Weird And Gross Food You Can Actually Buy But Probably Shouldn't

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Embark on a culinary journey like no other with our latest video, "25 Extremely Weird And Gross Food You Can Actually Buy But Probably Shouldn't." From Squid Ink Ice Cream to Jellied Moose Nose, we explore bizarre and unsettling delicacies that challenge your taste buds. Discover the strange world of global cuisine, where adventurous eats meet the limits of gastronomic curiosity. Join us as we uncover the most unconventional foods available for purchase, leaving you both intrigued and maybe a little queasy.
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Author: Hestie Bernard
Music: Thinking About the Universe - Nat Keefe and BeatMower
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:41 - Tong Zi Dan
1:56 - Camel Turducken
2:46 - Beondegi
3:22 - Souse
3:52 - Squid Ink Ice Cream
4:36 - Pig's Ear Salad
5:26 - Chapulines (Fried Grasshoppers)
6:12 - Salo
6:55 - Jellied Moose Nose
7:36 - Tavuk Göğsü
8:20 - Marmite
9:18 - Criadillas
9:59 - Eel Ice Cream
10:51 - Natto
11:43 - Canned Whole Chicken
12:43 - Thousand-Year Egg or Century Egg
13:51 - Akutaq (Eskimo Ice Cream)
14:22 - Frog Sashimi
15:06 - Cuy
15:55 - Snake Wine
16:54 - Stang
17:35 - Large Earthworm Jerky
18:13 - Swedish Fish Oreos
18:51 - Jeppson's Malort
19:38 - Nigerian Jumbo Bush Snails
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[@manueltapia1859]

Mike I once tried the chapulines during a handcrafts fair and weren't that bad tasted like chicken 😅 Greetings from northern México 😊

[@nellywilliams2776]

Greetings from Temple Terrace 😊👋🏿

[@list25]

Hello from North Central Florida!

[@list25]

Oh snap! I grew up in South Tampa

[@mingfanzhang8927]

❤😊❤😊

[@alexac921]

“Let’s not eat things that young boys have peed on.” 😂😂😂 Sound, sound advice.

[@cherryblossoms85]

Sounds so wrong but he is right.

[@Z33_Cowboy]

I love how mike just ripped on the century egg 😂😂😂

[@susanrobinson910]

Well, eating dinner whilst watching this video was a mistake 🤣 Love you anyway, Mike 😊❤

[@Z33_Cowboy]

Right 😂😂😂

[@list25]

Sorry!

[@SPAnComCat]

Thankfully I haven't Eaten anything in that Video.

[@user-wm2pn6dv9k]

Bull testicles are known around here as "Rocky Mountain Oysters." I've lived in Colorado and Wyoming and had hem in both places. Fried correctly, they are delicious.

[@tiki_trash]

We have a Testicle Festival in Rock Creek, MT every year.

[@erniejones5008]

I got them here once at a truckstop in Iowa. I thought they were good of course I like anything battered then deep fried.

[@Samantha-rr3or]

They really are I'm from Montana

[@Kerosene.Dreams]

Souse, also known as Head Cheese in the Southern U.S, is well known in especially the old timers cuisine. I would never touch it when my grandfather bought it but he simply adored it as a snack.

[@OriginalContent89]

Yeah my grandma grew up in the south and she eats that stuff sometimes. The rest of us just look on in horror lol

[@dollyweaver7048]

Souse is a type of head cheese. Southern born and raised and grew up eating souse meat on a cracker with hot sauce. It’s actually pretty tasty, especially when it’s spicy.

[@Kerosene.Dreams]

@@dollyweaver7048 I really shouldn't judge things like souse. I eat vienna sausages with hot sauce. It really couldn't be much different but you can't see the individual parts like you can in souse.

[@annetakubiak3374]

Delicious 😋

[@suzieseabee]

I worked in a deli. Souse was parts in a stiff jello, headcheese was a grey/brown sludge like stuff.

[@bluegold1026]

Appreciate your expert pronunciations of these delicacies in their native tongue. I feel like this vid needs a part 2.

