Fried Brain Sandwhiches?!

                                    Interesting Foods

      One person's nightmare may just be another person's delicacy. Every culture has a strange food, no doubt about that. From chicken feet to birds nest soup to snails. Those aren't the strangest foods compared to these.

FRIED BRAIN SANDWHICHES. It is  a sandwich made from fried calves' brain  The sandwich is still available in the Ohio River Valley, where the brains are now heavily battered and served on hamburger buns. In El Salvador and Mexico beef brains, called sesos in Spanish, are used in tacos and burritos. The brains have a mushy texture and very little flavor on their own so loads of hot sauce really helps.    RAW BLOOD SOUP. The name tells it all. Yeah. Its basically a soup made with... raw duck blood.

Take duck blood, add duck meat plus spices, then enjoy!  Its a traditional Vietnamese dish called Tiet Canh.

Speaking of blood... BLOOD JELL-O! No. Its not sweet. Instead it's opaque and salty. It's pork blood, in jell-o form.  Next up... MONKEY BRAINS. I guess blood and brains are quite popular and delicious. brains. Monkey brains can be eaten in different way. (1) Eat it cooked. (2) Eat it raw. (3) the brain is eaten fresh, spooned out of the skull while the monkey is still alive. So at some point in history, someone took a monkey and ate its brain and then BAM it becomes a dish.  Enough with the brains and blood now. How bout BALUT. Balut is fertilized duck embyr that is boiled and eaten in the shell. It is commonly sold as strfoods are very wierd to us, but to other people it may be the most normal food ever. Apparently, people think spam,crawfish, and gumbo is a very strange food.  But yes, we do have some strange foods too. Alligator meat. It's low in fat and calories, yet high in protein. It can be cooked a number of ways, including fried, sauteed, and grilled. Found in resturaunts in  Florida, Louisiana and other southern states. Every culture has a strange food. But that just makes it unique. Fertilized duck eggs are a food in the philipines. Fertilized duck eggs are kept warm in the sun and stored in baskets to retain warmth. After nine days, the eggs are held to a light to reveal the embryo inside.