The Weird Things People Eat Around the World

Half the fun of traveling is getting out and enjoying all sorts of foods you're not used to eating. A simple trip to the corner market or grocery store in a foreign land can keep you amused for hours.

However, aside from healthy and unhealthy diets, there is a totally different category of food which is slowly trickling through into mainstream cuisine. This is loosely referred to as "weird foods." Check out some other weird foods from around the world.

Tuna Eyeball (Eaten in Japan, China)



Beetles and Scorpions (Eaten in China)



Fried tarantulas, Cambodia



Snake & Scorpion Wine, Vietnam



Bugs (Eaten in Chicago, USA)



Casu Marzu (Maggot Cheese eaten in Sardinia, Italy)



Chicken Cartilage (Eaten in Different Parts of Asia)



Chittlins (Hog's Insides, Eaten in Southern America)



Codfish Sperm (Eaten in different Parts of Asia)



Crocodile (Eaten in China)



Horseshoe Crab Roe & Nast (Eaten in China)



Live Fish (China)



Dried lizard (Japan)



Pickled Snake Head Fish (Asia)



Raw Herring (Eaten in Holland)



Raw Octopus (China)



Rotten Soybeans (Asia)



Giant Water Bug (Eaten in Taiwan)



Raw Whale Meat (Japan)



White Ant Egg (Eaten in Bangkok)



Japanese cuttlefish legs: fried, dried, and bagged.



Let's party with these little dried crabs in a bag!



It's tough to read the label, so I'll just tell you: it's cow lung. USA: Eww