- Well you read the title, so you know what you're
getting into in this video.
So growing up, my mom always told me
you gotta try everything once baby,
you don't have to eat it if you don't like it,
but you gots to try it.
Apparently my mom was a sassy black woman.
Anyways, that was good advice because it got me
to try things that I normally wouldn't try,
especially things like sushi, which ended up being
one of my favorite foods.
Unfortunately, no amount of advice could get me
to try these foods, you'll see what I'm talking about.
Here are the 10 weirdest foods in the world.
Fried brain sandwiches.
Perhaps you'd like a nice chianti with this one, Clarice.
Made from fried calves brains, this dish is popular
in El Salvador, Mexico, and even the good old US of A.
Apparently, brains have a mushy texture,
and very little flavor, so it's highly recommended
to use lots of sauces to help flavor it.
I have a question, how disturbed is the person
that came up with this dish?
Like, for real.
Whoever you are, you need to just, like, lay off
the zombie movies, because they're influencing you
a little bit too much.
It's a little bit unhealthy.
Rocky Mountain oysters.
But Matt, what's so gross about oysters?
Well, as you can see from the picture,
Rocky Mountain oysters aren't oysters at all.
In fact, that's just the fancy name given to
what they really are, fried testicles.
Taken from either a bull, a buffalo, or a boar,
these are popular in parts of Canada and the USA.
They're peeled, boiled, rolled in flour,
and then deep fried.
Oh, and they come with a delightful cocktail sauce.
(soffs) Cocktail.
For real though, how does one go about
procuring the materials needed to cook
such a delicacy?
You would have some serious balls of your own
to try and go grab some bull nuts.
Sorry, Bessie, but I gots to eat dinner tonight.
This next one's called Balut.
I, oh, this one.
Popular in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam,
balut is a boiled chicken or duck egg,
with an almost completely developed embryo.
This is essentially their equivalent of hot dogs,
which is sold by street vendors.
You know, I've been an omnivore my whole life,
but, like, this is the closest I've ever come to
wanting to convert to vegetarianism.
Deep fried tarantula.
Oh god, no.
That's it for me, I'm out.
We're done, video's over.
We gonna have to get through this one quick.
Popular in Cambodia, tarantulas are deep fried
and eaten as a tasty treat.
You can buy them individually, or in a pile
to eat like french fries.
Okay, lets go to the next one.
Frog sashimi.
It's not easy being green.
That was a terrible impression.
In Tokyo, raw, skinned frog is a popular dish.
And if that isn't fresh enough for you,
some chefs will actually cut open a live frog,
and pass the still beating heart over to you
for immediate consumption.
Which is, believe it or not, a popular delicacy
in some areas.
After that, uh, appetizer,
the rest of the frog is served in its entirety
on a plate to you along with some raw seafood.
Yummy.
Seriously though, who would ever want a still beating heart?
Other than that one witch doctor guy from Indiana Jones.
Kali Ma. Kali Ma.
Kali Ma.
Da fuu?
Hakaral
Popular in Iceland, hakaral is made by
gutting a Greenland or basking shark,
letting it ferment for two to four months,
after which it reeks of ammonia.
It's available all-year round, and is often
served as cubes on toothpicks.
Aww really, just little bites?
That's disappointing.
I was hoping for a large slab of ammonia smelling
fermented shark meat.
(gags)
Fugu.
Fugu is the Japanese word for poisonous puffer fish.
These fish are filled with a poisonous toxin and
only a specially trained chef with years of experience
can prepare it.
Strangely, some chefs actually choose
to leave a little bit of the toxin in the fish,
which causes a tingling sensation on the lips
and tongue.
What's weird to me though, is that this fish is
reportedly really bland, so why would you risk
eating it, knowing that you could potentially die,
or at least swell up from the poison.
Uh, hey guys, I think he left too much poison in the fish.
Casu marzu
Mmm, Matt,is that bread pudding?
No, it's sheep's milk infested with insect larvae.
Yum!
Found in Sardinia, Italy,
translucent worms are added to the cheese
to help promote fermentation.
Why would anyone do that?
What's most disturbing is that some actually choose
to brush off the bugs before eating a spoonful of cheese.
Yeah, that's right, some prefer to brush off the bugs.
Not all.
Oh god, I don't do bugs, lets just keep it moving.
Yak penis.
Well this one speaks for itself.
Popular in Beijing, China, this one's known as
the dragon and the flame of desire.
Or, as I call it, big, honking yak dick.
Consuming this giant piece of yak dick jerky
is supposed to be good for you, according to the locals,
and costs hundreds of dollars.
What's really interesting is this is not an exclusive dish.
The restaurant that sells is has animal genitalia
in almost every one of its dishes.
Here's another good question, how does somebody become
inspired to wanna cook animal penis, like,
did someone at some point say to the restaurant owner
go eat a dick, and he was like, hey ,good idea.
Thank you.
And finally, tuna eyeball.
Found in Japanese grocery stores for about one US dollar,
this come surrounded by severed muscles,
and fish fat, and apparently it tastes like squid.
Which is weird, because, I would have thought
it tasted like tuna?
Prepared by being seasoned and boiled,
this is a very common dish with many fans.
You know, out of all the foods that I've shown you,
this one doesn't even gross me out.
In fact, I'm cool with it.
I just have a question,
what the (beep) kind of tuna has an eyeball that big?
Do they have, like, giant mutant tuna in Japan or something.
It looks like they plucked out Godzilla's eye.
Damn.
Anyways, that's all for this video, guys.
I just wanted to share those with you,
and hopefully you weren't too disturbed.
But hey, at least you learned something, right?
And I will see you guys next Saturday
with a brand new video.
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I'm sure your appetite's real high right now.
You know, I'd probably avoid, like, seafood.
You know, or, yeah, just pretty much
any food at this moment, because you'll probably yak.