Well, being both a Canadian and an anthropologist, I guess it's fair to say that I've eaten my share of weird stuff...
To start, there's poutine --- french fries, cheese curds, and gravy. It's a French Canadian specialty designed purposefully to clog any artery in sight, and oooh so yummy.
Then... let's see...
*Caribou (realy lovely rich, dark meat)
*Muktuk (blubber --- not a favourite of mine, despite the fact that poutine has to be at
least as high in fat
)
*Pemmican (berries, fat, and meat ground into a pulp and dried out, as a traditional native travel food)
*Paganens (an Algonquin wild hazelnut soup)
*Acorn bread (ground acorns can be used as a kind of flour substitute)
*Bannock of many varieties (bannock is just a basic quickbread kind of like tea biscuits, but when you use ground sunflower seeds instead of flour or fill it with fresh blueberries you've just picked, it's quite special)
*Fiddleheads (a certain kind of fern, just as it's newly sprouting, has beautiful curls that resemble the scrollwork on a violin, and when just lightly steamed with butter, they're sooooo yummy)
*Grasshoppers both roasted and fried (let me tell you once and for all that they
do not taste like chicken, though they're pretty good once you get used to the idea)
And perhaps weirdest of all, there's that peculiar British specialty, the battered deep-fried Mars bar on a stick. Quite tasty, actually, but I worry about the mental health of whoever thought that one up! Can't you just see it? 'Hmm, if I stuff a stick into my chocolate bar, and roll it around in the batter I'm frying my fish in, then I can deep-fry my dessert too, 'cause that'll be good for me!'
ROTFLMAO!!
--- sweetstuff
p.s. According to my grandmother, my father used to eat peanut butter and liverwurst sandwiches --- what a combination!!