Have Rare Taste? Pick Or Pass On These Foods To Find Out
Food is one of the greatest things we have in life. We're always discovering different ones to try and love. We have it every day, after all - it'd be boring to eat the same thing over and over. We all have our favourites and our go-to's when it comes to food! Whether we're lazy and opt for fast food most days or prefer home cooked meals, there's a food for everyone.
But, not all food is for everyone. There are foods out there that take courage to sample - maybe they have ridiculous levels of spice or maybe the combination of ingredients in them are baffling and borderline questionable. Other times, just the smell is enough to turn a person off eating a particular food. No matter how unusual a food is though, there's always someone out there who loves it and scarfs it down like how college kids vacuum down cheap instant ramen. We all personally know someone who's quite adventurous and will eat everything. Maybe today is the day we find out who that person in our lives is! Or, maybe there's someone out there that doesn't enjoy what foods other people typically enjoy.
Pick or pass on these foods and we'll reveal if you have a truly unique taste when it comes to food!
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Grilled cheese is something many of us love. Who doesn't love crisp, toasty bread with gooey cheese that does an amazing cheese pull when you bite into it? The best part is that one can add some bacon bits or other fillings to make a melt! Delicious, right?
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Chicken feet is a delicacy in many parts of the world, including China and the Philippines. They might look a little intimidating, but there's a wide variety of methods to cook and enjoy them. What is surprising is that chicken feet are really nutritious and are good for your joints!
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Phall is one of the hottest curries out there - it's made out of ginger, curry and whatever types of hot chilli peppers a person can imagine, like the habanero. There's quite a few videos of people unprepared for hot this dish really is.
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Surströmming looks quite unassuming - it just looks like a regular tin of fish, right? It has actually quite a pungent smell to put it lightly while also being fermented. If one can get past the strong initial smell, it's supposedly pretty good. It's definitely not your everyday average fish.
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Mānuka honey isn't quite like the typical sweet honey one finds in stores. Rather than being sweet, it's quite bitter and earthy tasting. In addition, it's thicker and darker than regular honey which is made from a variety of plants while mānuka honey is only made from mānuka plants.
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It's large, spiky and incredibly stinky - it's a fruit called durian. It's unlike most other fruits, as it's often described as being savory, sweet and creamy all at once. It also seems like no one can quite agree what they taste like - anything from caramel to actual garbage has been used to describe the smell and taste.
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A staple of Mexican food, burritos are a delightful bundle of cheese, rice, meat, beans and lettuce wrapped up in a tortilla. If any of those ingredients don't sound like your thing, don't worry - there's no hard and fast rule on how anyone has to make a burrito.
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Hákarl is a bit of a mouthful to say. It just so happens to be Iceland's national dish - fermented Greenland shark meat. Fun fact: before this shark is fermented, it's incredibly toxic for people to eat since the flesh is full of uric acid, something found in a lot of household cleaners.
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Stinky tofu is a food one can find in several night markets in Asia. The name is pretty literal - it's tofu that smells quite strongly because of fermentation. Don't let that be a deterrent though from trying it though - the texture is crisp on the outside and smooth on the inside.
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While generally looked at with a quizzical eye (and stomach) in America, SPAM is quite popular in places like Korea and Hawaii. In fact, it's popular enough to be given as a gift. Naysayers liken SPAM to cat food, while its fans often enjoy it with rice.
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Scorpion candy looks both terrifying and tasty at once - on one hand, there's a not so unusual sugary lollipop exterior but on the other hand, there is a deceased scorpion in your candy. I'd be irrationally fearful of it coming back to life as soon as I got through the candy layer.
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When we think of ice cream, we tend to think of flavors like vanilla, chocolate or maybe even Neapolitan. We certainly don't think of hot cheetos as our flavor of choice. Though, it might prove to be an unexpectedly good combo since we're always told dairy is a great way to tone down spiciness.
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Popular pretty much everywhere, french fries are readily available in any fast food joint and even in many dine-in restaurants as well. Whether one dips them in ketchup, mayonnaise or any other sauce, it's hard to beat the tastiness of fries fresh from the fryer.
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When it comes to eating cow meat, tripe is probably not the first thing on our minds. Its appearance and texture is completely different from the beef we're used to - white, honeycomb-like and tough to chew. Despite this, tripe is still eaten in many parts of the world.
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San-nakji is a Korean dish consisting of octopus tentacles and sesame oil. Even after being prepared, the tentacles still move around and the suction cups can stick to your mouth while eating this dish. A little scary but not scary enough to discourage many people from eating these tentacles.
