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August 22, 2018 04:00 pm PDT

Addictive Hormones -- Yum!

Lets pretend were buddies. Im visiting you from Japan and brought with me all kinds of fun and interesting snacks. Theres one in particular I want to introduce you to. I ask you to hold out your hand and close your eyes. Were buddies, remember? You trust me. I then proceed to fill your palm with hard, brown and beige, oddly-sized pieces of something that isnt exactly beef jerky.You open your eyes, examine the curious snack, sniff it, then pop one into your mouth.While you chew, I show you the package. A cute cartoonish pig is wearing an apron while standing in front of a BBQ with some nondescript meat cooking on the grill. If youre okay with gamey, beef jerky textured, off-tasting meat, youre quite happy with the gift. If youre like me, however, and would rather not do unidentifiable dried flesh snacks, youre starting to reach for your water bottle. Before you can even ask, I tell you youve just feasted on Yamituski Horumon, Addictive Hormones. This little package is one of the recommended snack foods currently touted in 7-11s across Japan.You raise an eyebrow. Hormones? I explain to you that its good to know if youre ever traveling in Japan and see a restaurant or menu boasting horumon (hormones), it means theyre serving various animal innards. Heres very short list of some of the yummies you might encounter: Harami = diaphragm Himo or hoso = (string, thin) small intestine (sometimes a pigs appendix)Mino = first stomach of a cows four stomachs, a bit tough, not much fatHachi no su (bee hive, because thats what it looks like) = this is cow stomach number two and thought to be the most delicious of the fourKobukuro (child bag) = uterus (almost always pork, beef uterus is too tough, they say)Chichi kabu = nippleTeppo (rifle or gun) = rectumI immediately try to ease your mind by telling you what youve just eaten the Yamitsuki Horumon treat is none of the above, actually, its only dried heart and tripe that have been dipped in a delicious salty sauce. I watch your face. Are we still friends?

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