eaten alive.
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Reynold Mainse / Getty Images
Most commonly seen in Seoul, South Korea, "sannakji" is a dish where a live octopus is cut into small pieces and served with its tentacles still squirming, sucking, and grasping on the plate. Those who enjoy Sannakji are in it for more than just the taste of the fresh meat, as the sensation of moving tentacles coated in sesame oil sliding down the throat is like no other. While not an entirely relaxing culinary experience because of the choking hazard that kills around six people annually, the dish is widely sought after.
9 Outstanding Octopus Facts
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Own Work / Wikimedia Commons / CC by 4.0
In Japan, "ikizukuri" is known as the preparation of sashimi from living fish and is considered a delicacy for being the freshest meat possible. The fish is typically filleted to reveal the meat but mostly intact, so that the consumer can see the beating heart and active movements. It is also served very simply, with mild accompaniments so the flavor can be savored.
In China, another dish involving live fish is popular, known as the "yin yang fish." Hence the name, the fish body is deep-fried in contrast with the head still raw, fresh and sometimes still moving. In reality, the fish cannot still be truly alive due to the preparations that have occurred, but its movement is caused by nerves continuing to cause the movement.
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Mint Images / Getty Images
These echinoderms may not look too appetizing given their spiny exteriors, but they are prized around the world for their fishy-flavored roe and flesh. Though they are often eaten raw, such as in sushi (typically called "uni"), some people prefer to eat them immediately after they are cut open. Scissors are often used to get past the protective spears. Learn more about how to scavenge for sea urchins and enjoy them straight from the ocean. Eating them can be a boon for the planet, too, as they're an invasive species threatening kelp forests.
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kororokerokero / Getty Images
In "frog sashimi," a dish that originated in Japan, most of the frog is served dead (and raw), but the meal begins by eating the frog's fresh, still-beating heart. At a restaurant in Tokyo named Asadachi where they are known for their creative dishes, a bullfrog is served alive but seconds later punctured with a chef's knife to death. The heart is then immediately given to the patron, while the rest of the body is sliced into raw meat for the rest of the meal. Having been described as chewy, light and fresh tasting, people enjoy the dish for primarily for its taste. This practice has understandably been roundly criticized for being torturous.
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Mariusz-W / Getty Images
"Drunken shrimp" is a popular dish in some regions of China where living shrimp are served in a bowl, still jumping around. Giving it the name "drunken shrimp," the sauce is liquor-based and slows down their movement upon reaching the table, which is exactly when patrons are recommended to start eating it. (Best not to try when they're still leaping.) Again, the unique flavor of liquor-submerged fresh meat is what draw people to this meal.
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Photo: By Benny Marty/Shutterstock
Eating insects is not an unusual practice in many places of the world, as they are nutritious, sustainable, and apparently flavorful. Many larvae, the immature forms of insects, are safe for consumption, though not always alive or even raw.
One example that is eaten both alive and raw is Australia's witchetty grub, a small, white, wood-eating larva. They've been described as "segmented marshmallows with orange heads or white cheddar Cheetos puffs." Australian Aboriginal communities have been eating the high-protein witchetty grub for years, and it is still a staple snack for anyone living in those territories today. The grub is foraged straight from the trees, and can be eaten immediately alive or cooked where the taste can resemble chicken.
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Kirill Rudenko / Getty Images
Found widely across the world, oysters are commonly eaten raw, but what many do not know, still living. Oysters do not die until the moment one slices them from their shell, meaning when they are elegantly arranged on a tray of ice seconds from consumption, they are still fully alive. They lack a central nervous system, however, which suggests that they cannot feel pain.
8 Animals That Are Eaten Alive by Humans
My research found that the video I posted of a woman eating a live frog after she stuffed it to death brought this article which you are invited to read if you want to. It is not about the video I posted, but it explains the outrage at doing this to live animals. Slaughtering chickens, cattle, pigs, birds, fish, is also many times cruel. Killing to eat is what humans do. ( at least most do ). We pick up our meats in plastic wrappers, that are presented to us as ready to cook, and they look mouth watering often.
I don't feel discussed or sad that people eat live food. ( boiling live lobsters is cruel?). This subject is filled with controversy which I want no part of. It IS the way our world IS. Where is that nice love of people who are not like US?
I deleted the post after doing some research on it. I will give a link to show what I found at the bottom. But, for now, I will share an article that puts my bad in some perspective. Food/animals are eaten raw by my people. I have tried oysters, and they are ok. But live ants, or frogs I have not tried
Around this big globe many cultures have many different kinds of food, that some of us find disgusting. Why? They don't. They eat this stuff all the time. So though is wasn't funny it is "amusing" and interesting to me. So, "Let me indroduce to you, the one and only "Eight Animals that are Eaten Alive". These animals are considered a delicacy when eaten alive.
