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[Devonviolet]

Rotten eggs usually POP when you crack them too. I do it under a towel after having o

Now that you mention it, the 2nd egg "popped"! I had thought ahead, to put on disposable gloves. But was not ready for it to squirt all over my clothes, when I broke through the membrane. I had started breathing through my mouth, so didnt smell it. But DH said it stunk. So, I immediately went in the house & changed.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Reading this made me think about the rotten egg in Charolette's Web.....

 

[Devonviolet]

I take Lasix. Doesn't help much. I just learned to deal with it same as I have with pain.
I will never ever take pain pills, especially oxy. I've seen what it does to people.

I'm not a big fan of long-term Lasix, as it can cause low potassium, magnesium & calcium, not to mention gout & diabetes. I had gout in my late 20's & it is extremely painful.

As far as pain meds, I'm onboard with you on that greybeard! If I take anything, at all, it will be one generic Excedrine. And even then I have to really be hurting. My liver isn't in the best shape, so I stay away from alcohol & drugs, as much as possible.

 

[greybeard]

Reading this made me think about the rotten egg in Charolette's Web.....

As the guy on the Farmer's Insurance ad might say, 'I know some things because I've seen some things'...
Reading this made me think of an unpleasant experience from the carefree days of my mis-spent youth, when I found myself in a little restaurant in a now forgotten town outside Manila Philippines. Ducks are the #2 poultry in Asia, with chickens barely edging ducks out of #1. I will leave it to the reader to search for images of the dish I am going to describe, but if you ever find yourself in the the P.I. or even in a traditional Asian eatery here in the US, I strongly advise you to forego sampling........Balute. It is a favorite street food there tho, and often highly sought in even the best restaurants.
How it is prepared..
Viable duck (chicken eggs can be used but usually not) eggs are incubated either in an electric incubator or buried in warm sunny ground, unearthed, & candled occasionally and those without plasm are thrown out.
On the 17 or 18th day, the eggs are ready to be turned into Balut. Served several different ways.
1. The partially incubated eggs are hard boiled in the shell--usually the preferred street vendor style. A small of the pointed end of the shell is removed by the vendor, the bottom portion handed to the customer, who first tilts the shell up and drinks the liquid portion down, then peels away more of the shell, removes the membrane and eats the more solid part.
2. The eggs are boiled, the egg carefully cracked, the "liqueur' is poured off and reserved, and the solid portion is rolled in finely ground seasoned rice bran and fried. Served over a bed of rice with the reserved liquid poured over the whole dish.
3. The same process is done, with the solid part removed and braised over a little hibachi kabob style, usually coated with a pretty spicy BBQ type sauce.

In Thailand, around Korat and Udorn, a similar dish is served under another name which I've forgotten. The process of incubation is stopped a week & 1/2 earlier, the egg is removed from heat and the contents allowed to 'ferment in the unbroken shell'. (I called it 'allowed to partially rot') Almost always served street vendor style, with the fermented liqueur being the prized portion, but the rest is eaten as described above. The aroma is 'memorable'. Usually followed by a Singha beer or 2 which in itself was pretty awful.

I found it 'not acceptable' to my sight or palate.

On the other hand, should you have to opportunity to sample habbachied, fried, or kabob Lumpia, it is wonderful. Usually lean pork pieces, but poultry is also used. Closest thing I can relate it to is General Tso's chicken or rose pork.

As an aside, in Taiwan movie theaters, popcorn was not served. Little bags of dried salted squid was the common alternative. It was nasty.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Ugh... I've heard of it but not sure I would EVER want to see/smell/taste!

 

[Southern by choice]

We have had people ask for eggs still in incubation process.
Also silkies... there is a belief that the black skinned chickens have medicinal properties.

 

[Devonviolet]

