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'Virgin eggs' - a bizarre urine 'delicacy' As spring sets in, a strange smell permeates the air in Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province in China, as locals begin to eat the seasonal "virgin egg." "Virgin eggs" are actually eggs boiled in the urine of virgin boys. Most outsiders are appalled at the idea, but the eggs are selling well on every street corner of Dongyang. Costing 1.5 yuan (70 sen) each, vendors often sell out, Qianjiang Evening News reported. Although bizarre to some, the custom is part of the city's intangible cultural - Dongyang people say the eggs have the taste of spring. 'Virgin eggs' being boiled with schoolboys' urine in Dongyang In recent weeks, schoolboys in Dongyang City were instructed to urinate into plastic barrels placed outside their classrooms, which are then collected by nearby residents. Local teachers accepted the practice and even reminded the boys not to use the barrels if they are sick. "It's so delicious that I can eat 10 eggs a day," said a woman, surnamed Liu, who moved to Dongyang several years ago and developed a taste for "virgin eggs." "I had never eaten them before I came here, but now I am addicted," she said. Egg-cellent...the cooked 'virgin egg' However, not all Dongyang people are interested in them. One local resident, surnamed Li, said he had never tasted "virgin eggs." "I can't stand the smell. It's awful." In the eyes of many Dongyang people, "virgin eggs" are the perfect tonic for spring. Egg vendors will tell you that they help prevent springtime drowsiness and heatstroke in the summer. Doctors' opinions on eating the eggs vary a great deal. Wu Yunhua at Dongyang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine told the newspaper that urine contains a kind of crystal that can "diminish the internal heat of the human body" and stop bleeding. But Huang Jian, the chief urology physician of Jinhua Central Hospital, contested that there is nothing good for people's health to be found in the urine. "After all, it is waste from the body," he said. Source: Shanghai Daily Published Mar 12 2011 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: prole...@egroups.com Subscribe : proletar-subscr...@egroups.com Unsubscribe : proletar-unsubscr...@egroups.com List owner : proletar-ow...@egroups.com Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: proletar-dig...@yahoogroups.com proletar-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: proletar-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
