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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. 12528. Food Facts
Blood soup is popular in many parts of the world. In Poland, people eat a duck blood soup called czarnina; in Korea, pig blood curd soup is called seonjiguk; and in the Philippines people eat a pig blood stew called dinuguan. 
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