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.

12529. Food Facts

Sea slug is eaten in China and Spain. It's often sold dried and has to be soaked to restore it to its slimy, squishy glory.

12530. Food Facts

Water cockroaches are roasted and eaten in China – leave the wings and legs.

12531. Food Facts

When a pig is roasted in Cuba, the skull is cracked open and each guest takes a spoon to share scoops of brain.

12532. Food Facts

In Mexico, a black fungus which infects maize is canned and sold. It looks like black slime with a few yellow lumps in.

12533. Food Facts

Sun-dried maggots have been eaten from China to North America.

12534. Food Facts

Central American wedding feasts often included honeyed ants.

12535. Food Facts

In 1973, a Swedish sweets salesman was buried in a coffin made of chocolate.

12536. Food Facts

In Ghana, half of the locally produced meat comes from rats.

12537. Food Facts

In China, people get their own back on poisonous scorpions by frying them.They are said to taste rather like cashew nuts.

12538. Food Facts

Oysters are always eaten raw – alive – in the UK and USA.

12539. Food Facts

In Cambodia, giant grilled spiders are a popular street snack.

12540. Food Facts

The Korean delicacy sannakji consists of still-wriggling slices of octopus tentacle.

12541. Food Facts

In the Philippines, fertilized duck or chicken eggs are cooked and eaten – with the unhatched chick partly grown inside. It's called balut, in case you want to avoid it on the menu.

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