| Ant egg soup |
A nostalgic soup with a "distinctive, sour pop". |
| Ayds |
Ayds was a great way to lose weight, until the mid-1980s… |
 Bacon Explosion |
Not as dangerous as it sounds. Unless you're a vegan of course. |
| Bacon ice cream |
They said we were mad… they said we could never combine the world's two greatest foods. They were wrong! |
| Banana production in Iceland |
Weirder than fermented shark? |
| Better than sex cake |
But what kind of sex? |
| Biangbiang noodles |
A type of Chinese noodle whose name is written with an incredibly complex Chinese character. |
| Boneless Fish |
A frozen fish scaled, gutted and deboned, then glued to its original shape using a food-grade enzyme. |
| British Rail sandwich |
A culinary match to the quality of the train service. |
| Carmine |
A common food dye manufactured from insects. |
| Casu martzu |
Italian "maggot cheese" – cheese designed to be eaten while it is infested with cheese fly larvae. |
| Century egg |
A Chinese dish which involves preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg for several weeks to several months before eating. |
| Chả rươi |
Vietnamese dish made from the polychaete worm. |
| Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats |
Notable for the huge variety of racist names given to them all over the world. |
| Chubby bunny |
A common (but sometimes lethal) game played with marshmallows. |
| Cockle bread |
Bread made by English women in the seventeenth century that involved kneading and pressing against the woman's buttocks. |
| Competitive eating |
In which the main goal is the quick and vast consumption of food. |
| Cookie cake |
Schrödinger's dessert. |
| Deep-fried Mars bar |
A Scottish delicacy, often touted as an example of their diet's unhealthiness. (See also deep fried Twinkies, deep fried pizza, deep fried Coca-Cola, and deep fried Oreos.) |
| Dishwasher salmon |
Salmon cooked using the heat from a dishwasher. |
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A Polish soldier noted for his unusually large appetite. While imprisoned in England, he remained ravenous despite being put on ten times the rations of other inmates, eating the prison cat, at least twenty rats and, on a regular basis, the prison candles. |
| Doug (tuber) |
Its record as "world's biggest potato" was denied due to mistaken identity. |
| Durian |
King of fruits. King of smells? |
| Edible underwear |
Yes, this exists. |
| Engastration |
Dishes consisting of animals stuffed into each other. Turducken and whole stuffed camel are prominent examples. |
| Eyes (cheese) |
There are eyes in the cheese, but no cheese in the eyes. |
| Faggot (food) |
The only food you can't say you don't like. |
| Feetloaf |
Meatloaf moulded into the shape of a human foot – also known as "Bloody Stump" if "feetloaf" put you off. |
| Fool's Gold Loaf |
One warmed, hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with a jar each of creamy peanut butter and grape jelly, and a pound of bacon. Reportedly a favorite of Elvis. |
| Freedom fries |
"I know what'll teach France for not wanting to invade Iraq… we'll rename our food!" -Bob Ney, 2003 |
| Fried spider |
Exactly as it sounds – and a regional delicacy in Cambodia. |
| Fruit ketchup |
Plum ketchup, anyone? |
| Funistrada |
A non-existent foodstuff invented for a U.S. Army survey to see how many people would tick the box. |
| Hedgehog Flavour Crisps |
If you think that usual crisps are boring, try this. |
| Adolf Hitler and vegetarianism |
Hitler believed that a vegetarian diet could both alleviate his personal health problems and spiritually renew the Aryan race. He also strongly opposed animal cruelty (didn't stop him from doing worse things to humans, though). |
| Hitlerszalonna |
Can it possibly be kosher? |
| Hottest chili pepper |
Gettin' silly with chili. |
| Hufu (novelty item) |
For all you vegetarian cannibals out there, the tofu product designed to look and taste like human flesh. |
| Human placentophagy |
The consumption of a newborn's placenta is common among mammals; humans do it too. |
| Kit Kats in Japan |
There have been more than 300 limited-edition seasonal and regional flavors of Kit Kats produced in Japan since 2000. |
| Ketchup as a vegetable |
Makes junk food seem healthier. |
| Kosher locust |
