If kimchee is worse than balut then balut can't be all that bad. Kimchee is good.

What I don't understand about the reaction to lutefisk is that people are appalled it is soaked in lye but then have no problem with hominy which is just corn soaked in lye (though Mexican hominy uses lime -- and I don't mean the citrus fruit).

Isn't kimchee just a cabbage or seaweed salad?

fermented cabbage (usually, like pickles technically it can be different vegetables but cabbage is the most common).

And it is a perfect example of why I don't say a food is gross if I haven't tried it. It should be gross but isn't.

That's good stuff!

Hahaha, was that supposed to be a pun about sheep? If not, you got some inadvertent pun-gold going there.

diggin some good kimchee. havent had any in ages.

as far as the lye...isnt that what they use to make black olives?

(the answer being yup )

Lye or brine.

That reminds me of a line from George Carlin's "Fussy Eater" routine. When as a little boy he is asked by his mother why he doesn't like something he hasn't even tried, he has a couple different responses:

• It came to me in a dream!
• I know I don't like it and I know if I tried it, I would like it even less.

Lye's also used for real bagels, yo.

Word.