A couple days ago, Trend Hunter posted about Daredevil Delicacies. Here's a nice follow up.
The good people over at Kooky Chow have assembled a website full of the kookiest real food you've most likely never eaten and probably never will. It's well worth a look though, as they have much more than I've listed here for your reading pleasure. Just imagine the tasty pleasure of Pickled Pigs Lips? Or King Oscars Fishy Balls? Maybe you are more the Monkey Gland Sauce type? Live monkeys? Which glands? Sweatglands? How about Pork Brains and Eggs in a nice milk gravy? Pickled Watermelon Rind? Fried Gluten with Peanuts? and of course no meal is complete without Bloater Pate with an ingredient list like: other fish & bloater. I should open my own restaurant and call it: "Toss Your Cookies" and make it an all you can eat, atrocious food buffet.
What's Driving This Trend
- Weird Food Trends
- Opportunity for food industry to experiment with unusual and daring food options.
- Novelty Dining
- Chance for the restaurant sector to create unique dining experiences using unconventional food items.
- Shock Value Cuisine
- Potential for chefs to push boundaries and create dishes that shock and intrigue diners.
Who This Affects Most
- Food and Beverage
- Industry has room for creativity and innovation to experiment with untested, strange ingredients and modernize classic delicacies.
- Hospitality
- Industry can use weird food trends to promote novelty dining experiences and create memorable events to draw tourists.
- Marketing
- Opportunity to create advertising campaigns for niche food items to shock and attract a specific demographic.
