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.

12521. Food Facts

Fried crickets are a favourite food in China.

12522. Food Facts

The Japanese make natto by leaving soy beans to rot in straw until slimy and sticky – and very smelly.

12523. Food Facts

Some Amazonian people eat omelettes made from tarantula eggs.

12524. Food Facts

Iowa State University's Department of Entomology has published recipes for cooking with insects, including banana worm bread, crackers and cheese dip with candied crickets and mealworm fried rice.

12525. Food Facts

Australian supermarkets sell tins of witchetty grub soup.

12526. Food Facts

In France, over 40,000 metric tons (88 million pounds) of snails are consumed every year.

12527. Food Facts

Mealworms are supposed to taste better if cooked while still alive.

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