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DEL.ICIO.USHave You Ever Eaten A Live Snake?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Paul Kastin, a reader at Service Marketing, sent me (and 500 of his closest foodie friends) a gruesome video (too gruesome for our readers, I fear) of a cooking contest in China of chefs preparing live food — a snake and a fish, to be precise. OMG. I’ve seen some gruesome stuff, but I have to say I’ve never seen anything like this. It makes Gladiator look like Betty Boop.
I’ve heard of ikizukuri, the Japanese tradition of eating living fish in the form of sashimi. And Korean culture calls eating live octopus sannakji hoe — the tentacles are purportedly still wriggling around on the plate when served with sesame seeds and sesame oil. And there’s that old frat-boy ritual of swallowing live goldfish.
Ananova has a post of a Chinese man eating a live snake. He claims it’s how he relaxes. And Serious Eats takes a look at hot head Elyse Sewell (via YouTube) cattily slurping down live baby octopus in Soeul.
As for me, I’ll take my snake good and dead, please, and leave the live eating to Tony Bourdain.
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By Tamika
March 6, 2009 4:59 PM | Link to this
The only snake I try to wrestle live is the One eyed python.
By GerMan BAseBall
March 6, 2009 5:20 PM | Link to this
Ate snake in taiwan while making a documentary with the german national team playing baseball. Snake soup- taste like tuna but sticks to your palate. Yes i kiss my mom with this mouth
By Mike D
March 6, 2009 6:54 PM | Link to this
I ate snake once, and it was overhyped taste like over cooked calamari. Had a pair of snake skin boots and they were excellent. My choice would be to turn snakes into boots and wallets over eating them.
By reserviorDAWG
March 9, 2009 11:07 AM | Link to this
Sick
By Rodney
March 9, 2009 11:55 AM | Link to this
Right there with you, Meridith - I’ll eat d*mn near anything so long as it died first.
By Meridith Ford
March 10, 2009 11:18 AM | Link to this
Tamika: How nice. Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? Rodney: As always, you crack me up.