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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.

12616. Food Facts
An international contest to find the best recipe for cooking earthworms included entries of stews, salads and soups but was won by a recipe for applesauce surprise cake. Guess what the surprise was…

12617. Food Facts
In Canada, deep-fried cod tongues are a popular dish.

12618. Food Facts
Baby mouse wine, from China, is a bottle of wine packed with baby mice, to add flavour.

12619. Food Facts
In Ness, Scotland, people kill young gannets – a type of sea bird – to eat. The claws are the most highly prized part.

12620. Food Facts
Some Arctic explorers have been poisoned by eating polar bear liver. The polar bear eats so much fish that fatal levels of Vitamin D collect in its liver.

12621. Food Facts
A restaurant in Pennsylvania, USA, offers a hamburger that weighs 4 kilograms (9 pounds). No one has yet managed to finish one.

12622. Food Facts
Drunken shrimps, served in China, are live shrimps swimming in a bowl of rice wine. The idea is to catch them with chopsticks and bite the heads off.

12623. Food Facts
Bedouin people cook a camel's hump by burying it underground and lighting a fire over the top of it. When they dig it up and eat it, the top is cooked, but the bottom still mostly raw and bloody.

12624. Food Facts
The Chinese make a soup from the swim bladder of fish. It's the organ that helps fish to stay at the right depth and upright in the water, and is rather spongy.

12625. Food Facts
Fried chicken cartilage is served as a bar snack in Japan.

12626. Food Facts
Marmite, a favourite English spread for toast, is made with the left-over yeasty sludge from brewing beer.

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