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.

12561. Food Facts

In some rural parts of China, you can get owl soup.

12562. Food Facts

In Korea, it's possible to buy canned silk worm pupae, or bags of silkworm from street vendors.The idea is to crunch the end off the grub and suck out the juices.

12563. Food Facts

Spider wine, from Cambodia, is actually rice wine – the spiders are added later.

12564. Food Facts

The Japanese dish shiokara is made by fermenting squid in old fish guts.

12565. Food Facts

Henry V of England once held a Christmas feast at which the menu included carps' tongues, roasted dolphin and flowers set in jelly.

12566. Food Facts

Honey is bee vomit. Bees drink nectar from flowers which they turn into honey before sicking it back up to store in the hive.

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