December 23rd, 2009 — Chinese Cuisine
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.
December 22nd, 2009 — Chinese Cuisine
The thousand-year egg is an ingredient in some Chinese cuisine dishes. The egg is made by “preserving” chicken, duck or quail eggs in a combination of ash, salt, clay as well as lime and rice. The egg is left for several weeks or even months to “mature”.
Needless to say the egg changes colour (as shown in the picture below) If you want more gross info, you’re welcome to read up on Wikipedia. They go on explaining how the whole process changes the PH levels of the egg, and how – after the process is completed – the yolk becomes a dark green, cream-like substance with a strong odor of sulphur and ammonia, while the white becomes a dark brown, transparent jelly with little flavor or taste.
Century Egg
I cannot imagine that ANYONE would want to eat this, but indeed this is considered a delicacy!
September 9th, 2009 — Architecture, Bizarre, Creative, Human Mind
I received this set of photo’s via e-mail, and found it phenomenal to realize -yet again – the power of the human mind and the creativity thereof. These photographs resemble something which I may have dreamed of as a child – something which was so far fetched, that I could only imagine it to be part of a fairytale. I have such an appreciation for people who are not afraid to remember, and then live these dreams. Bravo for the Mexican Architect, Javier Senosiain.
February 23rd, 2009 — Dizzy Dee, Fetish, Human, Law, People, Weird
Though this is an old story, I don’t think it can ever become less disturbing than the first time one heard it.
Armin Meiwes, a computer expert, met 43-year-old Bernd-Jurgen Brandes in early 2001, after Mr Meiwes advertised on websites for “young, well-built men aged 18 to 30 to slaughter”, the German daily newspaper Bild reported at the time of his arrest.
Mr Meiwes told investigators he took Mr Brandes back to his home, where Mr Brandes agreed to have part of his genitals cut off, which Mr Meiwes then flambeed and served up to eat together.
Mr Meiwes says he then killed Mr Brandes with his consent – recording the two-hour event on video.
Prosecutors are seeking a conviction of murder for “sexual satisfaction”, as cannibalism is not technically illegal under German law!?!
June 26th, 2007 — Drugs, Humor, News, Weird
A driver who was high on cocaine destroyed an entire cornfield in an attempt to escape from the police.
Four police cars were destroyed before the 35-year-old crashed into a ditch and was arrested, near the village of Dussen in the south of the Netherlands.
And all along they thought it was aliens!!! 
Source: Daily Mail
