The 6 Most Sadistic Dishes From Around The World (not for the squemish)

[THUNDER HANDS]

#6. Ikizukuri


Origin:

Japan


What's so Bad About it?

You walk in to a sushi place and order the first thing that sounds appetizing. "Oh," you say to yourself, "Ikizukuri. What an appetizing jumble of Japanese sounding syllables." And just then, a scene of pure unspeakable horror unveils before your terrified eyes as the cook grabs a fish out of a tank and starts slicing it up while it flops around on the cutting board in front of you. Then he throws it on your plate, the fish still twitching and knocking around your side dishes.

Wait, What?

"Ikizukuri" literally means "prepared alive" and it delivers on everything the name implies and explicitly states.

You can even choose your own fish for the kill, so if you're an asshole you can go for the one which seems happiest at the moment. The chef will then use his Matrix skills to partially gut and cut it up in mere seconds and serve it you. The trick here? He must cut the fish without killing it. With its heart exposed and beating, gills still working, trying to gasp for air and those last few seconds of pain-filled consciousness, staring at you with its slowly dying eyes which ask you in a fainting tone... "Why... . why... wh... y... w," your fish is ready for eating.

It Gets Worse:

Often the chef will take the pieces he cut from the fish and "reassemble" them, like some nightmarish jigsaw puzzle. It might be considered quite spectacular from a culinary point of view, but thinking of it as some form of sick joke to taunt the fish is much more rewarding.

For an equally horrifying variation, the Chinese have Yin Yang Fish, which involves dipping the living fish into oil and frying it alive, but again just enough that it is still living right up until you plunge your fork into its terrified little face.


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#3.Dojo Tofu


Origin:

Japan

What's so Bad About it?

Known also as Tofu Hell, Loach Hell, Pot Hell, Hell Boil (do you notice a pattern here?) and erroneously called "Baby Eel Tofu" in the West, the dish is a legendary Japanese delicacy consisting of baby Dojo loaches (small eel-like fish) and tofu. It's apparently inspired by the MTV show Punk'd. And the dark lord, Lucifer himself.

Wait, What?

Your basic recipe for Tofu Hell is easy as baby kitten pie. You start boiling some water and when it gets hot you place a block of tofu on the bottom, immediately adding the baby loaches (because FUCK YOU loaches) which will try to escape being boiled alive by plunging straight into the still cold tofu. And this is when Ashton Kutcher jumps out from behind and yells "we punk'd you!" because just then the baby loaches start to notice that something smells nice. Them. The tofu starts cooking and the little fish, who just a few seconds ago were certain they escaped a boiling death and rejoiced at the thought that there was still a chance they will see their parents again, are cooked alive inside it.

The final product resembles Swiss cheese to a degree. Only this time, the holes were not created via a fermentation process, but by baby loaches trying to escape a pot of boiling water, tears streaming down their little face as they fondly remember their little baby room with the ThunderCats bed-spread and the poster of TMNT on the wall.

It Gets Worse:

There is still a lot of confusion over whether the dish is real or not.
A few years back, a Japanese TV show did a segment on Tofu Hell, finding a South Korean restaurant "Konsori" which had it on the menu. Since then, loaches enjoyed a brief fame in Japan, as thousands and thousands of them were bought by people who tried to re-enact the dish themselves. Unfortunately, as it turns out, it takes extremely precise timing to make Tofu Hell work (they failed to prepare it on-air), but hey, as the old proverb goes, "If at first you don't succeed, keep boiling baby fish alive."


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see the whole disgusting list here... http://www.cracked.com/article_16951_6-most-sadistic-dishes-from-around-world.html

[DS1]

1. Japan is just fucked

and people say British food is bad.

[MineralMan]

2. Most Japanese people have never eaten anything like this.

Japanese cuisine is one of the most delicate in the world. These things are bizarre abberations, and not part of Japanese cuisine.

[keroro gunsou]

4. and you base that

on a few abberantly weird examples.

dude, chill out and eat some pocky. :rofl:

[smalll]

6. Not just on that. Also on pedophiliac and/or ultra-violent "anime,"

seppuku, "comfort" women, the Bataan Death March, and the Rape of Nanking. The record doesn't look too good. :shrug:

[keroro gunsou]

10. don't like the anime or manga

don't fucking watch or read it.

as for the rest, i'm not getting in a pissing match over the japanese culture. fair to say that ALL cultures have got some shit to be ashamed as well.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. that and sushi. DS1 is always consistent.

[Wetzelbill]

3. I was going to make a joke about flvegan eating every one of those

then I read the article and have decided never to eat again.

[sasquatch]

5. Where's LM and flvegan?

:D

[Deja Q]

8. What, no Big Mac?

:hide:

[Deja Q]

9. Look at this pic of two hot chicks!

[MrSlayer]

11. Cracked is a great site.

Very funny stuff over there.

[FLAprogressive]

12. I'm surprised Aspic isn't on there....