6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World!!!!!!!!(balut is no.1???????

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The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World

( balut is no.1 terrifying food??i was not terrified when i see and ate balut for the first time.....i like it))))) how about you did tried this all terrifying food????what the taste???The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World' Humans are like goats. We'll eat any damned thing. Just ask the people who make PowerBars.

In fact, you'll find foods in this world that don't even seem possible. Not just that they could exist, but that people would actually stick this stuff in their mouths without a gun to their head.

We've found six dishes that seemed to have sprung from Satan's own cookbook.

#6.Escamoles

From:

Mexico. </SPAN>

What the hell is it?

Escamoles are the eggs of the giant black Liometopum ant, which makes its home in the root systems of maguey and agave plants. Collecting the eggs is a uniquely unpleasant job, since the ants are highly venomous and have some kind of blood grudge against human orifices.

The eggs have the consistency of cottage cheese. The most popular way to eat them is in a taco with guacamole, while being ###### insane.

Wait, it gets worse ...

Escamoles have a surprisingly pleasant taste: buttery and slightly nutty. This hugely increases the chances that, while in Mexico, you could eat them without realizing you are eating a taco full of ###### ant eggs.

Danger of this turning up in America:

We're not sure Taco Bell hasn't snuck this #### into their food already. Just make sure you know what' in that burrito. Ask at the counter if you have to. Also, watch those ads close because they'll try to dress it up in some kind of friendly-sounding, pseudo-Mexican name.

#5.Casu Marzu

From:

Sardinia, Italy.

What the hell is it?

This, dear reader, is a medium-sized lump of Sweet ###### Christ. Casu Marzu is a sheep' milk cheese that has been deliberately infested by a Piophila casei, the "cheese fly." The result is a maggot-ridden, weeping stink bomb in an advanced state of decomposition.

Its translucent larvae are able to jump about 6 inches into the air, making this the only cheese that requires eye protection while eating. The taste is strong enough to burn the tongue, and the larvae themselves pass through the stomach undigested, sometimes surviving long enough to breed in the intestine, where they attempt to bore through the walls, causing vomiting and bloody diarrhea.

Wait, it gets worse ...

This cheese is a delicacy in Sardinia, where it is illegal. That' right. It is illegal in the only place where people actually want to eat it. If this does not communicate a very clear message, perhaps the larvae will, as they leap desperately toward your face in an effort to escape the putrescent horror of the only home they have ever known. Even the cheese itself is ashamed; when prodded, it weeps an odorous liquid called lagrima, Sardinian for "tears."

Danger of this turning up in America:

There is significant danger here, as we're thinking the cheese companies have a lot of maggot stock in the back of their warehouse they'd like to get rid of. And, there may actually be a market for it. Self-loathing is a powerful force in this economy (see the diet section of your local supermarket) and there' times you get low enough that, damn it, you feel like you deserve nothing better than infested cheese.

#4.Lutefisk

From:

Norway.</SPAN>

What the hell is it?

Ahhh, Lutefisk. After the larvae-ridden cheese, it's a blessed relief to sample a clean, down-to-earth Scandinavian recipe.

A little too clean.

Lutefisk is a traditional Norwegian dish featuring cod that has been steeped for many days in a solution of lye, until its flesh is caustic enough to dissolve silver cutlery.

Wait, it gets worse ...

For those of you who don't know, lye (potassium hydroxide/sodium hydroxide) is a powerful industrial chemical used for cleaning drains, killing plants, de-budding cow horns, powering batteries and manufacturing biodiesel. Contact with lye can cause chemical burns, permanent scarring, blindness or total deliciousness, depending on whether you pour it onto a herring or your own face. Or, so the lutefisk industry would have us believe.

Danger of this turning up in America:

IT'S ALREADY HERE! ####!

It' true, lutefisk is more popular in the United States than in Norway. What the hell are they doing with it? They're not eating it are they? Is it because it' a cheap alternative to colonic irrigation? Seriously, how do you advertise this stuff?

#3.Baby Mice Wine

From:

Korea.

What the hell is it?

What better to wash down your gelatinous lumps of lye fish than a nice chilled cup of dead mice? What better indeed.

