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The Grossest "Delicacies" that People Will Eat

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Baby Mice Wine from Korea

I admit that I'm not the most adventurous eater out there. My vegetarian lover is more daring when it comes to sampling obscure dishes from around the world.

For those of you who do need a high gross factor to experience a true culinary challenge, here is the ultimate list of what you must sample, brought to you by Cracked.com.

6. Escamoles are the eggs of the giant black Liometopum ant, which makes its home in the root systems of maguey and agave plants. From Mexico.
5. Casu Marzu is a sheep' milk cheese that has been deliberately infested by a Piophila casei, the "cheese fly." The result is a maggot-ridden, weeping stink bomb in an advanced state of decomposition. From Sardinia, Italy.
4. Lutefisk is a traditional Norwegian dish featuring cod that has been steeped for many days in a solution of lye, until its flesh is caustic enough to dissolve silver cutlery.
3. Baby Mice Wine. It's what it sounds like. From Korea.
2. Pacha is a sheep' head. Boiled. From Iran.
1. Balut are duck eggs that have been incubated until the fetus is all feathery and beaky, and then boiled alive. The bones give the eggs a uniquely crunchy texture. From the Philippines.


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