America's strangest food festivals — experience.usatoday.com

Beer and wine tasting events, barbecue competitions and chili cookoffs are always solid choices for a tasty excursion. But some food festivals are more likely to make you scratch your head than make your mouth water. Many of these festivals celebrate the foods that put their town on the map. Others exist to raise awareness of a particular delicacy — sautéed cricket, anyone? From Sauerkraut Weekend to Spam Jam, you could spend a year following strange food around the country.

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