Bizzare Foods From Around The World

Each country has its own traditional delicacies; however, there are some dishes that are so unusual that even the sight of them would give you shivers. You will wonder how anyone can probably eat such a dish, but the people who have them, it is very usual for them. You must have heard the saying that what is one person’s trash is another person’s treasure and the same goes for such unusual food. You might be amazed to find that such food exists and people also eat them. Would you eat this food? Have a look at the top 10 bizarre foods in the world and get ready to be surprised!

1. Haggis 

Haggis is a Scottish dish which comprises of the organs of a sheep example the liver, heart and the lung. These organs are mixed with chopped onions, salt, spices, raw beef and mutton fat. This mixture is further mixed with stock and filled inside animal stomach. They appear like big meat balls and are then simmered for around 3 hours. These days, the modern Haggis is encased in sausage casing rather than the actual stomach. Haggis is available all year in Scottish restaurants, pubs and supermarkets. If you want to eat a plate of sheep liver, heart and lung, the Haggis is the perfect dish for you.

2.Fried Brain Sandwich

A fried brain sandwich is made by putting slices of calves’ brain between bread. This sandwich was prevalent long before the period of the Mad cow disease and was served on thin white breads in the hotels of Missouri or US. Even today, the sandwich is available in the Ohio River Valley but the brains are now battered heavily and served in buns. The brains of cows that are over 30 months old are now no longer permitted in food in the US due to the Mad cow disease. They serve pig brains instead. If you ever feel you have lost your brain somewhere, try the Fried Brain Sandwich. 

3. Casu Marzu

Casu Marzu is a strange cheese which is found in the city Sardinia in Italy. The strange part about this cheese is that live insect larvae lives inside this cheese. The insect larvae are deliberately added inside the cheese so as to create a level of fermentation which is also close to decomposition. At this point, the fat in the cheese is broken down. Tiny worms live inside the cheese, which if disturbed can jump up to about half a foot. This is the reason why people generally prefer to brush out the insects before they take a bite of this cheese. This is certainly the strangest cheese you would ever come across!

4. Hakarl

Anthony Bourdain who is very famous for eating the strangest of foods in the world claimed that Hakarl was the most disgusting and strangest thing he had ever tasted. Hakarl is made by gutting a Basking Shark or Greenland which is further fermented for around two to four months. Basically, Hakarl is a food from the Iceland and has the smell of ammonia. It is available in the Icelandic stored all around the year. Hakarl is usually served on toothpicks in cubes. The fermentation and the smell of Hakarl definitely make it one of the strangest and most disgusting foods ever!

5. Balut

If you have somehow managed to go through the entire list of foods you may change your mind after reading this one. Balut is basically a fertilized chicken or duck egg with an embryo which is almost but not fully developed and it is boiled and eaten in the shell of the egg. This type of egg is very famous in Cambodia, Philippines and Vietnam. The liquid which surrounds the egg is sipped first before the egg is eaten. These eggs are sold in the sand basically to keep the eggs warm. You must have eaten eggs, and you also must have eaten a chicken or duck, but have you ever thought of eating a nearly developed “embryo”?  This is the sole reason why this is the strangest food on the earth!