The Most Bizarre Foods Throughout History

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Muktuk

For those who live in Arctic climates, muktuk is a traditional dish made of frozen whale skin and blubber. It is rooted in indigenous Inuit and Chukchi cuisines and typically eaten raw with a side of soy sauce, though it can also be fried, pickled or cooked. Said to have a nutty flavor with a rubbery skin, it is still consumed by aboriginal peoples in Greenland, Canada, Siberia and Alaska today, albeit much less than before, due to evolving generational tastes and concerns about toxic carcinogens and contaminants that become more concentrated in whales as they grow. 

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