Strangest Foods You Would Actually Want to Try!
10 - Fried Brain Sandwich Everything just tastes better deep fried.
It’s just a fact of life, and it’s true even for pig and calf brains.
Apparently if you fry up some brain and put it on some bread, it makes for a great sandwich.
Once a popular dish in St. Louis Missouri in the 1880’s when German Immigrants settled
in and wasted no part of their cattle, fried brain sandwiches have become an obscure food
found mostly in mom and pop stores across The Ohio Valley.
Add the fear of Mad Cow disease into the mix, and you have even less interest.
In fact, most of the places that still serve up fried brain sandwiches tend to use pig
brains.
Regarding mad cow disease, the FDA has mandated that cow brains can’t be served from cows
older than 30 months.
Assuming that rule is followed and all the other cooking and cleaning precautions are
taken, it’s safe to eat cow brains.
What do you guys think?
Would you try cow brains?!
Let us know in the comment section!
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9 - Chapulines What do you think of when we say cricket?
Is it Jiminy Cricket?
Is it the cell phone provider Cricket?
Or maybe you thought of an actual cricket, the one that chirps at night when you’re
trying to sleep.
What probably DIDN’T immediately come to your mind was the cricket that’s a tasty
little snack.
But maybe, just maybe, we can help change that perception!
Back in April of 2017, The Seattle Mariners made an interesting decision.
They decided to add crickets to their concession stands!
Patrons at Safeco Field can now buy a plate of insects seasoned with chili and lime.
This dish is done by a Mexican restaurant named Poquitos, who sells this snack known
as Chapulines.
It’s a popular snack in Mexico, and Seattle fans like it as well.
The snack was so popular, it sold out the first three Mariners home games when it was
introduced!
More than 18,000 grasshoppers were consumed over the first three home games back in April
2017.
Moving forward, the Mariners decided to cap their grasshopper orders at 312 each game,
a tribute to Edgar Martinez, the long time Seattle Designated Hitter who had a career
batting average of .312.
Crickets could be one of the insects that become popular widespread in the future.
As the world population grows, the demand for traditional protein such as beef and chicken
grows as well, but these types of protein come at a hefty cost to the environment.
Farming Crickets could be a viable way to meet the demand for protein at a smaller environmental
cost.
Crickets in a bag at the grocery store in the future?
Who knows!
8 - Haggis A pudding that contains Sheep Innards that
by all accounts tastes awesome?
Yeah, we’re a bit skeptical too.
This Scottish dish contains the heart, liver and lungs of a sheep.
Toss in some minced onion, salt, and some other spices, and you have a dish that the
people of Scotland apparently love.
In fact, it’s the national dish!
This is a dish that dates back to at least to the 1400’s, and an early recipe was found
dating back to the 1600’s.
Aside from that, there aren’t too many facts that can tell the origins of this dish.
One such theory is that long ago, Scottish women would prepare food for their cattle
herder husbands.
They’d gather whatever they had around the kitchen and package them in a Sheep’s stomach
for convenience for their husband’s long cattle herding journeys.
In modern times, Haggis can be found all over Scotland.
Haggis can be prepared in a variety of ways, such as deep fried in fast food restaurants,
as a burger, or even as a pizza topping.
Count us in for giving this dish a shot!
7 - Escamoles This Mexican delicacy seems bizarre in every
way fathomable.
If you thought that a dish partially comprised of giant eggs from a black ant could never
be a thing….well it is.
The ant that the eggs come from is known for its relatively large size and aggressive nature.
Collecting their eggs is a little bit complicated.
These ants make underground nests that are essentially branched networks of carton-like
material made out of agglomerated soil and oral secretions from the ants.
The entire nest resembles something like Swiss cheese.
Whoever is in charge of collecting the eggs has to deal with digging up the eggs and dealing
with a bunch of ants with a powerful bite!
As far as the dish itself goes, it’s made with chilli sauce, garlic, guacamole, lemon,
salt, and chopped onion.
It’s sort of like a dip, where you can scoop it up with tortilla chips, along with some
salsa.
Some people add some grasshoppers to the mix as well.
It’s supposedly quite tasty, and it’s nutritious, as it’s a great source of protein,
healthy fats, and vitamins.
Next time you’re in Mexico and want to eat something exotic, tasty, AND healthy, this
just might be the dish for you!
6 - Rocky Mountain Oysters Yeah, it’s easy to understand not wanting
to eat bull testicles.
But bull testicles, otherwise known as Rocky Mountain Oysters in addition to many other
names, are actually really good.
It’s most often fried in flour and seasoned with salt and pepper when it’s served in
the states, but it can come in other variations as well throughout the world.
It can be found as easily as at a baseball game, such as at Coors Field, where the Colorado
Rockies play.
