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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.
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.
12652. Food Facts
Ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Romans all gave condemned prisoners a last meal.
12654. Food Facts
The town of Bunol, in Spain, has an annual tomato fight when up to 25,000 people throw around 100 tonnes (220,000 pounds) of tomatoes at each other. The streets can be flooded up to 30 centimetres (12 inches) deep with juice.
12655. Food Facts
The reproductive organs of sea urchins are eaten raw in many parts of the world, including Japan, Chile and France.
12657. Food Facts
Yeast are tiny fungi (mould), present in bread, beer and wine.The yeast eat sugar in the ingredients, making the gas which forms the bubbles in beer and wine and the holes in bread.
12658. Food Facts
In the Samoan Islands, the intestines of sea cucumbers are sold in jars, steeped in sea water. The sea cucumber is a slithery, tube-like animal and not a cucumber at all. When it's cooked, it is called a sea slug.
12659. Food Facts
In the UK, game – wild animals and birds shot in the fields – is often hung until it is ‘high', which means it is hung up on a hook until it is starting to go off.
12660. Food Facts
In the Masai Mara in Africa people drink blood drained from the neck of a live animal with a straw, mixed up with milk.
12661. Food Facts
The alcoholic drink mescal has a cactus maggot preserved in the bottle.
12662. Food Facts
In France, calves' eyes are soaked in water, then boiled and stuffed and finally deep fried in breadcrumbs.
12663. Food Facts
Most US states don't allow alcohol or tobacco in a prisoner's last meal.
12664. Food Facts
Eels are sold live in markets around the world and killed just before cooking – or before putting in the bag to go home, if you don't want the bag wriggling all the way.
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