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I have always been the type to try most any food my parents always told me when I was young "try it you don't know if you like it until you try then if you don't like it you don't have to eat it but at least try it first. Then during a trip to the Philippines I wanted to try one of there delicacy it is called Balut, it is a duck egg that has a 18 week old embryo and is then hard boiled. My first reaction to seeing it was.......well I think you can see in the pictures. After seeing my fiancée and her younger sisters enjoying them I didn't want to look like a wimp so I tried thinking it would be so bad tasting, but after I ate it I noticed it wasn't so bad it tasted almost like a hard boiled egg and roast duck both which I like.
This all made me think, I believe some people don't like certain foods is they are told when there young, they don't taste good or see adults not like them or say there bad and it leaves an impression on them the food taste bad and there mind then takes over and makes them have a reaction like mine when I was looking at the Balut before I tasted it, but as I said my fiancée and her sisters thought nothing of eating it because they had eaten Balut since they were very young and told it was good and good for them.
I've attached a series of pictures showing my reaction to looking at the Balut and when I first put it in my mouth. To anyone that is ever in the Philippines and wants to try it I would offer this advice, don't look at it or eat it in a dark room the look is bad but the taste is nothing like you would expect.
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