Australia, OCEANIA
Kangaroo is the national animal of Australia, ok a silly piece of information…but how many of you know that it is not farmed but hunted for meat . Snakes, crocodiles, lizards and kangaroos were eaten by the aborigines and later on,
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Australia, OCEANIA
There has been a lot of aboriginal influence on Australia cuisine, which might seem weird to some, yea to a certain extent eating witchetty grubs seems a bit weird to me.
Witchetty grub is white and its head is black and yellow, with.
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Australia, OCEANIA
Butter, cheese and the likes of it are less known spreads in Australia. Vegemite is the favorite spread for sandwiches, rolls, and is used in Australian Barbie or ‘barbecue’. This blackish-brown spread is made from brewer’s yeast a…
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Scotland, EUROPE
I have just written a post on cooking with the stomach linings; this one is cooking in the sheep’s stomach. This is the weirdest delicacy in the European continent. It is Haggis the National dish of Scotland.
Though Haggis…
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France, EUROPE
The European cuisine is obsessed with offal. I have just written a post on one and here I am with Tripe. Tripe is made from the first three linings of a cow’s stomach. You call this edible offal! The three edible layers are the rumen…
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Spain, Poland, Russia, EUROPE
What about lotus in a standing pool? No, I am talking not going to explain this to you, but I would really elaborate on why I got amazed at the very fact that in Eastern Europe, cow’s intestines are filled with good stuff,.
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Germany, EUROPE
Schmaltz spread is the answer to butter and cheese. Schmaltz is derived from the German word schmelzen, which means to melt. Here we are melting lard and tallow. This has been brought to the American English by the Yiddish speaking…
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Ireland, EUROPE
Enough of blood-black puddings and red morcillas, it is time for something more colorless, more solid and more like a pudding…without blood or any such thing that you would call as Yuck! Then why am I happy celebrating my Weird food in
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Peru, SOUTH AMERICA
Thanks Melissa. Although as per my schedule, I am over with South American weird food, I decided to tell the readers about the Peruvian delicacy suggested by you:
Deep Fried, Brined Guinea Pig with Parsley Sauce and Guacamole…
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