When I was in high school I bussed tables and washed dishes at a Chinese restaurant. Lets just say their pantry was full of interesting things including the packaged nests. I only saw them make it a couple of times and both times it was Asian families eating it. Just looking at the dirty nest in the package was enough to keep me from trying it. The hands down best thing in that pantry were the five gallon buckets of shelled cashew nuts, which I may have taste tested once and a while.