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.

12498. Food Facts

In 1135, King Henry I of England died from eating too many lampreys – a kind of eel that sucks its victims to death.

12499. Food Facts

In some countries where people don't have food processors or forks, mothers chew up food to put into their babies' mouths.

12500. Food Facts

Some Jewish people eat the braised udder of a cow.

12501. Food Facts

Worms steamed whole in a jelly are a tasty treat in China.

12502. Food Facts

In Vietnam, cobra hearts are a common snack. They can be eaten raw, even still beating, with a small glass of cobra blood or dropped into a glass of rice wine. The kidney is often included as an extra titbit.

12503. Food Facts

The oldest surviving piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old.

12504. Food Facts

Eel skin is so hard to remove that some people pull it off with pliers.

12505. Food Facts

Camels' feet are cooked in a light stock and served with vinaigrette. Only the feet of young camels are considered tasty.

12506. Food Facts

Camel feet can also be cooked in camel milk.

12507. Food Facts

The Scottish dish haggis is made by cutting up the heart, lungs, liver and small intestine of a calf or sheep and cooking it with suet, oatmeal, onions and herbs in the animal's stomach.

12508. Food Facts

Australian aborigines like to eat witchetty grubs – the larvae of the ghost moth – raw and wriggling. Or they can be barbecued on wire for a couple of minutes, like a kebab.

12509. Food Facts

The original recipe for baked beans included bear fat and maple syrup.

12510. Food Facts

A restaurant in England recently offered snail porridge on its menu.

12511. Food Facts

In China, sharks' fin soup is made from the salted, sun-dried fins of sharks. It is like a bowl of glue, as the fin contains a lot of gelatine.

12512. Food Facts

People in ancient China ate mice as a delicacy.

12513. Food Facts

Roman feasts sometimes included the popular delicacy flamingo tongues.

12514. Food Facts

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

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