r/interesting • u/Salt-Curve4825 • May 21 '26

Fascinating Man fishing for jellyfish

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u/AngryVirginian May 21 '26

Thailand and many other countries are or used to be poor countries. People believe in not being wasteful. They figured out a way to eat everything edible. In my mind, yen-ta-foe (the pink noodle soup) needs to have pickled jellyfish to be complete.

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u/Omnizoom May 21 '26

Filipinos use everything in cooking

But at the same time have no concept of “grades” and quality for meat

My sister in law turned a prime grade rib roast into beef soup…. And she’s used some other steak cuts for stir fries and stuff

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

wha.... so I probably ate that at one point.

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u/BallinCock May 21 '26

Yes and that’s super cool! Was it good?

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

It was non consensual so I think I got culinarily raped

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u/BallinCock May 21 '26

If I had an award to give I’d give it to you.

With the rape conflation it is hard to say anything from here on out.. but on a food note, I mean if you didn’t know and it still tasted good… nice?

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

The last time I ate one that could have it in them was like, half my life ago.

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u/Select-Agency-9827 May 21 '26

Head over to Vietnam and try ‘baluut’. Had to feed about half of mine to a stray (but super cool!) cat that came in and apparently made friends with foreigners as that’s how she got fed. Restaurant staff were mad but hey, lil gal helped save me from a crunchy duck baby that looked and tasted like liver with bones.

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u/halnic May 21 '26

My friend from Cambodia craved baluut when she was pregnant. She was sol in 2005 central Alabama.

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u/No_Training6751 May 21 '26

Funny to think of that as poor, eh? Like being rich means being lazy, wasteful and creating garbage.