I confess I have a very low tolerance for blood and gore
Youāve never been to wet markets when you were younger? I used to see turtles with their shells cut off on display while they were still alive.
I went to plenty of wet markets. They just never killed the animals (except fish) in front of me. They took them to the back
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Different provinces, I guess. Certain places are just weird. Dog meat has long been banned in China but I still saw big restaurants with large signs offering dog meat for sale in Shenzhen of all places lol. These werenāt some back alley kind of stalls. They were bloody nice restaurants with signs that fucking light up at night.
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Gordon Ramsay. Great chef, obviously, dumbass shows from the few Iāve passed by.
Bourdain stood out because he would wax philosophically, in an intelligent fashion, as part of his shows. Organically, not to pontificate. I feel like guys with demons have more to sayā¦
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I had dog stew in northern China years ago when dad took me to the dog festival
I donāt remember it being anything exceptional. Definitely tasted better than bear for sure
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Well, at least he managed to bonk Asia Argento. Omg Iāve had a hard on for her since the mid nineties after watching The Stendhal Syndrome. She was hottest in Triple X.
OMG many times.
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Excuse me, but what the fuck?
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I really donāt want to go look for any videos or pic as evidence because of how fucked up it is but to show that Iām not making it up, hereās something thatās equally (if not more) repulsive which most Chinese people know about so all it took was a quick search on google:
Itās included as a dish in some contests because it shows how skilled the cook is since he/she has to keep it alive until itās served.
If you want to know the full details on how itās made, youād have to google it yourself since Iām not willing to go any further than this.
It would be pretentious of me to say that Iāve met him, but I was in his presence when he was shooting a segment for one of his shows. In real life he was the coolest person Iāve ever seen. And that wasnāt just me - there were fifteen grown ass men around, some of them tough as nails, and every one felt the same. He was the real deal.
Thatās why I hate Asia for cheating on him.
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My upper back is sore all the time, I hate it
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I try hard not to be ethnocentric, but you guys are making it difficult. I now open this page with trepidation.
Somebody come in and talk about having eaten a whole box of repulsive snack cakes or having used hollow weights as a youth. Please!
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I completely bombed a deadlift workout but am in ārobot modeā and really donāt feel much emotion
I confess I really enjoy robot mode
I also confess I will likely skip conditioning today
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China was plagued with famine for a lot of history. When you have nothing to eat, you get very creative
Iāve been doing a higher intensity program for a couple weeks now, itās going well and Iāve hit some PRs, and am shooting for some pretty awesome stuff in another month or soā¦ But I just want to get back to the build phase again.
Also, I got a text from piedmontese . com with a promo code, I went to the site to buy a few things for my dad and brother for the holidays and ended up just buying a shitload of stuff for myself. Nice.
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Of course. But war and famine are the history of the world. China seems to have gone above and beyond in its embrace of the unorthodox. No food, must eat turtles? Sure, fine. Enjoy shelling live turtles or keeping a head alive while cooking the body? Bizarre and creepy.
Iām excited to see what I get for Christmas, when Iām shopping for others and buying for myself. Those are always my favorite presents!
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I see it as a strange trickle up effect.
Some desperate starving person shelled a turtle or cooked a fish and are it before it died, realized it tasted quite nice. A rich persons cook or servant caught on, realized it was delicious and required some skill ā āelevated itā and made it into a delicacy
Given a large enough sample of starving ppl with sufficient biodiversity and heavy emphasis on tradition, stuff sticks
My in-laws are Vietnamese. My mother-in-law grew up rich, her dad was a Senator and Ambassador. My father-in-law grew up extremely poor. The difference in the food that they consider ācomfort foodā is amazing. Herās is delicious. His is disgusting organ meats and blood soups.
Ngl, organ meats are my favourite