There’s no accounting for taste, and no denying that we humans are a strange bunch, with one culture’s culinary delicacy being the source of another’s bemusement, or even disgust. Whether it’s insects (usually fried and seasoned with spices before being eaten as a snack) in Thailand, snails (cooked in garlic and butter and generally found at top-end restaurants) in France, crocodile (considered a delicacy) in Australia, or rattlesnake (deep fried in breadcrumbs) in the US, the world is full of dishes where the appeal is generally lost in translation.

From cobra hearts to witchetty grub: This blog post listing 50 of the most unusual foods from all over the world is fairly comprehensive, showing that nobody really has any right to judge another culture’s food tastes as “weird”. Nevertheless, it has to be said that some dishes are more gruesome than others — with Italy’s maggot cheese, Vietnam’s cobra heart (to be downed in a shot of its own blood), the Philippines’ duck embryo and Australia’s fantastically named witchetty grub (larvae) all ranking highly on our list of Things We’d Rather Not Eat Today Thanks.