quick note on fun poll

For fun and something completly different, I put a poll up of some of the scariest foods in the world. I like watching Exotic Foods with Andrew Zimmern. There are some pretty strange things there, that's for sure. So a quick note on each choice.

1. Balut: A goose embryo 18 days old, still in the shell..you get the beak, feet, feathers and all. Crack open the top of the shell, drink the fluid, then chow down on the rest.

2. Tarantula: Eaten by tribes in South America, I imagine other places too, but the large "Goliath Tarantula" which even eats birds is the primary one. It's eaten by tribes in the Amazon, put it on a stick, hold over fire like a marshmallow, then eat up!

3. Bhut Jolokia Chili: A chili from India and Bangladesh, it has been recently been discovered to be hotter than the dreaded Red Savina Habañero! It has a Scoville (heat) rating of 577,000. The Bhut Jolokia comes in at a tongue frying 1,000,000 Scovilles. Needless to say, I chose a Tarantula!

4. The Durian Fruit: A large spiny looking fruit from SouthEast Asia. It's scent is so foul that it's banned from many hotels! Some people have claimed it smells like "rotten, mushy onions" (Andrew Zimmern from above) while others claim it smells like rotten garbage and dirty sweat socks, eep! Not for me!