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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Have You Ever Eaten A Live Snake?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
DUDE: WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT?
Photo: D. Aileen Dodd
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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