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.

12542. Food Facts

An American delicacy called headcheese, similar to British brawn, is made by cooking a whole cow or pig head into a mush and letting it cool into a jelly-like mass.

12543. Food Facts

Delicacies enjoyed in Iceland include puffin and svie – singed and boiled sheep's head.

12544. Food Facts

Until 1999, it was legal to enjoy ortolan in France – a tiny, rare, song bird, fattened in a dark box to three times it normal size then drowned in brandy and spit roasted for a few minutes before being eaten whole, innards included. (It was OK to leave the head and beak.) Traditionally, it was eaten with a napkin draped over your head and the plate so that none of the delicious smell could escape.

12545. Food Facts

In Finland, people cook blood pancakes.

12546. Food Facts

Native Alaskan Indians bury salmon eggs in a jar for ninety days and eat them when they are truly rotten.

12547. Food Facts

Kakambian, from the Philippines, is made of diced goat – skin, hair, fat and meat all mixed together.

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