They say one man trash is another man's treasure. The same thing can be said about the food: the dream of one person may only delights others. Beef tongue and snout of a pig to chicken feet, from fried worms and snails sautéed frog legs for, a list of odd things that we eat is endless (and often quite tasty). If you have spoiled lately and need a reason to diet, take a reading, you might just lose your appetite.
1. Sandwich Fried Brain
Long before the era of Mad Cow Disease, sandwiches made from cow brains fried, thinly sliced on white bread is a common item on the menu in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Sandwiches are still available in the Ohio River Valley, where the brain is now heavily battered and served on a hamburger bun. In El Salvador and Mexico cow brains, lovingly called sesos in Spain, used in tacos and burritos. The brain has a mushy texture and very little taste of its own so the addition of copious amounts of hot sauce definitely helped.
2. Haggis
A traditional Scottish dish, haggis is made with chopped liver, heart and lungs of sheep mixed with onions, spices, oatmeal, salt and stock, and boiled in a sheep's stomach for several hours. Larousse Gastronomique, a popular encyclopedia of gastronomy, claiming that Haggis has a "very good bean texture and delicious savory flavor." Haggis is available all year round in supermarkets Scotland and made with artificial casing rather than a sheep's stomach. Even some of which are sold in cans that will be heated in the microwave before eating. Similar dishes can be found in other European countries with goats, pigs or cows used instead of sheep.
3. Bugs
The practice of eating insects for food called entomophagy and quite common in many parts of the world, with the exception of Europe and North America (although the bug seems to be a favorite with the television show "Fear Factor"). It is not uncommon to find vendors selling fried grasshoppers, crickets, scorpions, spiders and worms on the streets of Bangkok, Thailand. Insects are high in protein and appears to consist of essential fatty acids and vitamins. Even from drying and milling flour until mealworms can be and often are used to make chocolate chip cookies. So next time you think there's a fly in your soup, it really might just be part of the presentation.
4. Rocky Mountain Oysters
What's so strange about oysters? Perhaps the fact that they do not like what you find at the bottom of the sea, but a fancy name given to the testicles fried from buffalo, bull or boar. Rocky Mountain oysters (also called Prairie Oysters) is known and regularly enjoy, in certain parts of the United States and Canada, usually where cattle breeding is prevalent. Testes peeled, boiled, rolled in flour mixture, and fry, then usually served with a nice cocktail sauce.
5. Stuffed Camel
Recipe for stuffed camel types throughout reads like a bad joke, with ingredients that include the whole camel, sheep intact and 20 whole chickens. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the recipe as the biggest item on the menu anywhere in the world, easily leaving concrete examples of this dish is completely edible. Legend says that the whole stuffed camel is a traditional dish prepared Bedouin who seem like Stacking Dolls Russia, where camel stuffed with a whole lamb, lamb stuffed with chicken and chicken stuffed with eggs and rice. The whole concoction is then baked until cooked and presented. Fact or fiction, the shear amount of food that is made by this dish makes it worthy of a place in the list.
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