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- johnsonjoeb, on 08/11/2008, -0/+113Apparently the recipe for most of this is:
1. Shove a stick up its ass.
2. Fry it. - Peko, on 08/10/2008, -9/+90Foreign food is foreign.
- coolchu001, on 08/10/2008, -2/+72These aren't normal "fast food" these are actually Chinese delicacies.
- eLuugy, on 08/10/2008, -5/+70Lol, dumbass, its not fast food. There's Mcdonalds and other fast food restaurants in China.
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -6/+61I'd actually love to try all of that stuff.
You can't knock it until you've tried it, right? - chicaneuk, on 08/11/2008, -4/+50Different tastes for different cultures. Some of that stuff probably tastes fantastic, but we're conditioned to believe that stuff like insects / bugs taste disgusting. If you'd been bought up with them, you'd love them.
That said there is no way that i'd go anywhere near 99% of that stuff! But I blame my upbringing. Now someone pass me another footlong BMT with southwest sauce on hearty italian... mmm... - ahhfoon, on 08/11/2008, -8/+53Another xenophobic article. These are not fast food and its too expensive to be fast food. They're a delicacy.
- nedbigbyssg, on 08/11/2008, -6/+49More anti-eastern propaganda. This doesn't reflect the norm of chinese eatings styles. You can find some places here in America that sell roasted insects and post them up as a reflection of American eating styles, but it's just misleading representation. Seems like the poster is trying to enforce the stereotype that Chinese people eat anything. In reality, these are just out of the norm delicacies.
- vsujohn2, on 08/10/2008, -11/+45Wheres my deep fried puppies at ?
- shlemielo, on 08/11/2008, -2/+31This is right outside of the Wangfujing mall. Pretty much all of this stuff is laid out every night for tourists to gawk at. I have never seen the locals go and eat this stuff.
- pandaboy99, on 08/11/2008, -2/+29At least you know what kind of bugs your eating... in a hot dog you never know what your going to get
- jeffkee, on 08/11/2008, -3/+23The greater problem is that our society is somehow ignorant enough to consider it "barbaric" when another culture considers a certain species to be livestock while we consider it pets.
You don't hear Muslims telling us we're barbarians because we eat pork.
Anything that is biologically under the food chain is consumable, and what some cultures consider "man's best friend" can also be considered by another culture as a delicacy. - stonebear, on 08/11/2008, -7/+27They rounded them all up and killed them (starved them to death in their kennels so it could be said they died of natural causes) before the Olympics so there wouldn't be any dishes like that available to offend western tourists. The Chinese don't want to seem barbaric.
- AdrianKRAZY, on 08/11/2008, -1/+18Oh come on, How good does that deep fried starfish look ?. I'd love to go over there and try some.
- Ladycomet, on 08/11/2008, -2/+18I agree. After eating all the weird things I could find while I was in Thailand, I am burning to try more odd foods from around the world. I caught the "traveling" bug.
- EatingPaste, on 08/11/2008, -1/+14There is nothing wrong with eating insects humans have been doing it for thousands of years and they're an extremely good source of protein.
- porque, on 08/11/2008, -0/+12so would I, most of it actually looks good
and you have to give them credit for putting just about everything on a stick - jeffkee, on 08/11/2008, -1/+13Thanks for repeating the title and making the least useful comment ever.
- ariez84, on 08/11/2008, -1/+12The irony is that all those pictured are still healthier and contains more proteins and less fat than your average American "fast food meal".
- giantdigger, on 08/11/2008, -2/+13Locals can found places selling the same stuff with lower price.
- bingo000, on 08/11/2008, -0/+10Can I have some scorpions with my egg and toast please?
- iyatoni, on 08/11/2008, -1/+11Um, none of these are "reasons". These are all "examples".
- Brododium, on 08/11/2008, -0/+9I love that the author smoothly substituted 'cow' for 'beef' in the stew picture in order to make it sound more distasteful.
- drgmdp, on 08/11/2008, -1/+10you can't even imagine how gross is to me to see a fat-ass american eating a big mac
- Chimpware, on 08/11/2008, -0/+8Yeah by all means, all the obese, McDonalds eating, fat gorging, heart attack having, mall food court eating, Westerners, please, oh please comment on the diet of everyone else, makes me laugh...
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -0/+8"Gullible tourists"? What the hell are you talking about?
