Do your country have any strange foods?
By youless
@youless (112113)
Guangzhou, China
October 24, 2016 9:40pm CST
I think thousand-year-egg will be ranked the first strange food to foreigners. Although actually this is just a very common food for us. Most of the time we use it to make the congee.
I think every country may also have its strange food to foreigners. Such as the fermented fish from Sweden.
What's yours?
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
25 Oct 16
Pickled pigs feet. Southerners pickle just about anything they can fit in a pickle jar ,which is weird in itself.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
26 Oct 16
@youless Its skinned pig foot pickled in a vinegar brine and red food color. it tastes like ham soaked in vinegar.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
25 Oct 16
To find something that smells as strong as your thousand year old eggs or the Surstromming in Sweden, I see only a few cheeses in France. I would have bet that the winner would have been Munster, but English scientists smelled our cheeses with an electronic nose and asked the opinion of 19 UK experts in 2004, and the winner is called Vieux-Boulogne. It is a cheese produced with crude cow milk in Northern France coming from cows brazing near the sea between 2 capes, one called Blanc-Nez, "White Nose", and the other Gris-Nez, "Gray Nose" : sometimes reality surpasses fiction.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
25 Oct 16
@youless The yellow part of the Chinese eggs I have tasted here were smelling sulfur and ammoniac.
We have more than 300 cheeses, and this one is not very popular. I am not sure that it is the one with the stronger smell, but it was among all cheeses that they smelled "scientifically".
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
25 Oct 16
Oh century egg ! I have tasted that , when my father bought some for us to taste .
Here , we have the so called balut - some days old chick in still egg form , boiled . A lot think it's gross including the foreigner , but once they taste how delicious it is , they will like it . They just don't like to look at it though .
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
25 Oct 16
Nothing comes to my mind for what concerns Switzerland. In Italy the weirdest in my opinion is the Casu Marzu The English translation is "rotten/putrid cheese". Some larvae are introduced in the cheese and they give to the cheese a very creamy texture. I will stop here.
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@1creekgirl (40523)
• United States
25 Oct 16
First of all, do you really eat eggs that are that old? Some people here in the south (USA) eat pig's feet, pig's tongue, pork or chicken brains, and cheese in their coffee. I'm not one of them.
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@1creekgirl (40523)
• United States
25 Oct 16
@youless Still, don't they make you sick?
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
26 Oct 16
I have no idea what is weird here.
I got one cow tongue, they boil it, slice it and fry it, and no I do not eat it!!!!
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@Ayuriny (5144)
• Denpasar, Indonesia
25 Oct 16
In Bali island, we have one strange food named 'Lawar'. It's so bizarre that I never dare to try it. It is a kind of salad made from young unripe jackfruit, coconut, string beans spiced with shrimp paste, turmeric, galangal, and other exotic spices. However what makes it so bizarre is its key ingredient used is raw pig’s blood – that’s how the dish got its reddish colour.
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