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When many people think about eating to survive, we think of canned food or a piece of toast. However, true survival means eating some things that you may never ever consider otherwise. They will surprise you and may leave you completely grossed out!

The Shocking Things People Eat To Survive Are:

Hardtack
Hardtack is a simple biscuit made from water and flour, which is then baked till it's rock hard. The harder and dryer the biscuit is made, the longer it will last, making this fairly unappetizing dish a staple for armies and navies ever since there were armies and navies to need it. If kept in ideal conditions, it is claimed that hardtack will keep almost indefinitely but, as you might expect, on an old-fashioned wooden sailing ship, conditions were always far from ideal. This meant that if you were lucky, you got a flavorless, but seriously hard dinner.

Kiviak
Kiviak is a dish eaten by the Inuit people of Greenland. To produce it, you need a dead seal and several hundred Auks, which is a kind of seabird. The Auks are packed whole into the hollowed-out seal then the seal is sewn up, the remaining air squeezed out, fat rubbed on to deter flies, and then the whole thing is placed under a large rock to keep the air out.

Fruit bat soup
Sometimes survival just means making do with what you have, and on the islands of Palau, what they have is bats. Fruit bats are preferred to the insect-eating bats because their diet is cleaner, and to prepare them, they are boiled for several hours in coconut milk, ginger, and spices. For some reason, the bat is left almost completely whole during this process, which results in what looks like a bat taking a bath on your table, but reportedly tastes something like chicken.

Penis fish
Otherwise known as Urechis unicinctus, the penis fish is not actually a fish, but a type of marine spoon worm. And as you might have guessed, it bears a striking resemblance to a certain part of the male anatomy. A common ingredient across Asia, the penis fish is eaten raw and cooked, whole and sliced, dried and powdered.

Urine
Despite the fact that the practice has been widely debunked, some people persist in believing that drinking your own urine in an emergency is a good idea. It was famously done by Aron Ralston when his arm was trapped by a loose boulder while hiking in Utah, an experience which inspired the film 127 Hours.

People
Unfortunately, this isn't just the stuff of legends: people sometimes have to eat other people just to survive. The most famous example is the 1972 Andes Flight disaster, where a plane carrying 45 people crashed high in the Andes mountains, where there was no possibility of finding food. Of the 28 people who survived a day after the crash, only sixteen were still alive two months later, when they were finally rescued. The only reason they survived even that long, is because they were forced to eat their dead friends.

When People Are Hungry They Will Do Anything!

The things people eat just to survive may make you even more grateful for the food you have. Would you eat any of these things?

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