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Disgusting Dishes From Around The World

Children's Miscellany is a book of useless information, packed with lots of weird and fascinating facts about history, the animal kingdom, plants, planets and people... plus this list of disgusting dishes!

  
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  • Jellied blood (China)
    Congealed duck or pig blood is served on a plate in the shape of a pizza, with herbs and rice crackers.

  • Stinkheads (Alaska)
    Eskimos chop the heads off raw fish, particularly Salmon, bury them in ice for three to four months, then dig them up and eat the foul-smelling result.

  • Dried Algae (Africa)
    The Kanembu, a tribe living on the shores of Lake Chad, harvest a common variety of algae called 'spirulina', dry it on the sand, mix it up into a spicy cake and eat it with tomatoes and chilli peppers.

  • Maggot Cheese (Sardinia)
    Cheese is left out covered with cheesecloth so flies lay their eggs in it. When the maggots hatch, the resulting mess is spread on bread and devoured.

  • 1000-Year-Old Eggs (China)
    A duck egg is buried in garden soil for 100 days then dug up, the shell cracked and removed, and the greyish-green hard yolk cut into slices and served.

  • Blood Stew (Philippines)
    This stew is made from pig's heart, liver, head and blood and is often more pleasantly known as 'chocolate pork'.