In Hungary, scrambled eggs are fried up with the blood from a freshly slaughtered pig.

Another way of cooking snakes in Texas – cut the head off, skin and gut it, poke a stick into the neck, wrap the snake loosely around the stick and roast over a camp fire.

Ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Romans all gave condemned prisoners a last meal.

An omelette costing $1000 and called the Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata was sold by a restaurant in New York. It contains a whole lobster and 10 oz of caviar, as well as eggs, cream, potato and whiskey.

An international contest to find the best recipe for cooking earthworms included entries of stews, salads and soups but was won by a recipe for Applesauce Surprise Cake. Guess what the surprise was…

An eighteenth-century recipe for making an enormous egg suggests sewing 20 egg yolks into an animal bladder, then dropping it into another animal bladder filled with 20 egg whites and boiling it all together.

Ambuyat, eaten in Brunei, is made from pulp from the sago palm, stewed in water for several hours. The same mixture is made to stick the roof on a house! Also in Brunei, the sago worm which lives inside rotting sago palms is often cooked and eaten.

Alligator kebabs are popular in southern Louisiana, USA.

A traditional dish in London is eels boiled and served cold in jelly.

A stew eaten at a funeral in Stone-Age Wales was made from shellfish, eels, mice, frogs, toads, shrews and snakes.