These 5 Foods Don’t Sound Very Appetizing…But Are Incredibly Delicious!

Here are a few strange-sounding foods that are delicacies in many parts of the world. We'd never heard of some of these!

1. Flying Ants, Mexico
Take a brief stroll through the markets of Oaxaca, Mexico, and you'll quickly learn that insects are run-of-the-mill ingredients here. They lend saltiness and texture to an array of dishes, from tacos to guisados.

2. Spam, Hawaii
No one loves Spam quite like Hawaiians. A whopping seven million cans of the stuff are consumed each year by the tropical state's residents. It's a quirky staple that shows up at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, most popularly in Spam masubi, a seaweed-wrapped slab of rice topped with a thick Spam slice.

3. Vorschmack, Finland
Beef is good. Lamb is good. Herring is good. The three of them together? Very shockingly tasty. One of the most bizarre-sounding food mashups of all time, Vorschmack, served with a side of sour cream, beets, potatoes, and pickles, is a hearty Eastern European dish not to be missed on a trip to Finland.

4. Crickets, Vietnam
Warning: Crunchy crickets are a lot like Pringles; once you pop, you just can't stop. Maybe it's because the brittle exoskeletons are so fun to eat, or maybe it's the fact that they're cooked in pork fat and served with juicy squares of pork fat, too.

5. Haggis, Scotland
Haggis doesn't have the best reputation abroad, not because of its flavors but because of its offal-heavy ingredients. The joke's on those who snub this quintessentially Scottish dish. Although haggis is made up with all sorts of sheep innards and cooked inside of an animal stomach, you'd never know it. It's masterfully ground and spiced in a way that blurs its ingredients together.