PJ Vogt

It's like that's how you know you're in the presence of a real topic.

Where you're like, I'm worried to even get near this thing.

Even though I think I understand why the rule exists, even if there was a carve out, I'm kind of afraid of being caught near the carve out.

Have you, like, in the course of your life as a person who eats a lot of things, have you eaten things that felt to you instinctively, like, as... Like, you had a similar reaction as if you'd eaten human meat, where you just felt like, I shouldn't be eating this, or, like, my mind is telling my body not to do this?

That sound you're hearing in the background is of a precocious and slightly bored four-year-old figuring out that if you make funny sounds with your mouth, the microphone will pick them up.

Anyway, Balut.

So when you bite into it, is there like...

But when you were eating it, the FM radio station in your brain was just broadcasting like, no, no, stop, no.

It's also just funny because it's like if you were like, do you want to eat an egg?

I'd be like, sure.

If you were like, do you want to eat a duck?

I'd be like, absolutely.

If you were like, do you want to eat a baby duck?

I'd be like, I don't really have a strong opinion about that.

What are the reproductive policies?

It's really weird.

Like there's just a complicated amount of culture in that response that I don't know how to explain.

In America, there's a newer taboo which says that people shouldn't be disgusted when they encounter foods from other cultures, which is absolutely polite.

but also does not take into account that pretty much every culture has ideas about what's gross.

And for some of those cultures, what's gross is actually what we eat.