You might think that this is your ordinary Betamax®, but it is not.
It’s actually a street slang for grilled chicken blood.
How can you grill something
that is in liquid form? Most of you might be wondering how this
happened, let me just give you a brief background on how this is done.
Chicken blood is extracted from the chicken in liquid form. When the
blood is placed in an open container and cooled down a little, the
texture becomes thicker and somewhat gelatinous. The “gelatinous” blood
is scalded to have a more solid form then cut into rectangular pieces.
The rectangular blood resembles the shape of a Betamax® tape and this is
the reason why it was called such.
This is the cheapest merienda (afternoon
snack) that we could have. Imagine a serving (3 pcs on
a stick) would only cost us a Peso.
Grilled chicken blood has no taste at all, it’s not gamy or foul
smelling as it may seem. It’s just like chewing something without any
taste. The best way to compliment this is by dipping it in vinegar and
chili mixture.
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