There are unusual foods, even for Mexicans: Huitlacoche(corn smut) is a delicacy in Mexico, and is even being preserved and sold for a higher price than corn; Escamoles, which are ant larvae, are eaten with corn tortillas. Chapulines(grasshoppers), are toasted, salted and eaten as a snack on some coastal states.
Several fungi infect corn, but I think you are referring to corn smut (Ustilago maydis) with affects and destroys the corn kernels. It is eaten in Mexico as the food delicacy huitlacoche and used as a filling in quesadillas and other foods.
There are very unusual foods, even for Mexicans: huitlacoche (corn smut) is a delicacy in Mexico, and is even being preserved and sold for a higher price than corn; escamoles, which are ant larvae, are eaten with corn tortillas. Chapulines (grasshoppers), are toasted, salted and eaten as a snack on some coastal states like Oaxaca.
Chapulin is the Mexican word for grasshopper. Grasshoppers are considered a delicacy in Mexico. The standard Spanish word for grasshopper is saltamontes.
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"Cuitlacoche" (or "huitlacoche") is a fungal growth on corn, causing the kernels to swell. While considered a disease of corn (corn smut) in most countries, and the subject of eradication efforts, it was cultivated by the Aztecs and by modern Mexican and Southwest US Indian tribes. The edible fungus is marketed as "maize mushrooms" or more recently as the "Mexican truffle".
Hitler and war was a delicacy to him. Uwineza Bernadette.
The word 'delicacy' is a noun form (delicacy, delicacies), a word for something pleasing to eat because it is rare or a luxury; a fineness of structure (the delicacy of the lace); weakness of body (the delicacy of old age); the quality of requiring careful treatment (the delicacy of the situation).
Hammerheads are a delicacy because of their fins.
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The base word for delicacy is "delicate."