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How many things that aren’t chicken are described as tasting like chicken?

• Chicken cutlets made of soy protein

• Wendy’s chicken sandwich (contains beef)

• Frogs

• Goose

• Pigeon

• Alligator

• Rabbit

• Iguana

Be an Expert! Feeling hesitant about taking the leap to insects? In Leviticus 11, the Bible advises people to “Eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.”

If you’re afraid to try something exotic, maybe you don’t have to be. There’s a pretty good chance it will—you guessed it!—taste like chicken.

Did You Know? For your next big event, you can hire a New York City-based band named Tastes Like Chicken.

MOUTHWATERING FRIGHTS

Keep that extra spoon that you never use handy. You may just need it to gag yourself after sampling some of these mouthwatering delights from around the world:

• Ants’ eggs

• Boiled locusts

• Chocolate-covered cockroaches

• Crayfish head

• Dog liver

• Dung beetles

• Flour beetle larvae

• Garlic waxworms

• Grilled snake

• Longicorn larvae

• Rat meat

• Rattlesnake salad

• Raw worms

• Roasted guinea pigs

• Seahorses

• Spiced giant waterbugs (3 inches long!)

Oh, and let’s not forget dry-roasted crickets, which we’re told taste just like smoked nuts!

(Which, of course, begs the question:

Why not just eat smoked nuts instead?)