[@list25]

Thank you so much

[@AnOldGeezer420]

For whatever it's worth, I've had Honey Roasted Crickets before. I know that's not the "craziest" of all of the adventurous foods out there, but they are surprisingly good. A lot like sunflower seeds.. And apparently super rich in protein. Also; my dad used to be absolutely o.b.s.e.s.s.e.d. with 1000 year old eggs. 😅

[@zalkor2000]

Roasted crickets is nice but the gritty texture is a bit much to get past lol

[@bumblecat757]

Marmite was invented in Staffordshire in 1902 and is huge in the UK.

[@gabesandvig7532]

Mike: "are you an adventurous eater?" Me: "have you ever eaten an egg salad sandwich with strawberry jelly and potato chips on it?"

[@OriginalContent89]

Was there alcohol involved when you made that creation or were you a child? Lol

[@buckysgirl4945]

I would try almost anything twice. The first time and the last time. Some people see this and think it's only once. Also Haggis, if properly cooked, is to die for.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

Fried bull testicles were a regular feature of our hot lunch at school in Kansas 65 years ago. The regs were a lot looser on outside food being used in school lunches. Whenever a farmer castrated his bull calves, we feasted! Also popular in the area were 'turkey fries', fried turkey testicles.

[@Poifix]

Surprised Surströmming is not on the list.

[@laurakibben4147]

Do tell!!!

[@lisachiappetti6092]

Oh, there's no need to tell. Only to watch. Go look up "Rhett and Link surströmming"

[@twistedpixie6972]

Insects are a great protein source. My brother is an entomologist and ran a program for school groups that allowed students to try them. The right ones prepared the right way are great snacks. I know this because I was his lab rat. 😂 If anyone wants to find these foods, you can visit Jungle Jim’s International Market in Fairfield, Ohio (a little north of Cincinnati). That place is so much fun. My family, starting with my mom, has been going there when it was just a fruit cart. Now we make one or two visits a year bringing my son with us. He’s almost 16 and he LOVES going there.

[@merrileeheard3889]

Our granddaughter, who is 12 now, happily ate crickets that her uncle brought back from South America!

[@derekstein6193]

Mill the crickets into flour and I may use it in cooking. Otherwise, pass.

[@Thu_Gringatoriana_593_Xsiempre]

Cuy is not just Peruvian but ecuadorian too! And it is a different species of guinea pig than the one you are used to in the United States. Furthermore it is delicious and more nutritious because they eat only herbs and grass. Cuy is a delicacy in both Perú and ecuador and something I miss when I am not there.

[@rattlecat5968]

I visited family in Peru when I was young but never knew cuy was a food. I think I would definitely try it. It seems not much different in concept than eating rabbit or squirrel which is common in the U.S. What does it taste like? Or does the flavor come only from the spices? Garlic is a staple for me.

[@Thu_Gringatoriana_593_Xsiempre]

@@rattlecat5968 depending on how it's prepared it tastes like a saltier pork or pork in general just be careful not to eat too much as it is infectious/inflammatory and eating too much can cause nausea vomiting and diarrhea

[@rattlecat5968]

​@@Thu_Gringatoriana_593_XsiempreOh, that is good information to have! ¡Gracias!

[@mclarkins]

#14 is the same as "Rocky Mountain Oysters" here in the States!

[@akashicvizion]

Down here in the US South, hog or bull testicles (criadillas, @9:18) are called Rocky Mountain Oysters.... (and there's also a delicacy called "rooster fries"... care to guess where they come from?!?) 🤣 Blessed Be, & Peace! 🙏☮

[@lynemac2539]

You should try freeze-dried durian. The lovely flavor but the texture is like astronaut ice cream. I prefer fresh durian, but the freeze -dried is also fabulous.

[@randalmayeux8880]

Hi Mike! Yum. Here in Fort Worth, Texas aka Cowtown, beef testicles also called Mountain Oysters/calf fries and Lamb fries are quite popular. I'm Cajun, and we have our share of things that others might find weird. My dad used to make hogs head cheese, black boudin has pigs blood in it and they can't sell it anymore, but you can always make your own. Of course crawfish are great but I remember the look of horror on this lady from up norths face when she came to her first crawfish boil. Hey, they're just miniature lobsters!

