Grossopedia: A Startling Collection of Repulsive Trivia You Won’t Want to Know!
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Rachel Federman. Grossopedia: A Startling Collection of Repulsive Trivia You Won’t Want to Know!
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Protein Power
Walks Like a Chicken, Tastes Like a Chicken
I Scream for Ice Cream
It’s All in a Name
Everything in Moderation—Even Fly Larvae
Champagne and Fish Eggs
Mmmm...Civet Droppings
The Bone Truth
Biting Back
Grubby Grub
Odd Combos
You Look Lovely, but You Smell Awful!
Just a Hint of Swine
Loosen Your Zipper
Sloppy Toppings
Octopus Vulgaris
Score for Scorpion Lovers
Embryonic Delicacy
Hungry-Man Dinner
Nosedive
Feline Dreams
Say Cheese!
Slippery Devils
Mold—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Is that Blood in My Pudding?
Banana Slugs
Giant Squid
Tattle-Tail
Crooked Shark Poop
I Want to Suck Your Blood… Using an Anticoagulating Agent
Unpopular Scavengers
This Means War
One-Stop Shopping
Squirmy Worms
Trippy Fish
Lots of Snot
Two Heads Are Better than One
Porta-Umbrella
Smell You Later
Bite-Size Reptile
Prehistoric Horror
Glow in the Dark
Sea Cucumber
Dining in
The Big Gulp
Ocean Whopper
The Last Supper—as in, the One You Just Had
It’s Raining Snakes
Double-Duty Sucker
Monster Rat
Something’s Buggin’ Me
Nailed the Landing
Have Mercy on the Mercy Flusher
Rude Awakening
Automatic Slither Machine
She Meets Herself Coming and Going
Not Exactly Airborne
Don’t Keep Your Trash Heap
Out with a Bang
Don’t Let Them Get Away
Stick the Landing
Hoist on Your Own Petard
Mannequins Make Better Friends
Giddy up and Eat up—at the Same Time
I Wasn’t Lovin’ It
Oh, I Hope I Hope I Get a…Dead Body this Year?
Don’t Drink the Water
Super-Duper Libation
Kiss and Tell, if You Can Still Talk
Trapping Gas
It’s Not too Late to Become a Mummy
It’s a Long Way Down
Earth, Breaking Wind, and Fire
Whopping Whopper
Talk about Losing Your Mind!
First One There Gets a Rotten Fish!
Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest
Cricket-Spitting Contest
Moose Dropping Festival
Vegetarian Festival
La Tomatina
Anyone up for a Nice Game of Headless Goat?
Putting the “Ick” in Trick or Treat—Ideas for a Grossophile Halloween
Fright Night
Halloween High Jinks
Jawbreaker Horror
Pokey-Man
Eyes Wide Open
3, 2, 1, Liftoff!
You Look a Little Pale
In Praise of Stinky Feet
The Return of the Maggots
Superbugs Fighting…Superbugs
Bedside Gamble
Lessons from a Rat
The Cure Will Kill You
Illegal Beans
Unique Knickknack
A Pinot Noir, Please, and Step on It
Here, Little Roachie
Playing Dead
Barbaric Amulet
How Low Will You Go?
Give Me Cow Dung or Give Me Death—or Both
I See Your Guitar and Raise You One Eyebrow
Barbaric Amulet
Gross Collections
Divided Afterlife
Crying Milk
Mean Machine
Bring in the Horns
One Bag the Airlines Still Aren’t Charging for
Animal Friendly
Reappearing Mice
Bearded Man
Don’t Be so Sensitive
“Best by” Date is a Personal Opinion
Useful Poop
Flinging Feces
Don’t Stop ’Til You Drop (Dead)
Look Me up When I’m Gone
Stretch that Neck
Bon Voyage!
Is that a Rigor Mortis I Smell?
Decorative Geckos
It’s Not the Bee’s Knees
Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
Feeling Prickly
Jurassic Retch
I’m so Hungry, I Could Eat a Fork
It’s Gettin’ Hot in the Barnyard
Pig Everlasting
Bottom’s up, Literally
And You Thought Foot and Mouth Disease Was Bad
Bittersweet
Just a Pinch of Salt
The Eggs Won’t Be Sunny Side up
The Body in the Attic
You Don’t Have a Leg to Stand on
Thank You—Burp—Very Much
Paris Down Under
You’ve Got All the Time in the World
Slippery Divers
When in China
Hop on in
“What a Big Mouth You Have!” “The Better to Taste You with, My Dear.”
Human Body—It Does a Body Good!
Messy Tapas
Scorpion Stickup
Whole Lotta Bugs
Planet of the Roaches
Hostess with the Mostess
Poison Alehouse
Android Ant
Queen-Size Bed
Leftover Lunch
Mellow Yellow
All the Bugs You Can Eat
Home Away from Home
The Bug Club
Great Balls of Fire!
