Before you get your mind all dirty, I’m only referring to the news that seven Japanese were reportedly poisoned after eating grilled blowfish testicle. Blowfish or fugu is a priced delicacy in Japan but a chef needs a license to prepare it. The owner of the restaurant, and also its chef, who prepared the fubu was apparently not licensed.
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We call them “butete” and we know you’re not supposed to eat them unless you want to die. Blowfish is packed with a poison called tetrodotoxin which is 100 times more poisonous than cyanide. Of course not many Filipinos know that too and in the face of poverty, some are adventurous enough to try eating blowfish. You may have heard news of a poor fisherman or his family died after eating blowfish.
I eat to live so I would steer clear of those exotic food that may send me to my grave. If it’s testicles you want, you can have one in the Philippines without endagering your life. I’m sure anywhere in the Philippines, may it be in the urban centers or in the provinces, there’s a carinderia that serves soup no. 5. That’s soup from bull’s testicles and penis which is a local delicacy in the Philippines. It’s a better alternative than the blowfish testicles since it won’t kill you and it’s believed to be an aprodisiac.
At least now I know blowfish has testicles too.
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nagulantang ako sa headline kaya lumipad agad ako here hahaha ~ba’t kaya~ *think* hahaha
i remember sa barrio siete, my fadir and i would go fishing – *pangke* ang tawag namen and i have no clue in bisaya or tagalog but it’s like a fish net or something at marami kaming nakukuhang ganyan. buti kamo i never dared i barbecue ang lecheng yan hahaha else baka tiguk na rin ang lola mo hahaha
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hahaha…ay buti na lang at kung nangyaring kinain mo eh di marami kang mami-miss sa mundo. hehehe
eeek! di talaga me nakain nang testicles na yan! hahah! eeeek! yang isda i mean! hahaha!
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So blowfishes have balls? This sounds like a Fear Factor stunt gone wrong. Hehe.
I saw an episode of CSI New York where a man killed someone by feeding her exotic food like octopus tentacles. Nakibot ko kay I didn’t know octopuses (octopi?) had testicles, gali kay tentacles. Haha.
@Reynz – hahaha! yuck naman yung testicles na yan! nag isda ha, nakamamatay pa.
@Tikalon – I saw that episode, that was an alive baby octopus. It was supposed to be wrapped on a stick in a special way so thay when you swallow it its tentacles will not hang on your throat or something. I don’t know why people get thrills out of eating food that may kill them.
blowfish pala tawag sa butete.
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@Ceb-yup, it’s blow fish or puffer fish
Gladits,
Soup number ba kamo? Fren, parang pamilayar sa kin yan pag may pinupuntahan akong “private” na lugar. Mmmmm…. Hahaha!
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Naughty! hahaha.. malapit na lang valentines day I’m sure punuan na naman ang private place na yan. hehehe