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.

12634. Food Facts

In Wales, rook pie was considered a tasty way to get rid of a bird that might otherwise eat the crops.

12635. Food Facts

Nutria are a large rodent that live some of the time in the water. They are a pest in Louisiana, where local authorities are encouraging people to eat them – with little success, as they don't taste too good.

12636. Food Facts

In the southern USA, squirrel brains are cooked still in the head. You then crack the skull and scoop the brains out with fingers and fork.

12637. Food Facts

A traditional dish in London is eels boiled and served cold in jelly.

12638. Food Facts

In Sweden, people make dumplings from flour, reindeer blood and salt.

12639. Food Facts

Biltong is favoured as a snack by rugby supporters in South Africa. It's dried strips of any meat – elephant, eland, antelope…

12640. Food Facts

In Japan, the blowfish is a delicacy, even though it contains a poison gland which, if not properly removed, kills anyone who eats it.

12641. Food Facts

In Indonesia, deep fried monkey toes are eaten by sucking the meat straight off the bone.

12642. Food Facts

An omelette costing $1000 (£530) and called the Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata was sold by a restaurant in New York. It contains a whole lobster and 280 grams (10 ounces) of caviar, as well as eggs, cream, potato and whiskey.

12643. Food Facts

In Georgia, there is a price limit of $20 on the last meal a prisoner can order (2004 price limit).

12644. Food Facts

Aztecs gave people who were to be human sacrifices many last meals – they fattened them up for up to a year.

12645. Food Facts

In the Philippines, chicken heads may be made into stew or barbecued whole.

12646. Food Facts

Small songbirds cooked and eaten whole have been so popular in Italy that many types have been wiped out completely.

12647. Food Facts

In Sweden and Norway, roast reindeer is a national dish.

12648. Food Facts

Many cheap meat products such as sausages and burgers are made from ‘mechanically recovered meat' which consists of a meat slurry collected from washing bones and mincing up parts of the dead animal that aren't used for anything else.

12649. Food Facts

Jellyfish are eaten dried and salted in some parts of the world. And in the Gilbert Islands, jellyfish ovaries are served fried.

12650. Food Facts

The Russian Jewish dish kishke is made by stuffing a chicken skin with flour, butter and spices and boiling it in chicken stock. Dry it out, then cut it into slices as a snack.

12651. Food Facts

In China and Japan, sheets of dried jellyfish are sold for soaking and turning back into slimy jellyfish ready for cooking.

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