Random Animals That Are Served as Food... Alive! (12 items)

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  (#11) Grubs

  Flavor-wise, you could do a whole lot worse than a witchetty grub if you're looking to start eating food that is still alive. The flavor of this 7-centimeter-long Australian insect is said to be like fried egg and nuts. Not bad!
   
   
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  (#1) Octopus

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  It's common in South Korea to be served chopped up octopuses whose little arms are squirming around on the plate when you eat them. Fun! But that's not really eating a creature alive, y'know? Chopping them up kills them eventually, if you wait long enough. The real fun begins when you eat them whole and alive, and they try to climb out of your mouth.
  
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  (#6) Frog

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  If you want to eat food so fresh that it's blinking at you, head to Tokyo's Asadachi restaurant, where you can find frog sashimi. A chef serves up a sliced-up frog on a bed of ice while it is still technically alive and wriggling around. You can see its heart beating while you eat the rest of it.
   
   
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  (#12) Sea urchin

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  Not everyone eats sea urchins fast enough after plucking them out of the ocean to technically eat them while they're still alive, but aficionados say they're better this way (otherwise you're just eating uni like you would find in a sushi restaurant). The only edible part of a sea urchin? Its sexual organs.
   
   
   
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  (#4) Maggots

  "Casu Marzu" is not a character in the newest Star Wars movie: it's a Sardinian cheese full of live maggots. Flies lay their eggs in the cheese, the maggots eat the cheese, and we eat the maggots, the cheese, and the maggot poop. This combination somehow ends up tasting like gorgonzola and black pepper, according to the brave souls who can stomach the stuff.
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  (#3) Lobster

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  This one is particularly gruesome: a Houston restaurant will serve you "belly sashimi" right out of a lobster's belly... while the lobster is still alive, staring at you. One critic called the dish - which, let's remember, entails eating a lobster's stomach while it wiggles its claws at you - "utterly delicious."
  

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