Balut!

by Joey deVilla on June 20, 2005

[via I Got Two Shoes] Hey, a Filipino delicacy plays a role in Fear Factor!

I don’t normally eat the stuff — I only do it to freak out non-Filipinos. But other dishes like bopis (shredded fried pig lung) and dinuguan (pig blood stew)? Tasty, and will earn the respect of anyone into Klingons!

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1 Anonymous June 20, 2005 at 3:46 pm

They also appeared as a challenge in the most recent US series of Survivor, this time set in Palau.

2 Anonymous June 22, 2005 at 2:54 pm

And to their credit, neither time they had to eat the things did the contestants show much disgust at all.

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