Food for the Fearless or You are What you Eat Quiz

Answer: Boiled wasp larvae

Hachi-no-ko or larva wasps are a traditional food in inland Japan. The larvae are harvested from their nests and cooked in soy sauce and sugar like many Japanese insect dishes. Once you get past the hard, crumbly part, they have a slightly sweet taste.
Don't even get close to a hunter spider dead or alive - it's one of Australia's most venomous insects.
Calves' foot jelly is well known and Kaitakushi is a Japanese beer but the two together haven't yet appeared in restaurants. The worms for the crisps are 100% English farm raised. Apparently the taste is similar to popcorn.

Answer: Giant hornets' honey

Giant Japanese Hornets apparently have one of the highest staminas of any living creature. This allegedly passes into the human system of those who consume it increases strength and levels of energy. Japanese athletes competing in the 2000 Olympics puportedly took Giant Hornet enzymes to improve performance. The hornet is placed on a needle to let the enzymes in its body flow into the honey. You can consume it as you would any other honey or take it in liquid form along with alcohol. Sounds safer than steroids to me.
Fire ants exist throughout the world but the variety present in the United States is among the most venomous and is expected to increase by 40% in the year 2010. Because of their toxic content they haven't made it to the dinner plate - yet.
The Weta is one of the largest and heaviest insects in the world, somewhat similar to a grasshopper or cricket, and can grow up to 4 in/10cm and is native to New Zealand. While the indigenous Maori people are not adverse to creative cooking, the Weta doesn't feature in their cuisine.
The praying mantis is itself a big fan of eating insects but again hasn't appeared in any tasty recipe so far.

Answer: Roasted dung beetles

They are found under buffalo dung. The older dung that has been baking in the sun for days forms a crust and hardens. The beetles eat their "home" absorbing the nutrients obtained from the buffalo's diet of organic grass and plants. After eating themselves out of house and home the beetles move on to the next buffalo pat. Lightly roasted, these crunchy critters are considered by many to be the best tasting of all edible insects.
Sago worms are not worms but larvae living on the Sago Palm. Eat them raw or fry them and when cooked they resemble a little fat white sausage. Once you get through the crunchy outside the soft inner part is supposed to taste like a creamy toffee. This fine snack is more prevalent in neighbouring Malaysia.
Naga Jolokia is a chili pepper grown all over the Indian sub-continent and is among the hottest chilies in the world.
As its name implies, Banana Worm bread is a regular loaf of bread including 2 mashed bananas in the basic ingredients spiced up with the addition of a 1/4 cup of crushed army worms. It is popular in the U.S.A.

Answer: Balaat

Take one fertilized duck or chicken egg. Bury it in the ground for a few weeks. Dig it up, crack the shell and eat it with a spoon. Sounds good?
Maybe you should be aware that you will be eating a bird in its embryonic stage including feathers, eyes, bones etc.
The eggs are eaten in China. Buried in the ground in a clay, lime, salt and tea mixture and left to mature for some 3 months. They are then dug up, shelled and quartered then eaten as is. Visually, they have been likened to the colours and pattern of a black opal. They give off a pungent aroma and taste more like cheese than egg.
Fufu is a West African food. Yam pounded, moulded into balls mixed with a spicy peanut sauce and eaten by chewing.
Fugu is a dish to die for. This is a Japanese blowfish with a highly toxic organ that only specially licensed chefs are allowed to prepare. If you order it, just pray that the chef is not having a bad day.

Answer: Fried Mars bars

This refined Mars bar was dreamt up in a traditional fish and chips shop in Aberdeen and caught on in the rest of the country. The bar comprises nougat and caramel covered chocolate which is wrapped in bacon then covered in a breadcrumb batter and deep fried in oil for 10 minutes.
Bird's nest soup is a well-known Chinese dish made from the nest of swallows. The birds secrete a saliva like substance from a gland which is used to bind the nest together. This is the key ingredient that distinguishes it from other soups.
Larks' tongue was recorded as a popular dish with Roman emperors. "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" was also the title of a album released by the group King Crimson.
The pie doesn't exist. It is a line from the nursey song "Sing a song of sixpence"

