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.

12611. Food Facts

In China, people eat jellied ducks' blood.

12612. Food Facts

The street markets of Indonesia sell whole, smoked bats.

12613. Food Facts

Cibreo is an Italian dish that consists of the cooked combs from roosters.

12614. Food Facts

Spam is a luncheon meat used as a filling for sandwiches.At a Spam-cooking contest, one contestant made Spam-chip cookies!

12615. Food Facts

McDonald's in Hong Kong sells a sweetcorn pie in a sweet pie crust, the same as the apple pies in the west.

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