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The Weird Things People Eat Around the World 3
This is actually a type of cauliflower, not some trippy Winamp visualization.
"Unbelieveable" in Taiwan.
Japanese cuttlefish legs: fried, dried, and bagged.
Let's party with these little dried crabs in a bag!!!!!!!!
This one is my favorite. "Half fish filet and tartar sauce, half egg over hard and yakisoba noodles," found in Japan. Awesome!
This peanut butter powder (?) was made in Texas.
These dried lizards found in Hong Kong are used for soup.
Fried bread popsicle with carrot-milk flavoring. Sounds delicious.
Some people like their sushu a little too fresh.
This stuff is called Natto, and it's made from fermented soybeans. It looks like old baked beans and snot.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Rich C. Jun 21st 2007 7:24PM
There are definitely Japanese people who don't like Natto, but I would say that there are more who do. And those who do wolf this stuff down. It made an appearance in our school lunch the other day, and I almost lost it -- the kids, however, were like pigs in slop.
They say it has remarkable health benefits -- but I honestly believe that it's all BS.
jimbobjoe Jun 21st 2007 8:20PM
While Cordyceps are indeed a fungus, it's a fungus that specifically invades a worm and grows in it. Then the Coryceps is typically harvested out of the stricken worms.
The candied cordyceps pictured appears to be taking the worm and candying it. Which is slightly unpleasant for the uninitiated I'm sure.
rathersalty Jun 22nd 2007 7:00PM
i'm surprised taiwan spelled 'unbelieveable" right.
those little fried crabs are delicious.
i wish i had the guts to eat the bugs. i could eat soup with lizard, but scorpions require much more courage.
brittyful Jun 23rd 2007 2:24AM
Natto is one of the grossest foods i've ever seen in person and tasted. It smells worse than sewage and it taste so bad that i couldn't swallow. Just thinking about gives me chills all over again.
Ornor Jun 23rd 2007 4:54AM
I had one of those pizzacones in Amsterdam, really delicious!
san Jun 26th 2007 5:27PM
Natto looks a lot similar to what we call "Hawaichar" in Manipuri. Made of same stuff, i.e. cooked and fermented soya. It smells ... but not like sewage to those who like it. It's a delicacy. And good for the health. It's really no BS :)
Marge McNellis Jun 26th 2007 8:42PM
Went to Beijing last spring break and went to "snack street" and tried a lot of local foods. I had the scorpion, they deep fry them and they are very tasty.
I live in Japan and love the local's food, eventho they look quite odd. And have travled to Hong Kong, Kawloon and Macau: food is wonderful. You never know until you try....
felicia Jun 26th 2007 10:38PM
its bad enough living in america and seeing people eatting meat with white bread and milk, in middle america. red meat, eggs and chicken on a bone is bad enough to stomach, anything from a cow, pig, or typically any animal is gross and than you show these things, your article, just wants to turn you off from food altogether
Belle Starr Jun 26th 2007 11:12PM
All I can say is , dont knock it until you have tried it . In some areas , the foods listed are both a delicacy and what is is on hand to eat . Some of our so called gormet style food was made to use up bad meat , before it went really bad or hard chesse and stale bread .
Other wise a wife trying to stretch the food budget , while the new crops were waiting to be planted and the game trails opened .
Belle Starr Jun 26th 2007 11:12PM
What about the Scottish people eatting Haggis ?
K-2 Jun 27th 2007 4:39PM
I've tried cone-pizza in Milan, Italy, and it's quite tasty :D.
RJ. Jun 29th 2007 7:40AM
Cow lungs are eaten by the majority of South Africans.Even me.It's cut up into small pieces together with the heart,milt,liver and intestines(after been clean thouroughly).We eat it with "pap" or dumpling.Pap is maize meal,steam-cooked until dough-like.Come to SA and have a taste.Plain or curried "Afval"(Intestines of the cow or sheep).
Morbieman Jul 2nd 2007 2:54AM
The green cauliflower is far from odd, I can get it at a local gourmet grocery store not a mile from my home. I have had Natto, and although it was not to my liking, I found with enough Tabasco sauce it was at least edible. The unbelievable not butter, was probably the same crap that Fabio hawks in the States, only here it is known as "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter", a specific brand of margarine. Margarine is disgusting, chemically only a single molecule away from plastic. I would like to try the dried lizard soup, though the lizards look pretty enough to hand on the wall as art.
willie Jul 3rd 2007 8:08AM
you really can't knock it till you try they. when i was in italy in some of the bars instead of peanuts they had fried minnows, they were great, as long as you did'nt drink too much.
Ron Jul 3rd 2007 9:58AM
We had better get used to these types of foods just in case this "bee colony collapse" becomes much worse. My girlfriend is friend from the Philippines and one of their main stay delicacies is "balut" which is a chicken egg eaten with the baby chick still inside! This is supposed to promote energy, health, and virility. And...NO...I have not eaten it ever!
Numb Jul 3rd 2007 10:11AM
Frankly, I don't see what makes 90% of this "weird" at all. People eat different stuff, so what? America is not the world - frankly we'd probably all be better off if we embraced other cultures rather than made fun of them. I've had some of those items and some are pretty damn good. Far as I'm concerned, almost anything that can be eaten, should be eaten.
natalija Jul 3rd 2007 10:45AM
That person that said it`s bad enough that we eat meat of animal bones, and that all these weird things people it in those pictures, really makes you not want to eat at all, is soooo right. I agree 100%! It`s gonna take me a while to eat meat again... I feel like vomiting after those gross pictures!
elizabeth Jul 3rd 2007 11:13AM
i dont remember where it is but they take live frogs and put them in the blender and make a viagra shake. the frogs are supposed to enhance maleness.
CHRIS Jul 3rd 2007 2:08PM
isi -ewu is a goat head specialy prepared with chilli pepper and sauce with palm oil adding maggi to taste a nice and delicious thing to east especially durring winter it keeps you worm
Don Jul 3rd 2007 3:06PM
I have had dried cuttlefish from the local Korean Market several times and really enjoy the very different flavor. People are wierd. We are repelled by some of these things (me too), yet watch with fascination as Hanibal Lecter eats from a living human skull!