Answer: Cazu Marzu

Cazu Marzu is banned on the island but secret devotees still make it. A regular sheep's milk chesse is made and then covered with a cheesecloth on which flies lay their eggs. When these have hatched and are at the maggot stage of the cycle they are added to the cheese and served on bread. You might want to don some protective eye wear before taking your first bite as the maggots can jump 6in/15cm. However, if the maggots are dead then the cheese has become toxic and could kill you if eaten.
Limburger is a soft, creamy cheese originating in Belgium renowned for its very pungent aroma likened to body odour.
Vieux Boulogne, after scientific testing and analysis, has been named as the smelliest cheese in the world.
Stinking Bishop is a relative newcomer first produced in 1972. The aroma from this British cheese has been compared to unwashed gym socks. Being mentioned in the 2005 animated film, "Wallace and Grommit:The Curse of the Were Rabbit" did wonders for sales as demand rose by 500%

Answer: Masonja with Per Per tomato sauce

Better known as Mopani worms, they are actually caterpillars of the Emperor moth. They are prepared for eating by squeezing out their guts, cooked in a little water then fried in their own body fat. The sale of roasted or dried mopani worms makes a significant contribution to rural economies in South Africa.
Huhu is a delicacy in the traditional New Zealand Maori diet. When raw, they have the taste and texture of peanut butter. When cooked, their crispy outsides have the taste of fried chicken skin, and their soft, creamy insides that of almonds.
Witjutie, or as they are better known, Witchetty grubs are an important desert food have been a staple in the diet of Australian aboriginal women and children for centuries. They are another of the larvae of a moth, this one living on the witchetty bush.
Batswing confetti is part of a line from the 1958 one hit wonder song "Dinner with Drac" recorded by John Zacherle.

Answer: Lutefisk

Lutefisk (pronouced Lewd-uh-fisk) was eaten by the Vikings way back when and is still a traditional meal enjoyed by Norweigans today. For this dish you need to catch a cod. Remove the bones, skin it, salt it, and hang it out to dry for several weeks until it hardens. After bringing it indoors, soak it in a lye for several days. Just so you are aware what you're getting in to lye is a pungent caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is widely used in the making of soap, clearing blocked drains etc. It is then boiled or baked and served with butter, salt, and pepper. The finished lutefisk usually has the consistency of jelly.
Seal flipper pie is native to Newfoundland, Canada and probably not considered politically correct to dine on but of all the foods mentioned so far this is the most acceptable tastewise.
Hakarkl, from Iceland, is a Greenland shark, caught, buried in the ground then left to ferment for up to 3 months. After curing, it is cut into strips then hung up to dry for some more months. Apparently the taste is not as bad as the disgusting smell.
Surstromming is from neighbouring Sweden. It is sour herring from the Baltic Sea that is decapitated, cleaned and immersed in brine for a day. Then it is stacked in barrels and left in the hot sun to ferment for another 24 hours. Then follows cold storage to continue the fermentation process at a slower rate and the aroma gets stronger as days go by. When it is finally "ripe", Swedes eat it with thin, hard bread and boiled potatoes probably accompanied by lots of beer, aquavit or vodka.

Answer: Criadillas

In Spanish-speaking countries known as Huevos del Toro in western Canada as Prairie Oysters and Rocky Mountain Oysters in the USA.So enjoy your bulls' testicles. No fancy preparation needed here; just bread or flour them and fry them in olive oil.
Mexico's Menudo is a soup made from the stomach lining of a cow. It is claimed to be a good cure for a hangover.
Escamoles are the eggs of the giant black Liometopum ant, which makes its home in the root systems of maguey and agave plants. Collecting the eggs is not for the faint of heart since the ants are highly venomous. The eggs have the consistency of cottage cheese but apparently a pleasant taste: buttery and slightly nutty.
Cibreo is from Italy. Suffice it to say the basic ingredients are equal amounts of duck testicles, cocks combs (that waggly bit on a roosters head) and chicken liver. Could it get any worse?

Answer: Civet Coffee

The coffee has a little help from more than Mother Nature. The Civet, a cat/weasel like animal, eats red coffee fruit which ferments in its digestive system. Enzymes dissolve the flesh of the fruit leaving the coffee beans which are ejected when the animal excretes. These are collected, washed and lightly roasted. Very little coffee is produced annually, less than 500kg, making it the world's most expensive coffee.
The tea was once a rare wild one grown in a remote Chinese mountainous area. The leaves were picked by monkeys especially trained for the task. Nowadays monkeys are not a part of the gathering process.
Scorpion Vodka comes from China, too. The vodka infusion contains a farm raised yellow scorpion. Eating it is optional but take care of the stinger.
Mezcal is distilled in Mexico from the agave plant. Genuine Mescal always contains a "worm" which is one of two larva of insects that live on the agave plant.