Food can be tasty, delicious and very tempting. The thought of food can make anyone’s mouth water and stomach rumble. Many different kinds of food have become very popular among everyone. For example, pizza, pasta or steak and a lot more have been favorites for a long time. “I thinks everyone’s favorite is pizza,” says 8th grader Shreya Shrestha. But there have been bugs, fish heads, grasshoppers, and frog legs that have become favorites of different cultures too. Here are some of the weird foods eaten around the world.

Chicken’s feet:

If you like something chewy with a lot of bones, chicken feet is just for you. Chicken feet has been a favorite among people living in eastern countries. These feet are properly flavored and are  served as a cold dish, snacks, in a soup or even as a main course.

Haggis:

Minced meat flavored with spices sounds pretty good. But how about a sheep’s heart and lung minced with onions and spices cooked in the animal’s stomach? This has been a favorite among the Scottish and is served as a main dish.

Black Pudding (sausage):

Sausage sounds great, but when it’s a sausage made with blood, it doesn’t. Congealed blood is cooked up with various natural flavorings, breadcrumbs and then stuffed into a sausage skin, Sounds delicious, right?

Stinkhead:        

In Alaska, a fermented head of a whitefish is buried underground for a couple of weeks. Then after washing it, it is flavored with spices and eaten as mush.

Pickled eggs:

Basically the name, pickled eggs are hard boiled eggs left in a jar filled with vinegar. The vinegar penetrates to the egg’s center which makes the yolk sour.

Fried Spiders:

The Cambodian delicacy of fried spider is definitely an acquired taste. The tarantulas are served with a lime and black pepper dip. It has brown sludge in the abdomen, which consists of mainly innards, eggs and excrement.

Jing leed:

This is a grasshopper seasoned with salt, pepper, a bit of chili, and fried for a long time. It is a Thailand favorite because it tastes like hollow popcorn skin with a little juice.

Well, there are a lot of weird and strange foods around the world.You can find more here. Some of these foods taste great, whereas some of them are just different. Dare up, be bold, try one of these foods and start a new adventure.