There are even festivals dedicated to eating testicles, such as the Rocky Mountain Oyster
Fry in Virginia City, Nevada.
And of course, some people consider eating bull testicles as an aphrodisiac.
The idea was originally conceived by Western Ranchers who needed an inexpensive way to
get some protein.
Since they didn’t want to waste any of part of the cattle, someone figured hey, why not
the balls as well?!
As is often the case, it’s a mixture of necessity and ingenuity that lead to a new
invention.
It turns out, bull testicles do provide a lot of protein and nutrition.
So if you ever get a chance to have some rocky mountain oysters, we highly recommend trying
some!
5 - Chicken Butt It’s never a good idea to waste meat.
And we know that there are a lotta chickens being served up out there, so there’s a
lot of these chicken butts floating around.
The most popular way to serve a chicken butt is on skewers, much like Yakitori, the Japanese
style of skewered chicken.
Plenty of people cultures consider the Chicken Butt to be a delicacy.
In parts of Africa, Asia, and Oceania, it’s a rather popular cut of meat.
In Taiwan, grilled or deep fried chicken butts served on skewers are an especially popular
item at the famous night markets all over the island.
It’s essentially a lot like eating a piece of extra fatty chicken, deep fried.
Don’t worry, if you ever have a chance to try it, it doesn’t have any actual ahem….butt
flavor!
4 - Alpaca In recent years, Peruvian restaurants have
been serving up Alpaca meat to its customers….and the reviews are pretty good.
Alpacas are generally prized for their wool, but now, they’re also raised for their meat
in Peru.
Their meat was usually considered a low grade form of protein that’s inferior to beef,
chicken, pork and fish.
But now, some of the top chefs in Peru have changed their minds about Alpaca, and some
chefs even brand alpaca as the Peruvian Kobe.
In the past, Alpaca meat was thought of as tough meat with a bad smell.
However, with the right quality of alpaca, the right seasoning, and the right cooking
method, alpaca meat can be extremely tender and tasty.
Supposedly, alpaca meat has the flavor and texture of lean pork.
There’s only one way to find out!
3 - Deep Fried Strawberry We’ve already established that anything
deep fried tastes good.
But deep fried strawberries?
Probably!
Seriously, though, what ISN’T good deep fried?
As it turns out, deep fried strawberries are a pretty hot item.
Basically, you take strawberries, dip them in a bowl of flour, put em in batter, and
deep fry away.
Once they’re crispy, they’re ready.
The LA Times reports that fried strawberries are a huge hit at the annual California Strawberry
festival.
So not only do we now know that there’s a Strawberry Festival in California, but that
they also have deep fried strawberries there!
Have any of you guys tried this yet?
We can only imagine it to be chewy and sweet on the inside, and crispy and salty on the
outside.
Basically, we’re saying we’d love it!
2 - Deep Fried Guinea Pig For more than a few years now, more and more
Americans are eating Guinea Pigs by deep frying them.
From coast to coast in the US, deep fried guinea pigs are appearing on South American
restaurant menus.
Known as cuy in Spanish, guinea pigs offer more than just the experience of eating something
interesting.
Activists claimed doing so is good for the environment.
Their reasoning?
In South America, and all over the world for that matter, ranchers are having to clear
more and more land for their cattle to graze.
Smaller rodents, such as Guinea Pigs, don’t require the same amount of land as cattle.
Not only can you deep fry guinea pigs, but you can roast and grill it as well.
As foodies have reported, its taste depends on how its prepared.
Some say it tastes similar to chicken wings.
If you decided to prepare it yourself, just be careful not to freak out your neighbors!
In 2015 an Ecuadorian man in New York had the cops called on him when he roasted some
guinea pigs for breakfast in a park.
Would you guys be willing to eat a guinea pig?!
Let us know in the comments!
1 - Stinky Tofu In a perfect world, the food we eat would
both smell and taste good.
So the fact that “Stinky Tofu” is extremely popular is interesting.
Stinky Tofu is tofu that’s fermented in such a way that it smells pretty much like
ahem….poo.
Stinky Tofu is considered by some people to be the unofficial night market food of Taiwan.
The smell has been described like that of a horse stable, smelly feet, rotten stench,
and garbage just to name a few descriptions.
Allegedly, the worse it smells, the better it tastes.
It’s one of those foods that’s a hate or love.
Who knows which end of the spectrum you’ll be on if you try it out!
According to folklore, it was accidentally discovered by a failed scholar during the
Qing Dynasty.
Relying on selling Tofu to make a living after he failed the imperial examination, this guy
put his unsold tofu in a bunch of jars.
A few days later he opened the jars, only to discover that the tofu had turned green
and gone bad.
He decided to cook up the tofu and eat it anyway, and he found the tofu to be surprisingly
tasty.
He started selling them at his store, and the rest as they say, is history.
Here’s what’s next!