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When travelling, it is usual for other people to try the country’s popular dish. But sometimes we need to be adventurous to try some of the local food.
Let’s find out some of the strangest food around the world. You may read the article.. Watch the video also at the end of the article.
Have you ever heard the proverb one man’s meat is another man’s poison? It is a proverb that means something one person likes very much can be something that another person does not like at all. Here are five foods that might seem bizarre to some people, but delicious to others. Are they your meat or your poison?
Haggis
This is a Scottish dish that contains the internal organs of a sheep. It includes the liver, the heart, and the lungs. This is mixed with onions, raw fat, salt, and spices.
A Fried Brain Sandwich
A fried-brain sandwich is a sandwich made with sliced calves’ brains. It became a popular dish in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in the late 1880s.
Fugu
Fugu is a Japanese poisonous puffer fish. If you eat the poison of this fish, it can kill you. Only specially-trained chefs can prepare this fish because it is so dangerous.
Fried Spider
Fried spider is a delicacy in some parts of Cambodia. The spiders are fried and usually only the legs are eaten.
Sannakji
Sannakji is a Korean dish. It is made with live nakji (small octopuses) that have been cut into small pieces. They are usually still moving on the plate when this dish is served. They are usually seasoned with sesame and sesame oil.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
3. Have you tried strange food before?
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
I have not tried any of the above delicacies. I am very traditional in my food preferences and also when I try food from different countries and cultures.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I really do not want to try any of those delicacies. I am sensitive to some textures and the movement of live animals.
3. Have you tried strange food before? No, I have never tried this type of strange food. I like food from different countries like Mexican or Italian food and sushi.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
I have not tried any of the above delicacies. I am very traditional with the food and also when I try food from different countries.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I do not want to try any of those delicacies, they are discusting for me.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
No but I Iike food from different countries like mexican or Italian food. I also tried and liked sushi, meat carpaccio and gazpacho (an spanish cool soup made with raw vegetables, tomatos, pepper and garlic).
1. What delicacies have you tried?
I never tried no one of them, and, I don’t think those dishes are going to be on my menu ever.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
Maybe it’s me, or the place were I live, I’m traditional a lot with the meal. I don’t use to eat any dish who is too different from the mediterraneam food.
With the above say, I really, really, wish to try someday some greek dish, like the ‘moussaka’ or the ‘tzatziki’ sauce.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
No, never. I don’t like to risk with the food. Allways in the comfort line.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
Well, In Spain is not strange that you can eat prawns, sea urchins, snails, horse meat or internal organs of a sheep, such as liver.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
Maybe, I want to try snake meat and I think I will never eat animal eyes.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
Yes. I have tried the food listed in the first question and sheep brain.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
I’ve tried liver cake and also pig feet which is a typically stew in Madrid.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I would like to try the friend insects. On the other hand I will never try live octopus that is served in some Asian areas.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
Yes, I have tried snails. In Spain is a typical dish but some foreigners find strangely
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
None of those mentioned in the text, but in my birthplace, a town in Granada, it is typical food liver with a special sauce
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
In my childhood, I watch a TV show from the north of the UK and it shows you typical food from the area. One of them was Haggis and I have always been curious.
For the other hand, I never try the japanse fish Fugu
3. Have you tried strange food before?
As I mentioned in the first question, I’ve tried liver.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
None of them. I think that I don’t feel good eating these delicacies.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
As I said above, I wouldn’t be happy trying these foods. Perhaps, I might to try a cup of civet coffee.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
No, that I remember. The most bizarre food I tried, it can be snails. But, in spain, or even europe is usual to eat them.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
Maybe the most exclusive deliacie I tried was the angles. The angles, known in Spain as angulas, are little eels.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
Probably I want talk more abaout experiences that only delicacies. For example, I hope some day i can eat at Osteria Francescana in Modena because it’s one of the best restaurants in the world. If I must answer what I’ll never eat it’s probably brains.
3. Have you tried strange food before.
Strange food is only strange food for the people that don’t eat it normally. For me, eat kangaroo in Madrid was strange, but i think it was part of the diet for a lot of people in Australia.
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1.What delicacies have you tried?