Baby mice wine is a traditional Chinese and Korean "health tonic," which apparently tastes like raw gasoline. Little mice, eyes still closed, are plucked from the embrace of their loving mothers and stuffed (while still alive) into a bottle of rice wine. They are left to ferment while their parents wring their tiny mouse paws in despair, tears drooping sadly from the tips of their whiskers.

Wait, it gets worse ...

Do you wince at the thought of swallowing a tequila worm? Imagine how you'd feel during a session on this #######. Whoops, I swallowed a dead mouse! Whoops, there goes another one! Whoops, I just puked my entire body out of my nose!

Danger of this turning up in America:

Who are you going to find in America that' OK with drinking dead fetus juice as a way to improve their own health? OK, other than lawyers.

#2.Pacha

From:

Iraq.

What the hell is it?

Of all the dishes, this is the one most likely to be mistaken for a threatening message from the mob. It' a sheep' head. Boiled.

Wait, it gets worse ...

Pacha only reveals its terror gradually. Sure, maybe you can get around the fact that you're eating face. But, the more you eat it, the more bone is revealed, until you give a final burp and set your cutlery down beside a grinning ivory skull. Its hollow eye sockets stare back at you with a look of grim damnation. "Burp while ye may," the sockets say, "for the same fate will happen to you--and all too soon."

We wonder why the Iraqis keep blowing themselves up? Wouldn't you, if every evening meal was a festival of death?

Danger of this turning up in America:

Not looking like that, it won't. But, you tell people that sheep head contains some kind of enzyme that boosts your metabolism and ...

#1.BalutFrom:

The Philippines

What the hell is it?

Behold, for our journey of horror reaches its destination. Balut are duck eggs that have been incubated until the fetus is all feathery and beaky, and then boiled alive. The bones give the eggs a uniquely crunchy texture.

They are enjoyed in Cambodia, Philippines and the fifth and seventh levels of hell. They are typically sold by street vendors at night, out of buckets of warm sand. You can spot the vendors because of their glowing red eyes, and the faint, otherworldly sound of children screaming.

Wait, it gets worse ...

... Because you're never going to look at an egg the same way. Tell yourself that every time you crack open an egg from now on you won't be half expecting a leathery wad of bird to come flopping out into the skillet.

Yes, balut is upsetting on about a half-dozen levels. Sure, all meat eaters know on some level that the delicious chop on your plate used to belong to something cute and fluffy, which gambolled in the sun during the brief spring of its life. Most of the time, it' perfectly possible not to give a ####. But, when you're biting into something that hasn't even had a chance to see its mother' face ... well, it' different.

Danger of this turning up in America:

Actually, marketed properly, these eggs could be a damn good motivator. When you've looked death in the face at breakfast time, what the hell else can the day throw at you?

here is balut image;

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1288/969068640_b31ea48b6d.jpg

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/imag...alut&sz=all

[Mags 112]

Already posted...

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...=111326&hl=

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

It's déjà vu all over again!

[GaryC 7]

Of all of those the only one I have eaten is #1. It isn't to bad if you keep your eyes closed.

[Mina76 0]

No thanks, don't think I will ever want to try anything on your list!

[*JG* 2]

I love to watch Andre Zimmerman and his Bizarre Foods show. I usually say there is no way I would eat that through most of his shows!

[JVKn'CVO 11]

yuck!!!

specially the baby mice ...

(goes back to eating a pack of nerds, rainbow of flavors)

Saludos,

Caro

[Andy-n-Maricar 6]

I can handle the balut and I've had lutefisk, but there is a fruit called durian that I can not stand to be near because of the odor. I'm surprised it isn't on the list. Even Andrew Zimmern said it was the worst thing he ever tasted, and he couldn't even finish eating it.

[sweetpink 1]

there's no way I could eat a balut. This reminds me a month ago when me, my husband and in-laws went out for dinner, they have a menu of alligator meat, my husband and so the rest of the group had it except me. He made a good effort to tell me that it tastes good...but anyhow, I made a deal to my hubby that I only would eat a gator if he would taste of my dried fish too...until now the deal is still up

[fendergirl 1]

that? lol hmmmmmm thats YUMMY. I'm a durian Addict lol!!!