Octopus
Reynold Mainse / Getty Images
Most commonly seen in Seoul, South Korea, "sannakji" is a dish where a live octopus is cut into small pieces and served with its tentacles still squirming, sucking, and grasping on the plate. Those who enjoy Sannakji are in it for more than just the taste of the fresh meat, as the sensation of moving tentacles coated in sesame oil sliding down the throat is like no other. While not an entirely relaxing culinary experience because of the choking hazard that kills around six people annually, the dish is widely sought after.
9 Outstanding Octopus Facts
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Fish
Own Work / Wikimedia Commons / CC by 4.0
In Japan, "ikizukuri" is known as the preparation of sashimi from living fish and is considered a delicacy for being the freshest meat possible. The fish is typically filleted to reveal the meat but mostly intact, so that the consumer can see the beating heart and active movements. It is also served very simply, with mild accompaniments so the flavor can be savored.
In China, another dish involving live fish is popular, known as the "yin yang fish." Hence the name, the fish body is deep-fried in contrast with the head still raw, fresh and sometimes still moving. In reality, the fish cannot still be truly alive due to the preparations that have occurred, but its movement is caused by nerves continuing to cause the movement.
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Sea Urchin
Mint Images / Getty Images
These echinoderms may not look too appetizing given their spiny exteriors, but they are prized around the world for their fishy-flavored roe and flesh. Though they are often eaten raw, such as in sushi (typically called "uni"), some people prefer to eat them immediately after they are cut open. Scissors are often used to get past the protective spears. Learn more about how to scavenge for sea urchins and enjoy them straight from the ocean. Eating them can be a boon for the planet, too, as they're an invasive species threatening kelp forests.
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Frog
kororokerokero / Getty Images
In "frog sashimi," a dish that originated in Japan, most of the frog is served dead (and raw), but the meal begins by eating the frog's fresh, still-beating heart. At a restaurant in Tokyo named Asadachi where they are known for their creative dishes, a bullfrog is served alive but seconds later punctured with a chef's knife to death. The heart is then immediately given to the patron, while the rest of the body is sliced into raw meat for the rest of the meal. Having been described as chewy, light and fresh tasting, people enjoy the dish for primarily for its taste. This practice has understandably been roundly criticized for being torturous.
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Shrimp
Mariusz-W / Getty Images
"Drunken shrimp" is a popular dish in some regions of China where living shrimp are served in a bowl, still jumping around. Giving it the name "drunken shrimp," the sauce is liquor-based and slows down their movement upon reaching the table, which is exactly when patrons are recommended to start eating it. (Best not to try when they're still leaping.) Again, the unique flavor of liquor-submerged fresh meat is what draw people to this meal.
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Larvae
Photo: By Benny Marty/Shutterstock
Eating insects is not an unusual practice in many places of the world, as they are nutritious, sustainable, and apparently flavorful. Many larvae, the immature forms of insects, are safe for consumption, though not always alive or even raw.
One example that is eaten both alive and raw is Australia's witchetty grub, a small, white, wood-eating larva. They've been described as "segmented marshmallows with orange heads or white cheddar Cheetos puffs." Australian Aboriginal communities have been eating the high-protein witchetty grub for years, and it is still a staple snack for anyone living in those territories today. The grub is foraged straight from the trees, and can be eaten immediately alive or cooked where the taste can resemble chicken.
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of 8
Oysters
Kirill Rudenko / Getty Images
Found widely across the world, oysters are commonly eaten raw, but what many do not know, still living. Oysters do not die until the moment one slices them from their shell, meaning when they are elegantly arranged on a tray of ice seconds from consumption, they are still fully alive. They lack a central nervous system, however, which suggests that they cannot feel pain.
8 Animals That Are Eaten Alive by Humans
My research found that the video I posted of a woman eating a live frog after she stuffed it to death brought this article which you are invited to read if you want to. It is not about the video I posted, but it explains the outrage at doing this to live animals. Slaughtering chickens, cattle, pigs, birds, fish, is also many times cruel. Killing to eat is what humans do. ( at least most do ). We pick up our meats in plastic wrappers, that are presented to us as ready to cook, and they look mouth watering often.
I don't feel discussed or sad that people eat live food. ( boiling live lobsters is cruel?). This subject is filled with controversy which I want no part of. It IS the way our world IS. Where is that nice love of people who are not like US?
