05-04-2003, 12:03 PM | #1 |
Jack Burton
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i got this from the email but so true (in a way) and im a filipino .. pls make and take your time in reading this because this is my (and bahamuts) culture. [img]smile.gif[/img]
>> UNIQUELY FILIPINO and please take the time to read it... Its >>funny >> >> UNIQUELY FILIPINO >> >> >> >> The following is from a British journalist >>stationed in the Philippines. >> >> His observations are so hilarious!!!! This was >>written in 1999. >> >> Matter of Taste by Matthew Sutherland >> >> ***** >> >> I have now been in this country for over six years, and consider >>myself in most respects well-assimilated. However, there is >>one key step on the road to full assimilation which I have yet to >>take, and that's to eat BALUT. >> >> >> The day any of you sees me eating balut, please >>call immigration and ask them to issue me a Filipino passport. >>Because at that point there will be no turning back. >> >>BALUT, for those still blissfully ignorant non-Pinoys out there, >>is a fertilized duck egg. It is commonly sold with salt in a piece >>of newspaper, much like English fish and chips, by >>street vendors usually after dark, presumably so you can't see how >>gross it is. >> >>It's meant to be an aphrodisiac, although I can't imagine anything >>more likely to dispel sexual desire than crunching on a >>partially-formed baby duck swimming in noxious fluid. >> >>The embryo in the egg comes in varying stages of development, but >>basically it is not considered macho to eat one without >>fully discernable feathers, beak, and claws. Some say these crunchy >>bits are the best. >> >>Others prefer just to drink the so-called 'soup', the vile, >>pungent liquid that surrounds the aforementioned >>feathery fetus...excuse me, I have to go and throw up now. I'll be >>back in a minute. >> >> Food dominates the life of the Filipino. People here just love to >>eat. They eat at least eight times a day. These eight official >>meals are called, in order: >> >>breakfast, snacks, lunch, merienda, pica-pica, pulutan, dinner, and >>no-one-saw-me-take-that-cookie-from-the-fridge-so-it-doesn't-count. >> >> >>The short gaps in between these mealtimes are spent >>eating Sky Flakes from the open packet that sits on every desktop. >> >> You're never far from food in the Philippines. If >>you doubt this, next time you're driving home from work, try this >>game. See how long you can drive without seeing food and I don't >>mean a distant restaurant, or a picture of food. >> >>I mean a man on the sidewalk frying fish balls, or a man walking >>through the traffic selling nuts or candy. I bet it's less than one >>minute. >> >>Here are some other things I've noticed about food in the >>Philippines. >> >>Firstly, a meal is not a meal without rice-even >>breakfast. In the UK, I could go a whole year without eating rice. >> >>Second, it's impossible to drink without eating. A bottle of San >>Miguel just isn't the same without gambas or beef tapa. >> >>Third, no one ventures more than two paces from their house >>without baon and a container of something cold to drink. You might >>as well ask a Filipino to leave home without his pants on. >> >> >>And lastly, where I come from, you eat with a knife and fork. Here, >>you eat with a spoon and fork. >> >> >>You try eating rice swimming in fish sauce with a knife. >> >>One really nice thing about Filipino food culture is that people >>always ask you to SHARE their food. In my office, if you catch >>anyone attacking their baon, they will always go, "Sir! KAIN TAYO!" >>("Let's eat!"). >> >>This confused me, until I realized that they didn't actually >> expect me to sit down and start munching on their boneless >>bangus. In fact, the polite response is something like, "No thanks, >>I just ate." But the principle is sound - if you have food on your >>plate, you are expected to share it, however hungry you are, with >>those who may be even hungrier. I think that's great. >> >>In fact, this is frequently even taken one step further. Many >>Filipinos use "Have you eaten yet?" ("KUMAIN KA NA?") as a general >>greeting, irrespective of time of day or location. >> >> >>Some foreigners think Filipino food is fairly dull compared to >>other Asian cuisines. Actually lots of it is very good: >> >> >>Spicy dishes like Bicol Express (strange, a dish named after a >>train); anything cooked with coconut milk; anything KINILAW; and >>anything ADOBO. >> >>And it's hard to beat the