Scary but intriguing foods one might risk eating

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This Sunday’s sillyness is in two parts, both about food. First off we have a survey based on a blog, The Hall of Strange Foods, where the writer goes around the country finding weird and wonderful foods to try. So, based on that blog, goo Ranking asked its panel to pick the strange but scary Japanese foods they’d like to try. Be sure to read the second part on thanking the first human to eat a foodstuff.

Demographics

Between the 22nd and 24th of April 2008 1,048 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.7% of the sample was female, 7.1% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 29.0% in their thirties, 27.4% in their forties, 11.6% in their fifties, and 10.2% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Someone once brought the Ghengis Khan caramels back to the office, and the general reaction was absolute disgust! From the list sweet green tea and adzuki spaghetti is about the only one I’d risk!

Click through the food names for plenty of pictures of the foods in question!

Ranking results

Q: Which strange but scary Japanese foods would you like to try? (Sample size=1,048)

Rank   Score
1 Chocolate Banana Yatsuhashi (soft rice flour cake) 100
2 Yeso Sika Deer Burger 61.4
3 Lemon Ramen 52.5
4 Jellyfish Ramen 50.8
5 Bear Curry 44.9
6 Strawberry Pasta 41.1
7 Black Bass Burger 35.6
8 Sweet Green Tea and Adzuki Bean Spaghetti 33.9
9 Strawberry Milk Monjayaki (fried soft batter omelette pancake) 30.5
10 Hakkyo-kun (“Mad Kid”, chili pepper rice cracker) 28.4
11 Ningyoyaki Curry (beanpaste-filled sponge cake) 28.0
12 Purin-don Set (mail-order custard pudding-topped rice) 27.5
13 Salad Ice Cream 25.4
14 Natto Coffee Jelly Sandwich 25.0
15 Crab Cheese Daifuku (crab cheese wrapped in sweet rice mochi paste) 24.6
16 Coffee Ramen 24.2
17 Tonkatsu Parfait (deep-fried breaded pork) 23.7
18 Banana Curry Udon Noodles 23.7
19 Akebono Rice (tangerine juice over rice) 22.9
20= Cherry Curry 22.5
20= Ice Cream Ramen 22.5
20= Natto Cake 22.5
23 Gyoza Parfait (pot-sticker, pork dumpling) 22.0
24 Squid Chocolate Curry 19.1
25= Curry Ramune (lemonade) 18.2
25= Coffee Udon Noodles 18.2
27= Ghengis Khan Caramel (lamb flavour) 16.5
27= Natto Coffee Jelly Crepe 16.5
29 Miso Katsu-Don Ice Cream (miso breaded pork and rice) 16.1
30 Pineapple Rice Chazuke (topped with condensed milk) 15.7
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