Taking a balut for the team

Don't watch this if you're about to eat, or are squeamish. Huge thanks to Lucas Jansen for producing that video. There are a lot of ways this could have gone differently. But this is how it happened: Noah Galuten, a food blogger at Man Bites World grew up a Suns fan. I grew up in Portland, supporting the Blazers. As the third and sixth seeds, respectively, those two teams met in the opening round of the playoffs. I predicted a Portland win, which almost nobody agreed with, including Noah. Noah suggested a friendly wager. I suggested we should make it so that the loser eats some food the winner picks. Noah instantly suggested balut, which I had never heard of. Portland lost. Balut, I learned from google and several TrueHoop readers, is a fertilized egg, normally duck, but sometimes chicken. It matures to a certain point, in this case, I'm told they were 18 days into becoming big adult ducks, and then it is boiled (embryo, yolk, umbilical stuff, bill, ...