10 Disgusting Hor D'oeuvres To Serve To Make Sure You Don't Have To Organize Next Year's Holiday Party

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What it is: We don’t want to make you look at a picture of this for too long because it’s so gross and a really sad ending for a fertilized duck egg that basically never gets to see the face of its mother. And people EAT this. Mostly in the Philippines, but in other countries in Southeast Asia as well. At least in Japan, when they call something “parent-child donburi (rice bowl)” (Oyako-don), they use grown chickens and UNfertilized eggs, not fetuses.