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You need a better hobby or more storioes of the real and befoudling... LOL
J.T.I.Y. (just to inform you):
Monkey brains have long been a delicacy in Cantonese Cuisine. The some what barbaric, but intising manner for which to eat monkey brains, was featured in Faces of Death (1978). The ritual is performed with four people seated around a small table. On the table is a small box, about the size of an organ-grinder's box, not trying to be humorous, which is then placed on a small carousel. A small to medium size monkey known as an infant is placed into this small box with only it's head protruding out the top of the box, with a hole just barely fitting around the neck. The frantic monkey, whom is already fighting his confinment, is then slowly spun in a clockwise position. While the confined infant slowly spins, the four participants, armed with usually wooden, but often small metal Planishing type hammers, begin to tap the monkey on the topside of it's head. The participants only hit the infant every time the monkey is facing the person with the hammer. It is a sign of respect, but purely cause eye contact with the monkey heightens the experience. The infrenzied monkey is continuously tapped with the hammers until the monkey finally collapses from exhaustion. The Monkey still very much alive, merely unconscious. The top of the head is then cut open with the percision of a surgeon preforming brain surgery. The exposed brain is then scooped out with tiny tea style spoons. The adrenaline created from such a ritual creates an easily digestible sweet substance.
Though monkey brains are not on the top ten strangest foods of all times, many even believe that it is merely an Urban Legend it makes for interesting conversation over the dinner table. Live monkey brain was one of the items in the Manchu Han Imperial Feast as part of Imperial cuisine in Beijing during the Qing Dynasty. It is not only humans who eat the brains of monkeys. Two species of chimpanzee are known to eat the brains of monkeys which provide fat in their diet. Besides the high fat content of brains,[5] brain consumption can also result in contracting fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other prion diseases in humans. Monkey brains are also often given to invalids and children in Asian countries, though not everyone finds them easy to swallow.
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