It's Hard To Believe That People In Other Cultures Eat These Foods

By Waleed Raza in Amazing On 16th January 2015
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#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.

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#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.

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#5 Muktuk

Frozen whale skin and blubber is sliced, salted and then eaten raw in Greenland.

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#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.

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#7 Dragonfly

Usually boiled or deep fried, they taste like soft shell crab.

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#8 Akutaq (Eskimo Ice Cream)

eindeer fat, seal oil, freshly fallen snow, berries and ground fish create this Alaskan treat.

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#9 Shirako

This Japanese meal is made from male sperm sacs.

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#10 Wasp Crackers

Served in Japan, these crackers are found only 100 miles outside Tokyo.

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#11 Witchetty Grub

This grub can be eaten raw or sauteed and apparently tastes like fried egg.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.