Speaking of queasy Filipino food, how about Dinuguan AKA “Chocolate Meat”?
It’s only nicknamed that because it just looks like it’s in chocolate. It is really a very savory stew of blood and meat simmered in a rich, spicy gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili and vinegar. Yum! • This troper is Filipino, and laughs at the Fear Factor balut-eating segment, yet he can’t bear to try dinuguan. • British black pudding (or blood pudding, blood sausage) is sometimes cited as a cause of this in foreigners, especially Americans. It’s actually quite nice – but then there’s the example which squicks out even the British, a seriously considered government plan after WW 2 to use excess (human) blood in the blood banks to make black puddings to ease the food shortage… • Oh come on. I call BS on this one. Blood has a very short shelf life, so any excess would be lost as natural wastage. Also, blood is separated into packed red cells as one product and plasma – which contains the coagulative agents needed to make black pudding successfully – as another. Not even to mention the
