12592. Food Facts

In Northern Australia, children often eat green ants. Pick them up, squish the head so they don't nibble you, and bite off the body.

12593. Food Facts

P'tcha is an east European Jewish food made by stewing calves' feet until they turn to jelly.

12594. Food Facts

Cinemas in Colombia serve paper cones filled with giant fried or toasted ants.

12595. Food Facts

Pruno is a ‘wine' made by American prisoners from a mixture of fruit, sugar cubes, water and tomato ketchup left to fester in a bin bag for a week. In some prisons, pruno causes so many discipline problems that fruit has been banned.

12596. Food Facts

In the Japanese countryside, salamanders and skinks are grilled on sticks and served with lettuce.

12597. Food Facts

In Nicaragua, turtle eggs are eaten raw – slit the leathery skin, add some hot sauce and suck out the gunk.

12598. Food Facts

A rat restaurant in China sells rat and snake soup, rat kebabs, steamed rat with rice and crispy fried rat.

12599. Food Facts

A restaurant in Osaka, Japan, serves whale ice-cream made from the blubber of the minke whale.

12600. Food Facts

In Texas, there's an annual rattle-snake round-up.What to do with all the rattle snakes? Skin them, gut them, cut them into chunks, cover in batter and deep fry.

12601. Food Facts

In Newfoundland, Canada, seal flipper pie is a traditional dish for the end of a seal hunt.

12602. Food Facts

Think cabbage is horrid? In Korea, it is sometimes buried in clay pots with salt for many months before it's eaten – this dish is called kimchi, and is served with most meals.

12603. Food Facts

Alligator kebabs are popular in southern Louisiana, USA.

12604. Food Facts

In Fiji, people starve a pig for a week, then feed it veal when it is very hungry. A few hours later, they kill the pig and remove the half-digested veal, which they cook and eat.

12605. Food Facts

A restaurant in Changsha, China, offers food cooked in human breast milk.

12606. Food Facts

As early as the ninth century, the Basques of Spain hunted whales, and whale tongue was considered a great delicacy.

12607. Food Facts

Oellebroed is a Danish soup make from stale rye bread soaked in water, then boiled with beer and sugar and served with cream. It's possible to buy instant oellebroed powder – just add water.

12608. Food Facts

Another way of cooking snakes in Texas – cut the head off, skin and gut it, poke a stick into the neck, wrap the snake loosely around the stick and roast over a camp fire.

12609. Food Facts

Iguanas are a popular and free food in Central America – they can often be caught in backyards.

12610. Food Facts

Slimy green stuff that looks like mucus is supposedly the best part of a lobster or crayfish. It's found in the head. Some Americans eat the main part of the lobster meat and then suck the head to get the gunge out.

12611. Food Facts

In China, people eat jellied ducks' blood.

12612. Food Facts

The street markets of Indonesia sell whole, smoked bats.

12613. Food Facts

Cibreo is an Italian dish that consists of the cooked combs from roosters.

12614. Food Facts

Spam is a luncheon meat used as a filling for sandwiches.At a Spam-cooking contest, one contestant made Spam-chip cookies!

12615. Food Facts

McDonald's in Hong Kong sells a sweetcorn pie in a sweet pie crust, the same as the apple pies in the west.

12616. Food Facts

An international contest to find the best recipe for cooking earthworms included entries of stews, salads and soups but was won by a recipe for applesauce surprise cake. Guess what the surprise was…

12617. Food Facts

In Canada, deep-fried cod tongues are a popular dish.

12618. Food Facts

Baby mouse wine, from China, is a bottle of wine packed with baby mice, to add flavour.

12619. Food Facts

In Ness, Scotland, people kill young gannets – a type of sea bird – to eat. The claws are the most highly prized part.

12620. Food Facts

Some Arctic explorers have been poisoned by eating polar bear liver. The polar bear eats so much fish that fatal levels of Vitamin D collect in its liver.

12621. Food Facts

A restaurant in Pennsylvania, USA, offers a hamburger that weighs 4 kilograms (9 pounds). No one has yet managed to finish one.

12622. Food Facts

Drunken shrimps, served in China, are live shrimps swimming in a bowl of rice wine. The idea is to catch them with chopsticks and bite the heads off.

12623. Food Facts

Bedouin people cook a camel's hump by burying it underground and lighting a fire over the top of it. When they dig it up and eat it, the top is cooked, but the bottom still mostly raw and bloody.

12624. Food Facts

The Chinese make a soup from the swim bladder of fish. It's the organ that helps fish to stay at the right depth and upright in the water, and is rather spongy.

12625. Food Facts

Fried chicken cartilage is served as a bar snack in Japan.

12626. Food Facts

Marmite, a favourite English spread for toast, is made with the left-over yeasty sludge from brewing beer.

12627. Food Facts

Snake wine in China is a very potent alcoholic drink, spiced with juice from the gall bladder of a live snake.

12628. Food Facts

Crispy fried duck or chicken feet are a delicacy in China. In the USA, whole chicken feet are sometimes pickled or made into soup.

12629. Food Facts

In both Sicily and Japan, people eat the raw roe (eggs) of sea urchins.

12630. Food Facts

In the Philippines, the eyes are considered the tastiest part of a steamed fish. Suck out the gloop and spit out the hard cornea.

12631. Food Facts

Eskimos have been known to make seagull wine – put a seagull in a bottle of water, wait for it to go off – drink!

12632. Food Facts

In Hungary, scrambled eggs are fried up with the blood from a freshly slaughtered pig.

12633. Food Facts

Some prisoners have big appetites. Richard Beavers, executed in Texas in 1994, ate for his last meal: 6 pieces of French toast with butter and syrup, 6 barbecued spare ribs, 6 pieces of bacon (burnt), 4 scrambled eggs, 5 sausage patties, French fries with ketchup, 3 slices of cheese, 2 pieces of yellow cake with chocolate fudge icing and 4 cartons of milk.

12634. Food Facts

In Wales, rook pie was considered a tasty way to get rid of a bird that might otherwise eat the crops.

12635. Food Facts

Nutria are a large rodent that live some of the time in the water. They are a pest in Louisiana, where local authorities are encouraging people to eat them – with little success, as they don't taste too good.

12636. Food Facts

In the southern USA, squirrel brains are cooked still in the head. You then crack the skull and scoop the brains out with fingers and fork.

12637. Food Facts

A traditional dish in London is eels boiled and served cold in jelly.

12638. Food Facts

In Sweden, people make dumplings from flour, reindeer blood and salt.

12639. Food Facts

Biltong is favoured as a snack by rugby supporters in South Africa. It's dried strips of any meat – elephant, eland, antelope…

12640. Food Facts

In Japan, the blowfish is a delicacy, even though it contains a poison gland which, if not properly removed, kills anyone who eats it.

12641. Food Facts

In Indonesia, deep fried monkey toes are eaten by sucking the meat straight off the bone.

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