Eat strange foods (like edible bugs or tropical fruits)
🌍 Anywhere🔄 Repeatable👤 13+
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Eating strange foods like crickets, durian fruit, or fermented shark pushes your taste buds into uncharted territory and often reveals that 'weird' just means 'unfamiliar.' Start with milder options and work your way up to the truly challenging stuff. Many exotic foods are delicacies in their home cultures, and trying them opens doors to understanding different ways of life.
Difficulty
15/100Easy
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Cost
$10 – $100
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Time
30min
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People
1+
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Setting
either
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Season
any
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Equipment
None needed
People who tried this
“Well, yes. Duh. So I took a bite. If you dangle the opportunity to appear on NHK in my face, I will take it. The pasta, made with cricket flour, tasted like al dente whole wheat pasta. Exactly like it. The silkworm appeared as just a hollowed crunch in my mouth, with little taste at all. It did have a consistency a bit like prawn shell, but you’re supposed to swallow it all. It wasn’t great. But it wasn’t all that bad either.”
“When I opened the bag and saw this fellow staring at me I though “oh s@#!”, someone should pay me to eat this. Fortunately, a brave friend of mine entered the room complaining about something and just dropped the “What? You guys want me to eat this? Sure.” Inspired by his impetus, we cut the big bug into two and we ate half each. Felt I was eating straw (not that I have done before). Really dry straw and extremely crunchy. It was the close I could get from being a cow, poor cattle I must say.”
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