The weirdest dishes and beverages
Currently we are witnessing a much bigger interest in healthy lifestyle and food culture. We take care about every detail of preparing our dishes and drinks. Sometimes we would like
to try something new but often we are not courageous enough or have no money
to taste it all. Have you ever thought what
the weirdest dishes and beverages in the world are?
I would like to present some of them.
1) Escamoles
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Small balls in the picture above which look like beans or rice are
escamoles. Despite its usual
name, we should know that this is edible larvae and
eggs of ants. They are from a Mexican plant of blue agave and agave Americana.
In this country and many surrounding areas dishes made from escamoles are very
popular and have been consumed since the Aztec
age. Escamoles is added to many dishes like tortilla stuffing. It is also
served with tacos and guacamole, therefore, it is hard to avoid this specialty in Mexico.
2) Tuna’s eye
Another terrifying and disgusting dish is the eye of tuna
fish. This dish is popular in Japan, which is famous for
weird sweets. Tuna’s eye can be bought in most shops selling meat. The price of this delicious dish is something about 130 yens.
Japanese people prepare it in boiling water without any spices and then they
consume it. It tastes
like a boiled egg.
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3) Newborn mice wine
In my opinion this drink is the most disgusting
I have ever heard of. It is wine from newborn mice. The process of preparing the wine starts with putting small three-day mice in a bottle
filled with rice wine. The process of fermentation
lasts about one year. Apparently newborn mice wine tastes like
gasoline but it helps for various ailments. It is drunk in Korea and China. Would you like
to try it?
4) Casu Marzu
The next delicious special
is casu marzu which we see in the picture below. It is regional cheese from
Sardinia. We may assume that it is nothing special because it looks like
ordinary goat cheese from Italy but it is not. The taste
of this cheese is similar to gorgonzola. What is the difference? During the production of casu marzu fly larvae are deliberately put inside it. Thanks to the
fermentation process, the cheese has specific and mild flavor. The way of
eating this product is quite interesting:
people consume casu marzu with insects, which
can jump 15 centimeters high.
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5) Bat soup
The last weird meal is bat soup. We
could eat it in Thailand in the Guam island or in China. We don’t have to worry
about diseases transmitted by bats because the soup
is produced only from plant-eating mammals. Usually bat is prepared with coconut milk and spices and boiled for
a few hours. Fur from bat is also edible.
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What do you think about unconventional dishes? Would you like to eat them?
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Which by the way is also quite disgusting.
Some time ago because of being curios I looked for the most expensive dishes I found some cup cakes with gold or truffles. But the most expensive dish right now is $3.95 million Strawberries Arnaud with the diamond ring.
I heard also about Venezuelan Hot Sauce that Has a Secret Ingredient: Ants. I would also never try any of presented dishes. I like trying new things, but this is too extreme for me.
I'm not terribly adventurous with my food, at least not weird food-wise, but the examples you gave turned my stomach a bit at first. I haven't tried any insects or weird body parts. I guess I'd first have to see someone I know and trust eat one of those things and not die before I braved them myself. That's not entirely true, though. My mother tried ants, survived, said they tasted like berries but I wasn't brave enough.
And sure for some people those things may be disgusting, but remember that many dishes from our culture are also seen as that outside our culture.
I do like to experiment with some different tastes. But examples you have shown are too extreme for me.
I get that its all culture based, I could understand forigner not wanting to eat Kaszanka if he knew what it was made of.
The most extreme thing I've tried was haggis and it was terrbile.
In my opinion some things are not ment to be eaten. For instance I've heard that in China you can eat a monkeys brain, while its still alive. Or in Alaska they eat sliced moose snout. yuk.
I think i've never tried something so extraordinary, maybe some specific spices or fruits. I really like asian food but in european way...so it's not too traditional.
But I agree with Sonia, that the meaning of weird varies depending on the culture. From what I have heard our pickled cucumbers are seen as something really disgusting by some foreigners.
What?! Eggs of ants. It is disgusting. I have never eaten it and I’m not going to do it.
Oh my God, I shudder, all this is disgusting. Tuna’s eye?
Eeeeeeee, I completely wouldn’t like to try “newborn mice wine”- repulsive.
Casu Marzu, ooo… I feel sick….
I’m sure I will never try it.
http://www.thailandunique.com/edible-insects-bugs
I can also share two different weird dishes. The first one includes is eating a life octopus in Korea which actually can be deadly as the octopus doesn't want to get eaten and it can fight back. Here you can see it (it's a short and interesting video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYDkzqCfJzg
The second one I can remember right now is balut. Baluts are developing chic embryos that are boiled. You can read about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)
Or you can always watch how people eat it on youtube. Apparently it's a really popular challenge.
While the first dish doesn’t seem shocking to me – ugh, everything else looks horrible. On the other hand, if someone from a different culture was to compile a list like that there are some European or even polish dishes that could make that list: fuagra, blood sausage, duck blood soup. It all depends on your perspective and the culture you live in. Tons of people around the world consider bugs ordinary foods so why not eat a cheese filled with them? (well that one actually freaks me out the most)
I think that if I had to choose one of them to eat, I'd probably pick the cheese from Sardinia, since it is still a cheese, just with... something exotic inside ;). The most exceptional and also delicious dish I have ever tried, was a whale steak in a restaurant in Norway. It tasted like lamb meat and was actually remarkably good. To me it was a great experience, since it is something we don't get to try much in Poland, but to the locals it was an ordinary, everyday dish.
But I agree with guys that here the main question is a nationality and its traditions. I would not be surprised if at the moment someone is eating tuna's eyes and drinking newborn mice wine and is really happy about it. But not me! Never!
In the best french restaurants this dish become on top again
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