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Scrapple~

“Variations on this include hog’s head cheese and souse meat. Scrapple originated among the Pennsylvania Dutch and basically involves boiling a pig’s head and grinding that meat up with some organ meat, mixing it with corn meal, and adding some spices. This mixture is formed into loaves and chilled. It’s sliced and fried and eaten for breakfast in the mid-Atlanta areas. The best scrapple is Rapa Scrapple, made in Bridgeville, Delaware. I love the stuff, but lots of people read the ingredients or look at the gray loaf and excuse themselves. The people who aren’t from DE/MD/PA who I can get to try it usually end up liking it, however.”

Bird’s Nest Soup (China)~

“Made from the nest of a particular kind of cave/cliff swallow. The swallow secretes a substance from a gland (similar to a salivary gland) as an adhesive to bind twigs and leaves and such together to make the nest. A good way to gross out people is to tell them what bird’s nest soup is made from. Did that to my ex-sister in law, while we were having some. She was going, “Hm, this isn’t bad, ” so I filled her in. She immediately dropped her spoon and refused to touch it afterwards.”

[Yes, crap and all!!! I saw this on a documentary.]

Above excerpts are from the website (you guessed it) www.weird-food.com.