{"id":8,"date":"2008-03-03T22:26:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T03:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-03-03T22:26:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T03:26:39","slug":"me-vs-balut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/2008\/03\/03\/me-vs-balut\/","title":{"rendered":"Me vs. Balut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>mmmmmmmm&#8230;&#8230;  Just like grandma used to make.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0a\/Balut_Egg.jpg\/180px-Balut_Egg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few weekends ago one of the silly things i said came back to haunt me. I boasted to Derrick and Jaeca that if Jaeca would find and buy a Balut Egg then I&#8217;d give it a try. For those of you that don&#8217;t know what one of these bad boys are here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balut\">wikipedia page<\/a>.  Basically Balut is a fertalized duck embryeo.  Its eaten in the Philippines and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2331\/2308114576_c98886198d.jpg?v=0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The taste wasn&#8217;t as bad as I thought it would be, kinda like chicken gizzard or giblets cooked when you&#8217;re making gravy for Thanksgiving..\u00a0 Its more of a visual thing to get over.\u00a0 I was pretty full already since I didn&#8217;t have much notice when they brought the egg by.\u00a0 Note the little duck guy wasn&#8217;t that bad.\u00a0 The real nasty part is the yoke.\u00a0 It seems like a ready made heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>So if you ever think of eating one it isn&#8217;t so bad.\u00a0 Give it a try \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mmmmmmmm&#8230;&#8230; Just like grandma used to make. A few weekends ago one of the silly things i said came back to haunt me. I boasted to Derrick and Jaeca that if Jaeca would find and buy a Balut Egg then I&#8217;d give it a try. For those of you that don&#8217;t know what one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/2008\/03\/03\/me-vs-balut\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Me vs. Balut&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,26,31,57],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-balut","tag-duck-embryo","tag-food","tag-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}