"Chicken-flavored, crunchy" insects in Mr. Baye's eyes, large intestine sashimi beloved by Mr. Yu Qian, and clean and hygienic cow excrement cakes on the streets of India ...
In my impression, as long as people dare to talk, there is nothing they can't eat.
But I bet you that 99.99% of the following wonderful recipes have never been heard of.
NO 1 hippo soup
At present, the earliest known soup appeared around 6000 BC. According to research, it is a pot of hippopotamus soup.
The latest recipe for hippopotamus soup was recorded by Samuel Becker, a British explorer, when he explored Africa in 1864.
He put all the skin, meat and fat of a hippo in a pot and stewed the soup.
He also cut off the hippopotamus's head and cooked it, pickled it with vinegar and sprinkled it with onions, peppers and salt. It is said that the taste is better than the cow's head meat.
According to local Africans, hippopotamus's fat is so delicious that it can even be eaten raw with seasonings.
Anyway, I'll go to yue for a while ...
NO 2 golden rooster riding a pig
At first glance, it is estimated that many people will think that the name of this dish is a gimmick.
For example, "ants climb trees" is actually minced meat vermicelli; Another example is snowballing, which is actually bean flour cake.
But this golden rooster riding a golden pig really means literally, that is, a chicken riding on a pig.
This dish was mentioned by Guillaume Tilea, a French chef in the 4th century. It is said to be designed for religious festivals.
The specific method is: roast a pig and a chicken, while roasting, fill the chicken's stomach with stuffing, then coat it with egg liquid, then put the chicken on the pig, put a paper helmet on the chicken, and then stick a pike on the chicken's chest.
If this dish is for the nobles, the chickens and pigs should be covered with gold foil or silver foil.
NO _ 3 Fried Bovine Breast
/kloc-In the 7th century, British politician samuel pepys wrote in his diary that he ate a good cow's breast at dinner.
According to records, cow breasts must be soaked in warm water for 4 hours, and then cooked slowly with salt water until they become soft. By doing so, the milk residue can be removed.
Cooked cow breasts can be sliced, wrapped in egg liquid and bread crumbs, and then fried until golden. The children next door are greedy ... Ouch ...
According to people who have eaten it, its taste and texture are similar to those of beef tongue, but it is more chewy.
No4 Yaomian hamburger
How to take out dentures when they are swallowed into the stomach? Just eat a "cotton burger".
At the beginning of the 20th century, a man almost drowned while swimming, and swallowed his false teeth in a panic. In the hospital, he ate a delicious sandwich instead of an injection or medicine. The difference is that there is a thin layer of cotton wool inside. A week later, the dentures that had been wrapped in cotton wool were successfully excreted.
However, I would like to remind you here that this kind of "folk prescription" is just for fun. If you encounter similar situations, you should consult a professional doctor. Don't imitate it.
NO5 fried scarab larva
/kloc-Peter Lund Symonds, an anthropologist in the 0/9th century, once introduced in his book that the larvae of scarab can also be made into a delicious dish.
People will soak this white worm in vinegar to make it spit out the soil in their bodies.
Then roll them into the dough made of flour, milk and eggs, fry them in a pan until they are slightly yellow and ready to eat.
It is said that the fried scarab larvae taste crispy and melt in the mouth, and many diners want to have a second one after eating one.
NO6 fat maggot snack
In the 1920s, an explorer in Denmark had a big meal of reindeer meat with the local Inuit while crossing the American polar regions, and the dessert session after the meal left a deep impression on the poor explorer.
When the plate containing horsefly larvae was served, these huge, wriggling fat maggots stunned the explorer and his friends. They watched helplessly as the locals put this disgusting bug in their mouths and chewed it happily, making a strange noise between their lips and teeth, as if they were chewing cockroaches.
Looking at the evolution of human diet is actually a history of exploring nature. In the long years, we have explored a variety of ways to cook food, so that "eating", which was originally for survival, has become an art and enjoyment on the tip of the tongue. Those wonderful recipes that seem hard to understand now, that is, some small notes on the road of human diet evolution, have become interesting and unique memories ...