[@raymondmartin6737]

How about the French Canadian "Castor, avec Sirup d'Erble", in Quebec City, Quebec. 😊

[@niceday8604]

dude, you have a very refreshing humor... never stop

[@thisfatgirlruns6710]

You could make a whole series on this topic! 😅

[@JDoors]

No to; Pee, bugs (any kind), and snot-textures, the rest I'd try a bite or sip, but none looked like I'd be adding it to my home menu ... ever.

[@pamelasimone5084]

At least he didn’t talk about the maggoty cheese from Sardinia.

[@list25]

Casu Marzu.

[@Llandraa]

I think to myself rattlesnake is my weirdest to date though chocolate covered ants are on the list as well, texture of rice crispies and they type they used had a hint of cinnamon quite good.

[@patjones2082]

My uncle says 🐍snake tastes like chicken. I asked him if God ran out of flavors because they'll alway say wild foods taste like chicken, and how does he know the chicken doesn't taste like rattlesnake? If it was do or die I'd stick with the ants. 😂

[@OriginalContent89]

I thought about trying chocolate covered ants but the few people I know who tried it said that you can't even taste the ants. I think if all they add is a crunch I'll just stick to Crunch bars

[@jrstolzke]

A bowl of spider webs? Are we punishing Woodhouse for some minor infraction?

[@user-db6wv4rd9m]

The Camel thing? No. No. No. No. No.

[@Llandraa]

Dude I would totally eat camel actually I’d eat them all if they aren't too spicy, can’t deal hot spices.

[@ChIGuY-town22_]

If you told me that or a 1000 year egg, I'd eat the camel raw.

[@markbaumbargt3430]

Then there's headcheese

[@user-db6wv4rd9m]

@@markbaumbargt3430 true

[@deealexander5325]

Just the camel one? Soyou'll eat the eggs boiled in baby pee? 😮

[@hosswik]

I tried a good chunk of food on this list. Stang is really good. The squid ink ice cream is pretty good. The silk worms and grasshoppers are kinda bitter but good, but locusts and crickets are better. Marmite, canned chicken, and natto are edible… And last the pig ear salad is pretty good… but keep in mind it’s usually a drinking snack, so I was pretty hammered when I tried it.

[@OriginalContent89]

Stang sounds so good! I want to try it

[@deliciator855]

The frog one actually made my stomach turn But I'd give the worm jerky, natto and the chicken pudding a go. Canned chicken is just wrong on Soo many levels Marmite is vile! The reason a lot of people don't like it is because they put way too much spread on the cracker, you only need a tiny amount. Surprised jellied eels didn't get a mention

[@maryalderman7592]

I've had bull testicles deep fried. I thought it was oysters at first. It was surprisingly tasty. Butte Montana used to have a "Testicle Festival" where bull testicles were the featured dish.

[@Friday13girrrllll]

Marmite is not weird! 😊

[@megendoherty380]

I'd try anything once! Escargot I absolutely love!

[@davidlangford7863]

Finally!! I have finally found a way to remain on my diet!! I'm not sure if I will be able to eat ANYTHING again!

[@ashleyt11686]

To be honest you can probably put eel sauce on anything for me and I try it 😂

[@ekramer2478]

Yup!

[@OriginalContent89]

Eel sauce is the best!

[@anoldhippieshideout1080]

Never say you don't like anything you haven't tried

[@patjones2082]

Anything you haven't tried? I've never laid in the road and been ran over by an 18-wheeler, but I'm certain I don't like that, either. Some things ya just know ✌️😂.

[@Hillers62]

At 9:32 ...In the U.S. we called them "Calf Fries" or "Rocky Mountain Oysters"....and they are delicious!!!

[@ruthanneluvsvacuuming6653]

The camel one sounds very intriguing and interesting

[@bakert7000]

The Oreos and Swedish fish looked good. You can always eat the middle seperately.