sheer wanton, cholesterholic frenzy of a >>good old-fashioned LECHON de leche feast. Dig a pit, light a fire, >>add 50 pounds of animal fat on a stick, and cook until crisp. >> >> >>Mmm, mmm... you can actually feel your arteries constricting with >>each successive mouthful. >> >>I also share one key Pinoy trait ---a sweet tooth. >>I am thus the only foreigner I know who does not complain about >>sweet bread, sweet burgers, sweet spaghetti, sweet banana ketchup, >>and so on. I am a man who likes to put jam on his pizza. Try it! >>It's the weird food you want to avoid. >> >>In addition to duck fetus in the half-shell, items to avoid in the >>Philippines include pig's blood soup (DINUGUAN); >>bull's testicle soup, the strangely-named "SOUP NUMBER FIVE" (I >>dread to think what numbers one through four are); and the >>ubiquitous, stinky shrimp paste, BAGOONG, and it's equally stinky >>sister, PATIS. >> >>Filipinos are so addicted to these latter items that they will even >>risk arrest or deportation trying to smuggle them into countries >>like Australia and the USA, which wisely ban the importation of >>items you can smell from more than 100 paces. >> >> >>Then there's the small matter of the blue ice cream. I have never >>been able to get my brain around eating blue food; the ubiquitous >>UBE leaves me cold. >> >>And lastly on the subject of weird food, beware: that KALDERETANG >>KAMBING (goat) could well be KALDERETANG ASO (dog)... >> >> >>The Filipino, of course, has a well-developed sense of food. >>Here's a typical Pinoy food joke: "I'm on a seafood diet." "What's >>a seafood diet?" "When I see food, I eat it!" >> >> Filipinos also eat strange bits of animals --- the feet, the >>head, the guts, etc., usually barbecued on a stick. These have been >>given witty names, like "ADIDAS" (chicken's feet); "KURBATA" >>(either just chicken's neck, or "neck and thigh" as in "neck-tie"); >>"WALKMAN" (pigs ears); "PAL" (chicken wings); HELMET" (chicken >>head); "IUD" (chicken intestines), and "BETAMAX" >>(video-cassette-like blocks of animal blood). >> >>Yum, yum. Bon appetit. >> >> >>"A good name is rather to be chosen than great >>riches" -- (Proverbs 22:1) >> >> >> >> WHEN I arrived in the Philippines from the UK six >>years ago, one of the first cultural differences to strike me was >>names. >>The subject has provided a continuing source of amazement and >>amusement ever since. The first unusual thing, from an English >>perspective, is that everyone here has a nickname. >> >>In the staid and boring United Kingdom, we have nicknames in >>kindergarten, but when we move into adulthood we tend, I am glad to >>say, to lose them. >> >>The second thing that struck me is that Philippine names for both >>girls and boys tend to be what we in the UK would regard >>as overbearingly cutesy for anyone over about five. >>Fifty-five-year-olds colleague put it. Where I come from, a boy >>with a nickname like Boy Blue or Honey Boy would be beaten to death >>at school by pre-adolescent bullies, and never make it to >>adulthood. >> >>So, probably, would girls with names like Babes, Lovely, Precious, >>Peachy or Apples. Yuk, ech ech. Here, however, no one bats an >>eyelid. >> >> Then I noticed how many people have what I have >>come to call "door-bell names". These are nicknames that sound like >>-> well, door-bells. ! There are millions of them. Bing, Bong, >>Ding, and Dong are some of the more common. >> >>They can be, and frequently are, used in even more >>door-bell-like combinations such as Bing-Bong, Ding-Dong, >>Ting-Ting, and so on. Even our newly-appointed chief of police has >>a doorbell name Ping. None of these door-bell names exist where I >>come from, and hence sound unusually amusing to my untutored >>foreign ear. Someone once told me that one of the Bings, when asked >>why he was called Bing, replied "because my brother is called >>Bong". Faultless logic. Dong, of course, is a particularly funny >>one for me, as where I come from "dong" is a slang word for... >>well, perhaps "talong" is the best Tagalog equivalent. >> >>Repeating names was another novelty to me, having never before >>encountered people with names like Len-Len, Let-Let, Mai-Mai, or >>Ning-Ning. The secretary I inherited on my arrival had an unusual >>one: Leck-Leck. Such names are then frequently further refined by >>using the "squared" symbol,as >>in Len2 or Mai2. >> >>This had me very confused for a while. Then there is the trend for >>parents to stick to a theme when naming their children. This