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FOODS . .

by Zeeshan Ahmad on December 03, 2011

Top Ten Strangest Foods From Around the World

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They say one man's trash is another man's treasure. The same could be said about food: one man's nightmare may just be another man's delicacy. From cow's tongue and pig's snout to chicken's feet, from fried worms and frog's legs to sautéed snails, the list of weird stuff we eat is endless (and often quite tasty). If you've been indulging lately and need a reason to diet, take a read, you may just lose that appetite. Here is the list of the ten strangest foods from around the world.
 

10. Fried - brain sandwiches

Fried - brain-sandwiches

Long before the era of Mad-Cow Disease, a sandwich made from fried calves' brain, thinly sliced on white bread was a common item on the menus in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The sandwich is still available in the Ohio River Valley, where the brains are now heavily battered and served on hamburger buns. In El Salvador and Mexico beef brains, lovingly called sesos in Spanish, are used in tacos and burritos. The brains have a mushy texture and very little flavor on their own so the addition of copious amounts of hot sauce definitely helps.

9. Haggis

Haggis

A traditional Scottish dish, haggis is made with the minced heart, liver and lung of a sheep mixed with onion, spices, oatmeal, salt and stock, and boiled in the sheep's stomach for a few hours. Larousse Gastronomique, a popular encyclopedia of gastronomic delights, claims that haggis has "an excellent nutty texture and delicious savory flavor." Haggis is available year-round in Scottish supermarkets and made with an artificial casing rather than a sheep’s stomach. In fact some are sold in cans to be heated in a microwave before eating. Similar dishes can be found in other European countries with goat, pork or beef used instead of sheep.

8. Bugs

Bugs

The practice of eating insects for food is called entomophagy and is fairly common in many parts of the world, with the exceptions of Europe and North America (though bugs are apparently a favorite with the television show "Fear Factor"). It is not uncommon to find vendors selling fried grasshoppers, crickets, scorpions, spiders and worms on the streets of Bangkok, Thailand. Insects are high in protein and apparently consist of important fatty acids and vitamins. In fact flour from drying and grinding up mealworm can be and is often used to make chocolate chip cookies. So next time you think there is a fly in your soup, it may actually just be part of the presentation.

7. Rocky Mountain Oysters

Rocky-Mountain-Oysters

What is so strange about oysters? Probably the fact that they're not the kind you find at the bottom of the ocean, but rather a fancy name given to deep-fried testicles of a buffalo, bull or boar. Rocky Mountain oysters (also called Prairie Oysters) are well-known and regularly enjoyed, in certain parts of the United States and Canada, generally where cattle ranching is prevalent. The testicles are peeled, boiled, rolled in a flour mixture, and fried, then generally served with a nice cocktail sauce.

6. Stuffed Camel

40 Comments

Good work, very informative post.. keep it up yaara

17 months ago

thnx dear

6 months ago

Good show

17 months ago

great..........................

17 months ago

great posting...............thanks frnds

17 months ago

:)

17 months ago

Very Nice,,,,,,,,

17 months ago

nice post

16 months ago

thnx

16 months ago

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16 months ago

Never heard foods

16 months ago

wow..so weird food..and look disgusting..but might delicious food..:-) nice post

16 months ago

very nice post thanks for sharing !

16 months ago

excellent work

16 months ago

nice post dear

16 months ago

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15 months ago

nice post

15 months ago

very nice !

15 months ago

good post and nice share

15 months ago

Nice foods to be eaten. Makes me hungry. Good share

15 months ago

hmmmmmmmm, gud

6 months ago

nice post

15 months ago

interesting!! Dont like look of any of the food here!

15 months ago

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

6 months ago

The top and most exotic food around the world "Balut" is our exotic street food here in the Phillippines we bears the top most on this list...to overcome eating it just close your eyes while eating and then you overcome it....thanks for sharing

14 months ago

Nice post

14 months ago

very interesting! I can eat bugs....delicious..........
but other food in this post I cannot eat..........

14 months ago

beautiful post

14 months ago

amazing

12 months ago

good post

12 months ago

thnx frnds . .,

6 months ago

It appears everything on the earth is eaten

6 months ago

hmmmmmmmm, yeah it is . .

6 months ago

I want to throw up good i saw the balut hahahahahhahaha. Maybe for some who havent tasted balut, i am sure they feel the same way that i did. thank you for this blog.

6 months ago

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, a gud comment ,,, thnx dear . .,

6 months ago