As the guy on the Farmer's Insurance ad might say, 'I know some things because I've seen some things'...
Reading this made me think of an unpleasant experience from the carefree days of my mis-spent youth, when I found myself in a little restaurant in a now forgotten town outside Manila Philippines. Ducks are the #2 poultry in Asia, with chickens barely edging ducks out of #1. I will leave it to the reader to search for images of the dish I am going to describe, but if you ever find yourself in the the P.I. or even in a traditional Asian eatery here in the US, I strongly advise you to forego sampling........Balute. It is a favorite street food there tho, and often highly sought in even the best restaurants.
How it is prepared..
Viable duck (chicken eggs can be used but usually not) eggs are incubated either in an electric incubator or buried in warm sunny ground, unearthed, & candled occasionally and those without plasm are thrown out.
On the 17 or 18th day, the eggs are ready to be turned into Balut. Served several different ways.
1. The partially incubated eggs are hard boiled in the shell--usually the preferred street vendor style. A small of the pointed end of the shell is removed by the vendor, the bottom portion handed to the customer, who first tilts the shell up and drinks the liquid portion down, then peels away more of the shell, removes the membrane and eats the more solid part.
2. The eggs are boiled, the egg carefully cracked, the "liqueur' is poured off and reserved, and the solid portion is rolled in finely ground seasoned rice bran and fried. Served over a bed of rice with the reserved liquid poured over the whole dish.
3. The same process is done, with the solid part removed and braised over a little hibachi kabob style, usually coated with a pretty spicy BBQ type sauce.

In Thailand, around Korat and Udorn, a similar dish is served under another name which I've forgotten. The process of incubation is stopped a week & 1/2 earlier, the egg is removed from heat and the contents allowed to 'ferment in the unbroken shell'. (I called it 'allowed to partially rot') Almost always served street vendor style, with the fermented liqueur being the prized portion, but the rest is eaten as described above. The aroma is 'memorable'. Usually followed by a Singha beer or 2 which in itself was pretty awful.

I found it 'not acceptable' to my sight or palate.

On the other hand, should you have to opportunity to sample habbachied, fried, or kabob Lumpia, it is wonderful. Usually lean pork pieces, but poultry is also used. Closest thing I can relate it to is General Tso's chicken or rose pork.

As an aside, in Taiwan movie theaters, popcorn was not served. Little bags of dried salted squid was the common alternative. It was nasty.

UGH!!! That is disgusting!!!

There used to be one thing I would say I wouldn't eat - Rocky Mountain Oyster. (RMO). Now i will say I won't eat RMO and Balute!

 

[greybeard]

I've seen worse. But won't be posted on this board.

 

[farmerjan]

Greybeard, I have also seen some really messed up people from oxy.....I would give my eyeteeth if it would affect me even a little.... No Joke. I have absolutely no response to it except to get a queasy stomach and a little light headed if I take it every 2 hours, and NOT ONE ONCE OF PAIN RELIEF. Doctors cannot believe that it doesn't help at all. They have tried every one that I can think of and NOTHING..... Sometimes the knee and especially the ankle pain is so much that I try to "imagine" that a tylenol/tramodol combination helps because I will get some relief from the headaches that I get from the ankle pain....
Mostly I just do without. Actually an alcoholic drink will sometimes help some...I usually only "drink" things like amaretto and kahlua and liquors that are not anything like a good "stiff bourbon"... but mostly I just try to bear it. I think the alcohol in the evening is more of a relaxer... I used to cocktail waitress in the late 70's early 80's so am well versed with what over indulging customers were like. Guess that is why I was never a drinker. It used to be a joke that I was a cheap date because 2 drinks and I would go to sleep....So I didn't drink. Besides, when I heard people talk about how they got so drunk and had such a good time but they can't remember it....I would look at them and say, what, I don't get it...If I have a good time, I want to be coherent enough to remember it.....
I have tried all sorts of homeopathic remedies also, creams, rubs, tablets under the tongue. Most have arnica montana and other stuff in them. Anyone else use anything that works? I am willing to try most anything ...legal... and I am not in things like marijuana. I want to be in fairly good control of my faculties, just not hurt so much.

 

[Mini Horses]

Had a co-worker who married a Phillipine man and he told me about Balut one day -- GAG!!! Of course, he says good. WOW, what a set of taste buds!

Farmerjan, I'm assuming you have tried all the rubs out there. The issues are, as you know, bone on bone. Aches in muscular situations may respond to some of the rubs, Absorbine from tack shop helps me, and may help you to relieve some of that portion of your pain which accompanies the bone action. Ain't anything for what you experience that will give you extreme relief that I know about. As to marijuana, not sure about relief BUT the oils extracted are not supposed to carry the euphoric phase of the chemical. Since I have never tried any of it, couldn't even tell you what it would be like. BUT do hear that the oil extractions have been medically approved for some kids issues...without the high.

Have heard rumblings that shark something helps with rebuilding cartilage. ??? Have you asked about blood stem cell extraction, then injection? This is said to help build new tissue??? As always, doesn't work all the time.

You need a "retread" on that knee.