bizarre foods

BIZARRE FOODS

By: Irene Chong, Priscilla Huang & Ivan Mena

COM 1010 KMD13

Professor Reynolds

Would you ever try some…

Or drink some…

…how bout some?

AGENDA

• Several kinds of strange foods that can be found in America, Spain and China.

• The benefits that come from eating such foods.

• Where can you find these foods?

UNITED STATES

UNITED STATES

UNITED STATES

UNITED STATES

UNITED STATES

ALLIGATORREGION:SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES STATES:

Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi

PIG INTESTINESREGION:

SOUTHERN UNITED STATES

STATES:

Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi

CATFISHREGION:

SOUTHERN UNITED STATES

STATES:

Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas

POSSUMREGION:

SOUTHERN UNITED STATES

STATES:

Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia

WHALE (Blubber)REGION:

NORTHERN UNITED STATES

STATE:

Alaska

SPAIN

Tradition

• La Casa Botin: Opened in 1725

• ‘Tapas’ Bars – like a food court where a group travels from store to store to eat several small dishes of food

Angulas

• Baby eels cooked in olive oil with different peppers and spices.

• Low in Sodium; High in Vitamin E and Phosphorus.

Chiprones

• Baby squid braised in it’s own ink served with rice and chunks of ham.

• 95 – 120 Calories

• Low in fat; High in Protein and Riboflavin

Callos

Casserole made with blood sausage and cow intestines.

• 115 calories/ 69% from fat

Cochino Asado

• Roast Tongue

• Roast Eye

• Roast Brain (traditionally

sucked through the skull)

• Roast Penis

Bull Fighting Tradition

• Traditionally, when a

matador wins a bull

fight, he is rewarded

by being served the

bull’s testicles.

BULL TESTICALS• Criadillas – bull

testicles fried in olive

oil mixed with pork fat.

CHINA

CHINA

•Cantonese

•Mandarin

•Shanghai•Szechuan

Types of Chinese Cuisines

• Cantonese

• Mandarin

• Shanghai/Shandong• Szechuan

Eating CustomsNO!

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Eating Customs

CHICKEN FEET

- Dim Sum Restaurants - Yum Cha

(“drinking tea”)

PIG BLOOD Dim Sum Restaurants

FROG LEGS -Found in street vendors and markets

TIGER PENISES

Cooked ?

Not Applicable

?

- Black Market- “You are what you eat” - Male Enhancement

SEAHORSES - Herbal Medication

CONCLUSION• Several different bizarre dishes you would

find in United States, Spain and China.

• The business and personal advantages that come from knowing about these foods.

• Where you can explore these foods around the world and in New York City.

THANK YOU

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS