Hey Foreigners! These are not a "delicacies" they're fücking sick!
 

Kind of in the spirit of Steve, Don't Eat It!, comes The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World.

Neither of those sites are for the weak of stomach and absolutely not for PETA members.

Lutefisk isn't so horrible though nothing particularly recommends it. Otherwise I haven't had the others but other than the aesthetics of seeing the food you eat as an animal I don't really see what is wrong with the pacha and balut (I've been in the presence of balut but didn't have the opportunity to try it).

I can't believe Natto didn't make the list!

And what about Vegemite?

the wine is by far (IMO) the worst of this set

thanks. I'll be passing that on...then hiding

By comparison, downright edible.

Vegemite tastes sort of like a cross between creamy peanut butter and old musty drapes. I can guarantee you that unless held at gun point, I will never know what any of those culinary abortions tastes like.

Precisely why I have to hide my view if I'm with friends who are eating a full lobster or fish for dinner. ;)

If kimchee is worse than balut then balut can't be all that bad. Kimchee is good.

What I don't understand about the reaction to lutefisk is that people are appalled it is soaked in lye but then have no problem with hominy which is just corn soaked in lye (though Mexican hominy uses lime -- and I don't mean the citrus fruit).

Isn't kimchee just a cabbage or seaweed salad?

fermented cabbage (usually, like pickles technically it can be different vegetables but cabbage is the most common).

And it is a perfect example of why I don't say a food is gross if I haven't tried it. It should be gross but isn't.

That's good stuff!

Hahaha, was that supposed to be a pun about sheep? If not, you got some inadvertent pun-gold going there.

diggin some good kimchee. havent had any in ages.

as far as the lye...isnt that what they use to make black olives?

(the answer being yup )

Lye or brine.

That reminds me of a line from George Carlin's "Fussy Eater" routine. When as a little boy he is asked by his mother why he doesn't like something he hasn't even tried, he has a couple different responses:

• It came to me in a dream!
• I know I don't like it and I know if I tried it, I would like it even less.

Lye's also used for real bagels, yo.

Word.

And for Colonists to wash their clothes in.

My friend has family who live in the Phillipines. There is a man that walks around their town every day pushing a metal cart down the street. He rings a bell and hollers, "Balut! Balut!"
Anyone expecting ice cream is in for a freakin' big surprise.
:D

Is his name "Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler" by any chance?

My inlaws eat one of the items on that list - lutefisk, a sad example of man's inhumanity to fish.

I eat Vegemite AND Natto.

....and I made my own Haggis last night. Story to follow.

I'm worried that your avatar depicts the toilet bowl the morning after.

Sadly, I think it depicts the food BEFORE he put it in his mouth...

Balut was used as a Survivor eating challenge, no?

I remember Jeffy P describing the stuff and the crunchy bones to get the contestants all grossed out before even touching the stuff.

That's why they need a Survivor in MN during winter. Ice fishing, Lutefisk, and Lutherans...

You're a Lutefisk ??

No, no. She's just saying that she lyes a lot. ;)

How Base...

Lets not get caustic.