What Gaijin Eat: Cute LIttle Viper Babies (and their mothers)

OMG! That is so amazing awful!

I have to say, that's revolting!! I really, really couldn't eat that.

I did wonder if those things were testicles, but then couldn't think of anything you'd have gotten them off so was confused!

This is in no way meant as an attack on the commenters, but I wonder...

Hmm, I don't know why you couldn't eat it, or why it is revolting, or amazing awful. Unless you are vegan you eat chicken and chicken eggs. You eat fish. You eat dead cows and dead pigs.

These are actually animals that have lived their life to the fullest. These snakes have lived wild and then got caught. It got skinned and eaten.

The only difference between these snake eggs and a chicken egg is that these eggs came from a free animal. The chicken eggs we eat are mostly from birds tortured for their entire life only for the purpose of making eggs.

I would rather eat this snake egg than a store bought chicken egg.

I would rather eat this snake than a farmed salmon.

I wonder what makes eating a factory raised animal easier than eating something from the wild...

My husband is making sake out of them. We just came home to two live ones in jars in the genkan. It takes a month of fasting for them to evacuate their bowels before they can be put in alcohol.

Nothing wrong with eating them at all, and it makes for dramatic blogging as well. However, in an earlier post you mentioned that you had too many potatoes like it was a hassle, that they would rot in your hallway. The pragmatic solutiuon is to store them unwashed in a cool dark place that remains above freezing. I kept 30kg like that from last season which I then ate over 30 weeks of autumn, winter and into spring.

Eating snake is fun, but why not store your potatoes properly?

I guess dramatic blogging is better than pragmatic blogging ;)

ps - I posted the Home video on my blog.

Damian,

I was not looking for dramatic blogging, but when I find myself excited about trying something new, I do blog it.

The potatoes do not store well here. It is very hot and humid. We do not have as much storage space as a traditional Japanese farm house, AND, it was our first year. We have learned a lot.

The main thing we learned is that EVERYTHING gets moldy here no matter WHAT you do. Our rice is moldy, our takakibi is moldy, our potatoes don't keep.

The neighbors have big refrigerators for rice and other veggies, but the purchase cost and running cost of keeping such a machine going is prohibitive to us. We just have to live with things getting moldy. We still eat them, of course, but it is just not as good. The thing about the potatoes was not so much that our precious potatoes are rotting, but that we have way more than we could ever consume in a year.

Even still, I was happy to try a mamushi. It is not something that I intend to make a habit (it wasn't bad, but wasn't exceptionally good) but I am open and eager to trying new things.

This year has been especially bad with a rainy season that lasted the entire summer. The neighbors who have lived here and farmed all their lives are also having problems with everything getting moldy.

I stand by my decision to eat a snake that was captured fair and square from the wild. I also eat fish, and I eat eggs from my chickens and meat when they die or are killed by predators.

When I was young I would bbq a snake in some hot coals every now and then.

As for mold - I have no solution for that. My area (Hakuba) is also very moldy however some buildings much more so than others. This rainy season was particularly bad.

My house is small, perhaps 40m2. It is also very simple and poorly insulated with basic wood cladding and no dead space in the roof. We get some mold, but not nearly as bad as others do. My darkest smallest room remains mold free (it is also our food storage area). Areas in full window-light get almost no mold. Areas with poor indirect light gets some mold, nothing significant. Perhaps we are lucky. Others in town get no mold whilst their neighbors get heaps – in seemingly similar buildings. Besides the size of my home the one distinctive feature I can think of is that it sits on 4 foot high metal stilts rather than touching the ground. There is no slab or foundation. Perhaps an old or poorly moisture-proofed foundation aids in mold growth?

Certainly this rainy season destroyed a lot of our potatoes. We planted WAY too many expecting our solid and dank clay mud to yield poorly. Usually one plant yields 1kg in ok soil. This season 160 plants yielded only 30kg! Growth was bad, many rotted in the ground and many more went to rot and disease in the weeks after they were harvested.

The best I can offer is to leave a good coating of mud on the potatoes upon which the mold can grow, rather than on the potato skin itself.

Our basement certainly is moldier than the rest of the house. It is on a slope so only half underground.

The main reason we don't have space to keep all our potatoes in the ideal condition is that we have so many frikin bikes that need to be stored under a roof lest they rust.

We also got a lot more potatoes this year than we expected. Must have to do with the rain? Of course, we also lost a few as well, after harvest to rot.

Apparently we were only supposed to pick them when the earth was dry. Not something that happens very often this year.

I will try the mud thing. When I harvested I had asked a neighbor if it might be beneficial to put a little extra mud on them (more than what was already on when it came out of the ground) but she just looked confused, so I dropped it.

Jesus that is so Rad.

I was just sitting here in front of the computer squealing like a little girl as Sumiyo showed me this.

Oh the radness.
the radness...

really nice photos though.

I am sure our neighbors would get a real kick out of you screaming like a girl, so if you come here, we can arrange a mamushi slaying sacrifice party. We will even make sure that it is not a virgin.

You have complete rights to the gallbladder.

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At last! Someone who understands! Tahnks for posting!