can >>be as simple as making them all begin with the same letter, as in >>Jun, Jimmy, Janice, and Joy. >> >>More imaginative parents shoot for more sophisticated forms of >>assonance or rhyme, as in Biboy, Boboy, Buboy, Baboy (notice the >>names get worse the more kids there are-best to be born early or >>you could end up being a Baboy). Even better, parents can create >>whole families of, say, desserts (Apple Pie, Cherry Pie, Honey Pie) >>or flowers (Rose, Daffodil, Tulip). >> >>The main advantage of such combinations is that they look great >>painted across your trunk if you're a cab driver. That's another >>thing I'd never seen before coming to Manila -- taxis with the >>driver's kids' names on the trunk. >> >>Another whole eye-opening field for the foreign visitor is the >>phenomenon of the "composite" name. This includes names like >>Jejomar (for Jesus, Joseph and Mary), and the remarkable Luzviminda >>(for Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, believe it or not). That's a bit >>like me being called something like"Engscowani" (for England, >>Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). >> >> >>Between you and me, I'm glad I'm not. And how could I forget to >>mention the fabulous concept of the randomly inserted letter 'h'. >>Quite what this device is supposed to achieve, I have not yet >>figured out, but I think it is designed to give a touch of class to >>an otherwise only averagely weird name. It results in creations >>like Jhun, Lhenn, Ghemma, and Jhimmy. Or how about Jhun-Jhun >>(Jhun2)? How boring to come from a country like the UK full of >>people with names like John Smith. How wonderful to come from a >>country where imagination and exoticism rule the world of names. >> >>Even the towns here have weird names; my favorite is the >>unbelieveably-named town of Sexmoan (ironically close to Olongapo >>and Angeles). Where else in the world could that really be true? >> >> Where else in the world could the head of the Church really be >>called Cardinal Sin? Where else but the Philippines! >> >> >>Note: Philippines has a senator named Joker, and it is his legal >>name.
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05-04-2003, 12:44 PM | #2 |
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wait....ya'll eat unborn baby ducks? no offense...but uggg i can not even kill an animal
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05-04-2003, 12:53 PM | #3 |
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i totally agree with what stormy said...yuck^^ no offense man
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05-04-2003, 01:03 PM | #5 |
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I know i saw that episode,lol and i ran to bathroom real quick
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05-04-2003, 01:03 PM | #6 |
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well, one man's food is another man's garbage or whatever. Yeah, I heard of the egg thingy from my friends whom have visited the Philippines.
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05-04-2003, 01:17 PM | #7 |
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We have family friends in the Phillipines, and we visit them now and then, and one of them had a balut...it wsan't nice to watch...she liked the "soup" stuff.
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05-04-2003, 02:05 PM | #8 |
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"BALUT, for those still blissfully ignorant non-Pinoys out there,
>>is a fertilized duck egg. It is commonly sold with salt in a piece >>of newspaper, much like English fish and chips, by >>street vendors usually after dark, presumably so you can't see how >>gross it is." YUMMY! I´m sure you have other tastier food as well. But I shouldn´t complain, in Sweden we have something called "surströmming" basically rotten fish. [ 05-04-2003, 02:06 PM: Message edited by: Stratos ]
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05-04-2003, 02:18 PM | #9 |
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Thanks for the articles - very insightful. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] I saw the Fear Factor episode with balut. Mmmmm, goodness. [img]graemlins/1puke.gif[/img]
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05-04-2003, 02:21 PM | #10 |
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ok now i am going to say GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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