Weird Canned Foods From Around The World

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A fun collection of strange canned foods from around the world.

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Have any of you guys seen any of these? Tried any of these before? Some of them are certainly more strange than others.

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Most look fake, but I’ve seen that hamburger in a can picture before, and Quail Eggs are everywhere in China

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I think the whole chicken could be the worst visual on there…

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That’s just wrong. [barf.gif]

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I’m not sure any of them are fake . . . but most of them are gross!

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The grocery store I worked in during high school (mid-50s), stocked several similar items. We had Insect eggs, eel, armadillo, crickets, rattlesnake, & alligator. We also had deep-fried grasshoppers. The only ones I tried were rattlesnake, alligator, grasshoppers, & crickets. They were interesting, but never became part of my regular diet. Many years later at our favorite sushi bar in Torrance, we ate a lot of both fresh-water and ocean eel (unagi and anago).

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Have had canned whale and teriyaki crickets in Japan.

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Never really liked anything from a can - with the sole exception of Hunts pork & beans when I was around 4-6 years old. Another exception is canned whole abalone though (ok, sue me). That said, I recall when I was junior or senior year college, I saw and bought a can of stewed pork hocks with black mushrooms (it was from China, and we have a similar dish here called “pata tim”) just to see how a canned one would taste.

It wasn’t too bad, I could eat it. Within a few hours, however, I broke out in hives and my face puffed up like a battered boxer’s. Never tried that again.

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The reindeer paté should be ok, the rest not so much.

But why not start with the classics? I’m about as likely to eat roasted scorpions as I am to eat those:

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Another classic…