England:
Warm Beer, Blood Pudding, Jellied Eels, Spotted Dick, Liver and Lights, Kidney Pie, Brawn, Bubble and Squeak, Fried Bread, Crisps with Flavors

Scotland:
Haggis, Irn Bru, Blood (Black) Pudding, Herring Roe, Potted Hough, Sheep's Head, Ox Tongue, Oxtail, White Puddings, Powsowdie

Wales:
Laver Bread, Rook Pie, Lardy Cake

Sweden:
Sylta (Head Cheese)

Norway:
Lutefisk, Gravlax

Denmark:
Oellebroed, Skipsol, Beer-Jelly, Sild, Gamle Ole, Gammel Dansk, Nordsoe Olie, Rullepoelse, Flaeskesvaer, Skaerpekoed, Rastefisk, Grind, Spaek

Netherlands:
Salted Horsemeat Sandwiches, Raw Salted Herring, Peanut Butter Sauce on French Fries, Hete Bliksem

France:
Escargot, Tripe, Frog's Legs, Bleu Cheese, Roquefort, Steak Tartare, Brains, Truffles, Camel's Feet, Boudin

Spain:
Criadillas, Morcillas

European Jews:
Schmaltz, Gefilte Fish, Kishke

Germany:
Limburger, Bierkase, Blutwurst, Kuddeln, Ochsenmaul-Salat, Schweinsmagen, Curry Wurst

Italy:
Cynar and Campari liqueurs, Carpaccio, Cibreo, Song Birds, Gorgonzola

Greece:
Retsina

Sicily:
Ricci di Mare

Sardinia:
Maggot-Cheese

Mediterranean:
Sheep's head. The whole thing, cooked and skinned. Includes the eyeballs. Cheese (what a concept!) Octopus, Cicada, Octopus and Squid in Ink

Russia:
Borscht, Kvass, Caviar, Vesiga

Africa:
Blood fresh from living livestock, Grasshoppers, Okra, Fufu, Gari, Urine, Ugali, Clay, Goat's Head, Chitoum

Central Asia:
Kumiss (Fermented Mare's Milk), Yogurt, Sheep Fat

China:
Bird's Nest Soup, Sea Cucumber, Jellyfish, Rat, Snake, Drunken Shrimp, Jelled Blood, Bear Paws, Cho Do Fu, Tiger Testicles, Owl Soup, Thousand-Year Eggs, Sa Kuo Yu Toe, Fish Flotation Bladder, Bao Bing (Shaved Ice), Pork Uterus, Camel (and Cow) Tendons, Oyster Sauce, Snake Wine

Tibet:
Yak Milk (Rancid), Tea with Yak Butter

India:
Cow Urine, Human Urine

Southern India:
Blazing Curry

Burma:
a MAE oo, Ngapi-jaw

Hong Kong:
Monkey Brains

Southeast Asia:
Durian, Fermented Fish-Paste, Dog Meat, Snakes, Ngapi-Jaw, Bull Penis, Sour Candies, Fish Eyes

Thailand:
Kapi, Grasshoppers, Snake Blood, Water Bugs

Indonesia:
Blachan, Dog-Meat Restaurants, Bats

Malaysia:
Ice Kachang (Shaved Ice) Belachan

Philippines:
Baalut, Bagong (fish paste), Diniguan

Australia:
Vegemite, Marmite, Kangaroo, Witchety Grub, Beetroot, Honey Ants

Papua-New Guinea:
Sago Worms

Borneo:
Monitor Lizard

Korea:
Kim Chee, Silk Worm Grubs, Tiger Penis Soup

Japan:
Fugu, Natto, Sashimi, Shiokara, Tofu, Miso, Uni, Mountain Potato, Seaweed, Takosu, Takoyaki, Tempeh, Crickets, Unagi, Gingko Seeds, Okra (Raw!)

Hawaii:
Poi, Spam Musubi

Arctic Alaska:
Blubber, Stinkheads

U.S. in general:
Spam, Chewing Gum, Iceberg Lettuce, Bread, Beer, Peanut Butter

U.S. Northwest:
Geoduck Clams

U.S. West:
Prairie Oysters, Fried Pork Rinds, Blood-Rare Steak, Rattlesnake

U.S. Midwest:
White Castle Sliders, Jell-O Salad, Fruitcake, American Cheese Food Product, such as Velveeta, in Fried Cheese Balls, Cincinnati Greek Chili

U.S. South:
Grits, Crawfish, Hog Maws And Snouts, Etc Dropped Fowl, Chicken Feet, Chitterlings, Iced Tea, Ramps, Turkey Deep-Fried Whole (Fried Everything) Chicken-Fried Steak, Dill Pickles Fried

U.S. East:
Souse, Pork Loaf

U.S. Northeast:
Scrapple, Cod Liver Oil, Pumpkin Pie, Raw Oysters, Lobster, Fiddlehead Ferns

Canada:
Sugar Pie, Poutine, Oreilles De Christ, Cod Tongues, Cod Cheeks, Pemmican, Cracklings, Seal Flipper Pie, Spruce Beer

Mexico:
Tequila Worms, Menudo, Habanero & Jalapeno Peppers, Mole, Chichirrones (Chitterlings), Ceviche, Grasshoppers

Brazil:
Gari

Agentina:
Morcillas

Iceland:
Hakarl

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Pindead, Pindrop, Pinocchio, Pincushion, Pinwheel, Pinochle, PinM&M

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Can anyone find anything stranger??

How about fried ice cream; fried cheese; fertilized chicken eggs (is that the baalut from the Phillippines you mentioned?). You are making me hungry!

