April 04, 2025
This Sardinian cheese is banned in many places due to health concerns. It's made from sheep milk and intentionally infested with live insect larvae. The maggots help ferment the cheese — and yes, it's eaten with the larvae still squirming.
Balut is a developing duck embryo that’s boiled and eaten from the shell. It's a common street food and considered an aphrodisiac. The crunch you hear while eating? Yeah... that’s bones and beak.
This Swedish delicacy is infamous for its overwhelmingly pungent smell. The fish is fermented for months and canned. Opening one indoors is basically a war crime.
Despite the name, it's not really 100 years old — more like a few months. These eggs turn dark green or black during preservation and have a strong ammonia smell and creamy, cheesy texture.
Made from Greenland shark, which is toxic when fresh, this dish is buried underground to rot and ferment for months before being air-dried. Even Anthony Bourdain called it “the single worst, most disgusting and terrible-tasting thing” he'd ever eaten.
Served freshly chopped and still wriggling, sannakji is eaten raw with sesame oil. The suction cups still work, so chew thoroughly — choking is a real risk.
A staple in Indigenous Australian bush tucker, these fat white grubs are eaten raw or lightly cooked. They taste like almond when raw and like scrambled eggs when roasted.