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.

12642. Food Facts

An omelette costing $1000 (£530) and called the Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata was sold by a restaurant in New York. It contains a whole lobster and 280 grams (10 ounces) of caviar, as well as eggs, cream, potato and whiskey.

12643. Food Facts

In Georgia, there is a price limit of $20 on the last meal a prisoner can order (2004 price limit).

12644. Food Facts

Aztecs gave people who were to be human sacrifices many last meals – they fattened them up for up to a year.

12645. Food Facts

In the Philippines, chicken heads may be made into stew or barbecued whole.

12646. Food Facts

Small songbirds cooked and eaten whole have been so popular in Italy that many types have been wiped out completely.

12647. Food Facts

In Sweden and Norway, roast reindeer is a national dish.

12648. Food Facts

Many cheap meat products such as sausages and burgers are made from ‘mechanically recovered meat' which consists of a meat slurry collected from washing bones and mincing up parts of the dead animal that aren't used for anything else.

12649. Food Facts

Jellyfish are eaten dried and salted in some parts of the world. And in the Gilbert Islands, jellyfish ovaries are served fried.

12650. Food Facts

The Russian Jewish dish kishke is made by stuffing a chicken skin with flour, butter and spices and boiling it in chicken stock. Dry it out, then cut it into slices as a snack.

12651. Food Facts

In China and Japan, sheets of dried jellyfish are sold for soaking and turning back into slimy jellyfish ready for cooking.

12652. Food Facts

Ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Romans all gave condemned prisoners a last meal.

12653. Food Facts

The Chinese eat monster barnacles the size of an adult's fist.

12654. Food Facts

The town of Bunol, in Spain, has an annual tomato fight when up to 25,000 people throw around 100 tonnes (220,000 pounds) of tomatoes at each other. The streets can be flooded up to 30 centimetres (12 inches) deep with juice.

12655. Food Facts

The reproductive organs of sea urchins are eaten raw in many parts of the world, including Japan, Chile and France.

12656. Food Facts

Raw, pickled jellyfish are eaten in the Samoan Islands.

12657. Food Facts

Yeast are tiny fungi (mould), present in bread, beer and wine.The yeast eat sugar in the ingredients, making the gas which forms the bubbles in beer and wine and the holes in bread.

Bharat Ratna
Bharat Ratna : sardar vallabhbhai patel
posthumous, freedom fighter, first home minister of india
Year : 1991
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