• Many, if not all culinary traditions include dishes that may be considered unsavory, or even shocking, in other cultures. The links on this page may contain startling, perhaps disgusting, images. Proceed with caution. Also see our Exotic Food results for more on this topic. But remember: one person's gross food is another's favorite food.

• 1. Tarantulas are eaten in Cambodia
  2. Devotees of "urine therapy" sometimes mix urine with fruit juice
  3. Ancient Egyptions of the Second Dynasty served pigeon casserole
  4. Oaxacan cuisine includes small fried crickets
  5. Chocka Ca-Ca is a brand of candy consisting of a lump of fudge, wrapped in a miniature diaper
  6. Blood sausage is essentially just cooked, encased blood
  7. Beaver tail was eaten during Lent in medieval times, (the beaver was classified as a fish).
  8. Ancient Romans ate stuffed mice and sheep's brain.

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