[@ruthanneluvsvacuuming6653]

Homemade canned chicken is delicious My mom’s family did a lot of canning and you don’t eat the bones It’s extra concentrated flavor and great for using to make chicken soup

[@cutechristaandfishyjay8955]

Plain ripple potato dipped in milk. Best food combo ever.

[@julianaylor4351]

I'm gonna try that, sounds 😋.

[@marilynlincoln7173]

That is very good advice that you gave everyone on your channel. You said try everything once and that’s smart. You don’t want to find out you missed out on something good. Sincerely Lincoln.

[@kennethnash598]

Crillodijo is called mountain oysters if you go around Colorado. Or Calf Fries.

[@markp9621]

Thanks Mike, I will send you the Bucket of BARF. 🤮🤮

[@list25]

No thanks lol

[@mahmoudalqasem1548]

I can't find anything edible on this menu.. I think I'd rather starve to death

[@lesliesnowdon8490]

I saw on a British tv show that a couple had a can chicken for dinner on their 50th anniversary. It was from their wedding dinner 50 years earlier. 😮. Something that most people won't eat is peanut butter toast with mustard and a hotdogs. Its very good and i believe tht peanuts and mustard are used alot in Thai food. I encourage you to try it.

[@LittleLarryZellers]

Try a peanut butter sandwich with siracha sauce on it it is so awesome seriously try it

[@lesliesnowdon8490]

@@LittleLarryZellers sounds good, I like hot 🔥 lol

[@julianaylor4351]

They use a sesame based sauce to Tahini, which is used a lot in the Far East.

[@francessmith5073]

When I was sailing around the world one of the things we had in our supplies was canned chicken. We also had canned chicken and dumplings.

[@josephpacchetti5997]

THX Mike. 👊 👍 😎

[@list25]

You bet!

[@amykrumbholz6446]

I’ve had durian cookies and Thai giant water beetle. Chopped up with chilis ❤️🖤❤️

[@mattiemathis9549]

Rocky Mountain oysters , fried bull testicles are a tradition at the fall round ups! But it’s calves that are getting cut. Not full grown bulls. They are delicious and a nice pick me up on those long days… I would try most of the stuff on the list but I’d really like to get some worm jerky. 😂

[@joangoodling2086]

Oreos good, Swedish fish good. Combo must be good.

[@j.p.6932]

17:12 There’s a KZbin short of a science guy drinking the soda and he was unfazed

[@FisherOfMen705]

I eat roasted crickets, excellent source of protein and its like chips. I also really like snapping turtle soup.

[@Hillers62]

At 12:49 ...Again, while I lived in Hawaii, I went to Chinatown and bought Century Eggs...It took some time, but I eventually loved them...in modest amounts...

[@seatbelttruck]

As somebody with serious sensory issues, no. I will not try everything once. Some things are just too dangerous to even entertain putting in my mouth, including a lot of the stuff in this list. I'm risking vomiting and emotional distress, not just "ick."

[@kpi43]

So DAMN glad I ate before watching this 🤢🤮

[@patticampana9458]

No to most if these! However, i have eateb chocolate covered ants and crickets. Not too bad, actually. As usual, you've given us an unusual video 😁✌️

[@isaiahach]

we eat moose tongue where i'm from. we try to eat everything from an animal so nothing goes to waste. what we don't or can't eat we leave behind for other wildlife. we lay tobacco and thank the creator and the animals spirit if our hunt was successful. we also don't overhunt and we share with our elders in the community.

[@Hillers62]

At 10:59 ..Natto beans are a staple in Japan AND Hawaii...I ate the many times when I lived in Hawaii...they are very good!!!!

[@Hillers62]

At 8:27 ...I LOVE both Marmite and Vegemite...Although I prefer the more savory flavor of Vegemite...

[@charlesdeliberis239]

The fryed grass hoppers.i would try

[@Hillers62]

At 3:39 ...I have eaten souse...and I also love pickled pigs feet..

