Hong Kong beef balls and boiled hotdog with chilli sauce

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23 Comments

latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Jesus Christ, the meatballs look like something from Scorn... And that hot dog is just... no. Just fucking no.

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y (5 replies)

It's Asian style meatballs, an entirely different beast than western ones.

latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y (4 replies)

But, like... are they supposed to look that unappetising?

Edit: I'm not trying to be insensitive to cultural differences (I'm Balkan, we have plenty of weird dishes), I just approach all food from this appeal factor, regardless of origin, and my only hang-up is that I cannot consume organs (brain included) - my body physically rejects any ingested organ. Yes, I peel my sausages (heh).

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Yeah, that's how they look. I guess appeal is subjective, I'm used to them looking that way so they just look good to me.

latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Fair point, we eat smoked slabs of pig fat (not bacon, just a layer of fat with the skin still on it) over here, guess that doesn't sound all that appealing either when showing/talking about it...

I sincerely apologise if my ignorance caused offence, and thank you for clarifying!

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The hot dog is still... no. Just no

latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Oh, thoroughly agreed! Hot dogs are 90% impervious to messing them up as a dish, yet there we have The Horror!

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Why.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

If you liked the wiener and balks you wouldn’t have to ask why.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Is this a North Korean prison meal?

bahuka88@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Proudly Canadian.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y

Deported.

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 1y

"We have the saddest meat possible, what can possibly turn this into something edible?"

Chilli sauce: "I got you, fam!"

mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Balls look alright, that hot dog looks like it's dying of anemia though :<

glimse@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (2 replies)

No they do not. They look like clay lol

mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Those are Asian style meatballs, they're typically boiled and put into soups like pho or used in hot pot. That's what they look like.

glimse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Oh that makes sense then

Snailpope@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

Chilli sauce looks like my toilet after Taco Bell

FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I guess playdoh is technically non-toxic.

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Did you get paid to eat it?

bahuka88@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

No, the opposite. 😔

dbtng@eviltoast.org · 5 pts · 1y

Fuk me, that is the ugliest food I've seen in a bit. I had to come back to this post and look again.