My wife makes a good Mississippi Mud Sheet Cake.

Korea: I have eaten dog (cagogio) there. they also like baby fish that look like worms (don't know what type of fish it is but they have large eyeballs. They also eat seaweed paper ( it's good). They eat eel and all kinds of dried fish not to mention squid that stinks.
Panama: I have eaten monkey meat,camon,and eguania.
Jordan: I have eaten some of the best food ther that I have ever eaten. One is called a schamma(either chicken or lamb. They also offered adaconda. Where that came from in the desert, I don't know.
Sicilia: The pizza sucks.

I go frog giggin with my brothers when I get the chance to go home and we eat their legs. My brother also collects his own mushrooms. Not the tripping kind.

Australians all sing this song

we're happy little Vegemites
As bright as bright can be
We all enjoy our Vegemite
For breakfast, lunch and tea
Our mummies say we're growing stronger
Every single week
Because we love our Vegemite
We all adore our Vegemite
It puts a rose in every cheek.....
..................................
We're are going stronger every week.

Vegemite Rules but Marmite is British.
You can't eat a hamburger without beetroot.
Kangaroo patties are fine.
Thw wiggety grubs and honey ants I can leave.

zozo, i am a little embarrassed to admit i caught myself singing that just last week.
really, really loudly....

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"you flicker and you're beautiful, you glow inside my head." -robert smith

hello hello hello, what have we here? two happy little vegemites
one's the scrive, and the other's the singer!

scrive=scribe

zozo, you're right about the Marmite!!

Click this on to read more on the subject!!

My question is, who would really want to 'eat' this conglomeration anyways?? LOL

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"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.".............
Dan Quayle

Mmmm I love Marmite ..it's really lip-smacking!!

but for a really tasty snack cheese and strawberry jam sandwiches...wonderful

Dumpling

fjohn, yep it is....

BAALUT (Philippines)
How about that great delicacy of the Philippines.....
Baalut....You take a fertilized duck or chicken egg, bury it in the ground for a few weeks and then enjoy. Also known as "the treat with feet" or "the egg with legs". Best enjoyed after many, many, many beers. From rtf@us.ksr.com. (Dick Francis)

I think I'll stick to the beer..

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"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.".............
Dan Quayle

yea I will stick with a nice bowl of cincy chili and peanut butter crackers (to dip with my dear) and Pickle Dilly....

oh and I had a few white castles today...oooohhhhweeee....my stomach is now killing me....

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eyeball

what are white castles?

Dumpling

Well Dumpling they are little 5 holed hamburgers that are steam grilled with little onions and put on little buns with pickle...you can add cheese....they call em slyders and if you haven't ever had em trust me after a few hours you'll know why they call them that...but boy are they tasty

Dumpling,

White Castle

I hope this helps...

I tasted aligator before. I only had the nerve to take one bite. LOL! It tasted like pork and a tiny bit like fish, if I remember correctly. eyeball, now I'm craving White Castle burgers. Did you bring any for us?

I eat Vegemite on crumpets and on toast (acceptable to most Australians)

But I also like Vegemite on Weetbix and on Arrowroot biscuits. Do any other Australians eat it this way??

One Hobart restaurant has crocodile and emu on menu occassionly.

I tried to find a website that explained the Icelandic dish Harkarl fully but haven't been able to. So this is from memory

Harkarl - They bury shark meat in the ground leaving it to ferment for a few months (it is debatable whether it is peed on to help this process - some Icelanders say yes, others say no). Then they wait for a windless day and dig it up. It smells so much that even the birds won't go near it. It is then cooked and eaten in small pieces washed down by a strong local brew.

Icelanders also eat -
Svith : half boiled lamb's head
Slatur: sheep's blood pudding rolled in lard and sewn up in the stomach

They also eat pickled ram's testicles.

there is a restaurant just up the road, called 'lillipilli',
that serves native australian cuisine.
they have emu and kangaroo on the menu and you can get witchetty grubs there too.

im still a tad dubious.

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"you flicker and you're beautiful, you glow inside my head." -robert smith

Isn't it against the law to kill kangaroos in Australia? If it isn't, it should be. The kangaroos will end up like the buffalo in North America -- extinct.

The are a number of different species of Kangaroo in Australia, some of which are protected and some of which are harvested.

Some specied are endagered but the species that are harvested are a long way from becoming extinct. According to this article http://www.kangaroo-industry.asn.au/morinfo/BACKGR~1.HTM there is a population of over 15 Million animals.

Cheers

Craig

What's that skippy? Timmy is stuck down a well with a sprained ankle ?

"what's that skippy?
he's fractured the third metatarsal?"

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"you flicker and you're beautiful, you glow inside my head." -robert smith

Icelandic delicacy:
HAKARL (Somniosus microcephalus) Greenland shark.

The hakarl is poisonious when it is fresh. The production process does not include any peeing, but the body fluids of this shark contain differnt compounds of ammonia and urea, the same that give your pee that special smell.....

Actually the shark meat is put through a fermentation process. Earlier this was done by burying the meat deep in the ground (1,5-2 meters) wrapped up in something to cover it. Nowadays this is done by packing the meat in air-tight plastic.

The meat is left to ferment for some weeks and is then hanged up in air (to dry and get a nice colour) for some more weeks.

Hakarl is eaten without anything with it, like jerk-meat. It is only the tourists (and urbans) who get it served as tiny cubes on a toothpick.

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"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.".............
Dan Quayle

It is interesting to see what other countries eat..but..ewwwwwwww...sorry...