[@ruthanneluvsvacuuming6653]

I’ve had bottled/ canned by family moose and the gel in the jar is delicious They didn’t season meat when canning it except maybe a little salt

[@christiroseify]

Fried Tofu tripped my gag reflex harder and faster than anything I've experienced...lol The only thing I've put in my mouth that I couldn't swallow...lol Texture is everything

[@ReaperSaga-3713]

There's several of these I'd try if given the chance. I'm most interested in the stang drink though. And I'd buy a snake wine but only for keeps bc it looks wicked.

[@NG-hm2tb]

Here's the thing...I said I will try anything once..untill I saw this list...NO! .. Everything No! I don't need to try poison to know it's poison and have always drawn a line at bugs... this is the ultimate "stick to your diet list" ...the best way to discourage eating...saving it for future times when I am having trouble fasting...watch this..lose appetite..thank you for your help! Lol😂

[@JayBirdStreet]

Stang is amazing but yes it is a pucker packed joy I have drank a few

[@RNMom424]

Souse is also an item in the Southern US! All the collagen gels around the meat & connective tissue. Kinda like aspic. I've eaten it sliced thin as sandwich meat. I like it.

[@bakersnuts100]

You missed Balut, A delicacies in the Philippines. It's a fertilized duck egg that incubated for 14 to 21 days then is steamed then eaten from the shell. Just pronouncing it makes you want to Balut.

[@GoddessFourWinds]

When I was in the Navy, we were *supposed to* go on a WESPAC tour > crossing the equator. Doing that holds a tradition in the Navy. It turns Pollywogs (those who haven't crossed the equator) into Shellbacks (those who have) after hazing events. Today those events are really tame. Back in the day? Not so tame. In preparation for our trip, my Senior Chief purchased balut. Just knowing that was psychological torture, although I never let on. hahaha! Fortunately, for me, the trip was cancelled. My Senior Chief turned into a major sour puss. I am so glad I was not forced to eat that crap! lol!

[@regisspeaks1497]

The only thing I draw the line at with food is I won't eat anything considered 'babies'. Other than that, I'll try anything once. You should let me cook a gourmet meal for you Mike! I'm an adventurous eater too ❤

[@pinbi7]

lamb and veal? not sure what you mean by "babies"

[@regisspeaks1497]

@pinbi7 Definitely no lamb or veal or suckling pigs. Won't try Balut either.

[@shanefox61]

Balut, fermented three week old duck egg, boiled and eaten out of the shell, should have made the list. It's not horrible. Quite full of flavors and textures. Sannakji, live octopus, should have been number one. It's the one thing that I've declined the offer.

[@pamelasimone5084]

I can’t believe it is considered an aphrodisiac.🤮

[@pamelasimone5084]

I have eaten the octopus and it’s pretty tasty.

[@DBpotcasts]

Marmite was invented in the late 19th century by Justus von Liebig, a German scientist who discovered that leftover brewers' yeast could be concentrated and consumed. In 1902, the Marmite Food Company was founded in England and launched the production and packaging of marmite. Today, marmite is produced by Unilever.

[@joshua.recovers]

7:53 "It's Istanbul, not Constantinople!"

[@qatquekinx354]

Most unusual food I ever ate was sea cucumber in sesame sauce…surprisingly delicous!

[@julianaylor4351]

Squid ink is also used in some Italian dried pastas, seafood Mediterranean dishes from both the west and east of that area and I have had tinned mussels in squid ink, but I prefer my ice cream sweet, not savoury. You can buy squid ink sachets for seafood dishes from deli counters, sometimes. In the UK we have different types of Marmite, extra strong, chilli and regular, plus special editions like Guinness flavour and edible gold flecks. Plus we have Marmite crispbread thins and Marmite flavoured Cheddar cheese, plus Marmite flavoured snacks, like crisps ( potato chips). 😋 Because I love Marmite, I also love caviar, I've had lumpfish, salmon and trout, but I would love to try sturgeon. My late father gave me jellied eels once, like fishy rubber, so I am not going to eat snails, ever. 🤢

[@OriginalContent89]

I've always wondered what squid ink tastes like. How would you describe the flavor?

