He is foul, pungent, omnipresent, and wholly unpleasant.
He sneaks up on you when you least expect it - on street corners, downtown, at the train station, or pervading the market. You sense the faintest hint of him and issue an all-hands-warning to your friends, but it comes too late - it always does. Your nose is viciously attacked in a full-frontal assault, the after-effects lingering for what seems like an eternity, as the juicy smell particles have taken root in the cross hairs of your nose.
No one likes him. No one. Yet, people insist on eating it because "It is good for health." The health benefits to eating something that smells like this have yet to be proven. And, unless it cures cancer or halts the ageing process, the effort it takes to consume this far outweighs the health benefits and may, in fact, cause undue damage.
This is bundaegi, the cruel avenger, known to those not in the habit of regularly consuming bugs, as silkworm larva.
Now let us never speak of him again.
i had the pleasure to eat this crap. the smell of it alone now makes me gag.
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Apparently, Koreans are at least aware of the repulsiveness of Bundaegi. I was reading Yesterday and I found out that it was banned for public sale during the 1988 olympics.
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