Why are spiders more scary than sharks?

[Anomalocaris]

Ha.

Okay, gross story time.

When I was a first year student I worked part time in a hospital working in the morgue. When I moved onto my second year, I had to train a first year to replace me in the morgue.

The day he was sitting in on his first autopsy, I had told him not to eat for 24 hours beforehand. Unfortunately he decided to eat.

The moment they opened the y-incision he threw up - on my shoes.

I've eaten one of these, it's called a 100 year old egg (yes, that greeny black stuff is the yolk).



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That's nothing more than an normal egg marinated for a couple of weeks in a strongly alkaline solution. You more or less embalmed the egg. The egg acquires an odd and strong, but not unpalatable, taste. There is no smell I can detect.

If you want to see something really gross, try Swedish Surströmming. It's lightly salted fish left to ferment for six month until the thing becomes sticky, slimy, as acidic as lemon and stink to badly that it is customarily eaten outdoors.

Modern chemistry have discovered that certain food, like fish and soybean, that when fermented until they stank, develops a odorless chemical, called monosodium glutamate, that is quite addictive. This explains why people come back to stinking food like flies to shit.

There is also a Chinese dish called stinking tofu. When they say stinking, they are not kidding. Appearently when it is served in restaurants it has the effect of vacating the entire establishment.

The Japanese also have a stinking dish made from soy bean so rotten that they become slimy.