From fresh crunchy locusts to hard-boiled chicken eggs in urine, every culture has its own idea of delicacies. However, the world is getting closer and ideas about the edible and the inedible are also changing. The United Nations recently suggested that people should learn to eat beetles because they are full of protein and nutrient fiber. Below you will find 18 photos of the most extreme national dishes belonging to different cuisines of our planet. A Peruvian woman throws a pre-refreshed frog into a blender. In Peru, it is believed that frog juice (extracto de rana) is a powerful aphrodisiac.
A butcher from Bolivia cuts a sheep’s head. Sheep’s head soup is one of Bolivia’s favorite dishes.
This woman cuts a baked cat in the back room of a restaurant in Ivory Coast. Cat meat is a traditional food for much of Africa and Asia.
Turtle meat can always be bought in the market of one of the port cities of Nicaragua for $1.10 per pound (454 grams).
In the restaurant of the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, you can taste cobra meat. In the vicinity of Yogyakarta, the provinces of Central Java and East Java, about 1,000 cobras are caught each week and sold for $1.15 apiece.
A Sudanese woman cooks a camel liver dish. Between 1996 and 2002, Sudan harvested between 72,000 and 81,000 tons of camel per year.
This man from Vietnam is preparing to sell dogs. Dog meat is a traditional food for many people in East Asia.
In Vietnam, rats were eaten only in times of hunger. Now they are prepared as part of a special meal at the end of each lunar calendar.
This Peruvian woman cooks a dish of guinea pig. Guinea pigs are considered a delicacy in many regions of South America.
Snake soup is often made in China. Snake meat generally occupies a fairly large place in Chinese cuisine, it is considered very useful for health.
In Taiwan, cobra eggs and embryos are believed to have healing properties.
Chinese woman eats a dish of penises of bulls and dogs. This Chinese restaurant offers penis dishes of 30 different animals stewed with vegetables. In China, the penises of many animals are considered extremely useful.
Lemurs are sold to restaurants in Madagascar as “elite forest game”. Many species of lemurs, which are found only in Madagascar, are today on the verge of extinction due to poachers.
In the Chinese province of Zhejiang, chicken eggs hard-boiled in the urine of young boys are considered a special spring delicacy.
At a bus station in the Cambodian province of Kampongtyam, street vendors sell crispy spiders seasoned with garlic - two dollars a dozen.
In Lahore (Pakistan) for breakfast prefer a dish called “Siri Paia”, made from the head and legs of a goat.
A sauce with a particularly large variety of ants is called “coulonas”. It is served in most restaurants in Barichara, Colombia.
This man from Saudi Arabia is biting the paws of a thorntail. It is said that the blood of this lizard heals many diseases and strengthens the body. The meat of these reptiles is considered a delicacy in many parts of the Middle East.