[@julianaylor4351]

@@OriginalContent89 Slightly salty and sweet, a bit like those strong flavoured potato snacks, but it does blend well with seafood, because of what it is. The easiest way to try it is tinned seafood containing it or fresh seafood items from a supermarket deli/seafood section. There are pastas flavoured with it or maybe try it in a seafood restaurant.

[@markvandermeijen-page4111]

Hey Mike, Sorry to rain on your parade, but your researchers have let you down slightly with the Marmite info..... It was 'invented' in the UK in the very early 1900's and is huge there. We can buy it down here in NZ too - but there are two different versions here. The one your clip showed is not available here as "Marmite" since a different company sells a (vastly inferior imo) product under that name, which is more akin to the Auzzie Vegemite. Jars which look like those you had in the clip contain the British recipe, but can only be sold here as "Our Mate", which refers to an old advertising campaign in the UK. Oddly enough, that's the only thing out of the list I've tried - or ever would - but I've always loved it. Love the channel & keep up the great work.

[@astraeanova4280]

I always hated the thought of eating brains, but when I lived in Turkey I was fed brain soup and it was delicious. I won't disrespect brains ever again. 😄

[@dj1211]

I like squid ink pasta!

[@angelalynn4040]

Oh my no!no ears, bugs, feet, or nose for me please!!!!

[@anitaburch3094]

Thank god I am picky eater. Lol

[@cannedmusic]

and the sheep have to be perfectly deboned to have the deboned chicken placed inside them before they can be placed inside the deboned camel...WTF?!?! (and, remember, sometimes the bull wins)

[@hamblinhomestead4046]

I hate licorice, but a man who worked for my grandfather had given me salmiakki when I was a kid. 40 years later, I'm able to get it online. Not quite the same, but it is close to what I remember. I have given it to some of my friends and they can't stand it.

[@HoV326]

Eel ice cream? I swear Japan is like the mad scientist of flavors

[@celestialrogue6006]

I'm a fan of Marmite and its cousin Vegemite.

[@metallife365]

Ive never had grasshopper but i have had deep fried crickets which is really good

[@Ravendarkwytch]

The marmite you showed originated in the UK

[@ryproar11]

I love scrapple and chicken livers and both of those make most people uncomfortable when they find out what you are eating. 😂

[@ThriftedSpirit]

Try everything once, and most things twice just in case the cook had a bad day.

[@deealexander5325]

17:13 why are the sodas/drinks in case upside down? I had to rewind to hear what was being said because I hyper focused on the upside drinks too long 😂

[@idamoody1554]

Lmao is a guinea pig was the only one that gross you out and that is the only one that I would wind up eating

[@artemuswithau]

Hufflepuff represent!

[@cjthemisfit]

Camshekien definitely sounds weird but I'd try it

[@j.p.6932]

18:51 I’d rather try Swedish Fish Oreos than most of the other stuff

[@user-db6wv4rd9m]

Marmite? No. No. No. no. No.

[@Hillers62]

At 5:29 ...I have eaten roasted grasshopper... It tasted like beef jerkey.....

[@Gary-zq3pz]

A found delicacy...I cooked up a pot of lentils one day, not knowing that it was loaded with weevils. Delicious.

[@theduder2617]

I was raised to never speak ill of other cultures. Raised to not speak ill of foods I have never tried. But peed-on eggs?? Come on now! Look, I'll try to say this as nicely as possible...... There is an important reason why pee comes from our naughty places and not our mouths. And I am betting that reason is half the reason why the majority of us can not put our mouths on our own naughty place.

[@tokemeout]

Duran extract would use it to flavor my coffee

[@Bronwen597]

#14 In Montana we call them Rocky Mountain Oysters. 🤢

[@paulwalton1222]

Marmite is amazing but it isn't the same, it used to have beef extract which is why they had vegemite as an alternative, I'm pretty sure marmite is now suitable for vegetarians

[@michelehahn7845]

I'm not an adventurous eater due to severe food allergies. I am game to try anything once as long as I know what I'm getting myself into.