I must add: Alligator meats sold in pounds at the poultry section of a New Orleans supermarket.

That's because it tastes like chicken! Kaching!

In a few different islands in the west indies.....Cock flavored soup mix!!!!

Of course it's just chicken soup but it was an um, different way to put it than I was used to.

I would assume that also tastes like chicken.

A friend of mine has a museum of foreign grocery products. Here's the link:

http://www.portigal.com/Museum.htm

(tho' it seems quite heavy on the Japanese stuff at the moment).

Milk packaged in plastic bags in Canada.

The ultimate utterly bizarre list of ice creams:

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photos...ice/index.html

It starts off with Raw Horseflesh Ice Cream and gets worse. (Note: This site is not a joke. These are all for real.)

Me, I collect strange yogurts. Corn in Thailand is one of my favorites, and Villa Supermarkets sell a pretty good cherry tomato yogurt also. The Chinese like red beans, tropical fruits like lychee, tamarind and the aforementioned aloe vera are par for course, but so far the only one I haven't dared to sample was durian yogurt in Jakarta.

About two-plus years ago in a grocery store in the Chinatown section of Calgary, a large bucket on the floor against a wall in the seafood section: what looked to be a collection of long-stalked plant life of some type, but oddly repulsive and slightly moving and almost watchful. My husband said, "Those are giant clams." They seemed to have some awareness about them, as if they were aware of their environment and knew they were doomed, but I could have been reading something into what I was seeing. I don't think I would want to try to negotiate a live-animal outdoor market in Asia.

As to insects, chocolate-covered ants were sold many years ago, maybe still are. I know about chocolate-covered ants because, way back when I was an undergraduate (so many years ago) I was offered candy once by someone smiling (a bad sign, in this case ;) and, after I had finished the crunchy chocolate, was told the reason for the crunch. :eek:

Pickle-flavored potato chips? Lay's does them well, and I buy them all the time in regular supermarkets, sometimes two for one. Life is good. :)

"American Style" frozen pizza in Switzerland. It was a pizza with corn on it.

Filipinos love it cause it makes their burgers, hotdogs, and everything else they use it on sweet. Personally, I can't stand sweet burgers, hotdogs or french fries.

Those sugar-coated bite-sized dried whole fish in a snack bag that one finds in Japan and some other Asian countries are pretty weird.

In and around the Alps, you can find a Swiss soda drink (Rivella) that is made from whey. It's actually pretty good.

OK. I wasn't going to, but that persuaded me. :D

From my visits to Spain, I remember 'Bimbo' bread and 'Bonka' coffee (actuallly Nescafe I think). I'm sure there was also a 'Pschitt' soft drink somewhere in Europe.

Bread
 

In many U.S. supermarkets, white bread.

Does anyone actually eat that stuff??

In Mexico - seems like every beverage that is "to go" for locals is sold in a small sandwich bag. Very bizarre when you first see it, then you get used to it.

Also in Mexico - walking through the meat section of the Guadalajara market was disturbing. I normally love seeing different things, but I about gagged on the smell. Couple that with the fact that there were SEVERAL whole cow heads for sale with the fur and everything still intact.

In Cambodia - from what I've heard from friends who've been (and I will find out in 2 weeks as I'm going) deep fried tarantulas are quite common. Don't think I'll be "enjoying" any of that.

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