Strange Foods

🐜 Insects & Bugs

• Chapulines – Roasted grasshoppers (Mexico)

• Witchetty Grub – Large white larvae eaten by Indigenous Australians

• Ant Egg Soup – Made with red ant eggs (Thailand, Laos)

🐍 Amphibians & Reptiles

• Snake Wine – Whole venomous snakes fermented in alcohol (Vietnam, China)

• Frog Legs – Common in France, but strange to others

• Crocodile Meat – Eaten in Australia, Southeast Asia, and parts of Africa

🧠 Organs & Odd Cuts

• Haggis – Sheep's stomach stuffed with offal, oats, and spices (Scotland)

• Balut – Fertilised duck egg with a partially developed embryo (Philippines)

• Casu Marzu – Sardinian cheese infested with live maggots (Italy)

🐟 Seafood Oddities

• Surströmming – Fermented herring with a powerful smell (Sweden)

• Shiokara – Fermented seafood viscera in salty brine (Japan)

• Hakarl – Rotten shark meat that’s fermented and dried (Iceland)

🐄 Unusual Animal Parts

• Rocky Mountain Oysters – Deep-fried bull testicles (USA)

• Pacha/Khash – Boiled sheep's head or feet (Middle East, Caucasus)

• Blood Sausage/Black Pudding – Made from congealed blood (UK, Ireland, Korea, Philippines, etc.)

🍹 Drinks & Odd Sweets

• Bird’s Nest Soup – Made from hardened saliva of cave-dwelling birds (China)

• Pepsi Ice Cucumber – Cucumber-flavoured Pepsi (Japan)

• Durian – A tropical fruit with a pungent odour that divides opinions

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