15 of the strangest things people used to eat

Specifically, the dormouse – you know, the cute ones with Disney looks, big eyes and plump bodies – were a popular delicacy among the upper classes in Ancient Rome. They would be fattened and sold to the rich, who would eat them boiled with honey and poppy seeds, or stuffed with other meat.

As if the black pudding was not bad enough, scholars revealed that the Spartans used to eat a simple broth of pig’s blood, salt and vinegar. It was known as spartan black broth, and even dignitaries visiting Sparta did not have the stomach for it.

In the movie The headlight, both characters consume kerosene (lamp oil), but there are no official reports of lighthouse keepers actually doing this. World War II sailors, however, consumed something called Torpedo juice, which is basically a lemon cocktail, pineapple juice and 180 alcohol used as fuel in torpedoes!

In the 6th century, the Catholic Church declared that it was possible to technically eat a rabbit’s fetus during Lent, which was traditionally a period of Fishermanism. Known as laurice, the fetus would be cut from the rabbit or removed immediately after birth and served without the entrails removed. EW.

Another Lent tradition was to eat beaver tails. During the 17th century, the Catholic Church clarified that, since beavers were semi-aquatic, they technically counted as “fish” and could also be eaten during the 40-day period.

Americans in the past century have prepared some seriously strange salads, but one recipe remains more heinous than all of them – the “gelatin salad”. It was usually made up of chicken or tuna, fruits and vegetables wrapped in lime green jelly or another sweet taste.

Ambergris is basically the intestinal paste that a whale ejects from its body after digesting creatures like squid. It is probably secreted on the back of the whale and hardens in cold water. It was popular in Modern Europe, where it became a luxury ingredient in things like ice cream.

The Maya used to love these yolk-rich eggs which, unlike most bird eggs, have a rough and rough exterior. The Mesoamerican people would grow black iguanas, which can stay out of the water longer than their green cousins, and harvest their eggs for food.

In Britain during the 1940s, food was scarce and people were forced to live on rations that unfortunately did not include exotic fruits from warmer climates. As a result, the British would create simulated bananas by adding banana essence to the parsnips!

In the late 1970s, McDonald’s debuted “Onion Nuggets” – small pieces of onion fried in batter. Onion bhajis are one thing, but personally I’m glad they never caught it. Maccy D’s ended up deciding to go back to the drawing board and, from there, came up with the chicken nuggets that we know and love today!

It has been quite common in the United States to mix a little Seven-Up with a little cold milk to make “soda milk”. Also in parts of the UK, people often mix Coca-Cola with milk. I think there are soft drinks and egg creams too, so sparkling milk is still alive and well!

This bizarre dish from the Middle Ages is often associated with the Tudor dynasty of England and consists of a piglet’s upper body sewn to the bottom of a capon or turkey. Then it would be stuffed and roasted on a spit. Similar chimerical items were in vogue during this period, including “Roast Without Equal”, which is a 17-bird roast!

In 1861, English food writer Isabella Beeton decided to include a simple recipe for a toast sandwich in Mrs. Beeton’s housekeeping book. There are basically two pieces of bread and butter with dry toast in the middle, seasoned with salt and pepper. Also known as the most British dish of all time.

The bizarre use of toast in cooking doesn’t stop there! Another 19th-century English recipe asks the British to toast a bread crust and then soak it in water for an hour until it turns brown. Then, just strain the water and drink. I don’t know about you, but this definitely looks like it could become a strange trend in the future!

I want to say no totally I am surprised that our ancestors may have eaten thousands of years ago, but I am talking about Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, a period during which people frequently took medicines made from human bones, blood and fat to cure all types of diseases!