Waste of both water and paper. I did this to a friend in college. What I didn't count on was that dixie cups don't hold water indefinitely. They get soggy and start to leak relatively quickly, so you're pretty much guaranteed to ruin things with water damage. Bad idea.
I've had three of those -live octopus in Korea, duck eggs in Cambodia and Laos, and Durian various places.
The octopus I had was cut up and served with a light sesame oil sauce. It was nice, but nothing to write home about and certainly not worrying. While the suckers do stick to your mouth slightly, the only time it's really dangerous is if you're utterly drunk. Of course, that's exactly when someone is likely to think eating live octopus is a good idea. I would eat it again if offered, but I think it tastes better cooked.
The duck eggs were rather foul. I had mine served with salt and lime juice. The lime was reasonably effective at covering up the nasty flavor and I managed a few of them, but I still needed quite a bit of drink to wash the taste away.
Durian shouldn't even be on this list in my opinion. It smells awful, yes, but the taste is incredible.
Not on the list, but worth nominating:
Thousand year eggs or century eggs from all over China and southeast Asia. They're duck eggs preserved in salt, lime and ash. It turns the eggs black and leaves them with a pungent greasy eggy sulphury taste. I thought it was terrible, but I think I can see how they'd be an acquired taste.
I tried pig fetus soup in Laos that tasted quite good, actually, but you have to get past the fact that you have half a pig fetus dangling out of your mouth.
Basically, the problem with most of these things is psychological. If you actually stop and think about many of the foods we eat, some of them are pretty odd. We're just used to them and not these.
The octopus I had was cut up and served with a light sesame oil sauce. It was nice, but nothing to write home about and certainly not worrying. While the suckers do stick to your mouth slightly, the only time it's really dangerous is if you're utterly drunk. Of course, that's exactly when someone is likely to think eating live octopus is a good idea. I would eat it again if offered, but I think it tastes better cooked.
The duck eggs were rather foul. I had mine served with salt and lime juice. The lime was reasonably effective at covering up the nasty flavor and I managed a few of them, but I still needed quite a bit of drink to wash the taste away.
Durian shouldn't even be on this list in my opinion. It smells awful, yes, but the taste is incredible.
Not on the list, but worth nominating:
Thousand year eggs or century eggs from all over China and southeast Asia. They're duck eggs preserved in salt, lime and ash. It turns the eggs black and leaves them with a pungent greasy eggy sulphury taste. I thought it was terrible, but I think I can see how they'd be an acquired taste.
I tried pig fetus soup in Laos that tasted quite good, actually, but you have to get past the fact that you have half a pig fetus dangling out of your mouth.
Basically, the problem with most of these things is psychological. If you actually stop and think about many of the foods we eat, some of them are pretty odd. We're just used to them and not these.