{"id":894,"date":"2012-03-22T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/22\/gross-and-tantalizing-menu-from-the-explorers-club-dinner\/"},"modified":"2012-03-22T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T12:44:00","slug":"gross-and-tantalizing-menu-from-the-explorers-club-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/22\/gross-and-tantalizing-menu-from-the-explorers-club-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Gross and tantalizing menu from the Explorer&#8217;s Club dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/YdCtt0IIu6I\/gross-and-tantalizing-menu-fro.html\">Gross and tantalizing menu from the Explorer&#8217;s Club dinner<\/a>: <br \/>Last week&#8217;s 108th annual Explorer&#8217;s Club dinner at NYC&#8217;s Waldorf-Astoria featured the customary assortment of weird, gross and tantalizing food, starting with cow eyeball martinis (see Paul Adams&#8217;s photo, below, of the eyeballs). 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Here&#8217;s what the canapes were like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craphound.com\/images\/eyeball-tray_0.jpg?w=625\"><\/p>\n<p>Pineapple towers with scorpion, pea pods, strawberry slices, melon balls and green grapes<br \/>Sweet cherry peppers, cucumber flowerets and cherry tomatoes filled with assorted creamed fillings: durian paste, herbed and spiced cream cheeses, and garnished with crickets, mealworms and scorpions<br \/>Two varieties of seaweed with mild spices and olive oil<br \/>Saut\u00e9ed and deep-fried earthworms<br \/>Orchids (edible) with a honey-sweetened creamed dipping sauce<br \/>Chon and Kopi Luwak coffees, made from coffee beans that have passed through the digestive tract of small mammals<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2012-03\/exotic-meats-explorers-club-annual-dinner\">A Taste of Exotic Meats at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner <\/a><br \/>(<i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwz.org\/blog\/\">JWZ<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=13e1da7cb4b6420df885ee7bfe9d3c13&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=13e1da7cb4b6420df885ee7bfe9d3c13&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/YdCtt0IIu6I\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gross and tantalizing menu from the Explorer&#8217;s Club dinner: Last week&#8217;s 108th annual Explorer&#8217;s Club dinner at NYC&#8217;s Waldorf-Astoria featured the customary assortment of weird, gross and tantalizing food, starting with cow eyeball martinis (see Paul Adams&#8217;s photo, below, of the eyeballs). Popular Science has the whole menu. Here&#8217;s what the canapes were like: Pineapple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-eq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}