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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.

12627. Food Facts
Snake wine in China is a very potent alcoholic drink, spiced with juice from the gall bladder of a live snake.

12628. Food Facts
Crispy fried duck or chicken feet are a delicacy in China. In the USA, whole chicken feet are sometimes pickled or made into soup.

12629. Food Facts
In both Sicily and Japan, people eat the raw roe (eggs) of sea urchins.

12630. Food Facts
In the Philippines, the eyes are considered the tastiest part of a steamed fish. Suck out the gloop and spit out the hard cornea.

12631. Food Facts
Eskimos have been known to make seagull wine – put a seagull in a bottle of water, wait for it to go off – drink!

12632. Food Facts
In Hungary, scrambled eggs are fried up with the blood from a freshly slaughtered pig.

12633. Food Facts
Some prisoners have big appetites. Richard Beavers, executed in Texas in 1994, ate for his last meal: 6 pieces of French toast with butter and syrup, 6 barbecued spare ribs, 6 pieces of bacon (burnt), 4 scrambled eggs, 5 sausage patties, French fries with ketchup, 3 slices of cheese, 2 pieces of yellow cake with chocolate fudge icing and 4 cartons of milk.

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