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Bizarre Foods From Around The World
What constitutes typical North American food these days is kind of gross, if you ask me. I'm talking about all the processed junk we put in our bodies. But compared to some other 'regional' cuisines that are mentioned in this article, I guess we're pretty lucky. Need examples?- In Iceland, for instance, Hakarl is made of putrefied shark meat. Sheep's head (served in its entirety) is also popular.
- In Saudi Arabia, camels are a popular item -- camel's feet and sour camel humps in particular.
- Fried grasshoppers, earthworms and locusts are all the rage in Africa.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 3)
em Oct 4th 2007 11:31AM
famous slovak meal... stuffed cabage- cabage leaves stuffed with pigeon and cooked in sour krout. yummm
Gena Bentley Oct 4th 2007 11:36AM
All of this is nothing new, I've been exposed to such things as "Mountain Oysters", "Bulls Balls", "Marinated Vulva", "Lambs Eyes in white sauce" and also "Dog Tacos and Dogs Head" I guess people will eat anything if they can make it taste good, but yuck something just goes against my stomach with these unconventional foods.
jgrosho Oct 4th 2007 11:39AM
In Thailand, every market has its bug vendors. it's not garbage food. they are really tasty and except for wings and legs, very much like eating popcorn or potato chips. some are soft and gooey and some are crunchy.
seems to me most americans need to widen there horizons and get off the stump. for thousands of years asian cultures have embraced food not available at our local supermarkets. doesn't make it wrong, just different. If you graze a little farthur down the food chain, consider it brain food.
ray Oct 4th 2007 12:52PM
i guess when there's no food available anyone WILL
eat anything available thats for sure
Tom Oct 4th 2007 3:00PM
How many times did you beg your editor to let you use "Camel Toes" in the headline?
Paul Tashner Oct 4th 2007 8:59PM
Boiled sheep heads in Kazakhstan. Lop off one ear for the host, the eye hopefully for a young boy (because it was really chewy & tough to choke down for a western man but the boys lined up eagerly for it - ceremonial not due to hunger). Nose and tongue could be passed around. Have plenty of good Kazakh vodka handy to wash it all down.
Bill Forstchen Oct 4th 2007 10:00PM
Mongolian cuisine! Aureg. . .which can be camel's milk, yak milk, or horse milk. . .fermented, or better yet when they distill the aureg into vodka, camel milk vodka is "unique." Also had sheep's head, the eyeballs were great, goat innards, dried milk curds (think of the curds in a milk carton that has been in your fridge for two months). The worst, sour reindeer milk with curds floating in it. The best, roasted marmot, too long to explain how it is cooked but that is a great part of the experience.
debra Oct 9th 2007 8:22PM
EWWWWWWWWWWWWW I'LL STICK TO MY STEAK AND POTATOES
Tom Oct 9th 2007 8:25PM
I've eaten alot of Clams most are great some need to be cleaned before you dive in. others are rottin becouse of the friged water they come from.
kaecie Oct 9th 2007 8:39PM
hmmm... i've eaten wild boar and deer and they're good... also BAYAWAK... it's like a big lizard (smaller than komodo dragon but looks like it)... it tastes like chicken (LOL)... uh, fried frog legs which is good too... of course, the ever-popular BALUT (duck egg where the chick is already formed)Yummy!!! to a lot of people, these things are weird... DINUGUAN (meat cooked in pig's blood and vinegar), BOPIS (this is made from lungs, stomach, heart of pig or cow), ISAW (intestines of chicken or pig... either fried or barbequed)
L. Oct 9th 2007 8:48PM
UNCLEJERRY
I TOO HAVE HAD SQUIRREL AND DUMPLINGS. THEY WERE NOT TOO BAD! AS A CHILD A NEIGHBOR COOKED SOME STRANGE THINGS WHICH I TRIED. ONE WAS ROASTED RACCOON. I CANT RECOMMEND THAT. IT LOOKED AS TERRIBLE AS IT TASTED. MY SISTER ONCE ATE A DOG POO. BUT NOT ON PURPOSE. TEE HEE!
Amy Oct 9th 2007 8:47PM
I don't think that this is simply a matter of being narrow-minded. Some of these foods must be prepared in a VERY precise manner and eaten within a VERY specific time frame to avoid getting quite ill. It's just not "safe" to eat some of this stuff from street vendors or marketplaces, even restaurants sometimes. On the other hand, there's just something inherently wrong about eating the fetus or putrified carcass of another creature. It doesn't seem so bad if it's "fresh" and "well cooked"....
fred Oct 9th 2007 8:50PM
I've had bacon and eggs more than once....
Amy Oct 9th 2007 8:55PM
Just FYI, the chicken eggs you get at grocery stores are unfertilized, meaning that there is no fetus or chick in there.
Mike Hunt Oct 9th 2007 9:08PM
I like camel toe,as long as its hair is removed and properly washed.
Mike Hunt Oct 9th 2007 9:11PM
Black Anus aint bad if washed properly.
James Oct 9th 2007 9:41PM
I've eaten a lot of exotic meats - including rattlesnake "cakes", ostrich hot dogs, squirrel, raccoon, octopus, clams, squid, shark, kangaroo jerky, Cajun alligator, beaver burger, pheasant, elk, bison, and more. Of course, in a French restaurant in Montreal I dined on escargot in butter cream sauce. Real good!
Ed Oct 9th 2007 9:36PM
Vince, John, Zeke, You are all baaaad, I like that in a person!!
Bev Oct 9th 2007 9:38PM
I don't remember the exact name something like Galoot or Baloot but I remember the sound of the people eating them on Fear Factor, a destinctive crunch. What they were were ducklings unhatched fully developed but not alive, whether or not they were boiled or otherwise prepared I couldn't know, but the people eating them ate everything but the shell, bones and all. That is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen or heard of anyone eating.
max Oct 9th 2007 9:46PM
In Oaxaca Mexico I ate champolenes (spelling?)which are small crispy fried grasshoppers. I brought some home and gave them to my kids one night on their dinner plates, the look on their faces was priceless, but after the shock, they actually thought they tasted ok.
I also had octopus, which for me was strange.