If you are into Monaco food, you probably know that sausage can come in different types, including one made from pig intestines – which does not taste as awful as it sounds. However, if pig intestine sausage is not your thing, you could try having crunchy frog legs instead.
Nonetheless, your culinary adventure could not get worse than enjoying the most disgusting Mongolian food comprising boiled and jellied sheep’s head with other ingredients thrown in for good measure, locally known as head cheese.
We have barely touched the surface of the weirdest foods that exist on our nourishing planet earth. Let’s dive into the delicacies!
Jellied Moose Nose – Canada
This nasal meal is made by boiling the upper jawbone of a moose in a pot of water and leaving them to cool before removing all hairs.
Afterward, the nose cuts are boiled again with onions, garlic, vinegar, and spices, then left to cool overnight. The following day, the nose is removed and the broth is boiled again then spread over the meat in a loaf pan, and left to sit until it becomes jellied.
Quite a choice alternative for Jell-O, right?
Casu Marzu – Italy
Everything tastes better with cheese – but maybe not when it has gone bad, really bad.
Casu Marzu is aSardinian or rotten Italian cheese made from the larvae of cheese flies added to Pecorino. The flieslay eggs inside the Pecorino and burrowaround while digesting the fats.
Good thing is, you can choose to enjoy this tongue-burning delicacy with or without the live maggots.
Huitlacoche – Mexico
Eating fungus can be fun when it comes to corn smut. Throwing out that diseased corn cob is throwing away your chance to eat corn mushroom. So, think again.
In Mexico, farmers walk through miles of cornfields looking for fresh huitlacoche (pronounced weet-la-coh-cheh), which is soft and velvety and tastes like mushroom mixed with corn.
Fried tarantulas – Cambodia
Next time you see that creepy-crawly try not to scream and run away from it, it could be the best deep-fried snack you’ve ever had.
In Cambodia, tarantulas became a meal option during the Khmer Rouge regime, a period during which many Cambodians would be left to starve. Since then, fried tarantulas became popular throughout the country.
Balut -Philippines
If you are a big fan of eating fertilized duck eggs, then Balut is the meal for you. The fertilized duck egg which is boiled with its premature embryo still inside is eaten with chili, salt, and vinegar.
Just make a hole at the top of the shell and gulp down the salty liquid inside, before you proceed to eat up the rest of what’s inside. Yummy.
Fugu – the Japanese Pufferfish
Fugu is an ancient Japanese marine delicacy made from Pufferfish. The Japanese pufferfish is infamous for the deadly poison (that is more toxic than cyanide) in its organs.
About 40 varieties of fugu are caught in Japan, with people consuming about 10,000 tons of the deadly delicacy every year. And if all these are simply too much for you, try a simpler meal, such as this ramen recipe Kylie Jenner swears by. It will keep you full for a few hours and it’s posion and moose nose free, unlike other dished mentioned before.
