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Now I was just reminded of this from my days in China.

There is a custom all over the world to take the new expat employee out for lunch on their first day and make them eat truly disgusting local delicacies - all in the name of fun. Using my seafood allergy yet again as a shield, I was fortunately able to dodge the worst of this. This got my new work mates a tad miffed until I started telling stories of truly gross things I had eaten - which of course got them talking about theirs.  

Apparently there is a dish from the Guangdong Provence, just to the north of where we were, which really takes the cake - as it were. It seems there are things the Guangdong will eat that will turn the stomaches of the rest of China - no mean feat for the place that came up with 1000 year old eggs.

The dish is called ' Three Squeak" and it gets its name from the noise it makes.

Take one small mouse, live, in a basket. Grab it with your chopsticks (1 squeak), dunk it in the sauce (2 squeak) and then bite its head off (3 squeak).

Ah the joys of cultural diversity.

No I did not try it, although I have tried a few things that would get me in hot water so I might just leave this  line of thought where it is for now - and simply say of Three Squeak - Apparently it doesn't taste as good as it sounds.