Can Jews eat grasshoppers? |
| Kuai Kuai culture |
In Taiwan, it is considered fortuitous to place a particular brand of snack next to machines. |
| Latke–Hamantash Debate |
The debate of the century that began in 1946 and has never been resolved. About Jewish food. |
| Michel Lotito |
Ate 45 door hinges, 18 bicycles, 15 shopping carts, a Cessna 150, and much more. |
| Luther Burger |
Described as a "cardiologist's worst nightmare". |
| Dog Meat Festival |
Vegans are the only group who can oppose this festival without any fear of hypocrisy. |
| Milbenkäse |
A type of German cheese containing live mites, which are eaten along with the cheese. |
| Monkey brains |
A supposed delicacy that has been made famous through films. |
| None Pizza with Left Beef |
An infamous online pizza order. |
| Old Dry Keith |
English man makes driest sandwich ever, becomes Chinese sensation. |
| Alfred Packer |
Before Dahmer there was Packer… |
| Penis as food |
often paired with testicles |
| Pieing |
A slapstick stunt, or a kind of political protest. And there's even a list of victims. |
| Products produced from The Simpsons |
Fictional trademarks gone real. |
| Rhubarb Triangle |
A recipe or a dangerous area to fly through? |
| Roadkill cuisine |
Yes, Skunk a la Michelin sounds tasty to some people. |
| Salmon chaos |
In which a lot of Taiwanese people changed their names to "Salmon" to get free sushi. |
| Šakotis |
Rotisserie cake, anyone? |
| San-nakji |
Small octopuses eaten alive with sesame oil. |
| Sealed crustless sandwich |
A patented peanut butter and jelly sandwich. |
| Senate bean soup |
Special soup served at the United States Senate. Reviewers say that (like some senators), it "…suggest[s] that it unfortunately leaves a lot to be desired." |
| Small sausage in large sausage |
The Taiwanese version of a hot dog, not anything else you might be thinking. |
| Snickers salad |
A dessert salad that's "worthy of a church picnic" according to the Indianapolis Star. |
| Spotted dick |
Actually a type of pudding. |
| Square watermelon |
Rather expensive and very much inedible. |
| Stargazy pie |
A Cornish fish pie that looks back at you. |
| Star Spangled Ice Cream |
Patriotic ice cream to own the liberals. Choose from "Smaller Governmint", "I hate the French Vanilla", or "Bill Clinton Im-peach". |
| Stinky tofu |
Fermented soybean curd is apparently a delicacy for some people. One external link describes its scent as "a used tampon baking in the desert." |
| Stonner kebab |
Perhaps the most unhealthy food ever, a deep-fried pork sausage kebab worth a full half your daily calorie intake. Found in Glasgow (where its name means "erection"), naturally. |
| Superman (ice cream flavor) |
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's… ice cream? |
| Surströmming |
A Swedish dish consisting of fermented herring, said to have the worst smell in the world. |
| Takeru Kobayashi |
A slightly built Japanese competitive eater. He has consumed 63 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes and holds a host of eating records for other foods. |
| Testicles as food |
Available fresh during castration season. |
| Third-pound burger |
Infamously flopped because Americans believed that ⅓ was smaller than ¼, not bigger. |
| Toast sandwich |
An English dish with an "extravagance of blandness". Add salt and pepper to taste. |
| La Tomatina |
A gigantic food fight with a ham-topped greased pole as the start. |
| Sonya Thomas |
What weighs 105 pounds (48 kg) and eats more hot dogs in 12 minutes than most people do all summer? |
| Military chocolate (United States) |
Originally designed to taste "little better than a boiled potato." Not much has changed. |
| Unusually shaped fruits and vegetables |
"While some examples are just oddly shaped, others are heralded for their amusing appearance, often representing a body part such as the buttocks." |
| Vantage loaf |
The bread that makes a baker's dozen. |
| Virgin boy egg |
Eggs cooked with the help of young boys' urine. |
| Volkswagen currywurst |
Volkswagen's best-selling product isn't cars, but sausages. |
| "Who Ate All the Pies?" |
A chant sung by football fans in England and Scotland, aimed at supposedly overweight footballers, officials or opposing supporters. |
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