What am I falling for, if I'm so gullible? You mean all those Chinese people eating the food are actually just there to lure tourists into buying it? - topgigmedia, on 08/11/2008, -0/+8anyone tried the scorpion?
- jrbrewin, on 08/11/2008, -1/+9indeed. this is one street in beijing. And whilst it's safe to say the food on show / sale is actually cuisine from china, it's not safe to say that this is what most chinese people eat when they want food, fast.
in fact, if you go to beijing you'll see the same international fast food chains as you do in any other modern metropolis; burger king, mc donalds, kfc.. in fact, when i was there a few years ago there was even a starbucks in the forbidden city! (hopefully it's gone now)
traditional fast food in china, and much of asia, is freshly prepared by small independant stall holders, and is incredibly cheap, but also incredibly tastey. Unlike most american hotdog stalls. :P - pandawho1212, on 08/11/2008, -0/+7did u eat any traveling bugs there?
- DatruKatalyst, on 08/11/2008, -0/+7ermmm if you make a valid point with your post, I'd dig it up. If you throw out hearsay and assumptions or sound like a that crazy woman from the Mist, I'd dig you down.
So for example..your post. You assume any bad post about China leads to getting dugg down. But correlation =/= causation. You assumed. I dugg you down.
It's all kinda logical in thinking, right? - carpeclunes, on 08/11/2008, -2/+9You said something ignorant about China and you got dugg down for it.
- nedbigbyssg, on 08/11/2008, -0/+7Domestic food is domestic...
- giantdigger, on 08/11/2008, -3/+9These are not fast food. They are called snack.
- HuiChinese, on 08/11/2008, -3/+9Exactly, we Chinese acutally set all the thing up as a joke, to tell foreigners that Chinese love the stuff and see what we can get foreigners to eat. We are doing pretty well it seems.
Locals sometimes eat that, but just to confuse the foreigners... - nedbigbyssg, on 08/11/2008, -2/+8Probably laid out for more as a shock factor for tourists. More adventurous tourists would probably actually try it to have a story to tell when they get back home. Definately doesn't reflect native Chinese eating styles.
- nedbigbyssg, on 08/11/2008, -1/+6All you have to do is post it up, and stick up a misleading title. "Eating in America is A Little Different". Ignorant people from other nations would probably take it as a representation of American eating habits. Much like many ignorant (not all) are taking these pictures as a representation of Chinese eating styles.
- IAmSam14, on 08/11/2008, -2/+7Yours is officially the most nonsensical comment I've ever read on digg. It's like 3 ridiculous sentences all curled into one.
- bbqsalad, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5What a ignorant, intolerant ***** you are. Not every is like you (thankfully)
- Stiffler1, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5The ironic thing is that the quality of ingredients that go into MacDonalds burgers would look far less appetizing than most of these foods!
- dawnraid101, on 08/11/2008, -7/+12OM NOM NOM NOM,
But seriously dung beetles wtf. - mattlohkamp, on 08/11/2008, -4/+9... and you'll believe absolutely anything.
- EatingPaste, on 08/11/2008, -2/+7None of that food looks really that bad to me I was raised to try new things. I would love to send my picky little cousin over there to eat. She only eats chicken nuggets and bread sticks; shes such a spoiled brat.
- joemofo214, on 08/11/2008, -1/+6The last one looks like a long, thin slice of bacon, but it might be a tape worm. Trap.
- carpeclunes, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5Seems like digg got a little more rational to me.
- kilogrammatic, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5There are several restaurants in America that offer cooked rattlesnake - it's not that bizarre. I was just sad to see the seahorses and dog... I've owned both and I can't imagine eating them. To each their own, I suppose, though I doubt many locals actually eat that stuff on a regular basis.
- napk, on 08/11/2008, -1/+5McCarthy lives!
- dupems, on 08/11/2008, -2/+6Yummy.
- ep53, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4@Jeffkee: Muslims don't eat pork because they believe that the pig is an dirty animal which is not fit for human consumption.
- redneckblues, on 08/11/2008, -2/+6Foreign food cat is... foreign food. :(
- DatruKatalyst, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4I think one of the comments from the page sentiments it all very well:
"When I was working for a short time in Taiwan a young Taiwanese boy said, “the Chinese eat everything that flies….except airplanes.” It is a cuisine born of thousands of years of starvation..."
Different histories make different cultures and ideologies. Be like half the local ppl there and just don't touch the creepy stuff. (damn that food is freekin creepy tho!) -
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