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Drinking Dirt Soup and Banana Beer in Tanzania

Bizarre Foods, everyone's favorite will-it-or-won't-it-make-us-puke show, is back for another season on the Travel Channel, and the first episode found host Andrew Zimmern hanging out with the Masai people in Tanzania.

We were down with the wildlife shots in the Garden of Eden and the scenery around the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro, but Andrew's meals of blood soup, dirt soup, and gooey, gelatinous okra soup had us inching towards the "will" side of the puke question.

That is until he hit the last segment and we found out about banana beer. Who knew this was even possible? And we've just been letting our bananas sit there in the fruit bowl and go bad all these years! Andrew doesn't drink, so we didn't get a heads-up on what it tastes like, but we're intrigued. Which got us wondering whether there are any Tanzanian restaurants stateside.

We've been googling and so far have come up empty – just this one place in Toronto, but no banana beer on the menu. Anyone? Is it possible to try banana beer this side of Dar es Salaam? Let us know.

Related Stories:
· Tanzania Travel Guide [Travel Channel]
· Tanzania Travel [Jaunted]
· Beer travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Travel Channel]