BOREDPANDA.COM – Have you ever tasted something particularly unusual and strange?
Or is it one of the items on your bucket list that you want to fulfill in your life?
Either way, it is not a difficult task to achieve because the world is full of extremely strange and bizarre foods.
Every country, nation, and even family has something that is delicious to them but very strange to others.
Some cannot even handle tea with milk, let alone balut eggs or fermented shark.
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Well, let’s be real – in this case, it is waaay easier to talk about this than to actually do it.
This time, we’ve prepared a 23-item list of weird and strange foods from around the globe. This list might make you rethink your bucket list of trying some unusual dishes.
So, let’s see if you still have an appetite for weird food after this ride!
- The Blue Java banana has a bluish peel when unripe and is known for its creamy texture and vanilla-like flavor.
- Balut is a fertilized duck egg incubated for 14 to 21 days, then steamed and eaten straight from the shell.
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Casu marzu is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae (maggots).
- The fruit Buddha’s Hand has a complex lemon aroma and actually contains no pulp or juice—it’s made up of strictly a yellow rind and white pith.
- Century eggs (preserved eggs) are not actually aged for 100 years—they are preserved in a mixture of clay, ash, and quicklime for a few weeks or months.
- Kopi Luwak is one of the most expensive coffees, made from beans eaten, partially digested, and excreted by civets.
- In Cambodia, deep-fried tarantulas are a popular snack.
- Jabuticaba, also known as Brazilian grape tree, is fruit that grows directly on the bark of the tree, making it look like the trunk is covered in grapes …
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