Of all on your list the raw chicken would bother me the most. Maybe the scorpions too.
It’s amazing how many food prep techniques that originated just in order to make certain foods at all edible in survival situations, if still disgusting, eventually became regional treasured delicacies. Mmmm mmm yummy, it’s just like how mama used to bury and let ferment!
After it has been buried for a few months it is then hung to dry for a few more months.
Which makes one wonder how terribly hungry people ever managed to wait this long for a barely edible food item (no matter its taste). Not sure how someone even thought to bury it and hang it and then try it and see if it is not poisonous.
Baffles me. Did they line up people to try it after one day, two days, three days…a few months till they found people did not get sick or die eating it (nevermind if they vomited just smelling it)?
You don’t bury it when you’re starving. You bury it because it smells, but who knows how hungry you’re going to be later. When you’re starving, later, you dig it up and see if you’re really that hungry, yet. If it’s improved in the meantime - bonus.
That kinda makes sense although it has never occurred to me to bury some food I did not like or found to be poisonous and then dig it up later when I was hungry to see if it improved.
That’s just me though.
That’s only because you’ve never been starving.
True but I would just throw bad, inedible food out rather then go to the trouble to bury it on the off chance I would be starving later and the food would have miraculously improved against all expectations.
But, clearly some did just that and it worked. I’d be dead and they’d be alive munching on that stuff.
Where would you throw it, that you wouldn’t have to keep smelling it?
Toss it back into the sea. Or on a garbage heap. Or compost pile. Or to the pigs as slop.
I would not dig hole and carefully bury it and remember where that was for future consumption.
But, as I said, some apparently did and it worked.
I’m sure that all of those things were tried at one time or another by people who didn’t feel like shovelling. However, there are down sides to all of them.
Toss it into a fjord and it can come back and start rotting and stinking against your boat. Let something else eat it and it may die and then you have two possibly toxic carcasses. And no meat of any kind on the compost pile. Stinking up your compost pile and making it useless as compost is not an improvement.
If you don’t want to bury it - tell someone else to bury it. That kind of thing is why people have children.
Chaat masala. Has a very sulfurous smell I admit it. But I love the taste so much my mouth automatically starts watering when smelling it. I put it on my watermelon and on my raita.
I hesitated on the raw chicken, but the place was a chicken hot pot restaurant. My host popped the raw chicken into his mouth and chewed away. I then convinced myself that the chicken I was about to eat was probably alive within 30 minutes ago. So when in Rome… It was very chewy and very strong chicken flavor.
And the scorpions were deep fried.
Not to say you made an unwise choice; I likely would have followed the “when in Rome” mantra as well. But I don’t think it’s a matter of how fresh the raw chicken is-- I believe chickens are just natural carriers of salmonella.
But it might be much more prevalent in American chicken farms, where they pack them in like sardines and conditions are terrible. In Asia, maybe they treat chickens destined for sashimi in a way that lessens the probability for that. Who knows, maybe they give them private quarters and also give them massages and beer like they do for their Waygu cattle.
Years ago, we had dinner with a friend and his family. His mom ran a Vietnamese restaurant and he was a pretty good cook himself. One of the things he made was eggrolls, which were served wrapped in lettuce with a brown dipping sauce. He jokingly mentioned that everyone would want to wash their hands after eating the eggrolls. Although the dipping sauce was delicious, if you got any of it on your fingers it rapidly took on the distinct odor of dog poop. I have no idea what was in it.