15 of the weirdest things people actually used

Specific dormitories – you know, the cute Disney look with big eyes and plump bodies – were a popular treat among the upper classes in ancient Rome. They would be fattened and sold to the rich, who would eat them in boiled honey and poppy seeds, or stuffed with other meats.

As if black pudding is not bad enough, scholars have revealed that Spartans used to chew on a simple sauce of pork blood, salt and vinegar. It was known as the Spartan black sauce, and even dignitaries at Sparta could not stomach it.

In the movie The lighthouse, both characters stick to kerosene (lamp oil), but there are no official reports on lighters actually doing so. However, World War II sailors used something called Torpedo Juice, which is basically a cocktail of lemon, pineapple juice and the 180-resistant alcohol used in torpedoes!

In the 6th century, the Catholic Church declared that you could technically eat the fetus of a rabbit during Lent, which was traditionally a period of pescatarianism. The fetus is known as laurel, either cut from the rabbit or taken immediately after birth and administered without remove the insides. Ew.

Another established tradition was to eat the tails of beavers. During the 17th century, the Catholic Church made it clear that beavers were semi-aquatic, that they were technically considered ‘fish’, and that they could be eaten during the 40-day period.

Americans in the last century cooked some weird salads, but one recipe is still more gruesome than all – the “jell-o-salad”. It usually consists of chicken or tuna, fruits and vegetables wrapped in lime green jelly or another sickly-sweet flavor.

Ambergris is basically the intestinal infection that a whale expels from its body after consuming creatures like squid. It is probably secreted at the back of the whale and hardens in the cold water. It was popular in early modern Europe, where it became a luxury ingredient in things like ice cream.

The Maya used to love these rich eggs of algae, which – unlike most bird eggs – have a leathery, rough exterior. The Meso-American people would farm with black iguanas, which could stay out of the water longer than their green cousins, and harvest their eggs for food.

In Britain during the 1940s, food was scarce and people were forced to live on rations that unfortunately did not include exotic fruits from warmer climates. As a result, the British people would create mocking bananas by adding banana flavoring to parsnips!

In the late ’70s, McDonald’s’ Onion Nuggets’ debuted – pieces of onion bitten into batter. Onion bhajis are one thing, but I am personally glad that they were never caught. Maccy D’s finally decided to go back to the drawing board, and from there they came up with the chicken dumplings we know today and which we love!

It was once very common in the United States to mix a little Seven-Up with cold milk to make soda. In parts of the UK, people also mix Coca-Cola and milk. I think there is also soda water and egg cream, such a bubbly dairy is still alive!

This bizarre medieval dish is often associated with the Tudor dynasty of England and consists of the torso of a piglet sewn to the bottom of a capon or turkey. It would then be stuffed on a spit and fried. Similar chimerical items were furious during this period, including the “roast without equal”, which is a 17-bird roast!

In 1861, the English food writer Isabella Beeton chose to take a simple recipe for a toast sandwich. Mrs Beeton’s book for housekeeping. It is basically two pieces of buttered bread with a dry piece of toast in the middle, seasoned with salt and pepper. AKA the most British dish ever.

The bizarre use of toast in the culinary arts does not stop there! Another 19th-century English recipe required Britons to toast a crust of bread and then immerse it in water for an hour until the water had a brown tint. Then you simply sift the water and drink it. I do not know about you, but this one definitely feels like it could become a weird trend in the future!

I mean, it does not completely it amazes me that our ancestors ate each other thousands of years ago, but I am talking about Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, during which people often ingested medicines made from human bones, blood and fat to cure all kinds. of ailments!