People Eat the Weirdest Things

Good pics and article! Take care!

Maybe delicacy for some, but not me…The pictures said it all!

I too agree with BC Doan.

i live in chicago and i dont know ANYONE that eats bugs

im sorry but some of the countries you stated are wrong. Please get your countries right.

you don’t like herring?
Maybe you thinks its soo weird and not good at all, its delicious with onions, yess!!!

i like it!!

I’m trying to achieve healthy eating. Someone else can strive for weird.

Now that’s just wrong!

scorpions?ohh,i’d like to try some just for experience sake,

I have had Raw Octopus before and didn’t mind it. I don’t think I could pick a favourite from the rest although I know which one I would definitely not want. I could never force myself to eat that great large tuna eyeball! It gives me shivers thinking about it.

Great article though, Anne.

In the Philippines some people eat frogs. I have eaten raw anchovies that are soaked in vinegar.

Raw herring is the biznitch. I’d eat it any day! Holland FTW.

you notice that most of these countries are in Asia, which tells you alot before you book a holiday to china.

Fish roe is not an uncommon food in the USA, after all that’s what caviar is. In the southeast USA, you can buy canned fish roe in the supermarket. Pretty tasty with scrambled eggs.

I would not purposely eat bugs, eyeballs, or living animals like those fish. I’ve probably eaten bugs accidentally, and I eat hot dogs so I’ve probably eaten pig snouts, eyeballs, anuses, etc. I also would not eat chitterlings (that’s the correct spelling) on purpose.

Even though many of those “foods” listed above strike many of us as extremely unappetizing, they’re probably healthier than a Big Mac, Hot Pocket, or Klondike Bar.

Oh, no, Anne! This is a very interesting article, but it should not be read in the morning by a pregnant woman on a full stomach! LOL

I’ll be looking at your other articles

Best regards,
a very pregnant Beatrice

made me hungry just looking at these pictures.

I did think I was quite adventurous with food until I read this and realised I probably wouldn’t eat half of it!

Indeed.. the language on the can of “Giant water bug” isn’t mandarin.. looks more like thai or some other south east asian language

Thanks for all your comments, everyone. They’re much appreciated.

Tuna eyeballs are eaten for their high concentrations of DHA. Bugs can be more healthy than many meats. Half of these (or all?) are probably good for you.

That’s the power of culture, your surroundings. We just as well could be raised in a bug eating society and think eating meats was perverted. We impregnate cows to produce milk for us to drink. Eating live squirmy stuff sounds odd to me .. but if you can get over that … life feeds in life feeds on life …

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Giant water bug is Thai.

A lot of these foods are commonly eaten in other countries as well. Crocodile as well as chitlins are a common food item in the southern US. The bugs supposedly eaten by Chicagoans are actually silkworm pupae and are in fact not bugs at all. The rotten soybeans are actually called natto in Japan and are definitely an acquired taste.

The raw herring eaten in Holland isn’t quite raw: it has fermented several weeks in brine.

The can of water bugs has obviously been made in Thailand, see the writing.

Crocodile is now available in Europe and tatstes like a mixture of squid and chicken.

yum

I live in Chicago and the bugs mentioned here are the Cicadas that show up every 17 years. They came a year ago- mostly in the suburbs and wooded areas. People do eat them- mostly for shock value. I will not.

We ate a lot of this stuff in Ranger School back in the 50’s, LOL

Having lived in Hong Kong for the past many years and travelled to neighbouring countries… this stuff you’ve listed is nothing! Heck some of it actually tastes amazingly good (croc meat, salmon roe, etc). Raw fish is also great – sushi!…If you want weird, you have to go into China’s fresh meat market where they sell dogs, cats, snakes, tiger testicles (for fertility), bear claw etc…

Oh and fish-eyes are a general delicacy (not just tuna). The liquid in the retina apparently tastes the best. Older people often trick youngsters by saying it tastes nasty so they can have it lol… and chicken cartilage is yum…you can eat it like popcorn lol

I was just about to say the same as Joe Mama.

I had to laugh at the irony.

yeah some of the countries are wrong for eg. salmon roe is eaten in japan cuz ive not seen it in chinese crusine before. anyone heard of sushi? gee.
dried lizard from indo-china eg. thailand and it is not used in cooking but rather in medicines/potions like aphrodisiac etc. and people dont actually EAT the lizard
words on the giant water bug can is thai, which means it’s from thailand, not taiwan.
horseshoe crab is not in chinese cruisine at all, and judging by the batik print of the table cloth i’d say it’s possibly taken in indonesia, famous for their batik printing.
and again raw octopus is labeled wrongly, the words on the dining plate is obviously korean.

this is the problem with americans in general, no offense. they stereotype every single asian country and identify us as one. and i can tell you besides the salmon roe in sushi i’ve not tasted anyone of the items listed above.

Chitterlings (hog intestines) and hog maws (hog stomach) usually go together since they were both attached. But either way pretty gross indeed. I am from South Georgia, USA so I have grown up around them the smell of poo will never be appealing for me to eat.

I realy like #2.
But hey, I am from Holland!
Living in Asia i miss my salted raw herring.

You should include Lutefisk… Eaten now mostly in Minnesota, originally from Norway..

We also eat various fish roes in France, as a delicacy for xmas or this kind of events.
And also fresh raw beef meat.
And of course, snails and frog legs.

It’s cod testicle not cod sperm. It tasted like a very softly boild egg.

Salmon Roe (China)　×　Salmon Roe (Japan)　○
Dried lizard (Japan)　×　Dried lizard (China)　○
Live Fish (China)　×　Live Fish (Japan)　○
Raw Octopus (China)　×　Raw Octopus (Republic of Korea)

Obama is from IL hence he eats bugs

Giant Water Bug (Taiwan) is actually from Thailand. The text on the can is in Thai.

Where’s the live monkey brains?

I have eaten different kinds of fried insects when traveling in China and I must say they are not bad at all. They are fried in oil and they are just like chips.
The weirdest thing I have had in China was the cooked sea cucumber, which does not taste so bad but looks very, very disgusting. I did not like it.
I have also had wok-fried frogs in China, which was delicious. By the way, eating frogs is not uncommon in Europe as well, for example in France or Hungary.
The guinea pig is a kind of national dish in Peru, it is called cuj and you can have it on each corner. It is tasty

solche hässlichen scheiss wixer!! können die nix gscheits essen? krrrrrrreitz dunnerwetter

Toe of the pig. “豚足”

http://images.google.co.jp/images?sourceid=navclient&hl=ja&rlz=1T4GGLL_jaJP303JP303&q=%E8%B1%9A%E8%B6%B3&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Skin of the pig. “チラガー”
http://images.google.co.jp/images?um=1&hl=ja&safe=off&rlz=1T4GGLL_jaJP303JP303&q=%E3%83%81%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC

very delicious(´ー｀)

Mmm, so what’s for dinner?

that is wrong in so many ways and cruel but they like it!!

Вкуснотища:)

Yeah, red cavier is veeeeery weird.. Too bad they banned black cavier here..

мдаааа…… слюнки так и капают))

Еда-а-а!!

Деликатесы! Не то что у нас икра черная, икра красная, икра заморская- баклажанная…

Hmm, basically — Seafood

Codfish sperm………..that is the nastiest thing I’ve ever seen

Half of countries are wrong / mixed up. I ate a lot of snake, chicken pig liver and heart, frog legs, fish brain….

yucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!