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.

12515. Food Facts

In China, eggs are buried underground until they go exceptionally bad and are then sold and eaten as ‘hundredyear- old' eggs. In fact, they are about two years old. The yolks turn green and the whites turn grey or black.

12516. Food Facts

For his last meal, murderer Victor Feguer chose a single olive.

12517. Food Facts

The Air Force Survival Manual issued to US airmen explains which bugs to eat in an emergency for maximum taste and nutrition.

12518. Food Facts

The last meal of Oklahoma Bomber Timothy McVeigh was almost a litre (2 pints) of mint choc-chip ice-cream.

12519. Food Facts

Honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs has been tasted by archaeologists and found to be edible still, after thousands of years.

12520. Food Facts

If you eat too many carrots, you will turn orange.

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