March 7, 2008 Archives
By It's Friday. Time for some trivia.
Ice Cream
Flavours of ice cream available in Japan include octopus, ox tongue, cactus, chicken wing and crab. A restaurant in Osaka, Japan, serves whale ice-cream made from the blubber of the minke whale. Soft ice-cream of the type sold in ice-cream vans is given its slithery smoothness by an extract of seaweed. The last meal of Oklahoma Bomber Timothy McVeigh was almost a litre (2 pints) of mint choc-chip ice-cream.
Crisps
Odd crisp flavours available around the world include octopus, seaweed, banana, and sour cream and squid. In Hong Kong, you can buy packets of crispy fried crabs like packets of crisps.
Camels
Bedouin wedding feasts sometimes include a roast camel, stuffed with a sheep, stuffed with chickens, stuffed with fish, stuffed with eggs. Bedouin people cook a camel's hump by burying it underground and lighting a fire over the top of it. When they dig it up and eat it, the top is cooked, but the bottom still mostly raw and bloody. Camels' feet are cooked in a light stock and served with vinaigrette. Only the feet of young camels are considered tasty. Camel feet can also be cooked in camel milk.
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