This Viral Thread Has Locals Pointing Out The Worst Foods In Their Country (30 Answers)

It is forbidden to sell this cheese due to health risks, but you can still find it in some places in Italy. The thing is that the maggots will actually digest the cheese and excrete it, making a creamy texture and a unique taste. Same process as Kopi Luwak. Some health specialists say the maggots might survive in the digestive system and try to eat their way out, leading to internal wounds and all the funny consequences (vomitting, s******g blood). Some say that the maggots cannot survive in the digestive system due to high acid levels. Anyways European Union decided to consider it as a contaminated product and made it illegal to sell.

Just. Eeewwww.

Yuck

Um, I think I'll politely decline this one

They also have a similar version of cheese with maggots made in France 🤮

I have watched people eating it (mostly in PI) but it never appealed to me. Some Filipinos eat the chicken, some just drink the juice part. That also depends on the age (like how big the embryo got). PI has a lot of good food but also some I am less keen on. Balut, chicken intestines, chicken feet, boiled pig's blood, kari kari (cow intestines). But also lots of great seafood, chicken, pork dishes.

It is an acquired taste. Just like durian.

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Beautiful people and awesome culture. But Balut is absolutely disgusting.

So my classmate from the year we just got off of may have eaten this (he's Vietnamese)

Someone offered it to me once. Since I basically try everything, I came to enjoy this dish. One should be said: it stinks so beastly that you can open it only outside the building under water. To neutralize it, we had schnapps and raw onions. Thanks to several days of burping, you had the taste still forever in the mouth and the surrounding people avoided you for a very long time. I would not want to miss the experience, but thankfully decline it next time.

Not allowed on any airline and has to be opened under water..

propably also fermented since the 16th century

Lol I moved from the UK to Sweden many years ago and I was offered surströmming and took it, along with boiled potatoes and sour cream and a few other things. Just ate it as it was and then realised people were just looking at me shocked. Apparently swedes eat it on hard bread and not as it was regular fish. I enjoyed it as I would regular fish and still do and no one understands that an English person would not only eat it but don't try to hide the taste lol.

What does it smell like?

So is this like a "I hate you, have some disgusting blood soup" thing, or a "I don't trust you are worthy of my daughter, but you can prove how dedicated to her you are by eating blood soup and then I'll accept you" thing?

Oh no, not the ducks :(

Most famous mention of it is from the epic poem Pan Tadeusz. Another weird soups mentioned there is beer soup with quark. So gross.

That was a regular at my MIL's home. Also, blood sausage.

Fish bladder soup with chicken blood is common in Thailand

Grew up in Pennsylvania Dutch country. They don't waste any animal parts. This was so common you could - and still can - buy pickled pigs feet at the grocery store.

um, canned chicken is actually good, makes some pretty good sandwiches.

Ah, the culinary wasteland of the 60'sJello recipes!

My ouma had many jars like this. Calf foot jelly, brawn made from a cows head. Preserves galore too.

Canned chicken is great for chicken salad.

One of my top 5 dishes. Sorry not sorry, I'm French, land of tripes, smelly cheeses your fingers won't touch but your tongue enjoy, raw milk,where we eat every part of the pigs. Oh, and cancoillotte should be tried at least once

Well made snails are delicious. Very mushroom-y. If you overcook them they turn into rubber, but they are delicious on their own in garlic butter or in paella. If they are on the menu, I order them.

OP is missing a few African, Asian and South American countries. In the cases of Spain and Italy, their popularity is relative: the last time I've eaten snails was 40 years ago. My Italian wife probably never did in her life.

I've wanted to try snails, but as they are usually cooked with garlic butter I probably never will.

It was a luxury meal here, in Czechia, more than 100 years ago. Luxury and traditional Xmas meal; then some a-hole invented and introduced the carp. Since then poor Czech kids have to eat the fat and smelly fish with a lot of bones to be allowed to get presents. Awful. Lovely snails.

is no one gonna talk about the “1001100101001100”

yeah Nusantara gang

Idk. I love fried rice. But this is the poor mans version of that I guess?

This is not the "worst" type of food by any means compared to other entries listed.

As an American , we’re sorry about the melted cheese thing that we call Velveta but damn is that s**t the bomb ! Lol That’s how I make my ooey goey Mac n cheese !

Fair food shouldn't be counted as "Food from Country X". It's not something that's eaten normally. Often, it's food that is never eaten except one time, one year, at one fair.