Thursday, 24 March 2011
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10 Most Disgusting Foods Around the World!
I'm the first to acknowledge that one man's garbage is another man's delicacy. So while I don't judge anyone who eats any of these foods, I can assert wholeheartedly that I won't ever be trying any of the ten items below. Rounded up below are, in my opinion, the ten most disgusting foods around the world!
Be warned: The images in this post are not easy to look at!
1.Kopi Luwak
I really don't think there is a graceful (or appetizing) way to describe this delicacy. Essentially, Kopi Luwak are coffee beans that retails for $120 to $600 USD in the United States and Japan. What makes them so special? To put it bluntly, they come from an animals fecal matter! Specifically, the Civet. The Civet eats ripe berries and then defecates the partially-digested beans. If you think the beans are sanitized, think again! The beans are rinsed and only lightly roasted in order to preserve the natural flavors.
Rat, which allegedly taste like chicken, are surprisingly eaten around the world. They are consumed in North Korea because there is nothing else to eat in villages and recently rats from central China were exported to southern China to be used in restaurants.
2. Rats
3. Maggot Cheese
Maggot cheese is traditional sheep's milk cheese that is infested with larvae of maggots! Yummy? As a cheese lover, I can assert that this is one type of cheese I won't ever try!
4. Monkey Brains If eating brains weren't disturbing enough, imagine eating the brains of a species that is considered to be close to humans from an evolutionary standpoint! Eating monkey brains isn't just gross, it's risky too! Consuming it puts an individual at risk of contracting fatal brain diseases. Monkey brains in China are consumed raw.
5. Rocky Mountain Oysters
While this dish sounds normal, it's far from it! In fact, the term Oysters merely serves for nomenclature. Rocky Mountain Oysters are batter fried boar testicles.
6. Ox Penis
The penis of an ox is eaten by humans in many oriental nations. How is it prepared? Usually steamed or deep fried, but can also be consumed raw. What does it taste like? Overcooked squid.
7. Caterpillar Fungus
In Chinese and Tibetan medicine, caterpillar fungus serves as an aphrodisiac and a treatment to fatigue and cancer. The fungus is a parasitic fungus that grows inside the caterpillar, kills it and mummifies it. A mushroom-like growth grows from the caterpillar.
8. Bee Larvae
Technically this should be no different than eating roe, but something about this is off putting. Bee larvae is eaten in China and Japan when it became popular in the countries after a shortage of fish and meats. High in protein, this delicacy is traditionally cooked in soy sauce and sugar.
9. Fertilized duck egg (Balut)
Balut is a fertilized duck egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside. The egg is boiled and consumed in the shell. It's served throughout Asia including the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Many believe it's an aphrodisiac.
10. Blood & BileIn Central Jartaka, blood and bile of snake is used as a treatment for skin problems, aches, indigestion and respiratory problems. What's more, it's allegedly capable of improving a man's stamina and sex life.
Would you eat any of these? Do you know any other weird global foods? Have you tried any of these?
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I took a week long course on entomological cuisine (bug food), and really freaked some people out when I made grasshopper spaghetti. But it's SO GOOD.
no way.
my aunt's husband makes jello out of chicken's blood.
I've eaten Balut in Cambodia, although they give you the choice to pick which stage of the development you'd like to eat. I ate an early stage egg. All in all it was weird but tasted stewy. Not too shabby.
Also, I ate rat in Beijing, China. It does taste like chicken, however, I think they hadn't prepared it well enough...not my favorite dish. I've eaten all sorts of exotic food because I had the liberty to backpack across 26 countries for one year. And of all the food I eat, guess what got me sick...a sip of water from India. Dysentary for three weeks and lost 45 pounds. No bueno.
*pukessss*
Some of these just make me sad, like the Balut, Rats, and monkey brains. Anyways, I'm not daring enough to try any of these.
I was going to order Rocky Mountain Oysters once but luckily, I asked how it was prepared first and they told me it really wasn't oysters...
I think I can do the Ox Penis, especially if it just tastes like overcooked squid... As long as no one told me until afterwards what it was...
When I was really young, before I moved to America, I actually ate Balut... It was one of my favorite things... Now I look back and just... I don't know why... It is definitely not appetizing to me now.
I've had snake's blood. It's not too bad.
on a side note...Sometimes I think it's strange that we think ti's ok to consume loads and loads of chicken, cow, etc but when it comes to an animal we weren't raised to eat regularly, we cconsider it so weird in a derogatory way =\ sometimes even barbaric/uncivilized.Thank goodness for Andrew Zimmern (Travel channel ftw!)
Maybe it's the image...maggots crawling out of cheese haha
i cant believe Korean Silk Worm Puppae didnt make this list... they look like roasted cockroaches... BLEHHH
EeeeeEEEEeeeeeeeew!! Those ten "delicacies" don't sound too good!!
HOWEVER,.....
In my PART OF Amishland, Ohio, raw pickled bovine hearts, scrambled eggs with pig brains, pig blood with oatmeal sausage, and pig blood pudding are great delicacies and very good tasting!!
