Check out the weirdest foods that are being eaten around the world. Some you may consider disgusting may be a delicacy in other areas. Bizarre dishes and outrageous cuisines are sure to raise some eyebrows in our photo slideshow. Click START to view some of the strangest foods being offered.
A woman prepares a dish of camel liver at her shop in Tamboal village market in Al Jazeera April 16, 2011. According to the Sudanese Ministry of Animals Resources in 2003, the country produced about 72,000 to 81,000 tonnes of camel meat annually from 1996 to 2002. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
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A Chinese woman eats from an ox and dog penis dish at the Guolizhuang "strength in the pot" penis restaurant in China's capital Beijing. The restaurant offers more than 30 types of animal penises served in a Chinese hotpot style. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the penis of certain animals is full of nutrients which brings men energy. And because it contains gelatine albumen, it is said to have excellent cosmetic effects for women, especially beneficial for the skin.
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Dog meat or "Dan go gi" in North Korean expression, is placed on a table at a famous restaurant in Pyongyang
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Residents living beside railroad tracks cut up a dog for consumption after it was run over by a train in Makita City, Manila. Dogs used to be considered a local delicacy in the upland regions of Luzon island but the eating of the animals was banned years ago by the government.
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Rasima, a villager, dries "ampo", a traditional snack made from clean, gravel-free dark earth, in Tuban, East Java province March 29, 2010. Rasima is the village's only ampo producer, and can earn up to $2 a day to supplement her family's income from farming. Although there is no medical evidence, villagers believe the soil snacks are an effective pain-killer and pregnant women are encouraged to eat them as it is believed to refine the skin of the unborn baby.
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Bertha Piranes drops a skinned frog into a blender to make a drink at a market in San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima, August 16, 2006. The drink, popular with working-class Peruvians, is believed to cure illnesses ranging from fatigue to sexual impotency.
ReutersThai farm employee Somsak Inta, 36, puts two house lizards in his mouth prior to eating them in Nakorn Nayok province, 60 kilometres away from Bangkok April 9. Somsak started eating lizards when was 16 as a means to treat health problems, which he claims could not be cured by modern medicine. He has since been eating lizards for over 20 years, believing, among other things, it increases his sex drive.
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Mealworm quiches are seen at the Rijn IJssel school for chefs in Wageningen January 12, 2011. All you need to do to save the rainforest, improve your diet, better your health, cut global carbon emissions and slash your food budget is eat bugs. Mealworm quiche, grasshopper springrolls and cuisine made from other creepy crawlies is the answer to the global food crisis, shrinking land and water resources and climate-changing carbon emissions, Dutch scientist Arnold van Huis says. To attract more insect-eaters, Van Huis and his team of scientists at Wageningen have worked with a local cooking school to produce a cookbook and suitable recipes.
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Bush meat sellers work at a market in Yopougon, Abidjan May 27, 2006. Researchers who picked up and analyzed wild chimp droppings said on Thursday they had shown how the AIDS virus originated in wild apes in Cameroon and then spread in humans across Africa and eventually the world. Their study, published in the journal Science, supports other studies that suggest people somehow caught the deadly human immunodeficiency virus from chimpanzees, perhaps by killing and eating them.
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An employee roasts cats outside the kitchen of the restaurant Le Zoo chez Felix which serves bushmeat in Abidjan April 11, 2008. Wild animal meat, called bushmeat in Africa, is a traditional part of the diet in many countries of the continent. From Ivory Coast in the west through Equatorial Guinea to Kenya in the east, poaching to feed the bushmeat market is rampant and it is threatening entire species, including man's closest relatives, the great apes.
ReutersA visitor eats a fried scorpion at the Longhua temple fair during the May Day holiday in Shanghai
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Chef Alan Sherwood prepares a dinner for 100 staff at the British Rothera research base on the Antarctic Peninsula January 23, 2009. Once the "delicacies of the Antarctic", fresh seal brains, penguin eggs or grilled cormorant are off the menu at research bases where chefs rely on imported and often frozen food.
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An employee arranges pieces of a crocodile inside the kitchen of the restaurant Le Zoo chez Felix which serves bushmeat in Abidjan April 11, 2008. Wild animal meat, called bushmeat in Africa, is a traditional part of the diet in many countries of the continent. From Ivory Coast in the west through Equatorial Guinea to Kenya in the east, poaching to feed the bushmeat market is rampant and it is threatening entire species, including man's closest relatives, the great apes.
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