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Would You Eat This? Spaghetti alla Veniziana. On the menu in Venice as “with small cuttlefish,” basically squid with a sauce made out of its own ink. Well, would you?
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Boudin is a Cajun creation — a mixture of pork, pork liver, onion, spices and rice stuffed into a sausage casing.
Crawfish, shrimp and crab are sometimes used in place of the pork products. Big chunks of crawdad tail and shrimp stuffed into “natural casing,” a … Continue reading “Boudin, Weird Regional Food”
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Bonus points for the most clever food name we’ve ever heard! This dish is called “Bone Marrow Pudding with Tongue in Cheek Marmalade” — and it’s exactly what it says it is. We ordered it for the name, braced for the worst and we VERY pleasantly … Continue reading “Bone Marrow Pudding with Tongue in Cheek Marmalade, Weird Regional Food”
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Would You Eat This?: On the menu in Czech Republic as “a special,” dumplings, pork, sweet gravy, some kind of fruit jelly and whipped cream (yes, with sugar). Well, would you?
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Gianchetti from Genoa, Italy is a fine example of weird regional food. We can’t recall ever thinking “I wish we could find some tiny blanched anchovies.” Yup,these are little bitty boiled baby anchovies — complete with their little bitty boiled eyes — not bad actually, just … Continue reading “Gianchetti, Weird Regional Food”
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Now we both like hot stuff as much as the next guy, but the gift shop at the Tabasco factory had a few items that tested our limits. Let’s just say that ice cream and soda pop aren’t improved by the addition of Tabasco.
Everything … Continue reading “Tabasco Ice Cream, Weird Regional Food”
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Scorpion lollypops. Found these “suckers” (bada ching!) in Arizona. And – yup – we asked. The scorpion is edible. Tastes like chicken. Mmmmmm…bugs.
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