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Your parents may be careful now to buy eggs with lots of qualifiers on the package: organic, vegetarian fed, cage-free chickens, and so on. But there’s one thing that all the eggs we buy and eat have in common—they are unfertilized. The chicken laid them, but before the rooster had a chance to come along and do his part, they were whisked away to our supermarket shelves.

Okay, now that we’ve got that straight cut, let’s cut to a dish called balut, a favorite repast in the Philippines. These eggs have been fertilized! They’re allowed to grow for over a week just as nice as can be until they’re boiled alive and served up fetal style. They’re dead by the time they reach your plate, thankfully (unlike these unfortunate fellows, Nosedive,). Inside the eggshell you’ll find the tiny duck fetus, alongside the yolk. Even if you don’t make it to the Philippines anytime soon, you can give it a try at a restaurant in New York City called Maharlika Filipino Moderno.

Did You Know? Eating raw fish such as salmon can transfer parasites to the consumer that will grow into tapeworms longer than the consumer. Supermarkets are becoming savvier to the process of using tweezers to pick parasites off fish before stocking the shelves. The FDA recommends freezing fish before consuming it raw.