Althouse: "Scorpions, most of them still alive, are seen skewered at a food stall in an old Chinese street market ... in downtown Beijing."

August 10, 2008

"Scorpions, most of them still alive, are seen skewered at a food stall in an old Chinese street market ... in downtown Beijing."

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8 comments:

I'm Full of Soup said...: What No PETA in China?; 8/10/08, 4:42 PM
Anonymous said...: Scorpions are actually a pretty tasty snack. They look really cool under black-light too (glow bright green). Definitely a fun evening when you're in a bar in Bangkok munching scorpions under black light....; 8/10/08, 4:57 PM
Peter V. Bella said...: PETA is a terrorist organization that has gone "legitimate". They do have their terrorist arm called ELF. They would not be welcomed in China as they frown upon that type of behavior.; 8/10/08, 5:42 PM
lurker2209 said...: How would one go about eating a live scorpion? Avoid the stinger? Or is that perhaps removed when the scorpion is skewered? Like deveining shrimp?; 8/10/08, 8:59 PM
vbspurs said...: Paging Andrew Zimmern.; 8/10/08, 11:47 PM
Methadras said...: Meh, it's not scorpions I care about the Chinese eating. It's the fact that asians in general, in asia have seen fit to eat dog. This is something that really pissed me off about asians in general. How the fuck can you eat mans best friend? I'd rather chop my own leg off and eat it in a crisis before I would think about eating a dog. 1.25 billion people and you eat dog? Your civilization sucks for that fact alone.; 8/11/08, 2:08 AM
bearbee said...: Either kill it or leave it alone. You don't skewer it and allow it a lingering death.; 8/11/08, 4:46 AM
Agnostic Monk said...: Ms.Althouse,
Scorpion tail is a delicacy in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. They deep fry it. I have never tried it. Insects gross me out.; 8/11/08, 6:33 PM