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A favourite of many people during childhood, hotdogs are a nostalgic food that has aged well. With so many options like chicken, beef, soy or turkey, hot dogs are hard to hate. Unless one eats a few too many but that's a different story altogether.
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Blood pudding is definitely not the sweet dessert pudding most of us are accustomed to. It's actually a sausage made with pig's blood and oatmeal - so it's both chewy and crunchy. Taste-wise, many describe it as a vaguely metallic. Sorry for the people who thought blood pudding would be a sweet treat!
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Oreilles de Crisse are a Quebec delicacy - they're deep fried pork jowls served with maple syrup. Can't really get more Canadian than that, I think! Sweet and crunchy tends to be a popular combination for many foods, so why not give oreilles de crisse a try?
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Fish maw soup looks like any other soup, tasty and unassuming. For the most part it is, except for the fact that it's made with fish bladder. Some people might be a little squeamish trying this soup with that in mind. The soup itself is a little gelatinous but if one can get past that as well, it's apparently quite good.
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Wow, you might be thinking to yourself. This is a really pretty rock, right? Wrong. It's actually an egg that's been preserved in clay, ash and salt for several months. This preservation turns the egg whites into a brown jelly-like consistency and the egg yolk creamy, green and sulfur-scented.
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Natto are fermented soybeans that are often eaten for breakfast in Japan. They're described as slimy and cheesy in texture while musty in taste. While we're not sure that many people would enjoy these soybeans the first time around, one might appreciate these as an acquired taste.
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These might looked like fried chicken wings but they're actually frog legs. One might not think of this amphibian as prime for eating because of its slippery, slimy skin but frogs are a food of choice in many parts of Asia and France. They apparently taste just like chicken, so to speak.
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Fried spiders are definitely not for the faint of heart. They're a common snack in Cambodia, but actually have little taste in contrast to the appearance. Word of warning - they're not hollow on the inside. Maybe someone could get these down if they added enough sauce.
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Casu marzu may be too much for even the most avid cheese lover - it's quite literally rotten cheese. Maggots are introduced to the cheese to aid in the fermentation process. Some people even eat it with the maggots still inside - no one without an iron stomach would eat this!
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A lot of us probably remember drinking Kool-Aid as a kid. But I'm not so sure that many of us have tried Kool-Aid pickles. These pickles are made with cherry Kool-Aid, dill pickles and brine. This sounds like a kitchen accident that someone just rolled with.
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On first glance, one might not realize that it's not only spices in this chutney but in fact ground up red ants. The formic acid found in these ants accounts for both the irritating bite they give us as well as their spicy flavor. Who knew that such pests were not only edible but quite tasty as well?
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Bird nest soup sounds like an odd thing - we usually picture bird nests being made of twigs and leaves but don't worry, neither of those are in this soup. Instead, these nests are made from the saliva of swiftlets. Totally appetizing, right? Surprisingly (and perhaps a good thing), the nests themselves don't have much of a taste to them.
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This might look like a bowl of corn or nuts at first glance, but it's actually escamoles or ant larvae. We're starting to see a pattern here with all these edible creepy crawlies. If one can get past the fact they're eating larvae, these are said to taste like nuts.
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We're not sure who saw a wasp and thought eating it would be a good idea, but here we are anyway. The wasps themselves taste like burnt, slightly bitter raisins when baked inside a cracker. Seems more like an acquired taste if you ask me!
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Dragon fruit really looks more intimidating than it really is - more often than not, it's pretty bland. Don't take my word for it though. So if the funky looking exterior isn't an issue, almost anyone can take on dragon fruit without a problem.
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Turtles are definitely not the first thing we think of when it comes to dinner time. They don't exactly look appetizing, with their rough skin and shell. But, as always, there are people out there who disagree - soft shelled turtles are a delicacy in places like Singapore.
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Red eye gravy has one major difference from other gravies - it's made with black coffee. We're not sure that incredibly bitter and incredibly salty are flavors that go together, but it could turn out to be better than expected. But hey, like we said, there's something for everyone out there.
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We usually like to pair jelly with sweet things like fruit or even cream. Not the Russians though - they like jellying their meats, otherwise known as holodet. Personally though, I think I'd rather stick to plain lime JELL-O from the box.
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Here's a combination I thought I'd never see - spicy fish broth and fruits. On first glance, I thought it was ruffle chips and pepper flakes. Rujak Kuah Pindang is apparently a popular Balinese snack - we've always heard good things about sweet and salty flavors paired together, so maybe this snack is no exception to that rule.
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Akutaq might look like your regular ice cream but don't be fooled. It's made with whipped fat (coming from walruses, seals or even moose) as well as a variety of berries. A little different from the usual ingredients of sugar and milk in ice cream, particularly daring people might still enjoy this.