Shake-a-Leg (or 1,000)
The New Beatles
Off with His Head
Feces, It’s What’s for Dinner
Spit it out
Out, Out, Damn Tick
Roses Are Red, and so Are Some Bugs
Four Eyes x 2
Hording Together
Kissing Bug
Et Tu, Brutal Bug?
Lose Your Lunch on Purpose
Feeling Torn
Call of the Wild Bluff
Bender Contenders
If You Build It, They Will Come… Unless They’re Already Dead and You’re Building It with Their Skeletons
Everybody Multitasks
Anything for Beauty, Literally
Look out Below!
Ghastly Extraction
Let my Blood Go
Man’s Best Friend to the End
For Those about to Die, We Apologize
A Spoonful of Poison Helps the Medicine Go Down
Pay for Pee, Pal
Raining Rats and Dogs
No Pain, No Gain
Voodoo Catch-22
Friends Don’t Let Friends Shrink Each Other’s Heads
Double-Cross Eyes
Foot Bone Connected to the… Machine that Causes Cancer?
Just a Little Trim—of My Hair!
A Brave Shave
Hang in There
I’ll Trade You One Dump…
“You’re a Leech.” “Thank You.”
You Are What You Eat
Lend Me a Hand—for Good
Puke Cuke
“To Life!” (Just Not the One of the Guy Whose Skeleton I’m Holding)
You Look Good Enough to Eat!
Hey Gobble, Gobble
Do You Promise to Take a Shower Soon? I Do
Only the Nose Knows
Left for Dead
Declaration of Death
Oh, My Aching Head. If Only I Could Take a Chunk out
Dead Skin Cells
Sunny Sides up
Snap, Crackle, Poof
What Me Worry? I Scurry
Wiping around the World
Home Sweet Onion
Straight from the Cow’s Behind
Headless Roachman
Grand Entrance
Got Roach?
Ring around the Ringworm
Old MacDonald Hid a Farm
What the Fungi!
All Set for Baby
Cheese, Please—and Don’t Forget the Bacteria
What Part about Dessert Did You not Understand?
Passing on Bacteria
World’s Grossest Pets
Better Luck in Your Next Life
Amount of Pee in Public Pools
Chemical Warfare
Sticky Sidewalks
Earth-Friendly Flush
Space Junk
Plastic Land Mass
Bring the Jungle in
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Watery Feces by Any Other Name Would Smell as Terrible
There’s a Hair in My Mouth—and It’s Supposed to Be There!
Furry Lingua
Drink Water, Smell Better
Wash that Hair Right offa Your Head
Hold Your Tongue
The Virtues of Earwax
Flatulence Habit
Piggy-Tails
All Along the Pipeline
Fab Scabs
I See You
Do Your Ears Swing Low?
Boogie-Loogie
A Frog in Your Throat
Lucky Upchuck
Hot-Shot Snot
Bloody Tears
What is Belly Lint Made of?
House of Horrors
Sour Feet
One and Only You (and Your B.O.)
Waste Factory
Smelly Belly
Excuse Me for that Eructation
Lighten up
Deep-Sea Gas
Shower Power
I Know What You Had for Dinner Last Summer
Erin Go All out
I’ll Have What He’s Having
Big Slug Love
Cow Power
Nipple Craze
I’ve Got My Eye on You
Stone-Cold Killer
A River Has the Runs
Eternal Bark
Experimental Art
I’d Know that Smell Anywhere…
Natural Wax
Jar of Hearts
Fresh Delivery
Under Your Skin
Sweet Nightmares
The Three Little Assassins
Heading My Way?
Eerie Gift
Gross Word Contest
Eye See You One Grisly Murder and Raise You One Blinding
A Little to the Left
Over My Dead Body (or Next to it)
Double, Double Toil, and Trouble
Zen and the Art of Elimination
Careless Scientists Unite
World’s Friendliest Spider
Sometimes it’s Good to Flip Flop
Circle of Life
Bloodless Dissection
Turns out You Can Be too Clean
Clean Getaway
Becoming Spiderman
POSTSCRIPT: WHAT IS DISGUST?
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
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Dedication
For my fifth-grade teacher, Mr. McInerney, who pushed us way beyond our comfort zone in a magical classroom where we were encouraged to experiment, learn from failure, face our fears, and prioritize true growth over outward measures of success—an approach to teaching that was rare then and, thanks to dwindling funds for public education and current testing mandates, is now all but extinct.
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If mosquito season is making you hungry, you’re not alone. Marc Dennis, founder of Insects Are Food, believes that mealworm French fries and chocolate-dipped crickets are examples of “what sushi was two decades ago”—rather exotic, but about to go mainstream. As defined on his website, “entomophagy” is the practice of eating insects, including tarantulas and centipedes. Dennis believes a bug diet is nutritional, sustainable, and delicious and simply requires changing preconceived Western mindsets about what constitutes a meal, given that eating insects is common practice the world over.
Did You Know? There’s a popular dish in Nepal made from bee pupae. It’s called bakuti and tastes like nuts. Sometimes you feel like bakuti, sometimes you don’t.
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