Thursday, May 19, 2011

Strange & Unusual Foods!


I saw a list of unusual foods online...and realized I had tried quite a few of them! Maybe you've tried a lot of them, too. Read through this list--I have included a description for those that may not be obvious to all of you. Maybe you're not sure you've tried Takoyaki, but you somehow remember eating a baby octopus dumpling :) If you've tried more than 50, I am not sure if you are amazing or just plain dumb!! I put a YES or NO to show the 35 that I've tried!
  1. Alligator  YES
  2. Anchovies  YES
  3. Balut : a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell  NO!!! (not for a lack of opportunity! gross!) 
  4. Bear  NO
  5. Beef Liver  NO
  6. Beef tongue  NO
  7. Bone Marrow  NO
  8. Buffalo  YES
  9. Calamari  YES
  10. Caviar  YES
  11. Chicken Feet  YES
  12. Chitterlings  NO
  13. Conch  YES
  14. Cow intestine  YES
  15. Cow Tongue  NO
  16. Crawfish  YES
  17. Crocodile  NO
  18. Cuttlefish  NO
  19. Czarnina: a Polish soup made of duck blood (sometimes hen, rabbit or pig blood would be used) and clear poultry broth. In English it is referred to as Duck Blood Soup  NO
  20. Dog  NO
  21. Donkey  NO
  22. Dove  NO
  23. Eel  YES
  24. Elk  NO
  25. Escargot  YES
  26. Fish Eyeball  NO
  27. Foie Gras: a pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles  YES
  28. Fox  NO
  29. Fried Cornmeal mush  NO
  30. Frog Legs  YES
  31. Goat  YES
  32. Haggis: a Scottish dish of a sheep's or calf's offal, suet, oatmeal, and seasoning, boiled in a bag  NO
  33. Hákarl: a Greenland or basking shark which has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for 4-5 months  NO
  34. Head Cheese  YES
  35. Hog Maws: the stomach of a pig. More specifically, it is the lining of the stomach, is very muscular and contains no fat, if cleaned properly.  NO
  36. Horse  NO
  37. Insects  NO
  38. Jellyfish  NO
  39. Kangaroo  NO
  40. Kasava: the starchy tuberous root of a tropical tree, used as food in tropical countries.  YES
  41. Kefir  YES
  42. Kelp  YES
  43. Kim Chee  YES
  44. Kiszka: Polish blood sausage  NO
  45. Kombucha: a fermented tea that is imbibed for medicinal purposes  YES
  46. Lamb's Brain  NO
  47. Live Octopus  NO
  48. Menudo  YES
  49. Miso: a thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt  YES
  50. Monkey  NO
  51. Moose  YES
  52. Octopus  YES
  53. Okra  YES
  54. Ostrich  NO
  55. PB & Banana Sandwich  YES
  56. Pheasant  NO
  57. Pig's Cheek  NO
  58. Pig's Knuckles  NO
  59. Pigeon  NO
  60. Pigs feet  NO
  61. Pigs Tails  NO
  62. Poi: a Hawaiian dish made from the fermented root of the taro, baked and pounded to a paste  YES
  63. Quail  YES
  64. Rabbit  YES
  65. Rattle Snake  YES
  66. Raw Sushi  YES
  67. Rocky Mountain Oysters  NO
  68. Rooster Fries (think Rocky Mountain Oysters)  NO
  69. Seal Meat  NO
  70. Shark  YES
  71. Sheep's brains  NO
  72. Squab: a baby pigeon  NO
  73. Squirrel  NO
  74. Sting Ray  NO
  75. Sweet Breads: the thymus (throat sweetbread) and the pancreas (heart or stomach sweetbread), especially of the calf and lamb  NO
  76. Swordfish  YES
  77. Takoyaki: a popular Japanese dumpling made of batter, diced or whole baby octopus, tempura scraps, pickled ginger, and green onion, topped with okonomiyaki sauce, ponzu, mayonnaise, green laver (aonori), and katsuobushi (fish shavings)  NO
  78. Tripe: the first or second stomach of a cow or other ruminant used as food  NO
  79. Turtle  YES
  80. Venison  YES
  81. Walrus  NO
  82. Whale  NO
  83. Whale Blubber  NO
  84. Wildebeast  NO
  85. Zebra  NO

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