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Urine-soaked eggs a treat in China
Digital Journal ^ | 3/30/12 | Owen Weldon

Posted on 04/04/2012 9:59:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

Dongyang - Egg vendors across the city of Dongyang are getting ready for the start of busy times. They are getting ready to cook up urine soaked eggs that local residents love.
The city is located in the coastal Zhejiang province. The urine soaked eggs are considered a unique springtime snack.

The snack is called “virgin boy eggs” and the key ingredient in them is boys’ urine, which is collected from primary school toilets, according to Reuters. Vendors prefer that the urine comes from kids below the age of 10.

There really is no explanation as to why the key ingredient has to be boys’ urine. It has been that way for centuries though.

According to the New York Daily News, the eggs are heated over a stove but not before they are soaked in the urine. The eggs’ shells are then taken off and then the eggs are placed back into more urine to soak. This continues while more urine is being poured. One batch of these eggs takes an entire day to make.

The eggs are favored by many of the local residents. Some of the residents even go out to collect the urine themselves so they can cook the snack in their own homes, according to Asia One.

Residents say that the delicacy actually decreases body heat as well as reinvigorates the body and promotes better blood circulation.



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To: Slings and Arrows

Is there any question that our planet...

..needs another planet?


21 posted on 04/04/2012 10:26:58 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Irenic

I’m more likely to try that than eggs soaked in urine...just.


22 posted on 04/04/2012 10:28:05 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

I’ll emigrate as soon as I get my flying car.


23 posted on 04/04/2012 10:28:57 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Why didn't I think of that?

24 posted on 04/04/2012 10:29:18 PM PDT by abishai
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To: Slings and Arrows

25 posted on 04/04/2012 10:29:54 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit ;-{)
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To: Slings and Arrows

GROSS


26 posted on 04/04/2012 10:30:54 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Slings and Arrows

LOL. Is that what they are calling it these days.

And to think people were upset because there was MSG in their Chinese food. Wait till they hear about this.


27 posted on 04/04/2012 10:32:23 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: freekitty

Ya think?


28 posted on 04/04/2012 10:32:23 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

For whatever reason, I feel like I’m understanding Kafka a whole lot more. Feh.

Weird is just weird. More and more, life is becoming a choice between you shall not, or you shouldn’t For some odd reason, that subtlety seems to be lost on a SIGNIFICANT portion of the global population.


29 posted on 04/04/2012 10:34:59 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Slings and Arrows

All cultures are equal. We must not judge. (/sarc)


30 posted on 04/04/2012 10:39:11 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Rick Santorum For President (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N89LGhm-Ztc))
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To: mylife
I was about to ping you on this delicacy discovery, My, since our fondness for good old Filipino Baluts came to mind but you beat me here.

Don't let this put you off Chinese cuisine.....just dine with a translator to be safe.
31 posted on 04/04/2012 10:42:31 PM PDT by BIGLOOK
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To: Slings and Arrows

yuck.
How in the world did they come up with this recipe?


32 posted on 04/04/2012 10:47:16 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Slings and Arrows

I don’t know that I could get past the gag reflex and I am a pretty daring with my eating.


33 posted on 04/04/2012 10:49:07 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Slings and Arrows
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F-ing disgusting...

34 posted on 04/04/2012 10:50:39 PM PDT by csense
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To: Slings and Arrows

Scratch China from the travel list.


35 posted on 04/04/2012 10:50:55 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Guess We Can't)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Waaaay TMI :-)


36 posted on 04/04/2012 10:53:22 PM PDT by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Morgana

That is just sick. Probably should be putting those people on a watch list.


37 posted on 04/04/2012 10:59:46 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I saw this video last night on Yahoo. An Italian chef making Pissed Off Eggs. The secret ingredient was red jalapeno peppers though. I don't think I want any Chinese Pissed On Eggs.
38 posted on 04/04/2012 11:00:01 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: GeronL
I'm pretty sure Red China is on some kind of watch list.
39 posted on 04/04/2012 11:05:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

They should get civilized like us and kill the boys too.


40 posted on 04/04/2012 11:09:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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