12583. Food Facts

Roman banquets often featured hummingbirds cooked in walnut shells and roasted stuffed dormice, sometimes rolled in honey and poppy seeds. The Romans even had farms producing dormice because they were so popular.

12584. Food Facts

In Slovenia, people still raise and fatten dormice, ready to stew.

12585. Food Facts

In Nepal,Tibet and parts of China, black tea is served with yak butter – butter made from yak milk.

12586. Food Facts

Tradition tells that the French cheese Roquefort was discovered when a shepherd abandoned his lunch in a cave to chase a pretty girl he saw outside.When he came back months later the cheese had gone mouldy but still tasted good.

12587. Food Facts

Durian is a fruit the size of a football, covered in spikes, that smells like rotting meat. It's supposed to taste good, though!

12588. Food Facts

During the First World War, Germany suffered such food shortages that people ate dogs and horses, and even the kangaroos from the zoos!

12589. Food Facts

In Madagascar, people make a stew from tomatoes and zebras.

12590. Food Facts

Raake orret is eaten in Norway. Trout caught in a fresh water stream are stored in salted water with a little sugar and kept in a cool place, such as the garage, for months before eating.

12591. Food Facts

Ambuyat, eaten in Brunei, is made from pulp from the sago palm, stewed in water for several hours.The same mixture is made to stick the roof on a house! Also in Brunei, the sago worm which lives inside rotting sago palms is often cooked and eaten.

12592. Food Facts

In Northern Australia, children often eat green ants. Pick them up, squish the head so they don't nibble you, and bite off the body.

12593. Food Facts

P'tcha is an east European Jewish food made by stewing calves' feet until they turn to jelly.

12594. Food Facts

Cinemas in Colombia serve paper cones filled with giant fried or toasted ants.

12595. Food Facts

Pruno is a ‘wine' made by American prisoners from a mixture of fruit, sugar cubes, water and tomato ketchup left to fester in a bin bag for a week. In some prisons, pruno causes so many discipline problems that fruit has been banned.

12596. Food Facts

In the Japanese countryside, salamanders and skinks are grilled on sticks and served with lettuce.

12597. Food Facts

In Nicaragua, turtle eggs are eaten raw – slit the leathery skin, add some hot sauce and suck out the gunk.

12598. Food Facts

A rat restaurant in China sells rat and snake soup, rat kebabs, steamed rat with rice and crispy fried rat.

12599. Food Facts

A restaurant in Osaka, Japan, serves whale ice-cream made from the blubber of the minke whale.

12600. Food Facts

In Texas, there's an annual rattle-snake round-up.What to do with all the rattle snakes? Skin them, gut them, cut them into chunks, cover in batter and deep fry.

12601. Food Facts

In Newfoundland, Canada, seal flipper pie is a traditional dish for the end of a seal hunt.

12602. Food Facts

Think cabbage is horrid? In Korea, it is sometimes buried in clay pots with salt for many months before it's eaten – this dish is called kimchi, and is served with most meals.

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