Fun Reads 2: National Delicacies

Karl Shaw

1. Cena Molida - contains roasted mashed cockroaches (Belize)
2. Fried, roasted or boiled guinea pig (Ecuador)
3. Rat meat sausages (Philippies)
4. Crispy fried rat with lemon, boiled bamboo rat, desiccated petrified deer's penis (China)
5. Boodog - a goat broiled inside a bag made from  carefully cut and tied goatskin. The goat is either barbecued over an open fire or cooked with a blow torch  (Mongolia)
6. Fruit bat soup (Thailand)
7. Pickled puffin (North Wales,  nineteenth century)
8. Lark's tongues (England, sixteenth century)
9. Lumbuli - small roasted animal testicle (Ancient Rome)
10. Khachapuri - traditional cheese pie of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. In 1995, authorities closed down a bakery whose specialty was khachapuri and were baked in the Tbilisi morgue.