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  1. No, no, no. I am not going to try most foods on this list. I am not prepared to do it. I can’t understand why people have to eat insects, but then I have people looking at me wondering why I eat meat. I can’t even stand Black Pudding and Jellied Eels! However one food on this list I love and it’s from Scotland is Haggis! I love it. I llove it more when I put it in a burger with a fried egg! I could eat that stuff every day. 😀

    1. Haha… you are right! People see and eat things differently. I haven’t tried haggis yet. But I would like to try it the way you ate it. Sometimes the local supermarket had Scotland Day and they had haggis.

  2. Of all the weird foods, the creepy crawlies stand out for me because I really cannot imagine eating them. I had no idea they ate silk worms in Assam! Grasshoppers, termites (??!!) and big red ants? Never!! I really don’t have a stomach for these things, even though I usually like to believe I am quite experimental with food. I did see balut in the Philippines and it made my stomach churn.

    1. I’m pretty sure I can’t eat balut. Even my Filipino friend can’t. If I close my eyes, I think I can eat the creepy crawlies. I think. But not sure when I see it in person. Haha…

  3. This is quite the list. Being a foodie, i love trying out weird foods, and have even tried some, but i don’t think i have tried any of the lot. Have come across multiple vendors selling insects and all, but looks like i need to take the leap of faith, and give it a shot in the post pandemic world.

  4. Interesting article on food . Seems like the blood boiled meats are the strangest. Fuga is something that I had done a research on sometime back. It is indeed weird how the fish commands such high prices. I would have loved to include a few vegetarian dishes to this mix – there are quite a few unusual ones that include bamboos and strange mushrooms

    1. I agreed. I think I heard a lot about Fuga because of the shape of the fish, it’s high price, and the risk of death if you cook it wrong. I would be happy if you want to add a vegetarian food in the list. It just happened all the contributors ate something with meat in it.

  5. This is an absolutely great list of weird/interesting food from around the world. I was lucky enough to try silkworms in Assam and I am looking forward to trying some new ones on my future trips. A bowl of K’ala Phurka in Bolivia would be quite thrilling actually as would be some of the other ones. Bookmarking your list for when I start traveling again.

  6. I love, love, love this list! Weird and bizarre things always fascinate me. I have a bucket list of 600+ items in it and you’ve just added 30+ more. Some of the weird food I’ve tried are escargots in France, scorpion and crocodile in Thailand, grasshoppers in Uganda, and stinky tofu in Taiwan, which actually didn’t smell that bad to me (maybe my Asian nose is immune to stinky food). I’m pretty sure I’ve also eaten a bunch of other weird stuff without realizing it, as I sometimes just order something without knowing what they put in there.

    1. It’s funny that I’ve tried escargots in Jakarta, Indonesia, not in France. lol. I would like to try the stinky tofu, too. I wonder how stink it is compare to the normal tofu.

  7. Your article is great, I haven’t read such an interesting text for a long time. I love getting to know a given country and culture through food. By tasting local, even strange dishes that may be disgusting. I’ve already eaten ants, crickets, cockroaches. I ate Haggis, Jellied Eels, Tripoux. But I would love o try Stinky Tofu, Cuy, and K’ala Phurka.

    1. Wow! You have tried a lot of stuff. I wish I had a gut to try all that crawlers when I frequented Bangkok for work. Haha…

  8. I can be a very fussy eater of foods but the one I probably wouldn’t want to eat is the Tavuk göğsü becuase it just loks like goo. However because I read whats in it, chicken breast?? Now I probably would eat it based on that. 😀 But it really doesnt look appealing. 😀 I have tried Tripoux before in France, its ok, thankfully they add wine sauce to it otherwise it would be very bland.

  9. This was such a fun article to read. I learned so much but was also equally horrified, especially when I saw the photo of Cuy and could make out the shape of my little pet on the plate!! I’m a vegan so this was a little hard to digest (no pun intended) as interesting as it was. Raised in a British household, I still remember the day I learned what Black Pudding was as a child. Still, it is so interesting the eclectic cuisines around the world and how you can prepare almost anything to taste delicious! Thanks for sharing!

    1. Actually I thought about what if a vegan encountered this article. And you said it, it’s a little hard to digest. But, I really appreciate that you still want to read this, to learn about what people eat around the world.

  10. One of my favourite parts of traveling is trying the new food and cuisine I come across. Despite that I’m not sure I’m brave enough to try some of these dishes. I say that but Haggis is one of my favourites while traveling, so to see it grouped with these dishes I could be maybe tempted into trying some on future trips. If you’re ever in Greece I’d suggest kokoretsi or magaritsa, both featuring offal and intestines.

  11. I am pretty fussy about my foods so I am sure than many of these weird foods might only be photographed by me as hubby tries them all! Although I am sure I could not even watch if he wanted to try termites or crispy fried ants! I know for sure h

    1. Yup! I can see from your traveling stories and pictures that your husband likes to try something special in the destinations.

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