A video shows children gagging and squirming as they are forced to swallow live fish as part of a ritual thought to ease breathing problems in India.
A crowd of 100,000 people gathered at Hyderabad's Exhibition Ground to take part in the ritual, where instead of an asthma pump Indians of all ages participate in an annual ceremony in which they must eat the wriggling fish.
Sufferers gather every June in the southern city to gulp down the fish stuffed with a yellow herbal paste, in the hope it will help them breathe more easily.
A video shows children gagging and squirming as they are forced to swallow live fish as part of a ritual thought to ease breathing problems in India.
A crowd of 100,000 people gathered at Hyderabad's Exhibition Ground to take part in the ritual, where instead of an asthma pump Indians of all ages participate in an annual ceremony in which they must eat the wriggling fish.
Sufferers gather every June in the southern city to gulp down the fish stuffed with a yellow herbal paste, in the hope it will help them breathe more easily.
any proof that don't work? they are not the only ones that swallow fish live, Goldfish swallowing was an American school fad starting in the 1920s, where a live goldfish is swallowed.
It is not clear how the fad emerged: various people have made claims. A 1963 letter to the New York Times claimed that the fad began in late 1938 when Lothrop Withington Jr., a Harvard freshman with "[class] presidential aspirations," was encouraged by his "campaign managers" to do so as a publicity stunt: "Reporters and photographers were inadvertently present in the Harvard Freshman Union when Withington swallowed his live goldfish (with a mashed potato chaser) and started a nationwide fad in the spring of 1939." The editor replied that "unless the Editor's memory is deceiving him, the goldfish-swallowing craze among school and college boys had begun at least as early as 1930."[1] However, a Time magazine noted in a 1939 article, "Harvard Freshman Lothrop Withington Jr., son of a onetime (1910) Harvard football captain, started the fad sweeping U. S. campuses...".[2]
When my father joined his squadron as an exchange officer back in the sixties, he was introduced, with his fellow Brit, to the CO in the mess. The CO asked them whether they liked the tropical fish tank and which fish they particularly liked. Said fish were then scooped out and the unfortunate newbies were required to swallow them alive or chewed. My father, smelling a f**k**g great rat, opted for a small fish. His colleague has expressed a preference for a rather large angel fish. He got it down in the end.
Whelks are okay in a sort of "we used to have to eat this sh*t because we were poor and they were just slightly cheaper than catfood" sort of way. We used to eat them when we were kids and try not to be the one who winced.
nasty bottom feeding sea food was always much more of a thing is the south, especially London, we, in the more civilized north never bothered with such peasant fare....
That which does not kill us makes us angry and weak
