4 Fabulous and Freaky Food Festivals

My day started out completely normal. I started updating my blogs and writing a few articles. I was even on the look out for some more Museum links for my site Ancient Digger, an Archaeology focused website. However, what I found when I was stumbling around on one of the sites was a really strange food festival including all types of insect specialties. I know people all around the globe partake in different sorts of cuisines, but never did I imagine that there were festivals celebrating the consumption of grasshoppers and meal-worms. Gross!

This sparked my interest, so I started rummaging around the net to find some really interesting and bizarre food festivals. And you thought your meal last night was innovative and special, think again!

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This sounds like too much fun. The Museum of Natural Sciences in North Carolina hold this festival every year around September. You can enjoy all types of entertainment including displays and presentations about arthropods. You can taste “delectable dishes featuring creepy crawlers as a major ingredient at Café Insecta.” All of these samples of insects are absolutely free. This is a wonderful,kid friendly festival. I only wish I lived closer to savor some of the strange delicacies.

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Spam may just be one of the only foods I have never tried, although it seems to be quite popular with the people of Hawaii. They even have a street festival that celebrates the people of Hawaii’s love for SPAM®, a canned meat from Hormel Foods.

“This street festival is great for all ages, as the event includes Hawaii’s top restaurants, two stages with free entertainment,and a variety of Hawaiian crafters. This is also a special event that benefits the Hawaii Food Bank, the largest non-profit in Hawaii that feeds the needy. Please take a look around our website for more information on this annual cultural tradition in Hawaii.”

Check out their website full of recipes and pictures of the festival

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Click on the picture above to their library of photo’s.

The first Salley Chitlin? Strut was planned for the Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 26, 1966. The festival featured country music acts including Greasy Medlin, Dixie Four, Snuffy Jenkins and the Strange Sisters.  Thousands upon thousands of people in South Carolina and the surrounding areas flocked to the Chitlin? Strut where they consumed hundreds of pounds of chitlin?s, and barbecue, among many other food items.

“The Town raised enough money during the festival to purchase new decorations in time for Christmas. The Chitlin? Strut proved such a success, the Mayor and Town Council decided to make the festival an annual event, to be held each year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.”

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You may this is strange, but there are Turkey testicle festivals all over the United states including one in Illinois, Misssouri and  Montana