bizarre cuisines people actually enjoy eating

This popular Filipino food is a developed duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in its egg. The eighteen day old fertilized duck egg has revolted even the most daring foodies with its carnal textures, earning it lofty rankings on many a most disgusting or strange food list.

Beondegi are steamed or boiled silkworm pupae, which are then seasoned and eaten as a snack. Strangely, it

This Asian delicacy is made from the nest of the swiftlet bird which builds its nest out of its own gummy saliva. In other words, you are, in essence, eating bird saliva.

Blodplttar is an interesting version of Swedish pancakes (called veriohukainen in Finland) made of pork blood, milk, rye flour, dark molasses, onion, and butter. Whats there not to love, right?

The term bushmeat refers to meat that comes from wild animals captured in developing regions of the world such as West Africa. This truly bizarre dish comes from a variety of wild animals including bats, rats, and monkeys among others, which are then smoked, dried, or salted.

Casu marzu (rotten cheese) is a traditional sheeps milk cheese the locals make in Sardinia, Italy. The cheese makers set the cheese outside and allow cheese flies to lay eggs inside it. The larvae break down the cheeses fats and ferment it. Needless to say, its unnecessary to clear those white worms from the cheese before consuming it since this cheese is literally full of them.

Definitely not for the faint hearted, the Cobra heart is a wild dish from the north part of Vietnam that involves the blood and still beating heart of a cobra (you read that rightthe live heart of a cobra). The full meal involves the cobra heart dropped in a glass of blood and venom liquor, followed by a multi course meal made from the remains of the heart less cobra.

We all know crocodiles make great shoes and purses but in certain parts of the world such as Australia and Africa they also make a great dishso they say. According to rumors they taste like a cross between chicken and crab.

It might sound somewhat impressive and maybe even exotic, but the fancy name disguises this dishs true odd nature. The most infamous dish on the menu at Guolizhuang Restaurant in Beijing; the Dragon in the Flame of Desire is a roasted yaks penis elaborately served on a large platter.

Native to Malaysia and Indonesia, the durian is probably the most divisive fruit in the world. Some people either really like it or really dont. Those who dont like it have described the fruits taste as completely rotten, mushy onions. And then theres the smell which has been described as pig s#$%, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. The odor is so potent that many hotels and public establishments in Southeast Asia have permanently banished the fruit from their properties.