Weirdest foods of the world

bigdaub · Flight Steward Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 50 57 ants

i tried hakarl, an icelandic delight, recently. it is fermented (or rotten) shark. it smelled terrible, and it tasted horrible. it is the most disgusting thing that i've ever eaten.
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paul · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:57 am Post subject:

I think this one is going to take some beating. If you're about to have breakfast / lunch / dinner - or if you're of a squeamish nature - then look away now. This video of still-writing octopus on a restaurant table in Korea might make you squirm more than the tentacles themselves.

For the rest of you... click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvyunwtlvuc
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memelabs · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 9:48 pm Post subject:

Seems like pretty much everyone is just listing different types of meats... each culture has its own animals that it eats, I don't see what makes one any grosser than the other!
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deepsand · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject:

I've had...
rabbit in portugal,
Kangaroo & crocodile in Australia,
Crab in Barcalona,
Frogs legs & snails in France,
Shark in europe,
just a few of the things i can remember!
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sweet_amarelia · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:20 am Post subject:

smadonna · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:35 am Post subject:

Well, I've eaten kangaroo and crocodile, bison (stew, burger & prime rib--delicious), elk, pronghorn antelope, and chocolate covered ants from a can when I was a kid.

In Oaxaca, Mexico, there's a restaurant with a specialty I couldn't bring myself to try--"caldo de gato" -- yes, it really is cat soup. I did try a bite of the grasshopper pizza there.

In Illinois, I ate squirrel at my great-grandmother's house.

One of the most delicious oddities (to me) I've ever eaten was yabbies in south Australia. It's a kind of freshwater crayfish. Unbelievably sweet and delicate. At the same bush restaurant, we had lots of sweet berries, greens and root vegetables from the bush I'd never seen before.

In Montana, I like bull fries, aka rocky Mountain oysters, aka deep fried bull's testicles.

And in Rome, "spaghetti nero." I thought it would be pasta in the style of the emperor Nero, but "nero" means black in Italian. It was black spaghetti, made with squid ink. A bit musty tasting. It turned my mouth licorice black immediately and something else black for a few days after!
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guymexico · Trainee Steward Joined: 23 Sep 2008 Posts: 27 30 ants

I saw something on tv wherein they ate live octopus... They say one may die if it's not eaten properly.

Deadly and Yucky (?!)
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kennooo · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:30 am Post subject:

In Japan the first time I met my wife's parents we went to the restaurant and her mother ordered shirako.

I didn’t know what it was but they told me it was very expensive so I thought I had better be polite and eat it, I am also the type of person who will try just about any type of food at least once.

After consuming it I deduced that it was definitely some part of a fish but was not sure what part. My best guess was it was cleaned, raw fish guts.

After a couple of mouth fulls they happily told me that shirako was COD SPERM! I thankfully declined eating anymore and finished up the cows stomach on the other plate.

I have learned when you live in another country long enough to stop asking “what is that?”
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BrownCan · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject:

Well no one can match Chinese. I hope there is sanity in eating dogs, cats, scorpions and even human babies...

kennooo · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject:

The saying about the Chinese is that the only thing they wont eat with legs is a chair.

And yes it was a Chinese person that told me that
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danbkk · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:18 am Post subject: Thailand

Come to Tailand! We have all kind of weird food.

start from most common

frog, bird, eel, ant's egg, turtle's egg

then

dog, turtle, tree worm(don'tknow name)

and

deer(few kinds), hog, seaturtle

The list is actually longer. And not all Thais eat all this. They are available on different part of Thailand.
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danbkk · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:22 am Post subject:

eaglerock · Trainee Steward Joined: 03 May 2009 Posts: 28 29 ants

pigs ear in sweet and sour sauce in china was pretty weird, and sea cucumbers descirbed as having a "slippery slimmy taste" not something I look for in my food.
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