-=> JIM WELLER wrote to ALL <=-

 JW> Have you ever encountered Balut? It's a Filipino delicacy: eggs
 JW> boiled just a day before the embryo is ready to hatch. I tried one

I've seen it on youtube, but have not tried it.

 JW> once as the Vietnamese guy who ran our one and only pan-Asian store
 JW> carried them. It was surprising tasty, not gross at all: there was
 JW> no yolk left and the little bird tasted just like regular poached
 JW> duck only milder, the way veal is milder than beef, while the liquid
 JW> tasted just like soup broth.

I'm not sure I'd be able to eat it though.

 JW> oven for hours until it was blackened and completely dehydrated. She
 JW> called it her duck mummy and took it to show and tell as a science
 JW> project.

Clever kid!

Shawn

... I knew I was an unwanted baby.  One of my bath toys were a toaster.

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