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.

12548. Food Facts

At the winter festival of Thorrablot, Icelanders eat hákarl – rotten shark. Shark meat is buried in the ground for six to eight weeks then dried in the open air for two months.

12549. Food Facts

In Mongolia, camel or horse milk is stored in a cleaned horse stomach or hide bag and hung up in the ger (tent). Everyone who passes the door has to stir or hit the bag. It slowly ferments into a slightly alcoholic, cheesy, yoghurt drink which everyone drinks, even children.

12550. Food Facts

In some parts of Asia, monkey brains are a delicacy – but it's a myth that they are eaten from the head while the monkey is still alive.

12551. Food Facts

Bagoong is a very smelly, fermented paste made from mashed shrimps and eaten in the Philippines.

12552. Food Facts

In Palau, whole fruit bats, complete with skin, may be ordered as a starter or main course.

12553. Food Facts

Morcilla is a Puerto Rican sausage made with rice boiled in pigs' blood, stuffed into a sausage skin and then fried.

12554. Food Facts

In Ecuador, a family barbecue can include guinea pig and snake kebabs.

12555. Food Facts

In north Africa, people eat fried termites.

12556. Food Facts

In Brazil, people eat barbecued armadillo.

12557. Food Facts

In southern Africa, large caterpillars called mopani can be bought in tins.

12558. Food Facts

In Hubei province, China, eels are served whole.The correct way to eat one is to bite though just behind the head and pull out the insides with chopsticks.

12559. Food Facts

In Hong Kong, you can buy packets of crispy fried crabs like packets of crisps.

12560. Food Facts

Rocky Mountain oysters, or prairie oysters, are calves' testicles – enjoyed fried in parts of the USA.

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