Each country has such dishes, which are very fond of its inhabitants and from which in complete bewilderment or even shock to tourists. Well, it's like the way we bite the vinaigrette, the olive, the cold or the herring under the fur coat, at the sight of which the nausea grows in the foreigners.
Do you want to know from what other dishes around the world some people are drooling, and a Russian person will definitely have a vomiting reflex? Then to you here ...
1. Natto
If porridge with fruits is considered nutritious and healthy breakfast in our native open spaces, then the inhabitants of Japan will simply not understand, because they usually choose natto-fermented soybeans as a full and proper morning meal. And if one morning you wake up in the country of the rising sun and want to taste their favorite classic breakfast, then be prepared that you will bring something sticky, viscous and smelling of spoiled cheese!
2. Dumplings from the mud
Alas, the popular Haitian delicacy - dumplings from the mud appeared in the inhabitants of this island state is not from a good life. Do you want to believe it, but do you want to - no, but these "yummies" really make of the real mud (yellow clay) mixed with salt, cheap fat and pruned vegetables. Then the hot sun dries them and ... a pleasant appetite!
3. Cookies from bee larvae
If you are still "under the impression" of the classic Japanese breakfast, then be careful when before dinner in every café or eatery you will be offered a snack or crunched favorite Japanese pechenyushkami. Do you know why? Yes, because they prepare this delicacy from the bee larvae (hachinoko) with soy sauce and sugar or larvae of giant bees (suzumebachi), planting them on sticks and frying like shish kebabs!
4. Jelly salad
You will not believe, but if the guests of our country are horrified at the sight of the cold on the table, then imagine what they can experience when they see a jelly salad on the table of their American friends? You now have a lump to your throat, but we just have to list its ingredients - gelatin with a fruity taste (most often grape, apple or watermelon), tuna, pepper, carrots, cucumber and olives!
5. Surpresting
Surely this name has more than once come across in the lists of the most strange or terribly smelling dishes on earth. And in fact it is, because surrealming is nothing but a foul herring, and for Swedes it is a real national delicacy. They say that the most "terrible" acquaintance with this dish begins with the moment when the bank opens, and you will be lucky if there is no fetid explosion, because the fermentation of the herring practically does not stop!
6. Fried butter
It seems that the love of Americans to fry everything that only gets under their hands, has already reached the point of absurdity. And no, it will not go about fried ice cream (and they have such!). It turns out that today one of the most popular delicacies among US residents are ... deep-fried butter balls, covered with flour, and even with honey and cinnamon. Well - stock up on napkins!
7. Black pudding
And if one day you meet earlier in the morning in the UK or Ireland, then do not be frightened when to a traditional breakfast of eggs, toast, bacon and legume snacks, you will be served something strange black and to taste like ... but it's unclear what! So, do not be scared, in fact - it's sausages of pork blood, with oatmeal and fat, which were cooked or baked on the grill. Ah, yes - pleasant!
8. Chibreau
Well, if you think that Italian cuisine with such "nezhdanchikami" you will never fail, you are mistaken, especially if traveling in this country, find yourself in Tuscany. So, ordering a dish in the restaurant with a surprisingly appetizing name "Chibreo", on your plate you can see all the chicken offal at once - liver, heart, scallops and ovaries in the form of a stew with garlic, tomato sauce, lemon, butter and chicken yolks. By the way, this dish is on all excursion routes, and in honor of it the local restaurant was named!
9. Onion methvurst
The inhabitants of Germany also have a decent "response" to tourists in the form of onion metvurst or sausages from raw pork minced, processed with salt and smoked for taste. Are there brave souls willing to try it?
10. Candies of salmiac
But what exactly you will have to avoid while traveling in Finland is buying candy, but because there they are not sweet and chocolate with fruit or nut stuffings, but black ones with charcoal, smell of ammonia and salted stuffing! Yes, licorice candy "salmiac" for Finns is just a gift from God, which you can not spit out exactly.
Bonus: wine from mice!
Let's say at once - here first you need to topple a couple of our vodka vodka to just get courage and look at the wine, which, according to the inhabitants of Korea and China, is very tasty and useful. So, this drink is not really made from mice, but mice, which are no more than three days old, pouring rice wine and insisting in a dark place for a year.