When i was young my dad used to eat some really strange things, meats like tongue and brains, pigs trotters and brawn, it was probably because his family were very poor when he was young that he developed a taste for food that most of us would turn our nose at. Its not too long ago that Hedgehog  and Squirrel were quite common items on the table of English country folk, so its not surprising that some of the poorer people of the world eat things that we in the west would find unpalatable, OK are you ready? sick bags at the ready!

Fancy going out for some Chinese food , how about a little appetiser first of BEE LARVAE?

If Bee Larvae doesn’t tickle your fancy how about a nice crunchy SCORPION?

Don’t worry the venom is made harmless by cooking. Still feeling peckish before your main? You must be hungry try some fried RAT.

Full of protein and goodness yum yum.

Time to choose a main course, i know, what about some raw MONKEY BRAINS?

Believe or not in some Chinese restaurants they supply special cages to hold the monkey still while the diner eats its brains! Well if  you don’t fancy monkey brains how about a nice GOATS HEAD?

This lovely African delicacy is one of the only foods that looks back at you as you eat it , well that and TUNA EYE!

I don’t know about you but i always enjoy something sweet to round off my meal,.

yes some MOPANE WORMS would go down nicely. or even a nice crunchy Kentucky fried WEEVIL?

So if your feeling pretty full at this point how about rounding your meal off with a nice cup of coffee?

This is KOPI LUAK or Civet Coffee as it is also known, these coffee beans are not harvested until they have been eaten and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet an animal that lives in the Indonesian Archipelago, gives a new meaning to s*** coffee!

If you don’t like coffee try some warming SNAKE BLOOD

It is easy to recoil in horror at the culinary delicacies on sight here, especially if your a vegetarian, however i should imagine that eating these foods has long been a part of the culture of the countries where these foods are eaten and  they were probably tried initially due to necessity, would i try them? No way, but i did once try these in France Yuk!