Rocky mountain oysters are really not that bad if you saute the testicles in chili sauce before you deep fry them!!
In Chile I know they eat Cow Brain, Apparently I ate it when I was little
OH HEEEELLLLL NO.
Cow brain/goat brain is considered a delicacy in some parts of South Asia, and I can say it wasn't too bad. Granted, it's thoroughly cooked, and I'm guessing (hoping) that such high temperatures would kill any bacteria or whatnot that may cause human brain damage from eating bovine brain.
Nonetheless, it's not a common food, just a rare one (most South Asians aren't fans of it, it seems, anyway)
The caterpillar fungus is REALLY expensive. It's worth more than gold by weight. I haven't had it in my tea before, but we have some in our house.
okay i am chinese. and i admit that i have eaten the duck egg once.
it's not THAT bad. and it doesn't taste THAT bad.
it tasted like... egg. normal egg with bones. with little meat.
and somehow the ox penis does not not sound gross to me....
10. I actually like blood sausages but can't imagine eating bile. If you like blood, try a Vietnamese Pizza, not for the faint of heart.
9. I've had baluts and love to eat it with a little salt and pepper. Delish.
8. I've had bee larves and have to say, meh. Doesn't really taste like anything and the texture isn't very good.
7. and 6. I lump caterpillar fungus and ox penis under asian medicine and the idea of eating either one doesn't sound appealing. On a bet, I'd be able to try it but I wouldn't go out of my way to eat it.
5. Never had rocky mountain oysters but they're deep fried, what's not to love?
4. I won't eat monkey brains though, it's not safe and I don't like the texture of brains in general.
3. Even though maggots and bee larves are technically similar, I draw the line at maggots. No maggot cheese for me.
2. Rats? Sure, why not? Great solution if you ask me. Lower the pesk problem and get a meal out of it. Win win.
1. Kopi Luwak...I like my food to not be covered in fecal material when I consume it. kthxbye.
@syedanoor@xanga - Unfortunately, Mad Cow Disease isn't caused by a bacteria that you can cook out if it, hence the panic when a cow is found to have it, and the reasoning behind the North American Red Cross Blood Banks turning anyone away who spent any cumulative 6 months or more in Europe in the last 30 or so years.
The disease is caused by something called a “prion”, which is not a bacteria or virus.Unlike viruses & bacterias prions aren't alive, so they can't be killed with the usual disinfectants. The body does not mount a typical viral immune attack against prions, either. The human variant is called Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease and has no cure; essentailly the prion eats holes in the person's brain till they die.It was spread among cows so quickly in the 80s in Europe because they were grinding up ALL the leftover bits of the cows, especially the brain and spinal tissue, & mixing it in with their feed! The cows ate the prions, and because it has a very long incubation period -- cows would seem fine but were being slaughtered & butchered carelessly, with brain tissue being "spilled" into cuts of meat, as well as people eating brains as a "treat".And that is why eating brains of animals is extremely risky.Ooh. I am ashamed to say that I've eaten fertilized duck egg before... T.T
And even more ashamed to say that I very much enjoyed it... T.TI am such a horrible person *sigh* :<I think its interesting that all this unsanitary, sometimes raw food that can get you so sick is all from asian countries...are there health problems in those places?
@deux02@xanga - I googled this...and regretted it. You're right - they do look like roaches.
:: shudders ::
@P0RCELA1N_D0LL@xanga - lets just say if i ever met you and went to her house, i know to refuse the jello. (T-T)
btw, have you tried it? does it taste good? if you DID, try it, did they tell you what it was first before you ate it?my mom likes the caterpillar fungus :S
its pretty expensive too
Rat isn't bad at all. I've had it fried on a stick. Delicious, sort of like chicken.
Balut makes me sad, though. Definitely won't be trying that.
I've tried the fertilized duck egg before and although the image looks scary, it tastes pretty good. The eggs used to taste better when the ducklings are none-feathered, but now, they wait until it's matured too much. You hardly taste the bones and the liquid inside is really sweet. The only reason people find it unappetizing is because you're not used to eating it. People do it adult ducks, so what's the difference? I ate it as a kid, but now, my family has stopped eating it altogether just because eventually, we came to dislike it (after some of our eggs hatched when we kept it untouched for too long).
I would not try anything else on your list just because it doesn't sound appetizing and I especially would not try any genitals or brains.
In china, people consume dog genitals too.
For the maggot cheese, I've read about it in a book and that's just a disturbing image. Apparently, the people leave the sheep milk cheese out to allow cheese flies to lay eggs. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae will start eating the cheese and their digestive system makes the cheese really soft. People like to eat the cheese with live maggots though because it's supposedly dangerous to eat the cheese with dead maggots (which you didn't kill). This delicacy is also believed to be an aphrodisiac (apparently, a lot of strange delicacy are aphrodisiacs...the irony).
I saw the monkey brain thing in a snuff film once. Maggots remind me of a rotten penis.
That picture of the maggot cheese isn't correct. That's haggis, a common Scottish dish where they combine the innards of a sheep with onion, oatmeal, and spices and stick it in a sheep's stomach.