Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site sdcc12.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc12!rich From: rich@sdcc12.UUCP (rich) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: eating live things Message-ID: <395@sdcc12.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 22:08:11 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcc12.395 Posted: Wed Jun 26 22:08:11 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 23:43:35 EDT References: <213@sdcarl.UUCP> Reply-To: rich@sdcc12.UUCP (rich) Organization: lack of Lines: 18 In article <213@sdcarl.UUCP> rusty@sdcarl.UUCP (Rusty Wright) writes: > ... This made me think about other ``interesting'' eating >practices involving live animals. I don't know of any. What other >ones are there? >Monkeys have their skull sliced open and their brains are eaten with chopsticks. >I'm not sure if they're supposed to be alive while eaten. >-- > rusty c. wright > {ucbvax,ihnp4,akgua,hplabs,sdcsvax}!sdcarl!rusty In modern practice they (monkey brains that is) are eaten while alive in a few Cambodian schools of dentistry. This is usually done with a drill, and then the group attacks the monkey with straws. They try not to slurp up too much so that they can plug the monkey's brain up and place it back in its natural enviroment. Its quite humane if you really think about it. -rich