“Unraveling Culinary Curiosities: 30 Unexpected Foods and the Surprising Stories Behind Their Discovery!”
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#17
Gummy bears. How are you not scared the bears would attack you from the inside? Actually, I hear the sugar free ones do.
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#18
Our earliest ancestors in Africa likely ate a ton of yams, which were basically hard roots that I believe are also sometimes toxic. People were probably dead set on making the root vegetables where they ended up edible. Eating root vegetables as a staple might be the most engrained human tradition.
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#19
Thereâs a fruit in Brazil that needs to be cooked around 7 days, otherwise itâs toxic.
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#20
Fugu. To even be allowed to make it, you need a license to show that you can consistently make it in a way that wonât kill your customer(not to mention the training required to get the license which IIRC can only be issued by the Japanese Government). How many tries were needed to figure out the propper way to make it and why did they keep trying after the first two or three tries?
SeiCalros reply:
Fugu fish aren't that lethal. Most people could eat a whole fish including the skin liver and ovaries which are the poisonous parts. One fugu fish COULD be fatal but most people who used to die from fugu liver had eaten several of them.
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#21
The french are masters at this :
– engorged livers from geese and ducks that have been force fed
– snails : theyâre everywhere but for some reason only the French eat them, but not slugs because that would be weird
– frogs : theyâre everywhere but for some reason only the French eat them, but not toads because that would be weird
– cheese with maggots in (my Norman FiL)
– Camembert cheese dipped coffee (my Norman FiL)
– Pigs ear salad
– pig and sheepâs brain (they sell them at my local supermarché)
– Normandy sausage made from god knows what (delicious it is) but I think it comes from the stomach / intestine (my Mum calls it A**s Sausage)
– not to mention turning rotten grapes into an art form / national obsession
– sheepâs testicles (FiL)
– raw beef (and if its not dodgy enough well add a raw egg too)
– Horse (like really good beef, but better).