I can handle the balut and I've had lutefisk, but there is a fruit called durian that I can not stand to be near because of the odor. I'm surprised it isn't on the list. Even Andrew Zimmern said it was the worst thing he ever tasted, and he couldn't even finish eating it.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Of all of those the only one I have eaten is #1. It isn't to bad if you keep your eyes closed.

Exactly. Balut ain't so bad.

[Toshtishtash 1]

Well, if that doesn't entice me to diet then nothing will

I think I will pass on my breakfast this morning... lol

that? lol hmmmmmm thats YUMMY. I'm a durian Addict lol!!!

I can handle the balut and I've had lutefisk, but there is a fruit called durian that I can not stand to be near because of the odor. I'm surprised it isn't on the list. Even Andrew Zimmern said it was the worst thing he ever tasted, and he couldn't even finish eating it.

Is that the fruit that they nicknamed 'vomit fruit'?

[mRx 16]

Well, if that doesn't entice me to diet then nothing will

I think I will pass on my breakfast this morning... lol

that? lol hmmmmmm thats YUMMY. I'm a durian Addict lol!!!

I can handle the balut and I've had lutefisk, but there is a fruit called durian that I can not stand to be near because of the odor. I'm surprised it isn't on the list. Even Andrew Zimmern said it was the worst thing he ever tasted, and he couldn't even finish eating it.

Is that the fruit that they nicknamed 'vomit fruit'?

If you can imagine what a fart tastes like, then you know what durian tastes like.

[Toshtishtash 1]

If you can imagine what a fart tastes like, then you know what durian tastes like.

Hmmm! Nice!

[Toshtishtash 1]

King of fruits?

When it's Durian time in Malaysia there is no escaping the pungent odour of this strange looking fruit. Greeny-yellow in colour and covered with spikes it has the appearance of an outsized Horse Chestnut; but it is the distinctive smell that sets it apart from other fruit. Aficionados of the fruit say they find the smell irresistible, but its detractors have struggled to find an apt simile. It has been likened to rotting onions, unwashed socks and even carrion in custard, but the most accurate description by far is that of a sewer full of rotting pineapples. This malodorous fruit is so offensive to many people that the durian is banned on buses, trains, taxis and aeroplanes, and all hotel-doormen will bar entry to anyone trying to smuggle one into their establishment.

Older Malaysians remember the time when every kampung (village) had its own Durian tree and the villagers eagerly waited for the fruit to ripen so they could gorge themselves. These days the demand for the fruit is so great that it is grown on plantations and the maturity of the trees is hastened by grafting. This has given rise to different strains of durian and the experts search the wayside stalls for their favourite. D24 is the current favourite in our area and roadside stalls, that are obviously for Durian connoisseurs, list the different variants for sale.

The inside of the durian is divided into five compartments, each containing a cream-coloured, custard-like pulp, which can be described as delicious or foul according to one's taste. Some say that if you can get past the smell you will enjoy the fruit, but as the fruit tastes like it smells this is doubtful. It is generally recommended that if you hate the smell don't bother to taste it, especially as the taste lingers on and, as the fruit has a tendency to repeat on one for hours afterwards, this could prove disastrous!

The durian is said to be a heating fruit, which is unusual as most fruits are cooling. Legend has it that this heating property makes the durian an aphrodisiac. A local saying goes, When the durians come down the sarongs come off This is said to mean that durian-lovers would be prepared to sell their sarongs to buy a durian, but given its aphrodisiac qualities!!

There is a caveat attached to durian eating; it is believed that under no circumstances should alcohol be drunk while eating it as this can cause serious illness or even death. But as no one is willing to put this to the test it is not evident whether this is true or not. What can be ascertained is that excessive durian eating can cause abdominal discomfort or a sore throat.

Nevertheless, durian addicts cannot pass up any chance to eat it, even though it is not a cheap fruit to buy. Even poor people will find the money somehow rather than miss out when the fruit is in season. Why do people persist with this controversial fruit? As Malaysians put it, No-one can resist durian. You will enjoy it so much that even if your mother-in-law passes by you won't notice her!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A255575