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Interests => All Things Edible (and how to prepare them) => Topic started by: LC EFA on January 06, 2009, 08:00:55 PM
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I know this has been done before, but you never know, there might be something *new* here to even the most seasoned
The Weird Things People Eat Around the World
Half the fun of traveling is getting out and enjoying all sorts of foods you're not used to eating. A simple trip to the corner market or grocery store in a foreign land can keep you amused for hours.
However, aside from healthy and unhealthy diets, there is a totally different category of food which is slowly trickling through into mainstream cuisine. This is loosely referred to as "weird foods."
Check out some other weird foods from around the world.
Tuna Eyeball (Eaten in Japan, China)
Bugs (Eaten in Chicago, USA)
Chittlins (Hog's Insides, Eaten in Southern America)
http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2009/01/weird-things-people-eat-around-world.html
I'd have a go at some of the things on that list, but others....people really eat that stuff ???
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I'd have a go at some of the things on that list, but others....people really eat that stuff ???
I dunno, sir.
I'm still reeling from the shock of discovering that some decent and civilized people actually think it's okay to ruin cheese by mixing it with tomatoes and peppers.
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I saw a show with a native Cantonese chef (http://yancancook.com/). Last night's show was boiled sandworms, grubs, and fried beetles.
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After having eaten stuff like balut, kimchee, eel, bat (yes, bat), Rocky Mountain Oysters, chocolate-covered ants, and various other indescribable stuff, watching a few episodes of Andrew Zimmern choke down stuff that would make a goat puke has led me to the conclusion I'm a food prude.
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Of course, these days they get Big Macs and Whoppers shoved into their faces
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Of course, these days they get Big Macs and Whoppers shoved into their faces
Obesity, heart failure, and diabetes.
Ah, progress.
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There's an octopus salad at sushi bars that's really good....isn't it raw?
I don't eat stuff with the eyes still on it.... :o
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After having eaten stuff like balut, kimchee, eel, bat (yes, bat), Rocky Mountain Oysters, chocolate-covered ants, and various other indescribable stuff, watching a few episodes of Andrew Zimmern choke down stuff that would make a goat puke has led me to the conclusion I'm a food prude.
Zimmern eats some gawd-aweful stuff. However, the Tony Bourdain (No Reservations) episode where he eats with some Bushmen, was some truly hideious crap. At one point I think he was holding back puke when they gagged down some poor animal they found and ate raw. I think I vurped during that one. :p