I'm all for eating animals, but even I'm a bit freaked out by this. WARNING : NOT for the weak of stomach! <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=51775005">Chinese speed cooking</a><br/><object width="425px" height="360px" ><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=51775005,t=1,mt=video"/><embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=51775005,t=1,mt=video" width="425" height="360" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>
I definitely feel that every animal on this planet is part of a food chain and part of their purpose it to be eaten by those higher on that chain. But I am in no way down with cooking, much less serving anything while it's still alive and/or moving. That's just F'd up. Kill it as quickly and as humanely as possible and then cook it.
- " WOW... give me a better picture... but... WOW... " - "Ha ha ha..." WTF? That fish looks succulent and I would SURELY eat that moving snake. Yum-a-dum-dum!
Lobster? I do think eating something while it is still unlive is cruel. Many animals kill their prey first, we should too.
1. There are a lot of animals out there with very resilient nervous systems, and even after being killed they move around. It's not a big deal. 2. As for lobster, almost all trained cooks will kill them first by sticking a chefs knife between their eyes before boiling/roasting/poaching them 3. You're eating a live animal when you eat raw oysters
I was preparing fish one day that I pulled from the freezer. After it thawed out I went to grab it. The motherfugger started twitching on my ass!! Needless to say that's the last time I prepare fish. YES I'M A PANSY!! I could imagine my steak getting up and kicking the **** out of me. Damn those peta activists! I think they are getting to me.
Many culinary cultures have their own unique peculiarities that can be foreign to others. For instance, most Chinese would probably find eating blood-oozing steaks by Americans quite repelling.
Well, for me, it isn't the cuisine itself, but the thought of frying something while trying to keep it alive during the process as a form of competition that freaks me out. That's just sadistic.
Understood, but if liveliness is the sole indicator of freshness, then one would probably be more forgiving on the artistic license employed by the Chinese in food preparation.
The snake had it's head cut off first move so thats not really bad at all. Fish are tortured all the time. You don't think fish hooks hurt? Or being crushed by 100 tons of your buddies in a net. Check out this vid it shows a frog still alive with no skin. Get over it. The world is tough. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zs5WiddD7i0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zs5WiddD7i0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Chinese cooking is a freaking art form.
snakes move a long time after you slice off their head. So do chickens. thus the term "like a chicken with its head cutoff"
