These Are the 8 Most Shockingly Disgusting Things That People Actually Eat. Especially #4… Just NO

Megi7 — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 23:20:29 +0000

Deep Fried and Battered Rat – Was probably about the only thing left for people to try to deep fry.

One of the great joys of life has to be exploring other cultures and getting to know their culinary treats. But sometimes, you come across things so gross you just want to crawl up in a ball and weep. Around the world, people drink lizard wine, eat duck embryos, and tons of other weird items. Here are 8 of the strangest and most revolting food items around: Balut – This is a developed duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in its egg. Really common in Southeast Asia and often served with beer.

Live Cobra – In the Vietnamese village of Le Mat near Hanoi, they will rip out a snake’s still-beating heart and serve it to you in a bowl. (Pictured here is cobra wine)

Cockroach Soup – I’ve had the terrible experience of getting a dead cockroach in my dish at a Chinese restaurant, but never did I imagine people actually ordered the nasty lil’ guys, floating around in a soup.

Rooster Testicles – Somewhere out there is a rooster feeling very emasculated right now.

Haggis – This traditional Scottish dish is made from a sheep’s stomach stuffed with diced sheep’s liver, lungs and heart, oatmeal, onion, suet and seasoning. You know, all that tasty stuff.

Three Lizard Liquor – This fancy wine is predominantly found in Asia and is typically produced by infusing lizards (three to be precise) into rice wine. The traditional eastern medicine theory states that this allows the lizard’s energy to be absorbed by the alcohol and thus transferred to whoever drinks it.

Fried Chicken Feet – Not so bad, these are probably already in your nuggets.

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Bad Predictions

Megi7 — Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:33 +0000

These people got it completely wrong.

Variety magazine, 1955

Charles Darwin, writing in the foreword to On the Origin of Species, 1859

Economist Irving Fisher in October 1929, three days before the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression

A Decca Records executive to the band’s manager, Brian Epstein, following an audition in 1962. He continued: “We don’t like your boys’ sound. Groups are out. Four-piece groups with guitars, particularly, are finished.”

Time magazine, 1968

John Langdon-Davies, A Short History of the Future, 1936

Margaret Thatcher, Oct. 26, 1969

Guglielmo Marconi, pioneer of radio, writing in Technical World magazine, October 1912

Kaiser Wilhelm II to German troops at the outset of World War One, August 1914

Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861

Dr. Dionysys Larder, science writer and academic, in 1828

Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, 1923

New York Times, 1936

Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, in InfoWorld magazine, December 1995

The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company, 1903

William Orton, president of Western Union, in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell tried to sell the company his invention

Charlie Chaplin in 1916, two years into his big-screen acting career. The rest of the quote: “It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.”

An aide to British military commander Field Marshal Haig wrote this in a report following a tank demonstration, 1916

Thomas Edison, 1889. The lightbulb inventor insisted his own direct current (DC) system was superior to competitor George Westinghouse’s AC power, and took every opportunity to discredit alternating current

Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948

Byte magazine editor Edmund DeJesus, 1998

Alan Sugar, 2005

Popular Mechanics, 1949

Sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling in The New York Times, 2007

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, 2007

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