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The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.
With consumer price inflation at 37 percent according to the latest central bank estimate, demand has pushed a kilogram of rat meat up to around 5,000 riel ($1.28) from [...]

This is a slice of the Stinking Bishop cheese, one of the world’s oldest cheeses originally made by Cistercian monks in an attempt to recreate the exact smell of, well, a bishop’s underthings. Or not.

Just one of the 10 stinkiest cheeses in the world.

Barbecued seahorses are weird delicacies that can be found being sold in the streets of China. But now that the 2008 Olympics are being held there, these poor sea creatures might invite international palates to even threaten more of what remains of their marine solitude.

After seeing this hot sauce, now we can’t eat another chicken leg without pining for the hot sauce with the turban.

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Spanish growers with nothing better to do spent 12 years “perfecting” the “melon that tastes just like lemon”, apparently in an all-out effort to wipe out all “melons that taste like actual melons” from this planet.

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Jack Sparrow’s salami sausage; pair this with Jussipussy, and you’re set.

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A Nebraska police officer and his family have won $40,000 from a KFC outlet that served them food tainted by an employee’s spit and urine. The couple sued the offending company when their two sons, 4 and 7 at the time, became ill (one violently ill) after they ate the food. The younger boy vomited [...]

The fast food restaurant “Buns and Guns” in Beirut, Lebanon. Surrounded by sandbags, serves food on a bullet-shaped menu, lives by the slogan, “a sandwich can kill you”. Yum.
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{Mad: Dinner In The Sky: eat at your testicles’ expense}

Bacon on a stick with french fries on the back.

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{Mad: Bacon bra}

Thai baker/shock artist Kittiwat Unarrom works on a piece of scrumptious bread loved by young kids everywhere, especially those sired by Charles Manson.

{Mad: Eating uneatables, or how to put the pig back together}