It's Hard To Believe That People In Other Cultures Eat These Foods
#1 Stargazy Pie
This English pie is said to honor fishermen who went out alone.
#2 Guinea Pig
The guinea pig is fried and grilled and apparently tastes like a mix between pork and rabbit.
#3 Soup Number Five
Bull penis and testacles give this soup served in the Philippines its flavor.
#4 Bird's Nest Soup
In Southeast Asia the "nest" in this soup is created using bird saliva.
#5 Muktuk
Frozen whale skin and blubber is sliced, salted and then eaten raw in Greenland.
#6 Stink Bugs
These smelly insects are served in Africa and can be eaten raw or cooked and apparently have an apple flavor and have a tranquilizing effect.
#7 Dragonfly
Usually boiled or deep fried, they taste like soft shell crab.
#8 Akutaq (Eskimo Ice Cream)
eindeer fat, seal oil, freshly fallen snow, berries and ground fish create this Alaskan treat.
#9 Shirako
This Japanese meal is made from male sperm sacs.
#10 Wasp Crackers
Served in Japan, these crackers are found only 100 miles outside Tokyo.
#11 Witchetty Grub
This grub can be eaten raw or sauteed and apparently tastes like fried egg.
#12 Starfish
The hard shell is broken and the meat inside apparently has a texture between toothpaste and ground beef. Served in China.
#13 Lutefisk
White fish is fermented in lye and then served in Norway.
#14 Kangaroo meat
A flavor that is a mix between venison and buffalo meat is eaten in Australia.
#15 Beondegi
These silkworm pupae are served as a snack in Korea.
#16 Tong Zi Dan
It's also known as "virgin boy eggs" because the eggs are boiled in the urine of young boys.
#17 Waxworms
These bugs are served sauteed or roasted and have a taste similar to pine nuts and enoki mushrooms.
#18 Cherry Blossom Meat
This is actually raw horse meat that is served during the cherry blossom season.
#19 Shiokara
Fermented squid guts are then mixed with the gastric juices of the squid and seasoned with miso, salt, soy sauce, sake, red pepper and yuzu peel.
