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…

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