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.

12603. Food Facts

Alligator kebabs are popular in southern Louisiana, USA.

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.

12605. Food Facts

A restaurant in Changsha, China, offers food cooked in human breast milk.

12606. Food Facts

As early as the ninth century, the Basques of Spain hunted whales, and whale tongue was considered a great delicacy.

12607. Food Facts

Oellebroed is a Danish soup make from stale rye bread soaked in water, then boiled with beer and sugar and served with cream. It's possible to buy instant oellebroed powder – just add water.

12608. Food Facts

Another way of cooking snakes in Texas – cut the head off, skin and gut it, poke a stick into the neck, wrap the snake loosely around the stick and roast over a camp fire.

12609. Food Facts

Iguanas are a popular and free food in Central America – they can often be caught in backyards.

12610. Food Facts

Slimy green stuff that looks like mucus is supposedly the best part of a lobster or crayfish. It's found in the head. Some Americans eat the main part of the lobster meat and then suck the head to get the gunge out.

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