Food bloggers today often showcase a wide variety of foods. From street snacks to culinary delights from different regions, the diversity, flavors and raw ingredients have always sparked lively conversation. Cultural differences in food, even within a radius of 1000 km, never fail to catch our attention. An Indian blogger recently made a video on Instagram showing her on her trip to Indonesia. Local food. However, he was taken by surprise when he discovered a street vendor selling snake meat as a popular snack in the country.
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The video begins with the content creator standing in front of a food stall. IndonesiaSelling snake meat. He was overheard explaining how Indonesians in Jakarta enjoy meat from very unconventional animals like Indians like to eat chowmein and momos.
Then he shows his audience – a customer, apparently an Indonesian, standing in line, waiting for his order – the snake’s blood. The social media influencer also points out that a cobra in Indonesia costs as much as INR 1,000 and the people of the country believe that ‘cobra meat’ is extremely beneficial for good skin and immunity. He also shows how the cobra snack is prepared – a man is seen taking snakes out of a cage full of the species and grinding them up before serving them to customers.
The video quickly went viral and has been viewed more than 42 million times.
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Soon social media users started reacting to it. One user said, “One day I will go there and teach them how to cook dal and rice.” Another said that it has been proven that the most dangerous animal on this earth is human. “Snakes as breakfast,” someone quipped.
A section of viewers also compared the ‘snakes’ present there with their ‘ex’ or ‘friends’ or ‘relatives’ and wrote hilarious comments. One of them wrote, “What are my friends doing here?” Another added, “My ex will be there too, look inside?”
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