Nope. Nothing disgusting there.
Posted on 06/30/2021 1:01:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
For years, late-night television host James Corden has played a food-based truth or dare with celebrities called “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts.” Participants choose to either answer personal questions or take a bite of a food deemed disgusting to eat, like ghost pepper hot sauce, a sardine smoothie or dried caterpillars.
“Wow, it all looks so terrible,” Jimmy Kimmel, host of late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live! said as he appeared on Corden’s segment in 2016. “I know people can’t smell it, but it doesn’t smell good, either.”
Corden responded, “It’s really disgusting, it’s horrific,” as he spun a table with Asian ingredients and snacks like chicken feet, balut, pig’s blood and 1,000-year eggs.
While the segment has received scrutiny in the past, an online petition posted this month has brought renewed criticism that its portrayal of Asian foods as disgusting is harmful. More than 46,000 people have signed the petition, asking Corden to change the food options on the segment or end its run.
“Everyone is entitled to their opinion on food,” said Kim Saira, 24, a Los Angeles activist who organised the petition and set up a protest last Thursday near Corden’s studio, posing behind a sign that said “Delicious, Not Disgusting.” “My whole point is that James Corden is a white person and is actively using ingredients from Asian cultures and profiting from it and showing it in such a negative light. There’s a way to not like foods and still be respectful about it.”
Saira said she was confused when she first watched the segment featuring balut about two years ago.
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I like Chickens Feet with the right spices and 1000 year old eggs, but Balut you can keep the hell away from me...ugh
British food?
Yes. Pidan and chicken feet are fine, except too many little bones.
I don’t know what balut is.
“A balut is a fertilized bird egg (usually a duck) which is incubated for a period of 14 to 21 days, depending on the local culture, and then steamed. “
Nope. Nothing disgusting there.
balut is a phillipine dish it’s a fertilized ducks egg with a mostly formed embryo. Usually a ducks egg if I remember correctly. It crunches from the bones, can sometimes even have partially formed feathers, and was an often right of passage to be required of young sailors on their first Westpac cruises.
Spotted dick is misogynist.
When people say theres a respectful way to be negative towards something they like, most often they are lying.
They are going to be offended no matter how you say it. Particularly people who say its not what you said its how you said it.
The fact is for these types of people there most likely is no way you can say it such that they will be ok with you saying it.
Most of the Filipinos I used to work with cringed at the mere mention of balut. I love their food - lumpia, adobo, etc.
Thanks.
Doesn’t sound too good.
And Clark Air Base’s nearby Angeles City, too.
The life tip is to get roaring drunk before you eat it. If you vomit it up later, watch those feathers coming back up!
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