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* Another Chinese food, is Bird's Nest Soup. (What is it with the Chinese and their diet?!) Which is [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]. A soup made out of a bird's nest. The bird being the swallow. Which makes its nest by using its spit in place of cement. (Am not making this up. Harvesting these spitwads/nests means that the birds have a hard time breeding, and are thus, dying out....because their spit is delicious.

* [[Cracked]] brings us [http://www.cracked.com/article_16951_the-6-most-sadistic-dishes-from-around-world.html this] article, for those moments when you're feeling just a little too good about being human.

* It is illegal in the United States, France, and most of the western world to capture, sell, or cook the endangered [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Ortolan_Bunting~~ ortolan] (the bird, not the ''[[Star Wars]]'' species). And in response, resourceful gourmets pay great sums to get the dish. [[Anthony Bourdain]], who wrote about an underground feast featuring ortolans, describes them as "one tasty f—ing bird.”

* It is illegal in the United States, France, and most of the western world to capture, sell, or cook the endangered [[wikipedia:Ortolan Bunting|ortolan]] (the bird, not the ''[[Star Wars]]'' species). And in response, resourceful gourmets pay great sums to get the dish. [[Anthony Bourdain]], who wrote about an underground feast featuring ortolans, describes them as "one tasty f—ing bird.”

** Interestingly, a common ritual is for the ortolan-eater to cover his or her head with a napkin while eating the bird. This is sometimes explained as preventing the ortolan's odors from dissipating and reducing interference from the other senses. But one legend ascribes this practice to a priest who felt so guilty about what he was eating that he was trying to hide from God.