One of my guilty pleasures is to watch the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods on Netflix. I take a perverse pleasure out of watching Andrew Zimmern consume the world's most unusual foods. What makes the food so exotic, you ask? Usually, it's the uncommon ingredients, such as the intestines of a pig, brains, penises, insects, spiders, snakes, rat, etc. Normally, it's the source of protein that makes the food so unexpected. In other cases, it's the process of cooking and preparing the food that makes it so...well, bizarre. A lot of times the processes revolve around some kind of fermentation like allowing the ingredients to rot and spoil to a degree. In one case, the food was eaten raw, as in the episode on Thailand, where the tribe ate the parts of a cow straight from the body itself. It literally was just butchered, and laying on the ground. Regardless of the methodology or ingredient, I am utterly fascinated. Perhaps, some day I too will have an opportunity to try some of the featured cuisines like:

• Deep-fried tarantula
• Pig brain soup (pictured above)
• Bird's nest soup (soup made from bird vomit)
• Casu marzu (cheese with maggots)