1Ttongppang
South Koreans serve a poop shaped dessert called Ttongppang (literally feces bread or "poo bread"). It is the shape of stylized human feces and is filled with red bean paste and walnut bits.
2. Kutti pi is an Indian cuisine which prepared from the flesh of an unborn goat fetus.
3. There is a popular dish in Somali cuisine called "Federation" which consists of half rice, half spaghetti, and an optional banana.
4. The Kiviaq is a dish from Greenland which involves stuffing seabirds into a gutted seal and letting it ferment.
5. A popular sushi food named Uni is a sweet, creamy dish made from sea urchin gonads.
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6Engagement Chicken
There is a dish called "Engagement Chicken" which is served with the intention of getting your boyfriend to propose.
7. Basashi is a Japanese dish, consisting of raw, thinly sliced horse meat that is dipped in soy sauce and garnished with ginger and onions. It is considered a staple bar food in the region.
8. 'PagPag' is a type of Filipino cuisine eaten by poor sections of society that recycles old food garbage waste into new dishes.
9. Milt, which is the seminal fluid containing the sperm of fish, is considered a delicacy in Japanese and Korean cuisines.
10. Japan has a type of dessert called a Mizu Shingen Mochi and it looks like a giant raindrop and tastes quite like a giant raindrop.
11Ants Climbing a Tree
There is a Szechuan dish in Chinese cuisine called "Ants Climbing a Tree" because the bits of ground meat clinging to the bean thread noodles evoke an image of ants walking on twigs.
12. The Ortolan is a bird that was formerly eaten in French cuisine. The process of preparing it included trapping it in a dark box so that it would eat more thinking it was night, before drowning it in brandy, roasting it, and then eating it under a napkin, done to "shield ones self from God."
13. The Japanese dish of Oyakodon which is made with chicken and eggs translates to “Parent and child in rice bowl.”
14. A 'Loco Moco' is a traditional Hawaiian cuisine. There are many variations, but the essential loco moco consists of white rice, topped with a hamburger patty, a fried egg, and brown gravy.
15. Budae-jjigae is the Korean soup dish which is a fusion of common soup ingredients in Korea and scavenged foods from US bases. It had a period of "illegality"; as spam smuggling was punishable by death under President Park in the 60s to the 70s.
16Stargazy pie
There is a traditional dish from Cornwall, United Kingdom called "stargazy pie", which is named so because fish heads are baked into the top of the pie facing upwards so that they appear to be “gazing at the stars.”
17. There is a dish common in the Philippines and South East Asia called 'Balut' which consists of a developing duck embryo that is boiled alive and eaten in its shell.
18. In 1812, Grimod de la Reynière, the world's first restaurant critic, put out a recipe for the rôti sans pareil, or roast without equal. It was a 17-bird version of the turducken, though no record exists of whether it was actually made. It was a bustard stuffed with a turkey-goose-pheasant-chicken-duck-guinea fowl-teal-woodcock-partridge-plover-lapwing-quail-thrush-lark-ortolan-bunting and garden warbler, the last being just big enough to hold an olive.
19. A traditional native Alaskan dish is called "Stink Heads" which are fermented salmon heads. After the fish are caught, the heads are removed and buried in the ground in fermentation pits for several weeks, dug up, and consumed as a putty-ish mash.
20. Taiyaki is a Japanese dessert which is prepared in the shape of a fish. It is a cake that is usually filled with sweetened azuki bean paste.
21Hákarl
The national dish of Iceland is Hákarl, a fermented shark meat which is first buried, then hung to dry for several months before eating.
22. Faggots are a traditional dish from the United Kingdom traditionally made from pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together.
23. There is a Japanese dish called Odori Don, which is a noodle soup topped with a dead squid that "dances" when soy sauce is poured on it.
24. There is a cabbage dish named Blaukraut in Germany, which is called red cabbage in northern Germany, and blue cabbage in southern Germany.
25. A Filipino dish called Pinikpikan specifies beating a chicken to death so that the meat is bloodier and thus more tender.
