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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!
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.
12604. Food Facts
In Fiji, people starve a pig for a week, then feed it veal when it is very hungry. A few hours later, they kill the pig and remove the half-digested veal, which they cook and eat.
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