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* People have been known to eat live scorpions. Yes, live as in "still got the poisonous stinger".

* In Cambodia, certain villages started eating tarantulas under the Khmer Rouge regime due to famine. They got used to it and still eat them. Arachnophobes of the world, unite.

** Blood-based soups and sausages exist in many cultures around the world. Of course, they usually have a few more ingredients besides just blood and vinegar, so it's a little easier to choke down.

** And cooked nettles, while they can be stringy, don't sting. The real challenge is remaining unscathed while preparing them.

* Balut, a boiled duck or chicken egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside. Although a popular snack in such countries as Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines, its unfamiliarity to most Westerners has made it a standard "gross-out" food challenge in such reality game shows as ''[[Survivor]]'' and ''[[Fear Factor]]''.

* Many monks during the Middle Ages, in an attempt to make their food less pleasurable, would sprinkle various powders on it to make it bitter. At least one (who later became a saint) is known to have done this to an extent that another monk who tasted it was laid out for three days with nausea.

* It's almost impossible to get real kefir, a liquid dairy product, in the United States, as it contains so many (harmless) strains of living bacteria, fungi and protozoa that it's considered "contaminated" by FDA standards, even fresh from the vat. Genuine kefir is ''so'' alive that the lumpy curds it's derived from not only grow larger inside those vats, but actually split in two as they grow, as if the lumps themselves are reproducing microorganisms.

** In a sense, they are. Biologists believe that such compound colonies of protozoa, that existed in the bacterial mats on the early Earth, were predecessors of all multicell organisms. BTW, kefir grains don't really split. Being lumps of starchy fibrous matrix, produced by bacteria as a substrate to live on, they simply grow large enough to be broken by any agitation of the lquid.

* There's an episode of ''[[CSI New York]]'' where they have the deep fried tarantulas and stuff like that, the murder weapon was live squid, which was supposed to be eaten live.

* In the very first episode of ''[[Lois and Clark (TV)|Lois and Clark]]'', Superman had to deal with a ticking bomb, he couldn't disarm it or throw it away fast enough. So, he ate it and the ground shook from the explosion. Superman just burped.

** It works as a drink up until Jeremy added the brick.

 

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