In article om>,
"Nancy2" > wrote:

> On Mar 12, 4:40 pm, "Backspace, Backspace, Backspace"
> <backspace@backspace> wrote:
> > Does somebody like Andrew Zimmern have to build up a tolerance to such
> > exotic foodstuffs? If I went to the Philippines and tried balut, would it
> > make me sick?
>
>
> I believe on one of the Survivor seasons, the competitors had to eat a
> bunch of these things. As I recall, some of them gagged, but we
> didn't ever find out if they got really sick from them.
>
> N.

Yeah, they had to eat 'em. That was pretty bad.

I'd think you'd get sick from almost anything you ate after having not
eaten for a couple weeks. Wolf down a cheeseburger, barf it back up.