I haven’t tried any of these “delicacies” because I think they aren’t tasty foods at all. For example, in Spain a delicacie food are prawns. It is a very expensive dish and I do like this food, although I don’t love it.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I don’t feel like trying any of these delicacies. I don’t like insects, internal organs and even less something that is still alive. Although probably there are some delicacies from other countries that I like it and I would try them.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
In my area it is traditional to eat snails, fried blood and rabbit. But I don’t like fried blood. I only like small snails and I don’t like the head of the rabbit. For other people they are bizarre foods but for us it is traditional food.
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1. I have tried the eel. It is a type of small sea snake. It is used to cook a typical dish in Valencia called All i pebre. The main ingredients are garlic, potato, sweet paprika, and eel.
2. I have nothing in mind pending to try and I would not try insects. I also don’t like slimy foods like oysters, snails and things like that.
3. I’ve never tried food that I consider weird. It all depends on customs and cultures. There are foods that in Spain are normal and in another country they would not eat it.
1. I have tried something similar to the Scotish dish, because in Spain we also cook these organs. For instance, I have tried liver (chicken, pork and beef) or tripe.
2. I am open to try almost everything once if it is cooked, even though I am not a fan of insects. I will not try live animals, like the octopus example.
3. No, I have not. Well, not from my point of view.
1. I have tried the eel. It is a type of small sea snake. It is used to cook a typical dish in Valencia called All i pebre. The main ingredients are garlic, potato, sweet paprika, and eel.
2. I have nothing in mind pending to try and I would not try insects. I also don’t like slimy foods like oysters, snails and things like that.
3. I’ve never tried food that I consider weird. It all depends on customs and cultures. There are foods that in Spain are normal and in another country they would not eat it.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
When I were in Asturias last year I went to a dairy in Cabrales and I tried Cabrales cheese, It was delicious.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
Well, I wouldn´t mind to try almost any kind of delicacies, but those strange delicacies like tuna eyes or fried spiders, … I think that is not necessary.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
Yes, I have tried strange food before, for instance, food made with internal organs from animals like liver, brain, …
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
Anything related to sweet is a delicacy for me, so i would say belgian waffle for example.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
Maybe i can to try to eat Fugu.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
I didn’t eat anything strange like the blog examples.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
I have not tried any exotic dishes, but I have eaten Indian dishes with many spices.
2. Which delicacies do you want to try and which ones do you never want to try?
I would like to try fried insects but I wouldn’t try raw animal organs.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
I have not eaten typical dishes from other countries but they are not very strange.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
None of them and I really don’t want to try neither.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I have had some problems to see the video so I think I prefer don’t try with none of this delicacies.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
We have in Spain some of this kind of delicacies food (p.e. Callos: pig intestines -bowels-)… I tried some but I didn’t really like them… I know is a mindset problem because I can eat shellfish, prawns, jamon (pig’s leg) for example, etc.. But for me it is very disgusting.
1. i never eated any food that can watch in the video. One time i have eaten the frog legs
2. I would like to eat, for example, crocodile, snake or any plants that I don´t know. I never will eat monkey or similar protected animals, any insects, same spider
3. If we can consider intestines a strange food, yes, is usualy in Spain to eat it, or sheep brain too.
There are peaple in Spain that eat too de pig testicles or sheep brain
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
I haven’t tried any of the dishes on the video and i don’t feel like doing it
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I ithink, i don’t want to try so strange food
3. Have you tried strange food before?
I think i’m tried all parts of a pig, but is something usual in Spain so i didn’t consider strange
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
In my country, Spain, it is normal eat pig brains and haggis (here, his name is ‘chanfaina’) although I don’t like it.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I would like eat insect like grasshoppers or spiders but I would never eat snake blood or live octopuses.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
Yes, I have eat dolphin and cheese with worms. I didn’t like dolphin but the cheese was tasty.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
For me iberian ham and foie are delicacies.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I would like to try caviar, and on the other hand I wouldn’t like to try eel.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
I consider frogs and snails strange food, and I usually eat it.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
Here in Spain is nomal eat fried snails or added in the paella. we catch snails and make them eat aromatic herbs so that later the flavor of the food has the flavor of those herbs.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I would like to try insects in general. In Spain we usually eat prawns, they are delicious although the appearance the first time can be a bit strange, as the appearance is similar to that of insects, I would like to try it.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
Snails is very usual in Spain, or eels too. Have a very special texture when you bite this food but can be delicious if are correctly cooked
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1.When I have visited different places, always I like to taste different foods. But I am like children, it food does not enter my eyes I do not taste it.
