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[buxgoddess]

This is nothing to be strange about as we already know about sperm banks and baby naval deposits. These are techniques followed by ancestors to store remains of the dead or living fossilized in snow. These fossilized remains would last for generations and act as a memento to the tribes.
Now with the advent of science and civilization advancing so fast, it is a common practice to keep the dead in the chilled morgue to prevent decay. There are instances in the history where the solders are mummified and kept on the museums for display.
You have a choice to see the monkey brain but indeed there are human dead brains that are kept for medical studies for decades to see the effect of cold freezing ice. Medical science also tries to analyze the evolution process being affected by climate including icy cold.

[anwiii]

yea remember that faces of death movie....they made three, didn't they? they put the monkey head on you table and you're supposed to crack it open yourself. i've eaten brain before....heck...i've tried a lot of crap just to say i did it but i wont crack a skull to do it haha. i mean, it's not like cracking upoen a crab leg.

ya, those filipinos have those chicken fetuses that they crack open and eat. the eggs incubate inderneath the ground and you know when they are ready to crack open and eat by holding it up to the light as the egg gets more transparent over time. i'd probably try it if the opportunity ever arose....but NOT monkey brains!

yea, cow brains is what i tried when living in california. i tried some when a friend of mine ordered some. they do taste like scrambled eggs. they even look like scrabbled eggs the way they prepared it at some mexican food place. that reminds me of the time when tasting cow intestine in mexico once. i will never do that again. i think the crap was still in it. it was NASTY. i only order tacos when i am there now

ghost of delete key, on Dec 9 2009, 11:43 AM, said:

I recall the scene in the movie "Faces of Death" where the gleeful restaurant patrons sat around cracking the monkey's skull open with little mallets before scooping out the brains... Quite disturbing, and not something which can be erased from memory. Nothing I would eat, either.
Cooked brains are alright... although I can't speak for monkey, but calf brains have a texture and taste similar to scrambled eggs.

While visiting the Philippines, I have had monkey... not the brains, mind you, but the meat, grilled. It's apparently a common thing eaten there, as I found it being grilled and served on street carts, along with chicken legs. It was very good, something like pork, but something like veal.
Maybe it's only sold to tourists, I don't know, but I was game.

The balut, however... no way in hell I'm putting an exhumed rotten duck egg in my mouth. I don't care if it's called "the food of life", it looks and smells like death.

[inverse_bloom]

anwiii, on Dec 11 2009, 01:14 PM, said:

that reminds me of the time when tasting cow intestine in mexico once. i will never do that again. i think the crap was still in it. it was NASTY.

@ anwiis post 12 - Eww... yummy! The mexicans must have very diverse tastes. Either that or they like to play jokes on their customers.

Edited by inverse_bloom, 11 December 2009 - 02:59 AM.

[rob86]

Yeah, I remember meeting someone from mexico who had loved brain and intestine tacos. Gross! Aren't sausage casing made out intestines, or do they not use that anymore? I don't mind sausages, they taste alright.

[k_nitin_r]

Hi!

You have not seen unusual till you've looked at this page:
http://www.foodrefer...delicacies.html

Some of the items that the page mentions about are hedgehogs, fried grasshoppers, chocolate-dipped ants, snails, and elephant trunks. When somebody compares locusts to shrimps, that kind of makes your tummy feel funny