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Many people want to try as much unique food as they can during their lifetime. There is usually nothing wrong with that. The only exception is when trying that rare food may actually end in your death!

Some Strange Foods That Could Kill You Include:

Sannakji
Sannakji is a dish that should be approached with a degree of drunken bravado, but probably limited expectations. After all, according to reports, this dish is more of a rite of passage than a must-have tasty treat. And how could it be otherwise when you're talking about trying to chew the writhing leg of an uncooked, living, extremely conscious baby octopus—and chew you must. If the octo-part has any life left in it once you swallow, it could use its suckers to attach itself to your throat on the way down and you'll choke.

Fugu
Fugu is the name of both the dish and the fish it is made from, which is a kind of cute pufferfish. Parts of the fish, such as its organs and eyes, contain the poison tetrodotoxin which, if consumed, will cause muscle paralysis and asphyxiation.

Casu Marzu
Casu Marzu starts out life as a simple cheese made from sheep's milk, which is then allowed to ferment in the open air. While the cheese is chilling outside, it is also exposed to the “cheese fly,” which lays its eggs right in there soon enough, the cheese is alive with swarms of maggots. It is important to note that the cheese must be consumed while the maggots are alive, because if the maggots are allowed to die, the cheese becomes unsafe to eat.

Hákarl
Hákarl is a delicacy in Iceland, traditionally made by gutting and beheading a Greenland shark, burying it in sand and under heavy rocks for six to eight weeks, and allowing it to ferment and lose moisture. Once removed from the sand, it is cut into strips and dried for several more months. Most reports of eating Hákarl will include descriptions of gagging and vomiting, smells of rotting flesh, and extreme blue cheese flavors.

The reason for the elaborate processing is that the flesh of the Greenland shark contains high concentrations of urea and trimethylamine oxide which, when consumed, turns into trimethylamine, and creates the effect of extreme intoxication.

Blood Clams
Blood clams are named for a red, blood-like liquid found in the flesh. Blood clams like to grow in shallow water and tidal areas, and feed by filtering large quantities of water through their bodies. Unfortunately, if there are any contaminants in the water they live in, those contaminants will get concentrated in the clam, and carried into whatever eats it. Even clean water doesn't make them safe: gastroenteritis is a common result of eating bad clams, but there is also a good chance of contracting Hepatitis A.

Eat With Caution!

Now that you know these unique foods may kill you, you may want to pass them up. Have you ever tried any of these foods before?

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Article & Photo Source: Grunge