When I was younger, I heard the story of people eating monkey brains in a very gruesome manner. The story went something along the lines of this… Like I say, the story, because I’m not too sure that this is true. I found this article which claims that it is true though, and that this practice is still popular in restaurants in Southern China.
A delicacy in a China involves people eating monkey brains while the monkey is still alive. A special table with a hole in the middle, and a vice is used to stick the monkey’s head in, is then clamped so that he cannot move (at this time the monkey is still alive).
The top of his skull is then sliced off,(while he is still alive!) and then boiling oil is poured into the brain. Not sure where the space is for the oil – maybe they scoop out some of the brain to make space for the oil?
Its said that the hungry guests then indulge in the bubbling brains, similar to fondue?!
In Western popular culture, the consumption of monkey brains is repeatedly portrayed and debated, often in the context of illustrating exotic cultures as exceptionally cruel, callous and strange, with the following variations:
The brain is eaten cooked
The brain is eaten raw (occasionally directly out of the dead monkey’s skull)
The brain is eaten fresh, spooned out of the skull while the monkey is still alive
FORTUNATELY I do not have a photo to accompany this post.
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