interesting..

GhostUser · Aug 15, 2002

i wonder if anyone of u noes tt.. 
in china..ppl eat monkey brains.. 
1st they serve a live monkey to the dining table..cut open the upper skull.. add salt and pepper..stir it up..and ta-da!! ready for the hungry diners to scoop it straight fr the skull....of the still consious and screaming monkey.. 
in some places.. they eat duck eggs..not with the normal yolks and egg whites in it..but with a small duckling in it. they juz eat it straight fr the egg... hm.... 
yucks.

GhostUser · Aug 15, 2002

Do you have documentation for this? 
And I don't see how it so different from some of the meat products that people eat in the Western world.

stonecrest · Aug 15, 2002

haven't heard this. although it's pretty well known that they eat dog in china, despite the chinese gov't outlawing it. it was probably made illegal just to conform more to western culture too so as not to become ostracized. but once again, it's just the arbitrariness of meat - if it's cute and cuddly, don't eat it, if it's not cute and cuddly, eat it.

GhostUser · Aug 15, 2002

but scooping up the monkey's brain scoop by scoop when the monkey is still screaming?????? hm.... 
my frens told me abt this monkey thingy.. 
and i have frens frome china who saw it..it's rather common there..

LadyFaile · Aug 15, 2002

the duckling thing is true, it's a delicacy in the Philippines, someone brought one to work one day to show everyone because they had them on fear factor a couple of nights before.. ugh

GhostUser · Aug 15, 2002

<< my frens told me abt this monkey thingy>> 
Welcome to the bad spelling club, maybe someday you will be as great as i, and will recieve the crown <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/smiley.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="

"> Great to see another one on board, that would make 3 of us

Thalia · Aug 15, 2002

I have heard of the monkey thing, too. And yeah, sounds pretty aweful.

Brake4Squirrels · Aug 16, 2002

in the western world, there are things that are cute and cuddly, but people still eat them. in my opinion, chickens and ducks are cute and probably soft to the touch (I say probably because these animals have never let me touch them). 
i also don't see how it can be alive and screaming without its brains. It seems to me that it would die very quickly.

GhostUser · Aug 16, 2002

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Unless they made a surgical insision on the head and eat the least important brain parts first

GhostUser · Aug 16, 2002

They didnt take the whole brain out...................... 
The monkey did not live for thatttt long.. 
it's brain was eaten straight from its head scoop by scoop.. 
by the way..about the bad spelling part..that's the way i type .. they are my shortcuts..like "frens"..haha

BigWaxJesus · Aug 16, 2002

<div class="quote-container">Quote:
<div class="quote-block">Originally posted by Beelzeboul by the way..about the bad spelling part..that's the way i type .. they are my shortcuts..like "frens"..haha</div>
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So, what's "tt"? It seems that's been used for several different words.

GhostUser · Aug 16, 2002

<< by the way..about the bad spelling part..that's the way i type .. they are my shortcuts..like "frens"..haha >> 
wasnt dissing, just observing

hmm tt....tittytwister? toungetwat?

LadyFaile · Aug 17, 2002

i think it means 'that' 
chickens are indeed cuddly and soft. a friend from highschool lived on a farm and raised all sorts of animals, including chickens. one of the hens, named Rosie, was such a darling little thing. you could pick her up, cradle her in your arms, play with her waddle, pet her, you could mess around with her wings and feet and everything and she'd sit there and talk and talk and talk. by talk i mean she made this very soft sound, almost more of a coo than a normal chicken cluck, and it was just the sweetest thing ever. i absolutely loved her. not the only chicken i've seen who loved attention and cuddling either. makes you really think 'this is food?'

luckiecharms · Feb 3, 2003

Thats sick and wrong!!!!! I dont like the sound of the Chinese people. I also heard they ate dogs. Its totally wrong. And sick. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/sad.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="

"><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/spew.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title=":spew:">

GhostUser · Feb 3, 2003

This is graphic, so don't read ahead if it may bother you. 
A documentary on HBO a few years ago filmed several practices in China. 
Certain restaurants specialize in dog. They keep them in the back of the restaurant in chicken wire cages (no food or water visible) and guests come out to pick the dog they want to eat. 
In China they boil cats alive. Supposedly, drinking the water in which a cat has been boiled alive improves virility. They keep live cats in the backyard in chicken wire cages (no food or water visible), catch them by the neck with metal pincers (they knocked them in the head and beat their bodies to loosen them from clinging to the cage) and put them first into boiling water to remove their fur. Then, while still alive, they are boiled to death. 
Outdoor markets sell live monkeys (small species) which are kept hog tied on the ground at the vendors.

kpickell · Feb 3, 2003

monkey links - <a href="http://www.maxent.org/ch/monkey_brains_news.html" target="_blank">http://www.maxent.org/ch/monkey_brains_news.html</a> <a href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010309.html" target="_blank">http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010309.html</a>

Robert · Feb 3, 2003

First off, I'm not condoning any of this. 
Having said that, and I could certainly be wrong here... but it's my understanding that there is likely NO PAIN felt during this practice. I have a tough time believing this, but there are a couple of things to consider. All of us have probably seen some wildlife show where lions have taken down a zebra and have started to feast on it, often eating it alive while the animal appears to be "calm". I once saw one show where the zebra was kinda sitting down looking around while the predators were chewing on its ass, biting right in and ripping pieces off. The zebra never flinched. 
I also remember some show on TV I saw that there are a lot of brain surgeries performed while the person is fully conscious, wide awake. 
The mind is pretty powerful and so I am wondering if the brain is able to just tune out severe pain, perhaps in a state of shock? 
Of course, I'm also reminded of the 2nd installment of Silence of the Lambs... the guy was eating brains from his guest's head while at the dinner table and having a calm conversation. 
I wonder how this could happen without pain, but time and time again I see something on some wildlife show that points to the brain being able to tune the pain right out.

Funkified · Feb 3, 2003

i've seen the fertile egg thing first hand when i was in China...i was vegetarian at the time but that made me stop eating eggs. i was scarred for life. i cried when my host dad ate into that thing and this horrible dark body crunched. it was freakin' awful. 
in resturaunts in china, they have snakes, turtles, frogs, toads, fish, some small mammals, etc in cages for people to 
choose so they can eat them <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/sad.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="

"> 
pretty upsetting ****.

majake · Feb 3, 2003

im pretty sure with brain surgery, the patient is suppose to be conscious during the surgery, dont remember why. Also there are no sensory receptors in the brain, thus no pain.

Robert · Feb 3, 2003

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<div class="quote-block">Originally posted by majake Also there are no sensory receptors in the brain, thus no pain.</div>
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Aha... see, I learn something new every day.

interesting..

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