10 Horrible Facts About Food

 (1)

Bedouin wedding feasts sometimes include a roast camel,
stuffed with a sheep, stuffed with chickens, stuffed with fish,stuffed with eggs.

(2)

In the 1800s, it was common to mix ground bones into flour
to make it go further.

(3)

Henry V of England once held a Christmas fea
at which the menu included carps’ tongues
roasted dolphin and flowers set in jelly. 

(4)

An average-sized person eats around
22,700 kilograms (50,000 pounds)
of food over the course of their life.

(5)

Honey is bee vomit. Bees drink
ectar from flowers which they turn
to honey before sicking it back up
to store in the hive.

(6)

The Roman emperor Nero kept a
‘glutton’ – an Egyptian slave who
ate everything he was given to eat,
including human flesh

(7)

To make especially tender beef,
the Japanese shut cattle in the
dark, feed them beer and employ
special cattle masseurs to massage
them by hand three times a day

(8)

Argentinian Gauchos keep a piece of
beef under their saddles so that it is
pummelled until tender as they ride
around all day. It’s said that the dish
steak tartar came from Mongolian
warriors doing the same and then
eating the steak raw.

 (9)

In 1919, a tidal wave of treacle swept through
Boston, USA. A storage tank burst,
spilling 7.5 million litres (2 million
gallons) of it into the streets. It
poured over houses, knocking them
down, in a wave two storeys high.

 (10)

Condemned prisoners are

traditionally allowed a delicious

last meal. In some US states

it’s not actually their last
meal, but is served a day or
two before the execution
and is called a -special meal.

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