On Mar 13, 12:02 pm, Anim8rFSK > wrote:
> 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.

I think on the earlier Survivors, it was the other end of the body
that was affected most.

N.