12478. Food Facts

To make the expensive pate de foie gras, geese are forcibly fattened with grain so that their liver swells to many times its natural size.

12479. Food Facts

In England, lampreys – a fierce fish that looks like an eel – are traditionally cooked in a sauce flavoured with their own blood.

12480. Food Facts

In Central and South America, iguana meat is highly prized.

12481. Food Facts

The French cervela sausage is made with the brains of pigs.

12482. Food Facts

Roast dog is sold on the streets of Vietnam.The back half of the dog comes with the tail intact.

12483. Food Facts

Caviar is the eggs of the sturgeon fish. It is so valuable that an operation is sometimes used to remove the eggs without harming the fish, which then goes on to make more eggs. Previously, the fish was gutted while still alive so that the eggs could be as fresh as possible.

12484. Food Facts

Mealworms – golden-coloured larvae that eat grain – are farmed in the USA and sold live in pots of bran for cooking. The bran is for the meal-worm to eat while they are waiting, as otherwise they will eat each other.

12485. Food Facts

Sheep's eyeballs are eaten in some Arab countries of North Africa.

12486. Food Facts

Birds nest soup is a delicacy in China. It's made from the nests of a special variety of swift that builds its nest from dried strands of its own spit.The nest is soaked in water to soften it, then any sticks and feathers are removed before it is made into a gluey, sticky soup.

12487. Food Facts

In China, bear paws are roasted in clay – the fur comes off with the dried clay when they are done.

12488. Food Facts

In France, rats found in wine cellars were sometimes cooked in a sauce flavoured with red wine, over a fire of burning wine barrels.

12489. Food Facts

In the 1800s, naturalist Frank Buckland served meals such as mice on toast, roasted parrots and stewed sea slug. He tried to make soup from an elephant's trunk, but even after several days' cooking it was still too chewy.

12490. Food Facts

The Aztec dish tlacatalalli was a stew made from corn and human beings.

12491. Food Facts

Once, at a Roman banquet, a slave stabbed the stomach of a roast boar to release a flock of live thrushes.

12492. Food Facts

In Texas, armadillos are sometimes roasted in their shells, stuffed with carrots, apples and potatoes.

12493. Food Facts

The Akoa pygmy tribe eat elephant meat with a serving of live maggots.

12494. Food Facts

Truffles are a kind of fungus that grow underground in forests in Europe.Truffle hunters use pigs to smell them out. The best truffles are extremely valuable.

12495. Food Facts

In the Middle Ages, a peacock was often roasted with its feathers on.The skin was inflated first to stop the feathers burning, and then pierced when the bird was cooked so that it appeared as though it were alive when served.

12496. Food Facts

Some Amazonian tribes used to make a soup with the ground bones of their dead relatives.

12497. Food Facts

US Airforce pilot, Captain Scott O'Grady, was shot down over Bosnia in 1995 and survived for six days eating only ants.

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