What bizarre foods can you add to my list?

Below are some other bizarre food (and example of places serving them)

- sheep's eyes direct from the head eaten without any seasoning (Middle East)

- Moose Nose Jelly (Eskimos)

- rats including baby rats (India)

- calf embroyos, household geckos/lizards, various insects (Thailand)

- bat, including drinking the blood (Thailand/Indonesia)

- elephant, monkeys & apes (Africa)

- rancid yak butter in barley tea (Nepal/Tibet)

- phia (digested grass extracted from 2nd ruminant sac of cattle before going into intestines, it's an extremely bitter dark green fluid; Thailand)

- cattle gums/lips (Laos)

- Animal penis soup/wine (deer, tiger, bull etc), seahorses in wine or soup, monkey brains from still living monkey, bear’s paw chopped from live bear, live fish held by the head & quickly deep-fried in oil to be still alive when served (China)

- Drinking urine (India)

- Eating human placenta (hippies in 60s/70s and yuppies in the late 90s; England, USA)

- Snake blood for medicinal purposes, including believed good for complexion (Indonesia, Taiwan)

- Snakes including poisonous ones (very big business in Hong Kong & Guangdong-China)

- Iguana eggs taken from a live female iguana (Columbia)

- toad wine (Cambodia)

- fugu or poisonous pufferfish, live octopus sashimi, natto or fermented black soybeans (Japan)

- Live lobster sashimi, taken apart, sliced & reassembled very fast so lobster is still alive & moving when dish reaches the table (Japan)

- live goldfish in the 1920s, earthworms (USA)

- large ant eggs (Laos)

- tarantula spiders (Laos, Cambodia, Amazon Indians)

- Scorpion candy and sugarfree Cricket Lick-It lollipop with real cricket inside (USA)

- Sugarfree tequila flavored lollipop with real maguay worm (Mexico)

- Maggot fried rice (common in Asia)

- Tom praedt or ghost soup (live mullet fry & hollow stems of water convolvulus are slowly heated in water, the fry rush into the cooler hollow stems which are eventually stuffed with cooked fish; Thailand)

- Baby eels or loaches with tofu, same cooking method as for ghost soup (China)

- Cattle blood & milk (Masai diet, Kenya)

- Live shrimp sushi (Honolulu, Hawaii)

- Three Screams (newborn mice who scream 3 times when dipped in spicy condiment, stabbed with a fork & finally bitten by the diner; China)

- geophagy or eating dirt (India, Africa, Amazon)

I looked at the list, and although they may be considered nasty, some of the explanations are wrong.

I might add some things that may be nasty to many people...

Worm salt - grounded salt with maguey worm usually served with mezcal or tequila.

Black Zapote may look really nasty, it is a round green fruit, and the pulp is completely black and with a paste consistency. Looks awful, but is delicious.

And if we are talking of gross food, what about guacamole, it is a green paste, that may almost looks like slime and who on earth would like to eat a gross green slime...

Or what about chilli... It is an undefined mixture of everything that resembles dog food, and really looks gross...

Also... stuffing... a mixture of soaked bread with God knows what, that looks like chicken food... that's bizarre...

And talking about smell... rootbeer smells exactly like sore muscle ointment (iodex)... that's bizarre

Basically my definition of a nasty or bizarre food is anything that looks strange to me 'cause I've never seen it before and I am not willing to try... but haven't added anything to my list yet... 8o)

You are right, but the thing I hate most, not common on the street corner, but certainly acceptable, is LIVER or any other organ. And haggis, who thought of that? I know where it originated, but WHO thunk up putting all that stuff into a sheep stomach?

I have found the more you chew liver , the larger it gets.

Add to it any bug or larvae or anything alive at first bite, the corn mold thingy turned me off, I have had to shuck bushels of corn and cut the stinky stuff off.

Ahh, Fishscale isn't on there, didn't see that when I was looking for albums to add. But it's a pretty good list.

Seasoned silkworms that Koreans and Japanese eat as a snack. They come in a can. Fried insects people eat as snack in southern Asia. To each his own. Nothing is gross when you're starving. People get creative then.

I love the Balut, but I don't eat the baby chick though. The yolk is actually better than regular egg yolk. Your breathe doesn't stink like regular eggs. I eat regular eggs everyday because its part of my diet, but if Balut was available all the time and inexpensive...I will choose Balut over eggs.

dinaguan is pretty good when i was in the pi i ate it & although it is blood all meat has blood in it i guess unless it is kosher & to me the nastiest thing is turnips i cant even handle the smell let alone the taste

I watched Andrew Zimmern eat a live, beating cobra heart on a TV show. I don't see that one on your list.

Lots and lots of things missing:

Tacos (or anything) from Taco Bell etc

Burgers (or anything) from McDonalds etc

Asian food (or anything) from Panda Express etc

Canned soups, sauces, and stews

Frozen dinners

Artificial cheese, eggs, desserts, syrups, juices, etc

The lost goes on and on and on . . . .

I always thought those century eggs they often sell in asian markets looked pretty unappealing but a lot of people love them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg