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Weird Food

I like
  • Duck & quail eggs
  • Sushi/Sashimi (raw fish)
  • Eel (Unagi sushi)
  • Baby eels (Spanish style)
  • Fish eggs (roe), Caviar
  • Octopus balls (takoyaki)
  • Crickets
  • Stingray
  • Kangaroo
  • Emu
  • Frog
  • Rabbit (also in pie, paella etc)
  • Vegemite > Marmite
  • Beef bacon
  • Chicken giblets / gizzards (stomach)
  • Chicken heart yakitori/skewers
  • Deep fried Mars Bar
  • Foie gras
  • Mealworm falafel
  • Durian
  • ​Crab, Lobster, Langoustine etc
  • ​​Camel
  • Haggis / Vegetarian Haggis
  • Spanish blood pudding/sausage (morcilla)
  • Star apple ("milky boob fruit" in Vietnamese)
  • Musk Stix

I do not like
  • ​Gorgonzola ice cream
  • Sea Urchin
  • Snails (Escargot)
  • Scorpion
  • Pork scratchings (fried skin)
  • Chicken skin yakitori/skewers
  • Raw ​Horse (Japanese Basashi)
  • Natto (Japanese fermented soybeans)
  • English black (blood) pudding/sausage
  • Nordic salty liquorice (Finnish Salmiakki)
  • Silkworm larvae
  • Sauerkraut juice (Sok Kiszonej Kapisty)
  • Kalles Caviar
  • Harkarl (Icelandic  shark)
  • Jellied chicken / Aspic / Holodets

I want to try
  • Turkey eggs
  • Donkey (asino) salami
  • Cricket flour muffins/cake etc
  • Soylent
  • Crocodile / Alligator
  • Miracle berry
  • Horse steak​ (popular in Venice & Verona)
  • Witchetty Grubs
  • Cow's blood
  • Tavuk Gogsu chicken pudding
  • Guinea pig
  • things in the next column ->
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I do not want to try
  • Human / animal placenta
  • Duck/chicken foetus (Balut)
  • Brains (pig, sheep, etc)
  • Stomach / intestines / tripe
  • Century egg
  • Bull/sheep testicle
  • Eyes (e.g. fish eyes)
  • Spider, Cockroach, Worms
  • Sea cucumber
  • Dog, cat, rat
  • Whale or dolphin
  • Monkey / bush meat
  • Turtle soup
  • Shark (or shark fin soup)
  • Chicken feet, pork trotters
  • ​Snake
  • Surstromming (fermented herring)
  • Any drink with animal(s) in it 
  • Virgin boy eggs
  • Stinky tofu
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Deep-fried Mars Bar in Scotland. In a wise but cowardly move, I shared it with 3 others. Delicious.
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Goat or Lamb, Jerusalem
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Pork Scratchings in London's second oldest pub.
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Fish market, Busan, South Korea
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Map of culinary horror
American Food I Would Like to Try
  • Turducken
  • ​Tofurkey
  • Sloppy Joes (Disorgaized Joseph?)
  • Grilled cheese sandwich & tomato soup
  • Corn dog
  • Corn casserole
  • Deviled eggs
  • SPAM
  • Rocky mountain oysters (bull testicles)
  • Oatmeal cream pies
  • Buffalo wings
  • Hamburger helper
  • Cannibal sandwich
  • Cincinatti Chilli
  • Mac & Cheese (often Kraft)
  • Bacon cheese fries dipped in ranch dressing
  • Cheese curds
  • Mozzarella sticks
  • Cheese steak
  • Cheese soup
  • Pimento cheese
  • Cheese Whiz / Easy Cheese
  • Velvita cheese
  • Cougar Gold canned cheese
  • Louisiana Hog's Head "Cheese"
  • Catfish
  • Texas toast
  • Meatloaf
  • Gumbo Stew
  • Ham biscuits, w/ Virginia ham
  • Scrapple (pork + cornmeal meatloaf)
  • Taylor Roll
  • Pork roll. The missing link between ham and bacon, apparently. (Note the differences w/above two)
  • Tomato pie (pizza without cheese and toppings, served at room temperature)
  • Tomato pie (cracker base, layers of tomato and onion, topped with cheese)
  • Chicken fried steak with gravy
  • Smoked beef brisket
  • Texas BBQ, Carolina BBQ, ALL THE BBQ
  • Cornspoon bread
  • Chicken and dumplings
  • Eggslut sandwich
  • Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
  • Roasted Corn on the Cob (with American sweet corn, in season)
  • Roasted turkey leg
  • Tomato sandwiches (tomato slice, American cheese, mayo, salt and pepper on white bread)
  • Red beans and rice
  • Etouffee
  • Redfish
  • Native American frybread
  • Buckeyes
  • Carne asada fries
  • Orange chicken
  • Po' Boy
  • Coney Island Hot Dog
  • Deep fried pork tenderloin sandwich
  • Clam chowder
  • Crawfish
  • Hawaiian plate lunch
  • Toasted ravioli
  • Hush Puppies (fried cornmeal batter)
  • Buffalo
  • Beefalo
  • ​Elk
  • Mormon Funeral Potatoes
  • Glorified rice
  • Peach Sliders
  • French-Fried Turkey Breast
  • ​Biscuits & gravy
  • Tater tots
  • Pretzel jello salad​​
  • New York bagels
  • New York pizza
  • St. Louis thin pizza
  • Chicago deep-pan pizza
  • Sonoran hot dog


Desserts
  • Jello Salad
  • Twinkies
  • Little debbies snacks
  • PB&J /&Sugar /&Bananas /&Nutella /&Honey /&Fluff[nutters]
  • Circus animal cookies / crackers
  • Green Bean casserole
  • Ambrosia salad
  • Smores
  • Pop Nots, semi-popped popcorn
  • Succotash
  • Funnel cake at a fair
  • Girl scout cookies - (both manufacturers)
  • Candied yams
  • Frog eye salad
  • Pop tarts
  • Peeps marshmallows
  • Apple butter
  • Cookie butter
  • Candy apples
  • ​Bananas Foster
  • Strawberry pretzel salad
  • Oatmeal cookies w/walnuts & choc chips
  • Chocolate Covered Honeycomb
  • Apple cider
  • Cider doughnuts
  • Root beer
  • Grape jelly
  • Snowballs
  • Akutaq (whipped animal fat)
  • Superman icecream

    Cakes / Pies:
  • Persimmon pudding
  • Key lime pie
  • Peach cobbler
  • Apple pie
  • Shoefly (molasses) pie (Pennsylvania)
  • Whoopee pies (Pennsylvania)
  • Ooey gooey butter cake
  • Fresh baked cinnamon roll
  • Pecan pie
  • Blueberry pie
  • Marionberry pie
  • BlackBerry cobbler
  • New York Cheesecake
  • Bumpy cake

Am I missing something? Send me suggestions and I'll add them to the list.
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A sign as you enter the Disgusting Food Museum.
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