12514. Food Facts

In the Faroe Islands, a favourite dish is puffin stuffed with rhubarb.

12515. Food Facts

In China, eggs are buried underground until they go exceptionally bad and are then sold and eaten as ‘hundredyear- old' eggs. In fact, they are about two years old. The yolks turn green and the whites turn grey or black.

12516. Food Facts

For his last meal, murderer Victor Feguer chose a single olive.

12517. Food Facts

The Air Force Survival Manual issued to US airmen explains which bugs to eat in an emergency for maximum taste and nutrition.

12518. Food Facts

The last meal of Oklahoma Bomber Timothy McVeigh was almost a litre (2 pints) of mint choc-chip ice-cream.

12519. Food Facts

Honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs has been tasted by archaeologists and found to be edible still, after thousands of years.

12520. Food Facts

If you eat too many carrots, you will turn orange.

12521. Food Facts

Fried crickets are a favourite food in China.

12522. Food Facts

The Japanese make natto by leaving soy beans to rot in straw until slimy and sticky – and very smelly.

12523. Food Facts

Some Amazonian people eat omelettes made from tarantula eggs.

12524. Food Facts

Iowa State University's Department of Entomology has published recipes for cooking with insects, including banana worm bread, crackers and cheese dip with candied crickets and mealworm fried rice.

12525. Food Facts

Australian supermarkets sell tins of witchetty grub soup.

12526. Food Facts

In France, over 40,000 metric tons (88 million pounds) of snails are consumed every year.

12527. Food Facts

Mealworms are supposed to taste better if cooked while still alive.

12528. Food Facts

Blood soup is popular in many parts of the world. In Poland, people eat a duck blood soup called czarnina; in Korea, pig blood curd soup is called seonjiguk; and in the Philippines people eat a pig blood stew called dinuguan.

12529. Food Facts

Sea slug is eaten in China and Spain. It's often sold dried and has to be soaked to restore it to its slimy, squishy glory.

12530. Food Facts

Water cockroaches are roasted and eaten in China – leave the wings and legs.

12531. Food Facts

When a pig is roasted in Cuba, the skull is cracked open and each guest takes a spoon to share scoops of brain.

12532. Food Facts

In Mexico, a black fungus which infects maize is canned and sold. It looks like black slime with a few yellow lumps in.

12533. Food Facts

Sun-dried maggots have been eaten from China to North America.

12534. Food Facts

Central American wedding feasts often included honeyed ants.

12535. Food Facts

In 1973, a Swedish sweets salesman was buried in a coffin made of chocolate.

12536. Food Facts

In Ghana, half of the locally produced meat comes from rats.

12537. Food Facts

In China, people get their own back on poisonous scorpions by frying them.They are said to taste rather like cashew nuts.

12538. Food Facts

Oysters are always eaten raw – alive – in the UK and USA.

12539. Food Facts

In Cambodia, giant grilled spiders are a popular street snack.

12540. Food Facts

The Korean delicacy sannakji consists of still-wriggling slices of octopus tentacle.

12541. Food Facts

In the Philippines, fertilized duck or chicken eggs are cooked and eaten – with the unhatched chick partly grown inside. It's called balut, in case you want to avoid it on the menu.

12542. Food Facts

An American delicacy called headcheese, similar to British brawn, is made by cooking a whole cow or pig head into a mush and letting it cool into a jelly-like mass.

12543. Food Facts

Delicacies enjoyed in Iceland include puffin and svie – singed and boiled sheep's head.

12544. Food Facts

Until 1999, it was legal to enjoy ortolan in France – a tiny, rare, song bird, fattened in a dark box to three times it normal size then drowned in brandy and spit roasted for a few minutes before being eaten whole, innards included. (It was OK to leave the head and beak.) Traditionally, it was eaten with a napkin draped over your head and the plate so that none of the delicious smell could escape.

12545. Food Facts

In Finland, people cook blood pancakes.

12546. Food Facts

Native Alaskan Indians bury salmon eggs in a jar for ninety days and eat them when they are truly rotten.

12547. Food Facts

Kakambian, from the Philippines, is made of diced goat – skin, hair, fat and meat all mixed together.

12548. Food Facts

At the winter festival of Thorrablot, Icelanders eat hákarl – rotten shark. Shark meat is buried in the ground for six to eight weeks then dried in the open air for two months.

12549. Food Facts

In Mongolia, camel or horse milk is stored in a cleaned horse stomach or hide bag and hung up in the ger (tent). Everyone who passes the door has to stir or hit the bag. It slowly ferments into a slightly alcoholic, cheesy, yoghurt drink which everyone drinks, even children.

12550. Food Facts

In some parts of Asia, monkey brains are a delicacy – but it's a myth that they are eaten from the head while the monkey is still alive.

12551. Food Facts

Bagoong is a very smelly, fermented paste made from mashed shrimps and eaten in the Philippines.

12552. Food Facts

In Palau, whole fruit bats, complete with skin, may be ordered as a starter or main course.

12553. Food Facts

Morcilla is a Puerto Rican sausage made with rice boiled in pigs' blood, stuffed into a sausage skin and then fried.

12554. Food Facts

In Ecuador, a family barbecue can include guinea pig and snake kebabs.

12555. Food Facts

In north Africa, people eat fried termites.

12556. Food Facts

In Brazil, people eat barbecued armadillo.

12557. Food Facts

In southern Africa, large caterpillars called mopani can be bought in tins.

12558. Food Facts

In Hubei province, China, eels are served whole.The correct way to eat one is to bite though just behind the head and pull out the insides with chopsticks.

12559. Food Facts

In Hong Kong, you can buy packets of crispy fried crabs like packets of crisps.

12560. Food Facts

Rocky Mountain oysters, or prairie oysters, are calves' testicles – enjoyed fried in parts of the USA.

12561. Food Facts

In some rural parts of China, you can get owl soup.

12562. Food Facts

In Korea, it's possible to buy canned silk worm pupae, or bags of silkworm from street vendors.The idea is to crunch the end off the grub and suck out the juices.

12563. Food Facts

Spider wine, from Cambodia, is actually rice wine – the spiders are added later.

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