Culinary Quirks From Around The World

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

In the Spanish city of Bunol, a tomato fight is organized every year, involving twenty-five thousand people. They are measured with hundreds of tons of tomatoes, and the streets are covered with a thirty-centimeter layer of tomato juice.

In Vietnam, cooked orangutan lips are considered one of the most exquisite dishes.

In France, beef eyes are soaked in water, then boiled, stuffed and breaded - this is considered an extremely tasty dish. In France, more than forty tons of snails are consumed every year.

In Mexico, tequila is often served with a worm in the cup. The idea is to swallow the worm along with the drink.

In China, one of the most delicious dishes is bear paws. They are baked in clay so that the fur can be easily separated from them. The Chinese are also known for making soup from swallow nests.

The nest is soaked in water, all feathers and impurities are removed and boiled until a thick sticky soup, known as an aphrodisiac, is obtained all over the world.

In China, it is also common to eat hen's eggs that have remained in the ground. Once removed, their yolk is green and the egg white is black.

In Texas, popular dishes are baked armadillos, which are baked in their shell, sprinkled with pepper, garnished with sour apples and sweet potatoes.

American pilots receive written instructions for survival in difficult conditions with a description of different types of beetles that supply protein to the body.

In Cambodia, fried spiders are considered a food and tasty dish. In the Philippines, the dish camambian is popular, which is prepared from goat meat, skin and fat, cut into cubes.

In Mongolia, horse milk is poured into a cleaned horse's stomach and hung over the front door. Everyone who enters has to flake their stomachs, and so the milk gradually turns into a low-alcohol beverage.