Comments on: Balut – not egg, not duck … but inbetween

By: Tro Lan

Tro Lan — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:06:58 +0000

NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:49:13 +0000

Of course, people just wanted to inflict pain onto helpless baby animals.

Alternatively, in a time when they could not just go to the nearest 7/11 at 3 in the morning, people were probably forced to eat everything they could digest.
As time progressed humanity shed some things (eating mouldy bread) and kept others.

But then, that is probably too sane & reflective for your poor outraged souls.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:19:08 +0000

Dudes, this is what we called different cultures. Open up your mind and see the world out there. There are things way worse around your back alley than this. It is a dish of other country…so respect it. Or should i say eating beef or pork meat is a abuse as well. Dont eat it! You are killing the animals! Fools

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:18:19 +0000

Animals abuse, no way! More like human abuse! DISGUSTING!!! Who would eat something like that unless they were brainwashed to believe it was yummy?!

*barfing*

By: "Pinoy"

"Pinoy" — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:39:47 +0000

Kamusta ka ?
I just had the dish a day ago and was initially irked out. It’s a duck abortion! However if you just avert your eyes while you’re eating it, you’ll be fine. Thank you Tomas for shining some light on the dish’s preparation and silencing some overzealous animal rights enthusiasts.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:22:24 +0000

WTF? Suzy and Layla, get over yourselves. It’s not like they pluck the thing from under its mother and boil it alive.

It is incubated only to the point of desired consumption, then it is removed from incubation — meaning the bird inside stops developing and is not so much as killed as it is never hatched to begin with.

There is no “terrible pain” with balut. It is a food rooted in history and culture and nothing to do with your jaded insinuations of ‘people are so mean and evil’.

If you must armchair advocate for suffering animals, try spilling your guts to the people who raise and slaughter bovine for veal. Now THAT’S cruel.

By: axel

axel — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:51:50 +0000

these chicks dont seem to understand that if we were that small and helpless to a duck they would probably slurp us down their beaks too

By: Layla

Layla — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:35:37 +0000

That is sick! I think that people just enjoy finding new ways to inflict pain and suffering upon smaller lifeforms.

By: Suzy

Suzy — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:45:33 +0000

OMG..whyyyyy do humans insist on coming up with these disturbing recipes that are guaranteed to have caused terrible pain to a tiny baby animal? Oh, I’m just ill. Yuck.