The Weird Things People Eat Around the World

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6-21-2007 @ 7:48AM

Willy said...

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."

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