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The Weird Things People Eat Around the World
So is it pickled snake head? Or is snake head a type of fish? Either way, I'm not eating it. Spotted in an Asian market in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Black beans are good. Cheese is good. But black bean cheese? I dunno -- it sort of looks like a bowl of ash. I guess I'd try it; it is the natural black foodstuffs, after all.
Found in San Francisco.
It's tough to read the label, so I'll just tell you: it's cow lung.
Trout isn't that weird really, but they hardly look "live."
Spotted at the Raleigh, N.C. BugFest.
Ay-yo Adrienne... you got something in your teeth.
What's Haw anyway? Found in Beijing.
Scary.
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wierd_ball Apr 9th 2008 2:52AM
most of things posted here are not KOREAN, yo dumb blogger!
Anna Jul 14th 2008 1:09AM
Sanza is how you pronounce the fruit in Chinese referred as HAW. It is nuturitious and is reportedly help lower blood pressure, etc. I do not know the details... If we eat cherry with pits... this is about the same... I do not see anything unsual...
Eating real delicasee of Bear Claw will be... I heard right hand costs more than the left (assume bears are right handed)...
Vincent Aug 9th 2008 8:19AM
Nothing strange about them, just poorly translated: Snake-head is name of the fish, Black sesame & black bean soft curd (hence cheese), Cooked meat dried and shredded finely is floss, Haw is a kind of berry and Crab spawn meant the salted duck egg york which resembles the crab's roe.
sikanrong Sep 12th 2008 6:44PM
I'm in barcelona spain and i live right next to one of the pizza-cone places. Those things suck. Not for any particular reason, the thermodynamics of the code are way less friendly than the flat usual pizza surface. Anyway it's mostly sauce under the top of the cone, and crappy pepperoni diced.
CHAN LEE PENG Feb 3rd 2009 9:40PM
Weird foods tough. I'd admit all these foods are disgusting!Another addition
http://www.trifter.com/Practical-Travel/World-Cuisine/Extremely-Controversial-Bizarre-and-Unusual-Delicacies-Around-the-World.498291
Thanks.
chumpman Feb 21st 2009 12:12PM
should post this one - Sago worm of Sarawak. just eat fresh or fried. creamy....
http://msianfoodies.blogspot.com/2007/08/sago-worms.html
Erin M Mar 7th 2009 2:14AM
Wow, many of these things look totally disgusting! I was intrigued to look up the snake fish and I found that it is a type of mud fish that is often used as a dipping sauce. It's a peasants food typically and when used in speech it usually has a negative connotation. When someone has a dirty mouth its sometimes referred to as having a 'plah rah' mouth, the name of the dish.
I read an article a few weeks ago on a few people dying over blow fish testicles, a delicacy on Japan. It's 100 times more poisonous than potassium cyanide and the victims can feel themselves dying as the process only takes about an hour and a half. It is accompanied by excruciating pain and limb paralysis. Yet people still consume it because it makes a man look 'manly' and the ladies dig that shit I guess?
Willy Jun 21st 2007 7:48AM
Cool post. I think the cone pizzas look great!
In Zambia, I ate caterpillars, known locally as "mthonda." Lightly fried, the inch-long bugs were a dark, dark brown, and slightly crunchy. They didn't have much flavor at all; they tasted mainly like I was eating burnt toast.
Some of my neighbors ate field mice. Dug up from the fields, the mice were boiled and dried in the sun for a few days. Thereafter, they could be stored for weeks. Some of the kids would sell them door to door for less than 1 cent apiece. The adults would buy them and carry them in their pockets. Yes, they ate the whole thing -- except the tail. There is a belief that if you eat the tail, you'll "fall to the back of the class."
hhh Jun 21st 2007 4:18PM
first couple are just bad translations
... and you need to get out more
Ben Jun 21st 2007 4:29PM
i think i remember seeing cone pizza somewhere here in the US... San Diego Maybe?
Sean Jun 21st 2007 4:46PM
That salmon candy is, in fact, dangerous. In a good way.
RedSaber Jun 21st 2007 5:12PM
You should have included the famous "Poutine" from Quebec, Canada!
There's a whole myth and culture surrounding that famous meal, which consist of fries, gravy and cheese (it's actually much more complicated, with sausages, and all that kind of stuff you can add).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine
Check it out! ;)
It's FUCKING INSANELY GOOD ;)
Dan Jun 22nd 2007 11:26AM
Snake head fish are a kind of "Frankenstein" fish that can survive for a time outside of the water. They are major predators, and have been introduced to the waters around Washington, D.C.
LarianLeQuella Jun 22nd 2007 3:40AM
Seen a bunch of interesting things here in Korea. The live octopus is another wonder to behold. It will fight back! Ad sometimes the bad translations are the funniest! If you want to see a bunch of them, just head over to http://engrish.com/ for almost endless entertainment (and many of them are food related).
whistles Jun 21st 2007 6:29PM
Candied salmon is very very good. It is smoked then candied, quite pricey and very very good. It is common on the west coast of Canada.
Haw is a berry, haw flakes are sold in every chinatown round the world quite tasty, the hamburger part is a bad translation.
The Italian cauliflower is called Romanseco and is quite tasty kind of like part broccoli part cauliflower.
check out www.weirdmeat.com very cool weird meat :)
Alex Hagen Jun 21st 2007 6:52PM
Crispy Cones, in Arcadia CA...I've had them, they are not that good.
http://crispycones.com/crispy/location.htm
Albert Jun 21st 2007 7:57PM
Here are some pork brains and edible beef blood I took a picture of a few months ago:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1131/583588846_293661b97d.jpg
shipley Jun 21st 2007 9:45PM
Cow lung (usually known as "lights") is often sold by butchers in Britain as a cheap form of offal usually used as pet food. In my experience, cats go crazy for the stuff and will eat it until their stomachs are bulging!
Jason Jun 22nd 2007 2:08AM
The second one isn't a bad translation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakehead_fish
Lisa Jun 22nd 2007 10:26AM
Giant water bug??!!??!! We call them ROACHES here in Florida. Didn't know there was a market for them. Hmmmmmmmm......