Funny Eating Habits

Funny Eating Habits

We all have strange obsessions, but this habit is gut churning.

• Chinese Girl Eats Dirt
• People Do Have the Funniest Eating Habits

Eat Dirt - Strange But True

Chinese Girl Eats Dirt

The 18-year-old from Inner Mongolia was taken to Beijing by her parents, who wanted to know why she finds dirt appetising.

She told Chinese television that she started the habit when she was just 7 years old when she consumed dirt that was attached to the roots of grass.

Yellow mud is her favourite. Her eating habits have caused problems for the family's next-door neighbour, who has a mud roof. Chinese television reported that the woman can't help herself and keeps eating his roof.

People Do Have the Funniest Eating Habits [thanks to Frank Sabatini Jnr]:

• A meal in Istanbul could include lamb eyeballs dressed in a traditional Turkish cream sauce.
• In Central and South America, iguana meat is sautéed and turned into a gastronomic casserole that is eaten with bread or rice.
• Australian aboriginals commonly eat chopped, marinated kangaroo tails and sugar ants.
• Pickled ram's testicles and decomposed shark meat are among the traditional Icelandic foods that present special challenges for tourists.
• In parts of Asia and Africa, locusts are typically dredged in wild honey to give them extra flavour.
• And people still reportedly breed dogs for food throughout severely impoverished areas of Korea and China. North American and UK animal rights groups are working to ban the practice.
• Bear paws and filets remain a highly prized dinner in Russia and Eastern Europe.
• Fresh snake meat is readily available in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Phoenix, Arizona.
• Chinese delicacies include shark fin soup and pigeon soup, while we here in the West have a fondness for goose liver pâté and frog legs.

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