NDD you need to participate in a good size branding on some ranches in CO. You can even harvest the mountain oysters yourself and witness first hand where they come from. Its a pretty big deal out west, quite a differance from the east coast. You cut, clean em, batter em and fry em. Ad a few beers in there and it just does not get any better than that.

Here's a picture of Balut moments before a good buddy of mine devoured it. I thought you were supposed to eat disgusting things in SERE, but definitely not in language school?!

I have never had the.... pleasure(?) of eating Balut, but the most disgusting concoction I've ever put into this body had to have been during Sage. Here's the recipe:

1 ea. - O'Doul's that had been sitting in the sun for 3 days
1 ea. - liquid charcoal
1 ea. - sour milk
4 ea. - raw eggs

And OF COURSE, this was their "Holy Drink" that we would offend the G's if we couldn't manage to keep it down. All we were thinking is, "If this is such a delicacy how come we're the only one's drinking it!?"