62 Maps of the U.S. That Reveal Things We Didn’t Know About the Country

Where you grow up can have a huge influence on the kinds of things you eat and what you consider to be normal. Maybe you like to bury your fish and let it ferment for a couple of months before enjoying it, or perhaps a half-formed chick is your style. Whatever it is, someone out there probably thinks it’s weird.

Some of these things aren’t even that weird – who thinks that chow mein is a weird food? We’d like to have a word with them. The others range from dishes we’ve never even heard of to items we are deeply uncomfortable consuming. You should proceed cautiously when someone says that Rocky Mountain oysters are their favorite food…