2.I would not lite to taste casqueria and neither of foods that moves on the plate.
3.I have not been to any country with a culture so different from ours.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
I like to try typical dishes from the places I visit, to get to know their cuisine a little better. I also like to innovate in the restaurants I go to, I don’t always eat the same thing, I usually let myself be guided by the waiters’ suggestions.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I would like to try eel and I will never try “live” food.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
A typical food in Spain is casquería, which is the entrails, offal, of animals. I have tried various parts but I don’t like all of them, I prefer the gizzards, entrails and blood.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
When I have visited different countries, always I like to taste different foods, in Mexico, I have tasted The Pico del Loro, in France a lot of salads, and in Manhattan the special hotdog in Central Park
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I will like to eat snake and crocodile, but I don’t like to eat the eyes of different animals.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
In Spain, a few years ago, in a restaurant, I tried kangaroo.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
I have tried a lot of delicacies from the Mediaterranean food. I also have tried English, American, Mexican and Asian food. I really enjoy eating, but I don’t like at all try exotic or really spicy dishs.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I would like to try fried insects. I never want to try eyes, brains or internal organs.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
I am from Sevilla and here is very typical eat small and big snails. I don’t like them, but there are so popular. Other popular dish ir the blood with onions.
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1. What delicacies have you tried?
I have tried suckling pig, scallops, Galician octopus, lobster, sushi and mochis.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I would like to try quality caviar.
I would not like to taste the puffer fish and neither food that moves on the plate.
3. Have you tried strange food before?
I have not been to any country with a culture so different from ours that has dishes that are too exotic for my taste.
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1. I have traveled to spain and have tried the typical dishes of each site.
2. I never taste the soup
3. Spanish Food is traditional, there is no strange food
1. What delicacies have you tried?
I tried the seaweed.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I want try any delicacies cooked. Except insects and viscera
3. Have you tried strange food before?
No, the most strange was frogs
1. What delicacies have you tried?
I haven´t eaten delicacies in my life. I think the most similar to a delicacy I´ve ever eaten is frog legs.
2. What delicacies do you want to try and those that you never want to?
I´m not interested in eating delicacies, any of them I don´t want to try. What disgusts me most are brains and fried blood.
3. Have you tried strange food before? Any time I leave to a foreign country I taste its dishes. I cannot say they are strange food, but they´re different.
1. The last time I travelled was two weeks ago for visiting Bourdeaux, in France, the land of wines.
2. I tried a lot of cheese, sheep and goat cheese to accompany some wines
3. I tried foie gras that is typical from this and more regions in France. I must say that was delicious if you don’t think what it is.
4. Oh yes, I would try as many cuisines a I can!
1. Last December I was in Germany.
2. Despite what many people think, German food is not only sausages. I tasted the Maultaschen (tipical from Baden-Württemberg), Kartofellsalat and all kind of salads they have, also the Spätzle, Sauerkraut, and last but not least, the famous Apfelstrudel and Pretzels.
3. I like very much Mediterranean food so it is difficult to try a different kind of dishes.
4. I do not have any special cuisine that I would like to try.
1.This Summer. I was in Portugal.
2. Grilled fish and Porturguese cheese and wine.
3. I ate horse at Netherlands.
4.Yes, I would like to try the hawaian and indonesian dishes.
1. The last time that I traveled abroad was this summer. I was in Florida visiting Miami, Orlando, Cabo Cañaveral and Key West.
2. The delicacies that I tried in Key West was the Key lime pie. There is very famous and you can eat as a dessert in all the restaurants. There are shops where all the products are made with lime. A famous local food is the Conc, is a giant sea snail. I tried two times but I did´t like. It is very hard.
3. No, I don´t usually try strange food. The most strange food that I had tasted is the Japanese food and I don´t like.
4. No, the truth is that I am very special with meals.