Fun Reads: 10 Strange Diets

Author : Karl Shaw

1.  A mad Victorian artist Richard Dadd lived for several years exclusively on hard boiled eggs and ale.
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3. To demonstrate the cultural inferiority of the United Stated, ex-Pogues lead singer Shane MacGowan ate a Beach Boys album.
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5. During the Crimean War, British soldiers were supplied with a daily ration of caviar.
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7. A Danish author Theodore Reinking offended the Swedes so much that he was imprisoned for life. After several years in jail, he was given a straight choice: eat your book or lose your head. He chose the former.
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9. In 1994, fisherman Renado Arganza spent several days at clinging to a buoy after his boat capsized off the Philippines. On being rescued he remarked that he had survived by eating his underpants.
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11. Henry Ford I took to eating weed sandwiches when he heard scientist George Washington Grover did the same.
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13. During the widespread food shortages in Cuba in 1994, the cat population fell by 400,000
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15. For the last fifteen years of his life Howard Hughes lived almost exclusively on ice-cream. He generally stuck to the same flavour until every supplier in the district ran out.
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17. In Roman history, Emperor Heliogabalus dined on parrot heads, flamingo brains, thrush brains and camel heels. At one feast, he served his guests with flamingo heads and gave them gold spoons to scoop and eat the brains.
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19. Ernest Hemingway wrote all his works on a diet of peanut butter sandwiches