Would You Try Them?

You have to admire their courage---our ancestors for the sake of survival or curiosity tried foods that we cannot imagine or would not try first ourselves. Below are 10 strange foods that we still eat today. 

  1. Escamoles from Mexico – these are larvaes of a venomous ant species
  2. Shirako from Japan – sperm sacs of either cod, angler fish or puffer fish
  3. Balut from Philippines – fertilized duck egg, usually boiled and sprinkled with salt and vinegar
  4. Crispy tarantulas from Cambodia
  5. White ant eggs soup from Laos
  6. Jellied moose nose from Canada
  7. Boshintang from Korea – dog meat soup (apparently it's very nutritious)
  8. Airag from Mongolia – beer made by fermented horse milk
  9. Casu marzu from Italy – Pecorino cheese with larvae of cheese flies hatched inside
  10. Century egg from China – eggs buried in clay, ash and salt for months