The Salad Caper

Have you ever eaten balut?

Balut has been a native delicacy in our Pinoy culture. Many a Filipino have gone to the streets waiting for a street vendor to come so they can buy it. I havent eaten balut in a loooong time. I was traumatized by my last balut eating . I think I saw chick feet and it was too much for and I puked. From then on, I dont eat the balut innards, I just get my usual kick sipping the balut soup

Balut has been the “shocking” topic of some television shows because of its taboo nature in some Western cultures. In two episodes of Survivor: Palau and two episodes of Survivor: China, separate challenges featured attempts to eat this Asian delicacy. Similarly, Fear Factor frequently uses balut as a means of disgusting contestants. Recently, contestants of The Amazing Race Asia 2 had to eat 8 baluts as a team before receiving their next clue. The Travel Channel show Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern also featured Balut, where the host pronounced 18-day-old balut one of the strangest foods he’d ever eaten in his life, but far better tasting than he had expected. The members of the rock band Switchfoot ate balut on stage at their concert in the Philippines. Episode 28 of the Switchfoot Podcast shows video footage of this occurrence.

Most foreigner head straight to the toilets when they see what balut looks like inside and find out it’s a little chick